Thank you for the forward Ross. Ignasi, I appreciate your reaching out. Once we start planning for next year, I'll certainly circle back with you on this. Barcelona is a great city to hold an event in, I agree!
Thanks, Angela On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Adding Angela Brown. > > Thanks for the lead on Barcelona as a possible ApacheCon host. Angela > handles ApacheCon for us in her role at the Linux Foundation. > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ------------------------------ > From: Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org> > Sent: 9/22/2014 2:37 AM > To: apachecon-discuss@apache.org > Subject: ApacheCon EU city proposals > > Hi! > > First of all, let me say I'm quite new to ApacheCon and there are many > things about its organization that I ignore. I'll be talking at this > next ApacheCon EU though, so I hope I'll get more familiar with it > soon :) > > > I'm writing because I've been recently approached by the Association > Meetings & Research Department of my city, Barcelona, and they would > be interested in hosting an ApacheCon EU in the future, on 2016 or > 2018. Barcelona is a city with experience hosting events (there's > recently been the MWC and VMWrold), and they would like to host an > open source based event like the ApacheCon. > > They're willing to help in everything related to the organization, and > can provide resources, any required materials, coordination with the > authorities and/or companies, provide infrastructure, etc. > > I don't know how candidate cities are proposed or if there is a formal > procedure, so I'm just writing to see if this is well received and > something you would want to consider, and, in that case, how should we > proceed or where do we start to make that happen. > > > > Thanks, > > Ignasi > -- Angela Brown Director of Events The Linux Foundation 660 York Street, Suite 102 San Francisco, CA 94110 T: +1.415.368.4840 E: ang...@linuxfoundation.org W: linuxfoundation.org and events.linuxfoundation.org Check out the Linux Foundation Event Experience - http://youtu.be/-WUeelICQ2U