Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project Please forgive me emailing this without a formal signoff from Ken/the concom PMC - Ken's been out of action a bit lately because of his back, and the deadline was looming a bit. J Aaron is working with Charel & Frazier on our websites. He's done a great job on www.ossummit.com, and is being very diligent in his hat-swapping. The new website for us.apachecon.com is pretty much ready to go. At the moment the hold up is upgrading Stone Circle's Media Temple account to a dedicated virtual server (the current account can't handle more than one Rails app at a time). Once the new virtual server is available, he'll get the site deployed so we can open up registration. With two conferences now being our annual minimum, concom has decided to split into 'teams' per event - the team for ACUS07 includes Ken, Noel, and Lars; Rich is heading up this group. OS Summit Asia has a slightly smaller ASF team, since it's being run in conjunction with Eclipse - J Aaron, Justin and Noirin are keeping things going there. Talks for ACUS07 have been selected and scheduled, and speaker notifications have been sent. Speaker agreements/contracts haven't gone out yet. The new website will include timetable and registration information, as soon as it goes up. The CFP for OS Summit Asia is officially closed; although there were one or two last minute reports of issues with the submission forms, it looks like there won't be a need to extend it. The Eclipse team will select their talks over the next couple of weeks - the ASF planners will be meeting in LA the weekend of August 11th/12th for session selection. This means a slight delay in notifications, but unfortunately it wasn't possible to get everyone together before that. ACEU is over for another year, and despite an attempted drowning, there were no major mishaps. |