Correction: the date for the Apachecon US 2015 event in Austin, Texas should of course be April 2015.
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I like to share with you the message below from the Executive V.P. of the > ASF regarding the Apachecon event. Please take notice and act on it. It > will surely help spread the word about our project and its works. > > Again I present you the url for the schedule of the OFBiz talks at the > Apachecon EU 2014 event to be held in Budapest from Nov 17th till Nov 21st, > 2014. > https://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/overview/type/ofbiz > > If you can not make it to this event in Europe and you are living in the > US, there will be an Apachecon event in Austin, TX, USA in April 2014. > > Best regards, > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rich Bowen <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM > Subject: ApacheCon - How you can help > To: [email protected] > > > Here's the most important ways that you can help with ApacheCon EU right > now, in order of importance. > > * If you are involved in an Apache project that has content at ApacheCon, > send messages to your users@ and dev@ list telling them about that > content, and telling people that they need to be there. Tell them > specifically what talks they need to come for, and what developers they'll > get to hang out with at the event. Tell them that they are doing their > career a disservice if they don't come to this event. Remind them that > committers have a deep discount, so if they're not committers now, here's a > *great* reason for them to get on that train for next time. Remind the US > audience that if they can't make it to Budapest, they should plan to come > to Austin in April. > > * Reach out to other audiences - Twitter, Facebook, and G+, certainly, but > also other non-Apache projects you're involved with that have strong > overlap with our content. Again, mention specific talks and people that > will be at the event. > > * If your company cares about or relies on any Apache technology, > encourage them to sponsor the event and/or send an employee to the event. > Remind them that it's about more than just the technical content - they > will get to have first-hand contact with the people that develop the > software, and become part of that community, with the possibility to > participate in shaping the future of that product. If there's a spark of > interest in sponsorship, have them get in touch with me - > [email protected] - and we'll take it from there. > > * Follow and retweet the @apachecon account. > > -- > [email protected] > http://apache.org/ > > >
