ApacheCon North America 2011 Meetups
Meetups will be held Tuesday through Thursday evenings at ApacheCon NA 2011, this 7-11 November in Vancouver. Meetups are onsite, and are free to all - conference registration is not required to attend, and we hope to get plenty of local attendees too!
Please see the official Meetup schedule and locations on the main ApacheCon site.
Meetup Interest Planning Grid (outdated)
Reminder: see the official Meetup schedule and locations.
Meetup Title/Link |
Organizer |
Brief Description |
Interested People CounterAdd one if you're interested any meetup! |
Tuesday |
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Apache OpenOffice.org (Tue) |
Don Harbison, dpharbison@apache.org |
Gathering proposals for short talks; e.g. General, Dev, Fora, Documentation, QA, Marketing |
5 |
Apache Incubator Bigtop (Tue) |
Roman Shaposhnik rvs@apache.org |
Building robust distributions of Hadoop stacks by packaging and validation |
3 |
Apache Flume (to be scheduled by planners!) |
Prasad Mujumdar / prasadm@cloudera.com |
For anyone interested in Flume, current and Flume-NG |
3 |
Apache Traffic Server (Tue) |
Leif Hedstrom / zwoop @ a.o |
For anyone interested in the current state, and future, of ATS |
4 |
Wednesday |
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Apache Axis2 (Wed) |
Sagara Gunathunga sagara@apache.org |
Road Map for Axis2 2.0 and current status of Axis2 integration with other Projects ( Synapse, Geronimo, Tuscany, Airavata etc) |
8 |
-Apache Kafka- (Wed - lunchtime) |
Neha Narkhede / neha.narkhede@gmail.com |
For anyone interested in using Kafka, current state of the project, future directions and contribution |
3 |
Apache Callback (Incubating) (Wed) |
Steven Gill |
Brief overview of CallBack and discuss state of project |
5 |
Apache Rave (Incubating) (Wed) |
Sander van der Waal |
Discuss developments for Rave and links with Wookie and other projects such as Rave in Context |
7 |
Apache Lucene/Solr (Wed) |
Erik Hatcher |
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6 |
ApacheBrandingMeetup2011 (Wed) |
Shane Curcuru / curcuru@ a.o |
Discussions about what trademarks mean for projects, and ideas for better branding of Apache and our projects |
2 |
Thursday |
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Apache Cassandra (Thu) |
Eric Evans |
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6 |
Apache Hadoop (Thu) |
Owen O'Malley |
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6 |
Apache Chemistry / CMIS (Thu) |
Florian Muller |
Discussing Apache Chemistry, how to use it, what we might do in future, and how we can integrate Chemistry into OpenOffice |
6 |
Apache Tomcat (Thu) |
Jean-Frederic / jfclere@gmail.com |
current state and future of the Tomcat project |
10 |
Apache HTTP Server (Thu) |
Eric Covener |
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11 |
Apache MINA |
-Julien Vermillard- |
-MINA rewrite for 3.0 : wish, feature to drop, thread model- |
2 |
Officially Scheduled Meetups
The best place to see the official schedule is on the main ApacheCon schedule!
Note: Room assignments are subject to change, and will be clearly published at the conference site. The below grid is for planning use.
All MeetUps will take place in the Bayshore Grand Ballroom
Offsite Meetups
If you are hosting an Apache-related Meetup during the week of ApacheCon NA 2011 between 5th and the 12th November, please feel free to add the name, brief description, and a link to your Meetup page here. We would suggest that most Meetups try to occur during the 5 days of the Conference, but events on the weekends before and after can work too!
What is a Meetup?
Read our detailed description of ApacheMeetups - they're similar to other Meetups, but focused on Apache projects or technologies - and they're often held in the evenings onsite at ApacheCon!
Other options for discussions and coding
As well as the evening Meetups, there are a few other ways for projects to get involved, code, discuss and share.
- Fast Feather Track - 20 minute talks on new ideas, projects, features etc. Submit your talk idea
- BarCamp - We've got an in-conference BarCamp on the Tuesday, and hopefully an off-site one on the Saturday. Host a session to discuss your project or idea!
- Hackathon - The main hackathon day is the Monday, but space is available all week. Get together, solve bugs and write new code!
If you're planning to do an open Hackathon at any point (i.e. one open to people who are not currently committers), please email the ApacheCon planners at planners-2011-na@apachecon.com to let us know. We can help advertise this, get a sign made up to direct people etc. Projects are encouraged to do this on the Monday, and it's a great way to draw in fresh blood to the project!
Available Rooms
We have rooms available for meetups on the Lobby and 2nd Floors. To see the space available, and floor plans with size details, review:
The following rooms may be available:
- Salon 1 - max 120
- Salon 2 - max 120
- Salon 3 - max 120
- Cyprus - max 120
- Oak - max 80
- Bayshore Grand Ballroom - Expo area and hackathon - not available for dedicated events, but very large!
The following rooms are in use at ApacheCon, but are not currently available for Meetups. If you really need an extra room on one night, contact planners-2011-na@apachecon.com to discuss your needs
- Machenzie - max 100 - Different Floor
- Seymour - max 100 - Different Floor
- Possible - Prospect - max 30 - Same floor, different area
- Possible - President - max 30 - Same floor, different area
- Cowichan - max 20 - Nearby, very small, may be in use for conference admin
- Coquitlam - max 20 - Nearby, very small, may be in use for conference admin
- Chehalis - max 20 - Nearby, very small, may be in use for conference admin
- Capilano - max 20 - Nearby, very small, may be in use for conference admin