[UPDATE] - I will not make it to ACNA 2013
Hi... Although I feel so sorry when announcing that, but I will be able to go to ACNA 2013 for both personal and work reasons I really feel sorry I wish I could be there and help. Maybe next time in ACEU 2013 NOTE: I am assigned as the speaker for [1] Ross Gardler is the original speaker of the topic as he kindly allowed me to give the talk in ACEU 2012, but I am not sure about his schedule, so if the topic is still of interest I would suggest getting in touch with him Thanks and wish you all best of luck [1] http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/184/ -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: ApacheCon-EU : where are link to presentations (slides and speaker speech)
Hi Oliver... On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Olivier Heintz olivier.hei...@nereide.frwrote: is it possible to help ? Sure you can, one thing to do is to double check the missing slides so far, see my other e-mail about contacting the speakers, I am already keeping a list of missing slides but another eye sure can help In my other e-mail I mentioned speakers are replying back and I will upload their slides either today or tomorrow depends how much time I have Le 23/11/2012 09:39, patrick.ga...@infoserve.endress.com a écrit : Are there any news about the availablility of the rest of the slides? -- Patrick From: Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com To: apachecon-discuss@apache.org apachecon-discuss@apache.org Date: 18.11.2012 16:29 Subject: Re: ApacheCon-EU : where are link to presentations (slides and speaker speech) Yes I am working on them now On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update! While I saw the OpenOffice presentations for Wednesday Thursday are still missing. Will them be uploaded later? - Simon 2012/11/13 Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com Hi... You can be up-to-date following [1] [1] http://archive.apachecon.com/eu2012/presentations/ On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The slides will be available by the end of today, and there is also a plan to make it available through Lanyrd [1]. Will send the current location when done with the rest of the slides [1] http://lanyrd.com/ On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: I think the plan is to make speeches available as record and as video where applicable. Not sure on the slides. But here is an unofficial site which has collected many of them: http://www.nandana.org/2012/11/apachecon-europe-2012-sinsheim.html On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Olivier Heintz olivier.hei...@nereide.fr wrote: Before the question in the title, Thank you very much for ApacheCon-EU organization, all was nice and efficient. For each talk, a file with presentation were asked and all speaker speech were recorded. Thank you again. Is there a plan to have a web page with links to download it or to look it ? Olivier -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: ApacheCon-EU : where are link to presentations (slides and speaker speech)
Yes I am working on them now On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update! While I saw the OpenOffice presentations for Wednesday Thursday are still missing. Will them be uploaded later? - Simon 2012/11/13 Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com Hi... You can be up-to-date following [1] [1] http://archive.apachecon.com/eu2012/presentations/ On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The slides will be available by the end of today, and there is also a plan to make it available through Lanyrd [1]. Will send the current location when done with the rest of the slides [1] http://lanyrd.com/ On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: I think the plan is to make speeches available as record and as video where applicable. Not sure on the slides. But here is an unofficial site which has collected many of them: http://www.nandana.org/2012/11/apachecon-europe-2012-sinsheim.html On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Olivier Heintz olivier.hei...@nereide.fr wrote: Before the question in the title, Thank you very much for ApacheCon-EU organization, all was nice and efficient. For each talk, a file with presentation were asked and all speaker speech were recorded. Thank you again. Is there a plan to have a web page with links to download it or to look it ? Olivier -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: ApacheCon-EU : where are link to presentations (slides and speaker speech)
Hi The slides will be available by the end of today, and there is also a plan to make it available through Lanyrd [1]. Will send the current location when done with the rest of the slides [1] http://lanyrd.com/ On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: I think the plan is to make speeches available as record and as video where applicable. Not sure on the slides. But here is an unofficial site which has collected many of them: http://www.nandana.org/2012/11/apachecon-europe-2012-sinsheim.html On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Olivier Heintz olivier.hei...@nereide.fr wrote: Before the question in the title, Thank you very much for ApacheCon-EU organization, all was nice and efficient. For each talk, a file with presentation were asked and all speaker speech were recorded. Thank you again. Is there a plan to have a web page with links to download it or to look it ? Olivier -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: RFP and tracks...
Hi Did u have a look at tracks ? [1] If yes, what kind of security you like to present. Is it security in general, securing web apps, securing enterprise applications and services, etc ... That would help to think about where to put ur proposal Sent from my Samdung Galaxy S3 Apologies for any typos On Jul 27, 2012 4:35 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny elecha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I just realized yesterday that I was not subcribed to apachecon-discuss@apache.org, where the discussion about tracks occured a month ago. Now that it's time to send a proposal, I'm wondering which track would be adequat for a talk on security ? Any suggestion ? Thanks ! -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
Re: edit karma for wiki
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Bernd Fondermann wrote: can you please grant me karma for the wiki (BerndFondermann) Done, sorry for the delay. (Turns out there's only two of us who can grant karma, if any other concom-ers would like to be added to the admin group so they can help, let me know!) Would you please add me to the admin group, I also might need to be added with normal karma in the 1st place :) Is there already a page for the upcoming ApacheCon EU? Stubbed out only. I'll start a new thread about this, to increase visibility Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: edit karma for wiki
Hi On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.comwrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Bernd Fondermann wrote: can you please grant me karma for the wiki (BerndFondermann) Done, sorry for the delay. (Turns out there's only two of us who can grant karma, if any other concom-ers would like to be added to the admin group so they can help, let me know!) Would you please add me to the admin group, I also might need to be added with normal karma in the 1st place :) Correction I already have karma, but I still would like to be added to admins to help. Is there already a page for the upcoming ApacheCon EU? Stubbed out only. I'll start a new thread about this, to increase visibility Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: edit karma for wiki
Hi On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.comwrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Bernd Fondermann wrote: can you please grant me karma for the wiki (BerndFondermann) Done, sorry for the delay. (Turns out there's only two of us who can grant karma, if any other concom-ers would like to be added to the admin group so they can help, let me know!) Would you please add me to the admin group, I also might need to be added with normal karma in the 1st place :) Correction I already have karma, but I still would like to be added to admins to help. Thats what you get when you start sending e-mails too late in the night, my account name is MohammadNour Is there already a page for the upcoming ApacheCon EU? Stubbed out only. I'll start a new thread about this, to increase visibility Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Call for Papers for ApacheCon Europe 2012 now open!
Hi On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Nick Kew wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:14:57 +0100 (BST) Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: If you'd like to submit a talk proposal, please visit the conference website at http://www.apachecon.eu/ and sign up for a new account. Once you've signed up, use your dashboard to enter your speaker bio, then submit your talk proposal(s). There's more information on the CFP page on the conference website. I found the submission form confusing: 1. The brief outline suggest 400 characters. But when I submit it tells me the limit is 200 - a very brief outline indeed! That sounds like a bug, which we will report for fixing. Thank you. 2. I thought I was saving a draft, but it tells me my proposal is submitted. Whoops! It's possible to go back to your proposal and edit it. I can't remember off-hand how you delete one, so wo;; ask. AFAIK you only can cancel it but not to delete it, this is based on the last time I tested the site How much of that is intentional? -- Nick Kew As you can see, not all of it. Thanks again for your report. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/ -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which track for Apache Syncope (incubating)?
Hi Francesco... On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò ilgro...@apache.org wrote: Hi all, I'd like to propose to the Apache Syncope (incubating) team a talk about the project at ApacheCon EU 2012. Any hint about the track? As Identity Manager, Syncope would naturally belong to something related to enterprise domain integration. Maybe JEE [1]? Indeed, ApacheEE would be a perfect place for such project Thanks for your support. Regards. [1] http://www.apachecon.eu/tracks/#apache-ee -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which Track for a middleware as Apache Etch?
Hi On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: I'm also having difficulties getting James in any of the tracks listed. Could fit to Apache EE or Web Infrastructure or maybe even OFBiz. But doesn't identify itself with any of them. Tracks are based on the proposals we received from projects before the CFP. Not all projects responded at the time :/ So there are gaps now. I'll submit a talk about using James as a gateway for email-to-any (twitter, XMMP, etc. ). If there's one really obvious track, let us know and we can add the project to the list for that track. If there are a couple of possible tracks, submit against the most likely, and add a note in the additional notes field about the other track(s) that might work too. Thats actually the main logic behind which I chose ApacheEE for these proposals as yes it might not be a directly related to EE applications but any EE application needs security and also integration technologies so they are some how related. That is at least how I think about it. Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which Track for a middleware as Apache Etch?
Hi Ioan... On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Ioan Eugen Stan stan.ieu...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/7/23 Ioan Eugen Stan stan.ieu...@gmail.com: Hi Nour, Your logic is reasonable. The only thing that's misleading is the name. ApacheEE may be a good home for enterprise project not directly related to Java EE. For instance James can be deployed as a WAR but not it's not usually the case. That being said I think ApacheEE is the more likely home for James as it's component based (using Spring) and can be deployed as a WAR. Sorry for re-replaying: I've meant to say that some enterprise things are not necessarily JavaEE and ApacheEE make me think only JavaEE. Note to self: I should re-read stuff before I send. :) no worries If it's ok with you I'll like to add it myself to ApacheEE track. The only request I have is to tell me how I can do that so I can be of help with page editing in the future. I've missed that course unfortunately. p.s. I was expecting the website to use Apache CMS but it's not. Cheers, 2012/7/23 Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com: Hi On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: I'm also having difficulties getting James in any of the tracks listed. Could fit to Apache EE or Web Infrastructure or maybe even OFBiz. But doesn't identify itself with any of them. Tracks are based on the proposals we received from projects before the CFP. Not all projects responded at the time :/ So there are gaps now. I'll submit a talk about using James as a gateway for email-to-any (twitter, XMMP, etc. ). If there's one really obvious track, let us know and we can add the project to the list for that track. If there are a couple of possible tracks, submit against the most likely, and add a note in the additional notes field about the other track(s) that might work too. Thats actually the main logic behind which I chose ApacheEE for these proposals as yes it might not be a directly related to EE applications but any EE application needs security and also integration technologies so they are some how related. That is at least how I think about it. Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Ioan Eugen Stan / CTO / http://axemblr.com -- Ioan Eugen Stan / CTO / http://axemblr.com -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which Track for a middleware as Apache Etch?
Hi Nick... On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On 23/07/12 12:06, Francesco Chicchiriccň wrote: Maybe we could have a 2nd track which supplements the ApachEE core track and showcases the different Enterprise Integration scenarios. This sounds reasonable to me and in the direction of the aborted Integration Service APIs track [4]. Maybe that would also fit to Camel and it's parts? If there are the volunteers to run the track, then we can certainly look at adding a new one, and maybe rolling the Camel track into it! We'd need to make that call soon though. Any takers for being the track chairs? Good idea, we could name it (Enterprise) Integration track, but as you said that would need a chair Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Messaging track
Doesn't that make more reasonable to turn Camel In Action track into Integration and maybe Messaging and Integration track ? On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Dejan Bosanac wrote: I just proposed a few talks on ActiveMQ under Camel in Action track. If those are accepted, I think it'd be better to have a separate Messaging track for these and other potentially related talks. We can broaden tracks out if there's interest - tracks at the moment are based on the submissions received from projects, and not all projects responded... If you think it'd be a good thing for the community to broaden it, and if the person down to be track chair for the track does to, we can make the change. Check with them, check with the communities, and let us know if the consensus is to do that! (Whether you can have a separate track depends on the submissions received. The tracks so far are provisional, and will only go ahead if they get enough good talks proposed. If you have a great, late idea for a track, and it gets enough submissions, we can accept it, but it may have to be at the expense of another track that didn't get many good submissions to it...) Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which Track for a middleware as Apache Etch?
On another thought, why not the already existing Camel track chair to be the same for the one that might be named (Enterprise) Integration track ? On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nick... On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.comwrote: On 23/07/12 12:06, Francesco Chicchiriccň wrote: Maybe we could have a 2nd track which supplements the ApachEE core track and showcases the different Enterprise Integration scenarios. This sounds reasonable to me and in the direction of the aborted Integration Service APIs track [4]. Maybe that would also fit to Camel and it's parts? If there are the volunteers to run the track, then we can certainly look at adding a new one, and maybe rolling the Camel track into it! We'd need to make that call soon though. Any takers for being the track chairs? Good idea, we could name it (Enterprise) Integration track, but as you said that would need a chair Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Messaging track
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Would it be better to add an unclassified track for tings that don't fit? The difficulty with this is that it should really have been part of the CfP ... But unclassified would be sort of a misleading and I am afraid to say that it might give some negative influence when ppl read it ? regards Steve On Jul 23, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: Doesn't that make more reasonable to turn Camel In Action track into Integration and maybe Messaging and Integration track ? On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Dejan Bosanac wrote: I just proposed a few talks on ActiveMQ under Camel in Action track. If those are accepted, I think it'd be better to have a separate Messaging track for these and other potentially related talks. We can broaden tracks out if there's interest - tracks at the moment are based on the submissions received from projects, and not all projects responded... If you think it'd be a good thing for the community to broaden it, and if the person down to be track chair for the track does to, we can make the change. Check with them, check with the communities, and let us know if the consensus is to do that! (Whether you can have a separate track depends on the submissions received. The tracks so far are provisional, and will only go ahead if they get enough good talks proposed. If you have a great, late idea for a track, and it gets enough submissions, we can accept it, but it may have to be at the expense of another track that didn't get many good submissions to it...) Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/ -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Nearly there with the website - any volunteers available now-ish?
Hi On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Roger that Sent from my Samdung Galaxy S3 Apologies for any typos On Jul 16, 2012 12:15 AM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I can do that by tomorrow after working hours if thats ok ? That'd be great if you could. Check the google doc then to see what's still needed then! OK, working on that now, just giving heads up JIC :) Cheers Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: Nearly there with the website - any volunteers available now-ish?
Roger that Sent from my Samdung Galaxy S3 Apologies for any typos On Jul 16, 2012 12:15 AM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I can do that by tomorrow after working hours if thats ok ? That'd be great if you could. Check the google doc then to see what's still needed then! Cheers Nick
Re: Freerun: Space for tools
Another noop question, what is a track chair ? Sent from my Samdung Galaxy S3 Apologies for any typos On Jul 2, 2012 2:58 PM, Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org wrote: Hi, If needed I can do some stuff around Maven. (maybe Archiva as a complement for Maven) Let me know. 2012/7/2 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Christian Grobmeier wrote: I think there might be a few projects which do not fit exactly in a web, integration or jee track. For example, Maven, Ant, Bloodhound (Incubating). Probably we should have a track which provides space for projects which are not mentioned. Probably a Labs Quick talk could be included there. for example, 1 hour talk = 4 labs shown. Is someone able to wrap this thread up into a track proposal? Only there were lots of good ideas, and I'd hate for them to get lost! Nick, could you remind me the entry form? I cannot find the link somehow. @All: who wants to become track chair/backup chair? What is the stuff to do ? (yup noob question :-) ). Nick -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de -- Olivier Lamy Talend: http://coders.talend.com http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
Re: Signed up to the list and can help...
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Marcel Offermans wrote: I signed up to this list after Nick just e-mailed committers@, it's great to see that the planning of the two conferences is going well so far! I would like to help as I did with the last two ApacheCons. Germany is relatively close by (I live in The Netherlands) so I'm definitely attending. That makes two of us ;), and Nick you are dam sure that I want to help, any hints on what needs to be done or how to help ? As start anyway I will get in contact with Marcel, which I do all the time :D Great! Is there an archive, or some means of catching up with what happened so far? There is an archive for this list: http://mail-archives.apache.**org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-**discuss/http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-discuss/ I'll send an update email shortly to help bring everyone up to speed. (Things until now have been spread over a few lists) Nick -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
Re: ApacheCon's EU 2012 and NA 2013 - save the dates and get involved!
Hi Nick... On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com wrote: Hi All Those of you at ApacheCon NA 2011 in Vancouver may remember me standing on stage, announcing some provisional information on ACEU12, and saying more information on ApacheCons for Europe and North America would be along soon It's been a little while longer than hoped, but we do now have some firm announcements! Firstly, for Europe, SAP have kindly agreed to host us in Sinsheim, Germany on the week of the 5th-9th November 2012, for ApacheCon Europe 2012. We've got the venue confirmed, but we still need to decide on the many things, so please get involved in the organising if you can! (Details on getting involved below) Secondly, for North America, following the RFP we've accepted a proposal from Open Bastion (producers of DjangoCon and PyCon) to run our next ApacheCon North America! The plan is for the event to happen in early 2013, likely in Portland, we'll be able to confirm the details shortly (once contracts are all signed). Again, we need people to help get involved in organising this too! The initial discussions and planning for both events will be taking place together, on the new-ish public list apachecon-discuss@apache.org http://mail-archives.apache.**org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-**discuss/http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-discuss/ We need organisers who can help with the planning, with talk selection and track allocations, to help with planning non-talk events (hackathons, meetups, new kinds of sessions etc), as well as those able to help out on the ground. Please get involved if you're interested and able! To get involved, send an email to apachecon-discuss-subscribe@** apache.org apachecon-discuss-subscr...@apache.org in the usual way, and we'll look forward to seeing you get involved there soon! Nick (On behalf of ConCom, the Conferences Committee) I probably can attend both, but more probably the EU one. But in either case, as you know, I would like to help in both events. Is there any hints or TODO(s) list to start with ? -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein