Count me in as well.
Sent from my iPad using Lotus Traveler On May 8, 2012, at 6:45 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/
