Re: ApacheCon 2019, Las Vegas - CFP link disabled before deadline

[Daniel Gruno]

On 13/05/2019 11.04, sebb wrote:

On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 15:59, Rich Bowen  wrote:




On 5/13/19 10:03 AM, sebb wrote:

On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 14:48, Rich Bowen  wrote:




On 5/13/19 8:34 AM, Suresh Kumar Anaparti wrote:

Hi ApacheCon team,

CFP link to submit proposal is disabled before the deadline. Please check.


No. It wasn't. This is a matter of timezone differences.


I've not seen how the deadline time was expressed, but it sounds like
it may have been expressed using a local time-zone.
If so, may I suggest that future deadlines are expressed as UTC?
Possibly also a weblink that automatically displays the local time.



Well, sure, ok, but it doesn't matter. No matter when we close the CFP,
no matter what timezone we have expressed it in, no matter what grace
period we provide, there are people who attempt to submit after it
closes. I am convinced that the only actual solution is to advertise one
close date/time, and then actually close it 24 hours after that. Except
then then people come to expect that, and you're back at the beginning.

And, FWIW, CFP end time was expressed in the local time of the browser
viewing it, specifically so there could be no confusion. Yet here we are. :)


However the browser TZ may not have been set correctly.

Whereas if the time is expressed in UTC, it is unambiguous.
BTW, what was the deadline in UTC?


it was 2 hours ago, so 1pm UTC. The system tells you it "closes in N 
hours/days/months" depending on time remaining, so there should be no 
confusion there as to when it closes. If you see "closes in one day" and 
you wait a day, maybe don't :)






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http://rcbowen.com/
@rbowen

Re: API Key for ApacheConEU 2016 Core and BigData?

[Daniel Gruno]

For ApacheCon, we have CSV/Excel/whatever exports available from the
conference system, couldn't you just use those? We could put them
somewhere...on the interwebs.

With regards,
Daniel.

On 09/29/2016 02:06 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/29/2016 08:05 AM, Sergio Fernández wrote:
>> Scrapping, Christ?
>>
>> You would't start from scratch, Hanneli (CCed) already
>> implemented Sched.org scrapping when organizing TAC slots in Vancouver.
> 
> 
> Yeah ... and it really sucks to have to do that, and once sites discover
> that they're being scraped, they tend to take countermeasures. :(
> 
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/29/2016 02:34 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote:
 Hi,


 I think I started a discussion on this about a year ago, but things have
>>> evolved, so here goes again :)


 A few people from the Java User Group Darmstadt initiated a project for
>>> creating an offline-capable mobile conference planning App. As usually WIFI
>>> on conferences sucked greatly. Last year we managed to get a prototype
>>> running and have been working on this since then. The project is called
>>> DukeCon and we're developing it in the open at GitHub (
>>> https://github.com/dukecon)


 Now our app has matured quite a bit and we are currently extending the
>>> server by adding additional conference adapters. Being an Apache addict, I
>>> thought it would be great to implement an adapter so I could add ApacheCon
>>> to the list of supported conferences. I know that we usually have the
>>> schedule hosted at Sched.org.


 They have a REST API, that can be used to query exactly the information
>>> I'm looking for. In order to do that however I would need an API-KEY for
>>> the conference. I guess you guys here will probably know what it is and
>>> could eventually provide me with it.


 So I am asking: Is there any interest in me supporting ApacheCon in our
>>> conference planner? If yes, what would I have to do in order to get the API
>>> Key for both conferences?
>>>
>>>
>>> I expect that the short answer is, no, we can't do that.
>>>
>>> The longer answer is that the sched account used by ApacheCon isn't
>>> Apache's, it's the Linux Foundation's, and they use that same account to
>>> manage all of their many events. As I understand it, Sched accounts are
>>> insanely expensive.
>>>
>>> I wonder if you might be able to approach Sched directly for some kind
>>> of non-profit API key, in exchange for linking back to their service, or
>>> something.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
>>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

Re: ApacheCon session reviewers needed

[Daniel Gruno]

On 09/18/2016 03:30 AM, Justin Mclean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just when through a large number of comparisons for ApacheCon and at the 
> end it shows a list of 174 talks but they all have 0 votes is this 
> expected/correct?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
Yeah, you (accidentally) clicked on a debug thingy we have there,
however that only works for the conference administrators as set by
Rich, so it'll show nothing or 0 for you :) Everything is okay :)

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: Presentation Template for Apache Con NA 2016

[Daniel Gruno]

On 04/28/2016 04:55 PM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Is there a presentation template available for Apache Con NA 2016 ?
> 
> Thanks, Sergey

Nick Burch has made some templates for it, available at:
http://home.apache.org/~nick/

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: ApacheCon NA 2013 Slides

[Daniel Gruno]

On 03/04/2013 07:38 PM, Nick Burch wrote:
 On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote:
 I've not been able to locate slides for all the sessions I attended.
 There does not seem to be a central repository, and while I've found
 many, some are still elusive:
 
 All slides should be available on
 http://archive.apachecon.com/na2013/presentations/
 
 If you find any that aren't on there, please let us know and we'll chase
 those speakers
 
 If you have good ideas for how to make the slides more easily found, and
 especially if you'd be able to help, please let us know!
 
 Nick

http://archive.apachecon.com/na2013/presentations/27-Wednesday/A_Patchy_Web/
is very much empty :(

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: SVG Source of the Banners

[Daniel Gruno]

On 10/01/2012 07:29 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote:
 On 10/01/2012 05:09 PM, imacat wrote:
 The .psd files are missing ApacheCon Europe when I open it with 
 GIMP, too.  I do not have PhotoShop.

 Could someone please release the SVG vector version of the
 banners? Perfectly with text transferred into shapes, to prevent
 font substitution problem.  I would like to join it to the
 OpenOffice logo and put the result on our social media account
 during this time.  Bitmap graphic does not work well merging with
 other pictures considering transparency.

 With fear of sounding like a broken record; I already released SVG
 versions of the banner two months ago, if only people would look
 through the emails that hit this mailing list :)
 
 I did a bit of gradient on the logo, so if you want that gone, either
 let me know or just remove it yourself.
 
 Giant PNG: http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu.png (48MPixels)
 SVG: http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu.svg (might not render
 perfectly)
 PDF: http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu.pdf
 
 The font used is called Worstveld Sling, and can be downloaded for
 free at http://www.ffonts.net/Worstveld-Sling-Bold.font.download
 
 With regards,
 Daniel.
 
A slight update: I've converted the font to SVG paths, so you don't have
to install it on your computer. This should also help render it more
exact. The no-font-required version can be found at:
http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu2.svg

If you need only a specific part, I can recommend using Inkscape to
import the SVG file and export the specific part you need as a PNG file.

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: SVG Source of the Banners

[Daniel Gruno]

On 10/01/2012 05:09 PM, imacat wrote:
 The .psd files are missing ApacheCon Europe when I open it with 
 GIMP, too.  I do not have PhotoShop.
 
 Could someone please release the SVG vector version of the
 banners? Perfectly with text transferred into shapes, to prevent
 font substitution problem.  I would like to join it to the
 OpenOffice logo and put the result on our social media account
 during this time.  Bitmap graphic does not work well merging with
 other pictures considering transparency.
 
With fear of sounding like a broken record; I already released SVG
versions of the banner two months ago, if only people would look
through the emails that hit this mailing list :)

I did a bit of gradient on the logo, so if you want that gone, either
let me know or just remove it yourself.

Giant PNG: http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu.png (48MPixels)
SVG: http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu.svg (might not render
perfectly)
PDF: http://www.humbedooh.com/apache/apacheconeu.pdf

The font used is called Worstveld Sling, and can be downloaded for
free at http://www.ffonts.net/Worstveld-Sling-Bold.font.download

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: ApacheCon EU Event, website and interest measurement

[Daniel Gruno]

On 07/22/2012 12:14 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
 Daniel, the first rule of plugging is to actually mention somewhere the
 name of the thing you are trying to plug...
 

I wasn't trying to plug comments.apache.org, I was merely suggesting
that having people be able to comment on upcoming tracks might be an
idea worth exploring. Was it inspired by it? yes, but it wasn't meant as
a sales pitch. I think people already know of comments.a.o, and if the
organizers are interested, I'd be more than happy to show them how it
works, but it was not my intention to promote a specific piece of
software, it was my intention to promote an idea.

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: ApacheCon EU Event, website and interest measurement

[Daniel Gruno]

on a site note, there's still a track called Web infractrusture. Can
someone fix this? The link in the list is correct, but the title at the
bottom still hasn't been fixed.

With regards,
Daniel.

Re: Any designers in the house?

[Daniel Gruno]

If there's any trouble turning it into SVG, I'd be happy to lend a hand
at converting it, sprucing it up, whatever is required.

With regards,
Daniel.