Forwarded from Noirin Shirley: The first Apache Retreat will be held in Knockree, Ireland, from 9th to 12th April 2010.
Committers who've attended ApacheCon have often remarked that the most valuable part of the experience was the opportunity to meet face-to-face with other Apache folk, and to cross-pollinate with different projects. The Retreat is designed to provide maximum opportunity for that kind of cross-pollination, but to be successful, we need projects to get behind it and committers to sign up! At a recent Bay Area hackathon for just two projects, the Traffic Server podling finalized the issues that were blocking their first ASF release, got a working version running on OS X, and cross-signed GPG keys. HTTPD project members pushed their latest release out to the mirrors, and worked on community-building, including electing some new committers & PMC members. If you're not yet registered, visit http://apache.eventbrite.com/ to sign up. Let others in your project know what you'd like to work on, and contact other projects if you're interested in working with them while you're there :-) If financial concerns are putting anyone off, assistance is available. Visit http://www.apache.org/travel/index.html for more information and to apply - the deadline has been EXTENDED, to February 8th 2010. Looking forward to seeing you in April! Your Apache Retreat planning team -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu