Maria (Deng) is going to be there too It'd be a good idea.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Petar Tahchiev <paranoia...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
