Hi Jukka, yes, I'm interested in helping (I also planned this years Felix/OSGi track)
Regards Carsten Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > [Cross-posting to Sling, Chemistry, and Jackrabbit. Feel free to reply > on only the list(s) you're most interested in. I'm following them all. > :-)] > > The ApacheCon organizers have allocated two full days for the Content > Technology track, and I'm now moving forward to fill up that schedule. > > Anyone interested in participating in the planning and organizing the > JCR-related program at the ApacheCon? The Content Technology track is > already getting pretty crowded so I probably can't promise more than a > single normal session with speaker benefits (note that unlike before, > speaker travel is not covered) per project, but we can also arrange > space for unofficial sessions, workshops, meetups, etc. To do this, I > need people who'd like to help in planning and organizing the event. > Any volunteers? > > Since the speaker selection comes with benefits (conference pass, some > hotel nights covered, etc.) and I'm one of the candidate speakers, I'd > like to form a small committee of community members to select the > JCR-related sessions to be included in this track. Anyone interested > in helping out with this? > > See the suggestions below and > http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/ContentTrackApacheConUs2009 for more > information. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > > SUGGESTIONS > > * People pay to see the scheduled content at ApacheCon. Provide > material which will reach and attract our paying audience. If you have > Geeks for Geeks content to present, please save that for the daytime > un-con tracks, or evening MeetUps/BOFs. Consider that people attending > the main tracks probably need to have a clear business case for > registration costs - but your community are free to attend the free > evening programming (and that's free as in beer!), so choose > appropriately! > > * Work with your community. Some of the best presentations have been > from presenters who don't belong to that project's PMC. > > * Be creative! You're not limited to the strict 50-minute-sessions > model. You can organize the schedule in whatever way makes the most > sense for your project's content. (Ensure that your attendees still > get their coffee- and lunch-breaks and keynote sessions.) > > * The main track drives paid attendence, so you must submit > well-written proposals. If the proposals are not clearly written, and > answer "Who, What, and Why?", then what can be expected of the > presentations? We've reviewed the proposals that were received in the > main CFP, and they accompany this email. You can use these verbatim > (appropriately edited for spelling/to fit the program!), or work with > the submitters to refine them to work better within the track you're > planning and/or solicit completely new proposals. Use whichever > solution creates the most effective program. > > * During the day, we will run un-con tracks on Wednesday through > Friday in smaller rooms (capacity ~50), also coordinated by PMCs. They > do not need to be formalized until the morning of the track, but > guidance for the prospective audience can be gathered on the un-con > tracks' wiki pages. Registration will be required to attend these > parallel tracks, but they're a great place to schedule the > ?Geeks4Geeks content that's really interesting for a narrower > audience. > > FREE STUFF! > > During the day, on Monday and Tuesday, we will run a free BarCamp > alongside the traditional Hackathon. The space set aside for the > BarCamp and Hackathon is truly massive, and should have a very open > feel without excessive background noise. By colocating these events, > we can enable attendees to jump between hacking together and attending > BarCamp sessions. > > Free evening activities include MeetUps and BOFs. These will be > organized by the PMCs, and can be scheduled for any night from Sunday > through Thursday. Wednesday night is set aside for the free BIG > FEATHER BIRTHDAY BASH! and Welcome Reception. We expect to attract > many commuting attendees from the Bay Area, both for the main program > (paid registration required) and for all of these free events and > opportunities. > > REALITY CHECK > > Of course the economic realities do not permit the Conference Producer > to cover the costs of everyone who has information to present to such > a diverse audience of this many topics. For this conference, for each > hour of main track material, the Producer will be covering one (1) > hotel night plus one (1) conference pass, and will provide an > additional (1) night for overseas travelers. However, the conference > will not be paying airfare for speakers from the US and Canada, and > will work on a limited case-by-case basis with those from overseas. > And with so many friends in the Bay Area, those who are not covered > can consider staying with fellow ASF members who are willing to host. > > If you're not sure how this will work for you, or what it means when > you start getting creative with the program, please check with your > planning-mentor. > -- Carsten Ziegeler cziege...@apache.org
