Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project (September 2009)

ApacheCon US 2009 News (2-6 November)

  • Early bird registration is now closed. Registration is looking good, but we're still hoping to do more work on PR

ApacheMeetUp BarCampApache Asia 2009 (Late Nov/Early Dec 2009)

Location: Beijing, China and Colombo, Sri Lanka Date: Nov. 28-29 (Beijing); Dec 4-6 (Colombo) Organizers/ConCom reps: Justin, Sanjiva, Xiao-Feng

This is a follow-on to last year's BarCamp in Beijing that we conducted.

The event will be a travelling road show. One day of talks and one day of BarCamp in Beijing. Two days of talks and one day of BarCamp in Colombo. We will focus primarily on local speakers and developers.

Our goal is to encourage local Apache committers to get together and interact with other local community members who are interested in open source. While we'll publicize to the best of our ability, the goal is really to connect local folks.

In Beijing, we have space available at either a local university or Intel's Beijing office (where we had the BarCamp last year). The current preference is to return to Intel's office. In Beijing, we have some other volunteers besides Xiao-Feng assisting - including Peter Cheng who was instrumental in helping out at last year's Beijing event. Peter has suggested combining forces with "OpenSourceCon" and producing a joint 2-day event. The structure would still be roughly the same, but there may be an additional 1/2 day of talks. We are pretty close to finalizing the structure for Beijing.

At this time, organization in Colombo is not yet as advanced as Beijing. However, given Sanjiva's past experience with events in the area, Justin is optimistic that it will all pull together just in time. =) Sanjiva has committed to finding some local space in Colombo. We are optimistic that we will find a venue at little to no-cost soon.

Apache Retreat, Ireland 2010

  • Signup is now open for the Apache Retreat, Knockree Youth Hostel, for the weekend of 9th-12th April. Several committers have registered, but further publicity is currently on hold to be co-ordinated with ApacheCon publicity.


Other

  • Discussions are ongoing about what we want to do in Europe in 2010, and what kind of support we might need for those events. Currently, it looks like the Apache Retreat for committers, plus a potential second event along more traditional lines for users/developers.
  • SCP has expressed an interest in working with the ASF in Europe in 2010.
  • ConCom has requested a budget of 30kUSD for the financial year to April 2010. This will cover the costs of the Apache Retreat in Ireland, as well as projected costs for the events in Asia. There is also a small discretionary fund included, for the support of other events.
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