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April 2008, the conference committee asked ASF committers in a survey various questions about Hackathon events. The result of the survey is available as a PDF attachment: attachment: ASF-Hackathon-Committer-Survey-April-2008.pdf.

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ApacheCon the conference and... Everything Else

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  • ApacheCon itself, a formally organized conference that we've all come to know (and love?). Likely includes a Hackathon, community spaces, and likely to be changing from your feedback.
  • Meetups, Gettogethers, separate Hackathons, and other community events. ConCom would definitely like to support and promote more focused, PMC and community led events, which may or may not be at the same time as ApacheCons.

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Looking into \[http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/WiFi\] I noticed something that might be interesting:

http://martenvijn.nl/svn/ApacheCon/62.12.12.2/mrtg/10.42.0.1_1_v-week.png

If the graph is right, and the errors of people without a laptop/wifi or with several devices can be disregarded (iPhones, Nokia phones, etc.), there is something of interest. The data about wireless macs could be used for getting an independent estimate of people "around" the place. If nobody around knows the exact meaning we could ask marten.

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Conference Website Technology - Upcoming

Wiki MarkupConcom has used the "fireswamp" system that runs the CFP process and ran the live website up until 2005. Since then, we've been continuing to use the old CFP system, but have been using a new live website from 2006-on. We hope to build a \[http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgwjm2cp_2f9vp47&hl=en completely new conference management system\], and you're welcome to make suggestions on the spec or volunteer to help by participating on concom-site -at) apache.org.