Re: Mixed content (partially insecure) on various pages
On Mon, 8 May 2017, sebb wrote: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/archive.apachecon.com/ . It's According to the site itself, the source is at https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/www.apachecon.com Which might explain why the changes have not taken ... Doh! We have two similar sites, one for the main/current apachecon event, and another for hosting the history/archive of the old ones. I've now hopefully fixed up the main site too, please do let us know if you spot any remaining issues, https or otherwise, with the sites! Thanks Nick
Re: Mixed content (partially insecure) on various pages
On Mon, 8 May 2017, sebb wrote: The apachecon pages aren't fully set up for use over https: Several images use hard-coded http: URLs. There are also some links to http://apachecon.com/ URLs which ought to be host-relative URLs. The source of the apachecon site is in svn at https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/archive.apachecon.com/ . It's just raw html in there, no fancy CMS stuff, at least for now I tried to fix these, but I don't have karma. Is there a recommended way to provide patches? Rich may be able to help with karma? I've fixed a few obvious ones, hopefully svnpubsub will notice soon and deploy! If you see any others, please send a patch here and someone (probably Rich or myself) can apply! Thanks Nick
Re: Do we have a template for ApacheCon Miami?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, jean-frederic clere wrote: Maybe I missed this announcement, but do we have a template for the OpenOffice presentations at ApacheCon Miami? If we don't I can try something like what I had in Seville ;-) AKA picking a bunch of images and back ground from the Linux Foundation. Do we know yet what projector aspect ratio rooms will be having? It'd be a shame if someone put lots of effort into building slide templates, only for them to be the wrong shape for the session rooms... Nick
Re: Presentation Template for Apache Con NA 2016
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Daniel Gruno wrote: On 04/28/2016 04:55 PM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote: Is there a presentation template available for Apache Con NA 2016 ? Nick Burch has made some templates for it, available at: http://home.apache.org/~nick/ Specifically, the files you'd want are: * http://home.apache.org/~nick/ACBD16_Template.odp<- Apache Big Data * http://home.apache.org/~nick/ACNA16_Template.odp<- ApacheCon Core Thanks Nick
Re: Listing of slides from past ApacheCons?
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Shane Curcuru wrote: I'm trying to do research on presentations at past ApacheCons, but the http://archive.apachecon.com/ site isn't being very helpful. Any tips / anyone want to volunteer to make it easier to navigate? I think that someone (Rich?) did a cleanup of it fairly recently, to avoid confusion over current events. Maybe we could restore some of those old listings to another past-events page somewhere in the site, then restore the links to the archived sites where available? In particular, the only past events link goes back to the wiki, and many of the links from the wiki to past event details are borked (in particular, the past year or so of LF event pages are not found on their site anymore, which is disappointing). We should have archives of the HoldenWeb sites, and most of the past ones. The old ones are on the archive site, under subdirectories that mirror their original namings, the others are on per-event archive sites as their URL namespaces needed the whole lot. See https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/ to browse what we have I've no idea what, if anything, was agreed about archiving / hosting of past LF run sites. Rich or Ross might know? It would even be helpful if the archive.ac.c site had a simple directory listing, so you could easily see which /na2013/presentations, etc. directories existed (and which didn't). https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/archive.apachecon.com/na2013/presentations/ (but you have to know it's a svn pubsub site, I agree that a nicer on-site listing would be better!) Nick
Any space for evening hackathons / meetups in Budapest?
Hi All Does anyone know if there'll be space in Budapest this year, at either ACEU or ACBD[1], for project meetups / hackathons? I tried checking likely places: * https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-europe/extend-the-experience/evening-events * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-core-europe/extend-the-experience/evening-events * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-europe/extend-the-experience/colocated-events * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-core-europe/extend-the-experience/co-located-events But none of them seem to have a definite answer either way Anyone know? Thanks Nick [1] I hope those are the right abbreviations...
Re: Marketing of Apachecon ACEU15 within the ASF
On 20/04/15 15:44, Pierre Smits wrote: Up to now, we have relied on a few contributors to communicate the messages regarding ApacheCon and on the trickle-down approach via the private ML of our projects. Shouldn't we be reaching out directly (and systematically) to all our contributors by mailing directly to the user and dev MLs of our project? Sending a general hey, come to ApacheCon message to a user list is at best not very effective, and at worst upsets communities who feel spammed with irrelevant content. Having a trusted community member post hey, come to ApacheCon, Jane is talking on Monday about what's new in v2.1, Wednesday Jim talks on scaling out, and a bunch of the project members are meeting for dinner and discussions on Tuesday night! Other great stuff too, see here is relevant and drives registrations. (It can also help build that community!) Getting projects to be engaged enough in ApacheCon that they have both the content and enthusiasm to customise and forward messages about ApacheCon is a challenge, out side the usual suspects. Personally, I've tried a few different options when I was conference chair, with varying effectiveness. You can read about those in the list archives and the old board reports (search for ConCom) if you're interested. I've also given Jan some ideas and brain-dumps over drinks in Budapest and Austin. If you have a new idea, or an updated idea, please do share it! Poor Jan may be a bit overwhelmed, but I suspect he'll appreciate the effort :) Looking through the archives a bit (where practical) can help though, receiving well-meaning suggestions for things we've seen fail can frustrate an over-worked volunteer. Ideas with backing data or experience from elsewhere are great though, things like FooCon tried this and it worked well and BarCon failed on that may be the closest thing to reproducible testing that conference organising can use ;-) Nick
Re: www.apachecon.eu, www.apachecon.com
On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, jan i wrote: We should really think about updating those 2 sites. Budapest is long gone. I tried to find the source, but failed, I am happy to update if I get a pointer. It used to be that www.apachecon.eu and www.apachecon.com would be pointed at the webapp/cms hosting the main conference site, and we'd have a static html site for hosting static copies of old sites. With the sites now being hosted in a subsection of the LF site, I believe that Rich has opted to host those two sites as aliases of the archive site, to make updates of the front page. Assuming that's still the case, the svnpubsub static site source is https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/archive.apachecon.com Nick
Re: Edit Access for ApacheCon Wiki
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Sharan Foga wrote: Please can you add me to the contributors group so that I can edit the Apachecon EU who arrives when wiki page. That page should currently be world-writable, so you should be fine to just edit away! Otherwise, if you tell us your username for that wiki, we can grant you global write karma for the wiki Nick
Re: Enable ApacheCon Wiki account: AndreaPescetti
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Please enable my ApacheCon Wiki account: AndreaPescetti so that I can edit pages like https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/WhoArrivesWhenEU14 Granted, enjoy! Nick
Re: Presentation template for ApacheCon EU
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On 10/29/2014 06:52 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote: Maybe you know is there any template for ApacheCon presentations? It's at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/program/speaker-guide Personally, I didn't like this template as much as I liked the ones the LF put together for Denver. With that in mind, I took the Denver tempate, swapped out the background image for the one on the ApacheCon Europe site, and tweaked the text colours to better work with Budapest Purple. Resulting template for anyone else who wants to use it is available from http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp Nick
RE: Site is down or removed
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Gavin McDonald wrote: apachecon.eu was auto renewed yesterday. DNS is still broken though, still failing in the same way as described in INFRA-6973 Nick
RE: Site is down or removed
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Gavin McDonald wrote: DNS is still broken though, still failing in the same way as described in INFRA-6973 Yeah I haven't looked at that , I notice no configuration is our httpd configs either. I'd suggest we fix the DNS issue first, then worry about the hosting second. We have a zone file defined for it, but it isn't being used What would you like it to point to , the same as na13.apachecon.com or somewhere else? The question is more where Rich would like it pointing to, it's his baby now ;-) My hunch is that Rich will want to request a new svnpubsub site, along the lines of the na11 one, serving the static copy of the site. Probably to be called eu12.apachecon.com + 12.apachecon.eu long term, with www.apachecon.eu going to the holding page explaining about ApacheCon news coming soon! However, not much point asking for that yet, when DNS is stuffed, as you won't be able to test it! Nick
Re: Site is down or removed
On 06/11/13 02:32, Rich Bowen wrote: Perhaps it just expired. The whois record is unhelpful. can someone follow up with folks from Infra to see what's up? The domain hasn't expired, but something is clearly broken I've raised INFRA-6973 to get someone to take a look at it When it's back, someone should probably look at switching the site from pointing at the Eldarion site to the static copy in svn. The hosting with Eldarion has probably long since expired, and they may turn it off at some point soon. It'll need something similar to what we have for archive.apachecon.com Nick
Re: Site is down or removed
On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Rich Bowen wrote: We do not, to my knowledge, still own that domain. You sure? We certainly used to, at least as late as May. When did someone transfer it away, and to who? A static version of the ApacheCon Europe 2012 site was captured into SVN after the event: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/eu12.apachecon.com I'm not sure who ended up with that part of the concom responsibility when the board killed the committee, but whover that is may wish to ask infra nicely to put up a svn pubsub site based on that static archive at some suitable hostnames Nick
Re: ApacheCon NA 2014 ??
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote: It's now been 7 months since the suggestion that in 2-3 months the questions with regard to ApacheCon NA 2014 would be answered. I've yet to see those answers, so I'll ask again: Any determination of IF/WHEN/WHERE and [within some reasonable ballpark] HOW MUCH for ApacheCon NA 2014? TL;DR - no news, and no longer my responsibility Longer Answer - After ApacheCon NA 2013 in Portland, I proposed to the board some changes to the Conference Planning committee/project/role, to better match what I thought was needed after those two ApacheCons and discussions in/around them. The board agreed with some of them, had reservations with others, and instead opted in the May board meeting[1] to Dissolve the office of Vice President, Conference Planning (and associated committee). Unfortunately, the change wasn't as well managed as perhaps it could have been. Not all of the committees/posts taking on the former duties were quite ready, websites were slow to be updated, processes and policies took time to be changed for the new setup, communities felt somewhat unsupported, and external parties sometimes felt ignored. The negotiations with the producer for ACNA13/ACEU12 about new events simillarly stalled in the changeover. The good news is that things now seem to be sorting themselves out. Communities are starting to do events again, some volunteer energy is returning, policies are being updated, and external parties seem less frustrated. On the ApacheCon front, those now tasked with handling the negotiations and interactions with an external producer have been making progress. There's nothing public on that yet, but based on what I've seen in private, I believe an initial announcement is due in the 6-8 week timeframe. Nothing public yet though on the timescale after that. I know that some people have given up waiting, which is a shame, but sadly understandable. For others, there is a sign of light up ahead, but I'll have to leave it to those now responsible to reply, if they wish. Nick [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2013/board_minutes_2013_05_15.txt
Re: ApacheCon 2013 video
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Jun Rao wrote: Are the videos for the sessions in ApacheCon 2013 available now? Alas not. We still haven't managed to get the disk with the recordings plugged into a machine that can read them. Infra are working on it, with help from our hosting provider. I don't have an ETA on when it'll be fixed Once the raw videos are on an ASF box, we'll still need some volunteers to help edit the videos ready for publication. A call for volunteers will be sent out once the raw videos are online Nick
Re: ApacheCon EU 2013 ?
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Serge Huber wrote: I'd like to know if there is already something known or discussed about an ApacheCon in Europe in 2013 ? My company would be very interested in such an event. Things have been discussed, for a public summary see: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-discuss/201303.mbox/ajax/%3Calpine.DEB.2.00.1303041838140.6735%40urchin.earth.li%3E Are you interested in speaking, or helping produce it? Nick
Re: ApacheCon NA 2013 Slides
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
Re: ApacheCon NA 2014 ??
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote: So I couldn't identify who to ask about this while AT the conference, and realize that this, unlike most conferences that I've attended over the decades, is not common practice with ApacheCon, but I'll ask it anyway since the funding controllers here always want to know with a reasonable degree of accuracy as they go into annual fiscal renewal mode in May: Any determination of IF/WHEN/WHERE and [within some reasonable ballpark] HOW MUCH for ApacheCon NA 2014? Best guess is 2-3 months until that's all known (the Conference committee needs to review how ACNA 13 went, decide, then work with the producer). If you need to put in a budget request shortly, I'd suggest you put in for a similar number to Portland, as it's likely to be in the same ballpark (Based on how the discussions went, and how things are going now those have been brought back to the list, any Europe decisions are likely to be several months further on than ACNA ones) Nick
Re: ApacheCon NA 2013 Slides
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Shane Curcuru wrote: More to the point: where is archive.a.c in SVN? For those who might want to help, say with a header.html file or links thereto. It's a svnpubsub site, so changes to the underlying SVN will go live shortly afterwards, making changes (eg adding new slides) very quick The base URL of the site (including HTML of many past events) is: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/apachecon/archive.apachecon.com Currently, all ASF Members, and all members of ConCom are able to add files in. Others can be added in too, but likely we'll take that sort of volunteering as a sign that we should add you to ConCom ;-) Nick
Re: ApacheCon NA 2013 Slides
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote: My suggestion: Put a NOTICEABLE link on the na.apachecon.com website. The home page there doesn't seem to have been updated since Tuesday evening. Maybe something on wiki.apache.org/apachecon/FrontPage, too. Thanks for the tips, I've hopefully now done both. Do you think what we now have is enough? Nick
Re: Inquiring on doing a fast feather track talk in a BOF/ Lightening talk
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Shameera Rathnayaka wrote: I thought it would be better to introduce and share this with the Apache community. So I am willing to do a Fast Feature talk on this at a evening BoF/ lightening talk etc. If it is required i can provide some presentation slides too. Would like to know that whether this can be done? If you'd like to discuss it with others, your best bet is probably to propose a session on it at the BarCamp: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/BarCampApachePortland If you'd like to present about it, then the Fast Feather Track is likely the best avenue for that: http://s.apache.org/FFT13 From the sound of it, you might want to actually do both. Come along on the Sunday, take part in the BarCamp, and lead a session where you talk about it with others and get new ideas / feedback. Then, on the Wednesday, present about it as a more formal talk in the Fast Feather Track Nick
Re: Inquiring on doing a fast feather track talk in a BOF/ Lightening talk
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Rich Bowen wrote: So, is there a place to sign up for BoF slots yet? Yes, has been for about a month. There's been at least one email to both pmcs@ and committers@ about it, not sure how you missed it :( The overview page, with detqails of all the community events taking place in and around ApacheCon is: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/CommunityEventsNA13 The meetups and BoFs page is: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheMeetupsNA13 If you'd like to run a BoF or a Meetup, pop it into the no day assigned section and set the interested people counter to one, then ask around to see how much interest there is. Once you know you've got enough people to make it work (either by them incrementing the count, or email threads), move it to the day you want to confirm it. We'll assign rooms, probably on Monday (once we've looked at what's available and decided what'll probably work best) Nick
Anyone from Portland able to bring/borrow a projector for Sunday/Monday?
Hi All We've just had a quote from the hotel for providing projectors for the BarCamp (Sunday) and Hackathon (Monday), and it's pretty steep :( From amongst our Portland residents, any chance someone could borrow a projector or two from work / home, and bring it along? We can most likely provide cake / coffee / beer to thank you! :) Nick
Re: Any Portland natives able to help with a few online bits?
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, shath...@e-z.net wrote: Portland State University - School of Engineering - hosts the Portland Linux Users Group meetings. The school is within walking distance of the Hilton. The students should be an excellent resource for ApacheCon-NA. It would be good to drop by the school and put some postings on their activity board(s). Has someone managed to let both the Uni and the LUG know? The BarCamp is about a week away now, so it'd be good to remind the locals that we're coming and we'd love to see them! Also, does anyone know any Portlander with a strong twitter following amongst the local tech community? If so, it would be good to reach out to them and ask them if they'd mind passing on the details of the BarCamp, to help get the word out some more to people who might want to pop along Cheers Nick
Any Portland natives able to help with a few online bits?
Hi All Do we have any Portland natives (or at least frequent visitors!) here, who could help out with a few little bits? Firstly, our Portland Tips wiki page has some un-answered questions on it, could some people perhaps fill in some bits and answer the questions? http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/PortlandTips Secondly, we need to help spread the word amongst the Portland Geek / IT community about the Sunday BarCamp and Monday Hackathon. Could you please point likely suspects / interesting groups at these two wiki pages that describe the Sunday and Monday events? http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/BarCampApachePortland - Sunday http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/HackathonNA13 - Monday Also, if you haven't already, sign up and list your project interests for those two! Thanks Nick
Re: Future of ApacheCon discussion at ACNA
On 15/01/13 19:33, Steve Holden wrote: On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Nick Burch wrote: As most of you will hopefully know, we have a desire to host another ACEU, but know it can't be organised the same way, and ACNA is being run by an external producer in a different way to past ApacheCons. As said organizer, we will be happy to facilitate this meeting. Wonderful, thanks. Based on the conference schedule, and your personal schedule, any chance you might be able to propose a time + date + location for it, so we can check if most people can make that? * Can we square the circle of user + developer + committer/contributor needs with one ApacheCon event, or do we need to split (and if so into what?) It would be a shame to do that in my opinion, and the contributors are those with the highest value as speakers and delegates to others thinking of coming to ApacheCon. I agree, but I want it to be clear to everyone that that option is on the table if need be - this is not a meeting to rubber stamp another ApacheCon, but to seriously consider everything based on our experiences with ACEU and ACNA! Nick
Future of ApacheCon discussion at ACNA
Hi All As most of you will hopefully know, we have a desire to host another ACEU, but know it can't be organised the same way, and ACNA is being run by an external producer in a different way to past ApacheCons. I would like to propose that towards the end of ACNA, as many of us as possible get together (with note taking / recording / google hangouts etc for those not in Portland) to decide what we want to do about ApacheCon post-Portland. Topics will include, but not be limited to: * How does the new style producer arrangement work, and what should be changed going onwards? * Can we square the circle of user + developer + committer/contributor needs with one ApacheCon event, or do we need to split (and if so into what?) * Assuming we do want to run more producer led ACNAs and ACEUs, what do we need to alter (if anything) from the RFP, what timescales etc should we do for selecting a producer for both? (Note that producers ideally want 12-18 months run-up) Everyone is welcome to attend, including past/present/future producers. However, if we make amazing progress and get into nitty-gritty details, we might need to make the last bit of the session concom only. Hopefully the outcome of this + subsequent on-list discussions will quite quickly be a plan for ApacheCons for the next few years! Pencil it in your diaries, and we'll try to announce a date + venue a little closer to ACNA! Nick
Re: VIDEO RECODING @ ACEU2012
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: I recently saw a file named 'ac2012eu-video.txt' in the foundation ACEU2012 directory. The file details recording which went on during the week. Some entries say 'not converted'... can someone explain this? Are all recordings (listed in this file) going to be made public at some stage? planners@ is where this has been mostly discussed That file is being used to track the work Mark Thomas is kindly doing to get the videos posted to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/theapachefoundation I'm trying to get the raw videos onto ASF hardware (they're currently on a box kindly donated by Martin), from where it'll be easy for everyone who wants to to grab the raw video and edit for publication (eg highlights, project specific postings, excerpts etc) Nick
Re: request for write-access for the PgpKeySigning page
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Aki Yoshida wrote: I created my user AkitoshiYoshida at the apachecon wiki page. Could you give me the write acess for this page? http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/PgpKeySigning Done, you should be good to edit the page now. Thanks for taking the task on! Nick
Re: Anyone able to organise a GPG keysigning party on the Tuesday?
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Aki Yoshida wrote: If no one else volunteers, I could offer my help with this. Great, thanks! I participated in last year's event and got my key signed. I remember the procedure at the event but I am not really comfortable with the technical preparation part, which I have not done. So, if I do this, I would have to ask someone to help me make sure that I am doing that part right. Sander might be able to help, I'd suggest you read through the information online: * http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/PgpKeySigning * http://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html Then give Sander a shout if you need help after following that. You'll want to update the PgpKeySigning wiki page for this event. I'd suggest you hold the key signing at about 7.30pm on the Tuesday, at the end of the welcome reception Thanks! Nick
Re: Anyone able to organise a GPG keysigning party on the Tuesday?
Anyone? We need one person who'll be at the conference, who's able to help out for about 20-30 minutes in advance collecting keys and printing the list out, and 20 minutes in the evening. Someone, please? Nick On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Nick Burch wrote: At ApacheCon, we normally have a GPG keysigning event, to help build out the Apache Web Of Trust. These events have often been kindly run by Sander Temme, but I believe he's not able to make it to Sinsheim, so we're looking for a new volunteer! Running a keysigning party is pretty easy, and is documented: * http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/PgpKeySigning * http://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html Would someone like to volunteer to organise the event on the Tuesday night? I expect Sander can offer some advice if the resources online aren't enough for some reason. Thanks Nick
Get your community involved in events at ApacheCon Europe!
Hi All As you'll hopefully all know, ApacheCon Europe kicks off in 3 weesk time! There are a couple of ways for your community to get involved in events at the conference, which we're hoping many of you can take advantage of. In short - hackathon, and evening events. First up, on Monday 5th November, we're holding a hackathon. (Talks start on the Tuesday). If your hackathon will be open to non-committers, we want to get it listed so we can point potential new contributors to it. To that end, we're building a list of the planned hackathons, and if they're open to newcomers. So, if your project / community is planning to take part in the hackathon, please list yourselves on the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/HackathonEU12 Secondly, evening events. The Monday night will feature a committers and hackathon welcome reception, kindly sponsored by VMWare. For the other nights, it's up to all of you to decide what you want to do and where! We have put together a list of all the possible venues (bars, restaurants, cafes, icecream places etc) in Sinsheim, along with their locations, contact details and sizes. If you community would like to do something one night, be that talks or just a sociable gathering, please pick a venue, book it and list it on the wiki page. Details on the venues, and planned session are all at: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheMeetupsEU12 Otherwise, please do continue to help publicise the event, see http://www.apachecon.eu/about/publicise/ for publicity materials. Also, don't forget that the CFP for ApacheCon NA 2013 is open, but ends during ApacheCon Europe, so don't delay getting the talks in about your projects! See http://na.apachecon.com/ for details on the CFP and how to submit Thanks Nick (On behalf of the ACEU planners)
Re: What to do in Sinsheim
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Steve Holden wrote: Nick put some more stuff on the Wiki yet, but nobody's told me it's ready for prime time. With help from Christian Ohr, we now have a page listing the names, addresses, contact details and rough styles of basically everywhere you could want to go of an evening in Sinsheim, and a few nearby places too: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheMeetupsEU12 A few of them we don't have full details for, eg size. If one or two of our German speaking volunteers have some time, it'd be great if people could phone up the ones with in key areas and add the missing info into the website! Also, if anyone has been to any of the ones listed, and can comment on what they're actually like, that'd be really handy too Otherwise, please work with your projects to sort out what you want to do in the evenings, now you know where you can go :) Nick
Re: What to do in Sinsheim
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheMeetupsEU12 There now seems to be two pages with this information, we probably want to make one canaonical: http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/WhereToGoInSinsheim The Where To Go page does have a link to the meetup page with the full list. Maybe we could just add a notes section to the meeting list table, and capture the general info eg the Keltic Tavern live band date? Nick
Re: ApacheCon NA 2013 Pricing?
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote: Impatiently waiting so I can submit an accurate request for funding to attend. I believe that the plan is for early bird tickets to go on sale on the 1st of November, so not long now. (I've heard rough pricing, but I'll leave it to the producer - Steve Holden - to decide if he wants to formally pre-announce the ticket prices or not, as it's his call) Thanks Nick
Re: Csv file of conferences list
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Charles Moulliard wrote: Is there a csv file containing the list of ApacheCon 2012 - Europe conferences ? We would like to use it for a demo. Not sure I understand you. We only have the one ApacheCon 2012 Europe conference, so it'll be a fairly small CSV of conferences... Are you instead after the list of talks, or something like that? If so, what information would you be interested in - title, speaker, abstract, room, date etc? Nick
For those who live near-ish Sinsheim - Info needed
Hi All This is mostly for those who live near-ish Sinsheim (SAP people and a few others?) Could someone please head over to Sinsheim, and do a bit more of a detailed survey of the restaurant / bar / cafe options please? Several months ago, during the site visit, we went for a bit of a wander around the town, and confirmed that there were a range of places available. However, groups are now looking to schedule evening social events, and are asking what places they should be ringing to book tables. Our previous answer of there's a range of places to choose from doesn't work so well when they want a phone number...! So, any chance that one or two people could nip over to Sinsheim one evening soon? Then wander round, and report back for the restaurants / cafes / bars in the town center which are open in the evening * Name * Style (bar, italian restaurant, cafe etc) * Phone number + website if available * Approx size * If they have a room that can be booked for groups, or if we'd just be in the main area We can then circulate that info to the groups wanting to organise evening events, so they can book and announce what's happening! Thanks Nick
Re: early bird tickets sold-out?
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Nick Burch wrote: Keep an eye out for a tweet tomorrow, once the fix has gone in! Fix is in, and early bird tickets are back on sale again, with a new deadline of Thursday Nick
Re: Two open slots at the end of Thursday ?
On 01/10/12 22:24, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 01/10/2012 Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Otherwise fearing a little bit, that people who look at the program think that AOO is not really hot, as two slots remain unfilled. This would be funny. We had to exclude dozens of valuable OpenOffice talk proposals due to constraints on the number of OpenOffice talks we could approve... The current layout is probably due to other reasons, but not to a scarcity of good OpenOffice proposals. I think Oliver and Don have a plan for these two slots, but I'll let them confirm what that is! Nick
Re: early bird tickets sold-out?
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Upayavira wrote: Likewise, I have planned to purchase an early-bird ticket for a colleague. I had planned my decision making and budgeting around the 1 October date, so was surprised to see that the early bird Rate is sold out. We were surprised too... Sadly it seemed to kick in just after all the people able to fix it went home for the weekend :/ I would like to know that I will be able to purchase one even if the 1 October date passes without the problem having been fixed. We've asked the company that handles registration to re-open the early bird rate, which they'll hopefully tackle in about 10 hours time (first thing in the morning, German time). So that people who missed out this weekend still have a chance, we've asked them to push the end date out to the end of Thursday. As it (now) says on the ApacheCon homepage: -- Early Bird Tickets return Monday 1st, until Thursday 4th Early Bird ticket sales were set to end on Monday, but due to a communication mix-up the accidentally closed on Saturday... We've asked the company that handles ticketing to re-open Early Bird Ticket sales first thing on Monday, and to extend the deadline until Thursday 4th October to give everyone who missed out a chance to still lock in the early-bird rate. Sorry about the mix-up folks! -- Keep an eye out for a tweet tomorrow, once the fix has gone in! Cheers Nick
Re: SVG Source of the Banners
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, imacat wrote: Is there any SVG source of the banners: http://www.apachecon.eu/about/publicise/ The sources for these are available as PSD files from http://www.apache.org/events/logos-banners/ApacheCon-2012-Europe/ Nick
Re: Student discount is valid for a university researcher?
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Ulrich Stärk wrote: So how does this set the paid PhD student apart from $dev that is not being paid by his boss to go to ApacheCon and wants to do so on his own time? The student rate is being largely funded by sponsorship from Google, and they want it targetted at students, so that's what we're doing We've also managed to secure some funding to reduce the price for committers, an announcement about that should be going out any day now. Speakers will also be able to get a free ticket if their employer isn't able to pay, we'll be notifying speakers of the details once the schedule is posted. If we go down that route we consequently must give every person that is not being paid for going to ApacheCon the student rebate. TAC exists to help people get to the conference who otherwise couldn't afford to. TAC covers your registration, hotel and flights, and so can generally ensure that money isn't an issue for people to attend. People have now missed the chance for TAC assistance for ApacheCon Europe, but I'd strongly encourage people to apply for ApacheCon North America if they're in a situation where they're not working / working but in a role that doesn't pay that much. If you'd like us to offer the student rate to everyone, please help us find a sponsor to cover it! :) Nick
Any OpenStreetMap experts out there? ACEU local area map needed
Hi All Do we have any OpenStreetMap experts in the house? For the ApacheCon Europe venue page on the site, we'd really like a map showing the main roads, the railway and the two stations, the main hotels, the venue, but not much else. Is someone able to knock up a suitable stylesheet to render a more focused map? Should ideally cover the same sort of area as this normal map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=8.86443,49.23566,8.90258,49.25583amp;layer=mapnik Only with a simpler / more focused set of things, to help people get to and from the venue but not much else. Any takers? Only it's been a few years since I last did a custom OSM rendering, and all the tools have changed since then... Cheers Nick
Re: apachecon eu speaker subsidies
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Justin Mclean wrote: Has anything been resolved/decided in regards speakers and what is/isn't covered? My talk just been accepted but I'm not clear of if I need to organise a conference ticket or accommodation. All speakers will be emailed in a week or two with details of how to register (including details of the option very very heavily discounted ticket), and what to do about hotels. For now, you just need to reply to your notification email saying you want to speak. We'll email all the speakers with more details, once we have all the replies in! Nick
Re: Early Bird Registration is open for ApacheCon Europe!
On 27/08/12 15:10, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: Same situation here. Me and Andrei are both committers and planning to attend ApacheCon and we work for the same company. I think receiving one bill per person would work, but will have to double-check this with accounting. I believe that you can do this already. Use the normal committers discount code, enter your details, then on the payment details page pick Prepayment rather than credit card. That should then give you an invoice and the payment details, give that to your accounts department and they can pay it. Nick
Re: space for infra meetup
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Daniel Shahaf wrote: dsh wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:33:57 +0200: Closest airports are probably Stuttgart (STR), Frankfurt (FRA) and Baden Airpark (FKB). STR is The latter isn't an international airport so you would have in transit transfers. According to google maps STR is the closest one to Sinsheim. In regards to closeness I wonder what it means to you... If the meetup is Fri/Sat and I have a flight home at 10pm, I would need to leave the meetup sufficiently early to catch the flight. The distance to the airport directly affects this. With that in mind, I'd suggest you think about holding the meetup in Heidelberg. It's about 30 minutes on the train from Sinsheim, where the conference will be, and a direct train to Frankfurt airport (and I think Stuttgart too?) There are loads of hotels in Heidelberg, and some hostels, plus lots of restaurants / bars / cafes etc. It also has a number of universitites, so there's a chance we might be able to arrange some space for the meetup there, if that'd be of interest. (I think some people on the list have contacts with some of the Unis?) Nick
Re: Venue visit ApacheCon EU Sinsheim Notes
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: Can I suggest that it is long past time for separating out these issues and tasking appropriate volunteers for driving things forwards. We need a planning time. We need regular calls to make sure things are not being dropped. Do we have any volunteers who'd be on these calls though? We've had some luck with getting volunteers to sign up as track chairs, though we've had quite a few emails from people surprised that their favourite area hasn't magically happened due to a lack of volunteers. So, it hasn't been as promising as we'd hoped. Quite a few of the likely suspects have agreed to help with this. We've had excellent luck with getting people to help with investigating hotels, site visits etc, and generally working to supply local knowledge. My requests for help with announcements have largely fallen on deaf ears :( My request for help with sponsorship have gone no-where :( A lot of other requests to help have gone no-where. Not meaning to pick on you, but I notice that you've still not supplied a description for your track, and you're not the only one :/ Quite a few people have explicitly said they won't be able to help out Maybe we should turn this around: Who is able to take on a significant role with ApacheCon Europe, who hasn't already signed up for a role such as track chair? And what sort of role might interest you? Thanks Nick
Re: Travel assistance for EU 2012
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: I believe that the first full paragraph of https://tac-apply.apache.org/should be reworded. Currently it states; Could you send your suggested wording through to the Travel Assistance list? travel-assista...@apache.org. (While I'm on both lists, not all the TAC committee members are here so not all will see it) Cheers Nick
Re: To extend or not...
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: I saw at the http://www.apachecon.eu website the headline of the CfP now shows the extension till Monday 13th of August. Yup! As mentioned in another thread yesterday, the review system has been confirmed to be going live this week, and can run in parallel with the CFP, so we've been able to extend as everyone asked! The plan is to send an announcement to pmcs about the extension and putting the banners / details on the website. If someone could help draft the first part of that, that'd be great! We want to upload the logos to www.apache.org/events/logos-banners/ for the latter, I'll finish that later today if no-one beats me to it. We can hopefully announce that later today :) But in the section 'Get involved' it still shows August 3rd. You should have edit karma for the site (it was granted yesterday), so please do go ahead and fix things you spot that are wrong such as this Nick
Re: Travel assistance for EU 2012
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: You are correct. The front page of tac-apply.apache.org displays text regarding the ApacheCon NA 2013 event. That should describe the ApacheCon EU 2012 event first, and then the NA event. On the application page both events are shown. None can be picked, ApacheCon EU 2012 event is already closed. The announcement is due to go out today. Before that, someone needs to load the revised dates into the webapp. I won't have access to my ssh keys to get into the tac-vm box until tonight. If someone can beat me to it, please svn up the webapp, do ./manage.py loaddata initial_data to pull in the revised dates, then bounce httpd to activate. Oh, and then start drafting the announcement :) Cheers Nick
Re: Travel assistance for EU 2012
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Nick Burch wrote: The announcement is due to go out today. Before that, someone needs to load the revised dates into the webapp. I won't have access to my ssh keys to get into the tac-vm box until tonight. If someone can beat me to it, please svn up the webapp, do ./manage.py loaddata initial_data to pull in the revised dates, then bounce httpd to activate. Oh, and then start drafting the announcement :) The update has been applied, and applications for TAC assistance to ACEU are now open! Before we send out the announcement (which still needs drafting - no takers yet to help with that?), it'd be good if someone could confirm it works fine. So, if you were planning to apply for TAC assistance, it'd be great if someone could try it soon and report to tac-ap...@apache.org (a private, non-archived list so your privacy is protected) if you hit any problems. Assuming none are reported in, say, the next 6 hours, we can announce. Well, announce as soon as somone writes up the announcement email that is...! Details of TAC are available at http://www.apache.org/travel/ , and to apply you'll want https://tac-apply.apache.org/ Cheers Nick
Re: To extend or not...
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: Thanks for the karma granted. But I am not able to modify the home page of the site, as opposed to other pages. I've fixed the date on the homepage, thanks for the report! Steve - any ideas what's up with Pierre not being able to edit the home page? He has been added to the Page Editors Group, which I thought was all people needed? Thanks Nick
Re: ApacheCon EU 2012 and Apache OFBiz
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: At the moment only 1 paper (on the pm and tm session) has been submitted, but over the coming days till the end of CfP the rest of the papers are expected to be submitted. I have stressed this to the other participants. We'll need enough good sessions to fill the track, including an option for what to do if someone drops out. (That backup could either be another talk, or a pre-agreed stand-in speaker for an existing talk) We expect that attendance is going te be less than 100 per session, but who knows for sure So we could do with one of the smaller rooms. One session participant said that he was expecting some clients to attend. That's good news. One thing we're going to be asking all track chairs for soon, which you could maybe get started on, is more information on the track for potential attendees. The current info on the tracks page is a good start, but needs expanding, as on the whole the current level of detail is only suitable for people already involved in the projects. The lucene track have volunteered to produce the expanded descriptions first (they have some marketing volunteers to help), and we'll then use that to help guide the other tracks on what's needed. In the mean time, if you want to expand your track description, to help explain to people why they should come, that'd be a great start! Thanks Nick
Re: To extend or not...
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: When can we give chairs some visibility into their tracks? If its not possible to give them log-in access can we export to a spreadsheet or something on a periodic basis (ideally daily) They'll get full visibility once the review system is in place. Steve emailed earlier to say that it's due by the end of the week, but hopefully sooner. I don't know if an export is possible or not from the system. Perhaps Steve knows, as he knows the sytem well? When can we expect a decision on extension or not? Now that Steve has confirmed that we'll have the review system shortly, and that the review step can go in parallel with new submissions coming in, I think we're safe to extend. The original deadline was based on accepting the submissions, then reviewing them, then picking. Now we can review while accepting, we have a bit more time. Would extending to Monday 13th August work for people? Gives one more week, and two extra weekends. Would that work well? Nick
Re: edit karma for wiki
On 30/07/12 11:04, Pierre Smits wrote: Can you grant karma for me too (PierreSmits)? Done! Nick
Re: apachecon eu speaker subsidies
On 27/07/12 13:04, Tim Williams wrote: What are the speaker subsidies for ApacheCon EU? I assume the show ticket is covered. Any hotel or travel? Bad news I'm afraid, things won't be quite so generous in Sinsheim as they were in Vancouver. (Things in Portland won't be the same as Vancouver either, again there will be some speaker support, but not the same) For speakers who are likely to need help with Travel, then their first port of call should be TAC. People accepted by TAC will get their hotel, travel and conference fee covered, and should be covered for meals too (at the hotel and at the venue). I would tell people to go and apply now, but it's not ready. The latest from Gav is later today... Within the budget, we do have some scope to help out speakers, but sadly not enough to cover both hotel nights and a free conference pass. Currently, we've got speakers down for discounted, but not quite free tickets. We may be able to extend that a bit further, depending on how the final costs end up coming in at for a few things we're still waiting on. If we do have some budget spare, what would people rather: * Free tickets for all speakers? * Keep the discount on the conference fee for all speakers, but offer to cover several nights in one of the cheaper nearby hotels, for those speakers who aren't being covered by their work but who also aren't eligible for TAC funding? Can't promise we'll be able to do either at this stage, but which do people think is more important if we have the budget room to do one? Nick
Re: Want To Attend
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, jaec...@yahoo.com wrote: Please I want to attend and be part of the next conference in the USA from January 2013. Please tell me all the details. Would you like to get involved as an attendee, a speaker, or to help with the organising? For the former two, details of when tickets will go on sale, and when the CFP will open are listed on the website - http://na.apachecon.com/ For the latter, subscribe to the list, and help out where you can! Nick
Re: Any designers in the house?
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: All; I've worked up final copies of the eight different logos here. Sorry I dropped the ball and didn't finish in time for OSCON (this week's been crazy). http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ Looks good, thanks! If no-one beats me to it, I'll update http://www.apache.org/events/ with the logos for ACEU (current-event-*) and ACNA (next-event-*) We can then display the logos on http://www.apache.org/events/, http://www.apachecon.com/, and have http://www.apachecon.eu/ updated with the new logo. Finally, we've a draft reminder announcement for PMCs due to go out around now. All being well, we could expand that to be both a CFP reminder and a request to add the logos + conference details to PMC websites to help promote them. If someone has time, please update the draft announcement on the wiki with this! Cheers Nick
Re: Travel Assistance program
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Ted Yu wrote: https://tac-apply.apache.org/ still points to ApacheCon NA 2011 Vancouver http://na11.apachecon.com/ :-) Gav (the TAC committee chair, amongst other hats) looks to have hit some snags, not sure of the details as our timezones don't overlap all that much... I know he has been working on it though, hopefully it'll be ready soon! Nick
RE: Messaging track
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Martin Veith wrote: Who is the responsible chair for this track so that we could start a discussion about this? The details of who's down as track chair for all the tracks is in the submissions spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgZqERZgbUeSdF9xcFdpNkp2UWNLUThxX3NYc1pZWnc#gid=0 If it's a track with only a primary track chair, and you're willing to be a secondary, then you've likely a much greater chance of getting the change in :) Nick
Re: Apache Flex
On 23/07/12 10:21, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org wrote: Tools track ? You mean the Apache Daily ? But I don't think it would be Fair for Flex to be there, I believe it should be in [1]. Justin what do you think ? If the project thinks it's a good fix, then it'd be great if someone with the appropriate karma[1] could list the project against the track on the tracks page, to help future people find it Nick [1] We can grant karma to more people as needed, just ask if you're going to be doing some work on the content of the website
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which Track for a middleware as Apache Etch?
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: If it's ok with you I'll like to add it myself to ApacheEE track. Go ahead and submit your proposal to that 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. If you let us know your username for the site, we can grant you karma so you can edit the track description to expand it p.s. I was expecting the website to use Apache CMS but it's not. Nope, it's a single system for website + proposal + scheduling + Nick
Re: Travel Assistance program
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Ted Yu wrote: https://tac-apply.apache.org/ still refers to ApacheCon NA 2011 Vancouverhttp://na11.apachecon.com/ When can it be ready for ApacheCon EU 2012 ? All being well, in about 4 or 5 hours, so I'm told by Gav. As mentioned in a previous thread last week, the webapp is having to move boxes, and there have been some snags. DNS will switch over when the new box is ready Nick
Re: Apachecon EU 2012 - Which Track for a middleware as Apache Etch?
On 23/07/12 12:06, Francesco Chicchiriccò 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? Nick
Re: ApacheCon EU Event, website and interest measurement
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: Would it be a neat feature if we would have some kind of 'like' mechanism available in the site of the event for each track, so we all could form our thoughts on how interested the public (intended audience?) is for each track? I think the planned way to gauge that is by the number of submissions for a track, and on the ratings given to talk proposals in it. I believe that the ability for people who have submitted talk proposals to rate other talks should be coming this week, but Steve can perhaps confirm? (The website software supports it, it needs a few tweaks before it can go live). If you've experienced the PyCon CFP before, then I'm told it'll be much the same process Also, would it possible to show for each track how many papers have been submitted as well? This could help the audience and ourselves (PTC et all) with planning? You should be able to see that in the review process when it's live Nick
Re: ApacheCon EU Event, website and interest measurement
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Daniel Gruno wrote: 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. Good spot, should be fixed now If someone fancies coming up with a slightly expanded description for the track to go on the website, we wouldn't say no! (Otherwise we'll bug the people listed as the track chairs for a bigger description a bit nearer the time) Nick
Re: ApacheCon EU and presentation recording
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: 2012/7/18 Nick Burch nick.bu...@alfresco.com Video recording would be nice, but probably not something we've got the budget to cover ourselves. If we wanted it, then I think we'd either need to find a company who'd do it for us, or a volunteer group. If there are volunteers interested in seeing videoing happen, then I can point you at people who've done other tech conferences in Germany who might be able to offer advice/contacts. Don't suppose you'd be interested in heading this up Pierre, would you? :) Could you elaborate on what the heading this up would entail? Basically everything required to make it happen, if possible! So, speaking to people/companies/groups that might be able to video, and similar conferences who've done it recently, then working out if it can be done for no / almost no cost to the foundation. Nick
Re: ACEU Venue Visit - Thursday 26th July
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Bernd Fondermann wrote: Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend. I've started at a new project this week and this leads to collisions now I wasn't expecting. I'm very sorry. Keep up the good work, though. That's a shame :/ Any chance you could have a think about the questions you would have asked, and the photos you would have taken, then add them to the wiki[1]? Nick [1] http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ACEU12SiteVisit
Re: ApacheCon EU and presentation recording
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: In our project the question was raised whether presentations are going to be recorded and shown on e.g. a YouTube channel for those community members who can't make it to the event. I'm hoping we'll be able to record the sound, similar to what we did at ApacheCon NA 2011. One of the questions for the site visit is to check that we'll be able to hook our existing recorders up to the sound systems, and if we'll need to get any new cables. Video recording would be nice, but probably not something we've got the budget to cover ourselves. If we wanted it, then I think we'd either need to find a company who'd do it for us, or a volunteer group. If there are volunteers interested in seeing videoing happen, then I can point you at people who've done other tech conferences in Germany who might be able to offer advice/contacts. Don't suppose you'd be interested in heading this up Pierre, would you? :) Cheers Nick
Re: ACEU website live! Announcements due soon...
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, jean-frederic clere wrote: Do you really intend to close the CFP on August 3rd already? It seems a rather short period of time to be honest. Additionally it is holiday time. Usually the CFP gets extended probably we shouldn't worry too much. Probably till a a few days before 19th August, no? We are a bit constrained by needing to get a program out and announced with enough time for non-speaker people to decide if they want to come or not. (Ideally we would have had a longer CFP, but getting the CFP open took longer than planned, and we can't really compress the post-CFP stuff much as the conference date isn't moving) Would extending the CFP deadline make that much of a difference? We could push it a tiny bit if needed, but not by much, and we'd need to decide that ASAP before we send out too many more announcements. I would have thought that most people who might speak will decide fairly quickly, and a longer CFP just means they put of submitting for a long time (and maybe miss it...) Is that not the case? Nick
Re: ACEU website live! Announcements due soon...
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, jean-frederic clere wrote: On the announcement drafts, they're at http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ACEU12CFPAnnouncement if you have a chance to help out. the dates are no ordered additionally the 23rd July, 2012: looks weird how can people decide to come before the program is setup (at least a bunch of tracks selected). There ought to be three blocks of dates, the cfp+program related block, the travel assistance block, and the conference itself. When we intermixed the TAC stuff with the program stuff it looked odd. If someone fancies tackling that so it's both in order and makes sense, please go ahead! :) Nick
Re: Nearly there with the website - any volunteers available now-ish?
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: I have some time tomorrow. Is it still ok or too late? If it's ok, I'll take some tasks from the docs. There are still a few tasks left to do, so if you have some time to take on one (or perhaps two!) that'd be great! Some things, like the testing and the CFP announcement email drafting, don't need any karma. Adding in missing/extra info to the website will do, if you reply with your username once you've signed up on the site then someone can grant you the appropriate karma. Cheers Nick
ACEU Volunteer needed - Sponsorship Co-ordinator
Hi All The website is almost up (more on that in another email!), one thing we now need to do is finalise the sponsorship details. For that, we need a volunteer, or perhaps two. (I'm told really needs a single voice, as sponsors don't tend to get on well with asking a mailing list and getting more than one answer...) So, does anyone have the spare cycles for this? You'll probably all be glad to hear that the role doesn't mean having to do everything about sponsorship. Melissa, our EA, has some cycles to help out on the admin side. The foundation fundraising team can advise, as can this list (for public/general things only - it's a public list!). Steve from OpenBastion is available to help too, especially for sponsors who might be interested in helping both ACEU and ACNA. What does it entail? * Working with the team above to produce the sponsor prospectus * Answering questions from potential sponsors (there's one or two already), with help from the team * Putting the details into the website (I have the instructions for this, doesn't look too bad) Anyone able to take this on? Thanks Nick
ACEU Venue Visit - Thursday 26th July
Hi All Two parts to this email, one for people near the ACEU venue, and one for people who aren't! For those of you near-ish Sinsheim - we're doing a venue visit on Thursday 26th July, which is just over a fortnight away, late morning. Plan is to look round the venue, have a chat with the staff there, ask some questions, take lots of photos etc. We could really use one or two volunteers who could concentrate on talking photos and recording notes, to be shared with the mailing lists. I think it's quite important (not to mention the Apache Way!) to capture things for those not there, so if we have a volunteer or two to help with that, that'd be great! For those not able to be there - what do you want to know about the venue? What questions would you like us to ask? Were the previously shared photos and floor plans enough? If not, what do you want more photos of? Oh, and probably one for Paul - any chance you could remind people of the urls for the photos and plans from your previous site visit? :) Cheers Nick
Re: ACEU Venue Visit - Thursday 26th July
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: For those not able to be there - what do you want to know about the venue? My (immediate and incomplete) list... Thanks! I've captured these on the wiki, so they don't get lost: http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ACEU12SiteVisit Nick
Re: ApacheCon EU local area information needed!
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Christian Grobmeier wrote: My wikiname is ChristianGrobmeier, I have not registered before. Karma granted, please do go ahead and start recording some of this handy info in the wiki! Cheers Nick
Re: Things we need to do for ApacheCon EU
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Fabian Christ wrote: How is the Apache incubator normally represented at those confs? It's not normally its own area. Instead, Incubating projects tend to talk in the tracks for the areas they're in (eg a hadoop related incubating project would talk in a hadoop/big data track). Additionally, incubating projects have tended to feature heavily in things like the BarCamp and the Fast Feather Track I am a member of Apache Stanbol (incubating) and there are quite a number of other young projects at Apache around the topic of semantic web and natural language processing technologies. I am thinking of OpenNLP, Jena, Clerezza. Maybe this would be an interesting track, too. I think we'd welcome a pitch from a cluster of projects for a semantic web / nlp track! Nick
Re: submission related to HBase
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Ted Yu wrote: I am new to ApacheCon. I plan to submit a talk on multi-WAL support in HBase. You can see related discussion on HBASE-5699. It's likely going to be a month or two until we run the CFP. We'll send an email to all the committers once that's ready, in the mean time we welcome help with the conference itself! Nick
Re: Arrived :-)
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Christian Grobmeier wrote: As some might know, I am from germany and might be able to help on some specific features of the ApacheCon EU release. For example, a german translation of the ACEU page or something. Or whatever is necessary. There will be plenty that people can help with, both those in the local area of the conference (Germany / US), and those remote. There should also be lots that can be done without previous experience, so we welcome all to get involved where they can! Nick
RE: ApacheCon's EU 2012 and NA 2013 - save the dates and get involved!
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Rich Bowen wrote: On 2012 5 4 07:04, Goetz, Paul paul.go...@sap.com wrote: However: The only other option left would be CW43 = 20-22 November - and this is clashing with US Thanksgiving. So moving the event to late November would more or less exclude US committers... Although I have no wish to be excluded, EU events should not be planned for the convenience of US attendees. Thats only bitten us in the past. Ignoring JAX seems like a bad idea, and ultimately a bigger deal. SAP are kindly sponsoring us the venue and for some food, which is amazing and gives us a chance to try something different, but sadly does mean we don't have quite the same range of possible dates as when we're paying a few hundred thousand to a hotel... I'm not an American, and I don't live there, so the thanksgiving thing doesn't affect me personally. However, my hope is that we can try out some new ideas and formats in Europe, and the North America conference can learn from that. (The event in Europe will be smaller and cheaper, so we should have more chance to experiment and innovate) If we clash with thanksgiving then we'll loose the bulk of our American attendees, which likely means we loose both those with experiences of organising past ApacheCons, and we loose much of the chance for the organisers of the next one to learn from us. I completely agree that clashing with JAX isn't great, and will cause us to miss out on some German speaking attendees, which is a huge shame. (Am I right in thinking that it's all in German, so we won't loose any other European language groups?) It's very hard to judge the two, but my feeling was that loosing all the Americans (especially the ACNA13 team) would be worse. I could be wrong though (it does happen!), so if you think we've weighed the two up wrong please explain why! Nick
