Hi, Would there be interest for a Lucene Meetup during ApacheCon EU next month? See [1] for the general concept for meetup events. The event would essentially be a bigger and more organized BoF.
It would be possible to organize something like that either on Monday or Tuesday evening (22nd or 23rd March), but we'd need enough interested attendees (> 20-30) and some sponsors (2-3) to make the event happen. See [2], [3] and [4] for examples of the plans other projects are making. The BoF format has worked fine for Lucene in past ApacheCons, and we'll likely have a BoF in Amsterdam as well. But if enough people feel that there would be value in extending the BoF to a full Meetup, then I'd be willing to help organize something like that. [1] http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheMeetupsEU09 [2] http://wiki.apache.org/portals/MeetupAmsterdam2009 [3] http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/JcrMeetupMarch2009 [4] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WICKET/Wicket+Community+meetups+-+Amsterdam BR, Jukka Zitting
