Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project (November 2007)
General News
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* Meet the Producer
Every ASF member is invited to a "Meet the Producer" session to be held
at ApacheCon US 2007, Tuesday, November 13. The purpose of the session
is to provide interested members with the opportunity to discuss
ApacheCon with our producer and the rest of the planning team. An email
with specific information about the sessions has been posted to the
members mailing list on November 12.
* ApacheCon Blog/Planet
ConCom decided to install a blog/planet (Roller) on the ApacheCon
server. The plan is to aggregrate ApacheCon per-event blogs, and to
have general ConCom/ApacheCon blog.
* ConCom Web Team
A Web site sub-committee has been created to rework and revise the
contents of general (non-event specific) ConCom and ApacheCon Web
pages on www.apache.org and www.apachecon.com. Initial volunteers are
J Aaron Farr, Noel Bergmann, and Lars Eilebrecht.
Conference Overview
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* ApacheCon US 2007
Location and date: Atlanta, November 12-16, 2007
Lead: Rich Bowen
Planning list: planners-2007-us@apachecon.com
Producer: Stone Circle Productions, Inc.
* OSSummit Asia 2008 (joint-conference with Eclipse Foundation)
Location and date: Hong Kong, (date to be defined)
Leaders: J Aaron Farr, Justin Erenkrantz, Noirin Plunkett
Planning list: planners-2007-asia@apachecon.com
Producer/Owner: OSSummit LLC
* ApacheCon Europe 2008
Location and date: Amsterdam, April 7-11, 2008
Lead: Noirin Plunkett
Co-Lead: Lars Eilebrecht
Planning list: planners-2008-eu@apachecon.com
Producer: Stone Circle Productions, Inc.
* ApacheCon US 2008
Location and date: New Orleans, November 3-7, 2008
Lead and Co-Lead: not yet defined
Planning list: not created yet
Producer: Stone Circle Productions, Inc.
* ApacheCon Peru 2008 (name not final yet)
An Apache-related conference may be co-hosted with the VISION 2008
conference in Lima, Peru. Details are being discussed and no final
decisions have been made yet.
ApacheCon US 2007 News
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At the time os this report, ApacheCon US 2007 and the Hackathon
are being held in Atlanta. The total number of registrations for
the conference is about 350 (incl. 70 training registrations).
The full numbers are as follows:
336 individuals have registered (for some product or other)
223 full conf. passes, breakdown by type:
42 ASF members/committers
57 Speakers who self-registered (low!)
79 Full price
102 Special package (full price, with hotel discount)
107 one or two day registrations
316 individuals attending per day, on average
58 individuals in $SVN:committers/hackathons/2007/ApacheCon_US.txt
ApacheCon Europe 2008 News
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The planning meeting for the conference was held 10-11 November in
Atlanta. ApacheCon Europe 2008 will be again, a 5-day conference with
2 days of trainings (7 tracks) and a 3-day main conference (3 tracks).
In addition to regular presentations it is planned to add a 2- or
3-day Fast Feather Track. Out of about 270 proposals, 68 presentations
and trainings have been selected. Speaker notifications will be sent
by the end of November.
OSSummit Asia 2007 News
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The event planned for November 2007 in Hong Kong has been postponed
until 2008. The reason for this was the unacceptable low number of
registrations (less than 30 non-speakers) and the low number of
sponsors. The decision was made on Tuesday by OSSummit LLC
(Charel Moris), November 6, and announced on a planners conference
call. The sponsors and speakers were notified on November 6 and 7,
and the members of the ASF and Eclipse Foundation on November 8.
Please see the corresponding email posted to the members list for
further information. Charel Morris expects to have a new date by
November 16 (it is planned to move the conference to either late
May or early September).
ApacheCon US 2008 News
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Lead for this event will be Shane Curcuru with Noel J. Bergman
being the co-lead.
ApacheCon Peru 2008 News
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No news since last board report.
