Hi guys, I got an email from Arje Cahn with a proposal to make a Maven GetTogether/Meetup during the ApacheCON in Amsterdam. I am very interested in such an event but I do feel that it will only make sense if more of the Maven developers are present at the conference.
I know for sure me, Carlos and Wendy are going to be there. Anybody else planning to attend? If we get there more people we can easily setup a wiki page and announce a few sessions there. What do you think? Here is the email from Arje: ============================== Hi all, I'm sending you this email because we've done GetTogethers / Meetups together, or have spoken about them somewhere in the past. If you feel I should be addressing different people, or different projects, I'd be grateful if you could point me to the right project and/or person! :) As you are probably very much aware of, the ApacheCon Europe is in about 7 weeks, in Amsterdam. I got a really nice offer from the ApacheCon producers. The Matterhorn rooms are available in the evenings for Meetup / GetTogether style events. This means we can host up to 3 evening Meetups, from 18:00 - 22:00, with our own program, on Monday evening and Tuesday evening, all within the ApacheCon venue (the Movenpick). Meetups happen after the trainings. This is in my opinion a much better opportunity than we had last year where we were 1) in a different location 2) conflicting with the hackaton 3) conflicting with trainings Grant, I'd love to hear your thoughts from your Lucene perspective. I know last year was unclear and I hope to be able to straighten that out with you this year. We're *not* organizing Lucene meetups without having Lucene people on board :) Potentially, we could have 6 Meetups in total. The rooms can hold up to 100 people each. Wifi, beamers, etc, is all taken care of. The question I have for you all, is whether you think you and / or your project would be interested in filling an evening. Can you organize between 20 and 100 people from your project, and put up an agenda with speakers and talks? Also, we'll have to come up with some sponsors. To give you an idea - last years Meetups were sponsored by 2 to 4 sponsors per project, paying roughly 1000 euro each to cover all costs. These sponsors will then become official ApacheCon Meetup sponsors and get marketed like that on the ApacheCon website. Right now, the planners have asked me to come up with a list of Apache projects that would be interested in the idea. If you're interested, please let me know ASAP, as I need to follow up on Monday to be able to be in time with all the marketing stuff going on around ApacheCon. Hope you like this idea as much as I do! -- Kind regards, Arjé Cahn -- Regards, Petar! Karlovo, Bulgaria. - - - - - - - - | Author @ Manning Publications. | Senior Solution Architect @ Unic | BGJUG-Bulgarian Java User Group Leader. | Apache Maven Developer. | Apache Jakarta PMC member. | Jakarta Cactus Lead Developer. | Codehaus Plexus Developer | Blogger: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/paranoiabla/ - - - - - - - - Public PGP Key at: https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x19658550C3110611 Key Fingerprint: A369 A7EE 61BC 93A3 CDFF 55A5 1965 8550 C311 0611
