Thanks Sharan, this is a very useful summary; I am glad you and Jinghai Shi were there to represent the OFBiz community!
Jacopo On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Divesh Dutta < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for sharing your experience Sharan. > > > Regards > -- > Divesh Dutta > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sharan-F <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone > > > > I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my > > Apachecon > > experience last week. > > > > I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache > booth. > > I > > think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including > > India, > > Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the > > US. > > > > My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache > > branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!). > > > > On the first day I saw a familiar name - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz > > Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and > > Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting > > about OFBiz! > > Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community, > > and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we > > have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past. > > > > I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are > > using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference > > included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot > > topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the > attendance > > figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the > > Apachecon team. > > > > On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was > mainly > > focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and > > promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote (or > > 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk > > (http://redmonk.com/) who was also one of the Apachecon keynote > > speakers. I > > did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also > > include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz > > sits > > technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway > this > > is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple > > technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....) > > > > My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th). > > My > > first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on > > configuration attracted 5 people. > > > > I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings > > and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at > > the > > moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on > > feathercast (see link below) > > > > http://feathercast.apache.org/ > > > > I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to > anyone. > > It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon..... > > > > Thanks > > Sharan > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Apachecon-NA-2016-Summary-Update-tp4680675.html > > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
