This never made it over to our dev list. What are the communities
thoughts? Seems like a great opportunity to me. There's been a
followup email, which I'll forward in a sec. Looks like the response
date is now Thursday the 23rd.
--kevan
On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:28 PM, ApacheCon 2009 US Planners Team wrote:
Project Management Committees,
For this 10th Year of the Apache Software Foundation, the Conference
Planning Committee and Stone Circle Productions are infusing ApacheCon
US 2009 with the same Community Spirit that guides our Open Source
Communities themselves. With the goal of creating the most successful
ApacheCon to-date, we are seeking the support of each ASF Community to
help drive their content for the 3-day conference. As the PMC, we
invite you to come forward with content based on the needs of your
user community.
First: Decide as a project, how much time you would like to fill with
commercially viable content. Do you need a half-day or a full-day to
achieve a professional, quality program? Don't restrict yourselves to
presentations by the PMC members or past speakers. You are likely
familiar with other committers, the members of your user community,
published authors and others who would offer effective sessions.
Consider involving the community in this process through either the
dev or users list, as appropriate for your project. Identifying the
exact contents and schedule of your program will come in a 2nd phase.
Note: If you believe your track is better presented in tandem with
other project(s), and you would like to work together as a small group
of related projects to create a unified track, please discuss this
with the other project(s) and offer one proposal you all agree upon to
the Planners.
Second: Identify your consumers. Please explain to the Planners, in
your submission, who your attendees would be. Are they web content
authors or developers, or backend infrastructure adopters, integrators
or administrators? Are they technical or novice individuals,
management or general users?
Third: Communicate your interest to [email protected] no
later than April 21st!
The Planners will get back to you by April 28th to share the general
program schedule, and where your project best fits. You will be
provided a mentor who will forward to you the CFP's which made the
first cut of talk selections. Your community will then have two weeks
to create a schedule on a Wiki page. Again, be creative, and keep in
mind there are several opportunities for content beyond the programmed
track: MeetUps, BOFs, symposiums, un-conference style activities, etc.
In four weeks, the Planners will complete a review of the programming,
offer final feedback, cut programming that doesn't fit into the formal
tracks of the program, and finally attempt to fit all of the
programming
into space available. Your mentor is there to help you avoid this cut
and guide you in creating a professional and marketable track!
Should a PMC choose not to participate in this process, but there
are still
compelling presentations about that particular project, the Planners
may
choose to run that track. Speaker acceptance/rejections will be sent
out
in five weeks, once all decisions are made. All projects,
participating
in this program or not, will have opportunities to get more involved
with
the conference. These will be announced over the coming months.
We look forward to your PMC's response!
Yours,
The ApacheCon 2009 US Planning Team
