Hello Chris, I have no budget to visit US :( Will try to attend ApacheCon EU :)
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Ok so I managed to come up with a proposal for a Flex Summit prior to > ApacheCon this year in Miami: > > We could have an official Flex Project Summit on Monday prior to ApacheCon at > the ApacheCon venue. However financially this would be a separate thing. > At a Price of 125$/Person we would be provided with a location which is fully > equipped and capable of hosting 40 People (Including projector, wifi, > audio-recording, power-plugs, …). > > A financial break-even for the Linux Foundation would be at 30 registrations. > If we manage to get above that number, the LF would add some food goodies to > the coffee break. If we are below the 30 they could reduce the costs by > removing Mic and Recording. I guess that’s a really fair deal. What do you > think? > > If we agree and see a chance of having somewhere around the 30 Attendees, I > could give the girls the go and they would setup a registration-form for the > event. We would be added to the “Co-Located events” Page of the ApacheCon and > get two dedicated Flex Summit Signs on Site (Yay … wouldn’t have done it > without those signs ☺ ) > > So now we need to check how many people would really register for such a > thing. I don’t want to have the girls do the preparation work for just 10 > People attending. > > So guys … please don’t stay quiet … I would be happy to get some “+1”, “-1” > or “0” … or “+10000” to see where we’re going. So all of you who sort of > switched to monitoring mode on this list … please speak up. If it’s only the > usual 1 x -1 and 3 x +1 there’s no use in me investing more time into this. > > Chris > > > > > > > > Am 19.01.17, 16:13 schrieb "omup...@gmail.com im Auftrag von OmPrakash > Muppirala" <omup...@gmail.com im Auftrag von bigosma...@gmail.com>: > > On Jan 19, 2017 3:42 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> > wrote: > > Yeah … well I would still like some other opinions. > > Thing is, that the ApacheCon was intentionally changed to having Core and > BigData in parallel to make room for a Project Summit Day prior to the > conference. > So I’m proposing to do exactly this. > > The good thing of us having a Project Summit as part of the Apache Con > would be that the Linux Foundation takes care of organizing, the > logistics, > the Tickets and so on. And people wanting to attend, but not being able to > afford it, can apply for Apache Travel Assistance. In the best case the > ASF > would pay for flights, hotel and conference. I contacted Angela (the one > from the Linux Foundation who organizes the conference) and asked her if > it > is possible to buy just a Project Summit ticket. Hopefully she will > confirm > that this is possible. In that case I don’t see a reason for us not taking > the opportunity. Especially as eventually there might not be a European > ApacheCon this year. > > So again … what do you guys think? > > > +1 for sure. Thanks for working on this! > > Regards, > Om > > > > > > > Chris > > > > Am 18.01.17, 17:25 schrieb "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com>: > > > > On 1/18/17, 3:52 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> > wrote: > > >I just remembered that I wanted to reply to this one … > > > >Well the thing is, that I won’t be able to convince my company to > have > me > >fly to the US just for a FlexJS event with about 10-30 attendees. > > > >Would it be an option, if there was a FlexJS Day before the > conference, > >but attendees wouldn’t have to buy a ticket for the entire > conference, > >but could only come (and eventually pay) for the FlexJS event? > >This way I could justify the costs with my boss … speaking at the > FlexJS > >event and the Conference would definitely be enough for them. > > ApacheCon has a rule about "no other conferences within 3 weeks before > or > after ApacheCon". Naturally, they want sponsors to put money into > ApacheCon and attendees to buy tickets. Anything that looks like it > undercuts that would be denied. It might be possible to convince > ApacheCon that our little 10-30 person get-together does not harm > their > business. Not sure. > > FWIW, at the last (and only, so far) FlexJS World Tour, we only had > about > 10 non-committers show up. Many more attended on-line. So maybe the > next > get-together should just be on-line. > > Thoughts? > -Alex > > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
