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There are a number of community events taking place before, during and after ApacheCon.

• Sunday 24th - BarCampApachePortland
• Monday 25th -HackathonNA13
• Tuesday - Thursday Daytime - Main Conference Schedule
• Tuesday - Thursday early evening (6-8pm) - details below
• Tuesday - Thursday 8pm onwards - Meetups, BoFs, Project Get-Togethers etc
• Wednesday 4-6pm - Fast Feather Track
• Friday/Saturday 1/2 - ProjectHackathonsNA13
  

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Currently, nothing is planned. We'll probably just all review the Portland Tips page and find places to head to!

Tuesday 6-8pm

Welcome reception! With kind sponsorship from Adobe, there's a welcome reception on Tuesday evening, open to all.

After the welcome reception, from 7.30pm until 8pm (when the Meetups, BoFs, Project Get-Togethers etc start), will be the ever popular PgpKeySigningDetails of events to go here later

Wednesday 6-8pm

First up, there's the ever popular lightning talks! These will start at 6pm, and run for one hour.

Then, there's a mini Mini BarCamp! On the Wednesday evening straight after the main sessions lightning talks finish, we'll be doing a mini BarCamp, thanks to kind sponsorship from Expedia.

For a general idea of what a BarCamp is like, please see the Sunday BarCampApachePortland page for details.

The Wednesday night event will be a little more quick-fire, as we've less time. We will commence at 6pm 7pm with an introduction to BarCamps (for those who are new), and then do the scheduling. Sessions will run for 20 minutes each, from 67.20pm - 8pm9.30pm, giving us time for 5 about 6 sets of interesting presentations! Space is limited, to sign up please see http://expeapachecon.eventbrite.com/

After that, it'll be over to the usual Evening Meetups, BoFs, Project Get-Togethers etc

Thursday

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4.30-6pm

PowerPoint Kareoke! Come along, and give it your best shot at presenting someone else's slides, when neither you nor the audience knows what's coming up... 5 minutes, 15 slides, slides advance ever 20 seconds, it's a hoot!

(Then you can go home, or join others to go out)

Wednesday - Fast Feather Track

The Fast Feather Track is a series of short, 15 minute talks, covering areas new / interesting / upcoming.

Stream based high performance solution for JSON<-->XML conversion issues with XML Schema

JSON has become a hot news within present web services developers and mobile application developers. They require JSON to be delivered from and to services that often use XML(SOAP) based back end services. This is where JSON to XML and XML to JSON bidirectional conversion comes into field. Here we need a robust conversion mechanism to transform JSON to and from XML. As JSON is more lightweight than XML, JSON is an ultimate option to avoid bandwidth problems comes with XML data model when interchanging data over networks. With this new mechanism JSON will not be converted to XML internally but it provides correct XML infoset with the help of XML schema while reading JSON stream, hence provides much improved performance than the existing solutions.

One API to rule all content management systems

Most organizations have more than one Enterprise Content Management repository. Writing one-off integrations with each one is a waste of time, especially when something like Apache Chemistry exists. See how the client libraries in Apache Chemistry enable you to interoperate with repos like SharePoint, Alfresco, FileNet, and many others from your Java, Python, .NET, PHP, Objective-C, and Android apps.

TBC

Ideas include Lightning Talks, mini BarCamp sessions, Ignite Presentations and more!

If you'd like to help organise any of these, or even just see them happen, please get in touch!

Evenings Events (post 8pm)

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• BarCamp
  • Mark Hinkle
  • Justin Mclean
  • Mohammad Nour El-Din
  • Nick Burch
  • Lewis John McGibbney
• Monday Hackathon
  • TBC
• Early Evening Events
  • TBC
• Meetups / BoFs
  • Mark Hinkle
  • Mohammad Nour El-Din
• Post-Conference BarCamps
  • TBC
    

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