Hi Helen,
On 5/9/2012 11:27 AM, Yue Helen wrote:
[...]
Another questions are, it seems the conference is in NA and EU, how about
other locations? like people in China?
We should also focus in participating in 3rd party FOSS events in China.
Two very interesting events in Beijing would be:
1) Open Source China Open Source World 2012
http://oss.org.cn/?action-viewnews-itemid-70576
It's organized by China OSS Promotion Union. They used to invite Louis
in the past years.
2) China Open Source Week 2012
http://ow2.org/view/Events/China_Open_Source_Week_2012
Organized by the OW2. It's held at Beihang University. Institute of
Software Of Chinese Academy of Sciene and Peking University are also
involved.
Then, there's GNOME Asia in Hong Kong (http://2012.gnome.asia/).
Apart from that CS2C's headquarter is in Shanghai. I know that they are
involved in many FOSS events there.
Last year there was also the Apache Asia Roadshow. Not sure if it will
be held again.
Best regards,
Peter
Helen
2012/5/9 Ross Gardler<[email protected]>
I'm in on the broader Conference activities. Happy to be a connection point
for AOO
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity.
On May 8, 2012 11:45 PM, "Donald Harbison"<[email protected]> wrote:
Apache Committers received an email from Nick Burch, VP Conference
Committee on Friday. For those that missed it, Nick provide a good
summary
of progress aimed at proposed conference concepts for North America
(ACNA)
and Europe (ACEU)[1]
OpenOffice.org had a great history of annual conferences, all hosted by
intrepid volunteers in great locations; e.g. Koper, Barcelona, Lyons,
Orvieto, Biudapest to name a few. As an Apache project, we can do Meetups
or participate in BarCamps. Both are small and quite local. If we want to
think big, we need to think how we can leverage this great ACEU
opportunity.
For example, do we want to organize a 'conference in a conference'? This
would mean putting together a program that would fill a section of the
space allocated to ACEU with talks and tutorials specific to our project,
but also, I think we would be remiss to not link our content to
complementary Apache projects; e.g. Chemistry, POI, ODF Toolkit, etc.
Take a look at the venue... the Rhein-Neckar-Arena[2] looks really cool.
Read Nick's note and you'll see what I'm getting at,...hopefully.
This could be a great way to bring back an 'OpenOffice.org conference'
experience now within the Apache Family. Events are hard work, tons of
deadlines, lots of details. If we want to do this it will take leadership
and volunteerism.
Remember we have funding in the SPI account (just have to pry it loose)
that could be made available to help make this a reality and give our
project real focus and impact.
I'm in. Anyone else?
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-discuss/201205.mbox/browser
[2] http://www.achtzehn99.de/wirsol-rhein-neckar-arena/
