Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project
* ApacheCon US/2007
November 12-16, 2007
Leader: Rich Bowen
ASF member registration fee: US$400.
Registration for ApacheCon US has been open for some time, and
trainings are selling well. Individual speakers are promoting their
own talks, which seems to be a very effective model. There's 55 days
remaining until the conference, and 5 days remaining before the end
of the Early Bird prices.
Exact registration numbers and revenue forecasts are not yet
available.
* OS Summit Asia/2007
Leaders: J Aaron Farr, Justin Erenkrantz, Noirin Plunket
ASF member registration fee: not yet determined.
This is not a traditional ApacheCon, being co-located with
an Eclipse event in Hong Kong.
Registration has opened, but according to Charel we've had very few
people registar so far. That is in part due to the fact neither
Apache nor Eclipse have sent out announcements to their committers
about registration. We definitely need to pick up the ball on this
end and get the word out.
We have a handful of sponsors at this point, including (in no
particular order):
Covalent
Google
Morph Labs
DevZuz
Outblaze
Sopera
Webtide
There was a thread recently on the planners mailing list about
committer rates and about a hackathon-like event. Details on both
items have not been settled.
We have settled on Li Gong from Mozilla for one of the keynotes.
Another keynote will be a panel of local open source luminaries. I
think we're still arranging the final keynote.
So far the cooperation between Eclipse and Apache seems to be going
well. I am a bit worried about balls being dropped as time is
increasingly short, but maybe that's just a reflection of my own
personal hectic schedule.
* ApacheCon Europe/2008
Leader: Lars Eilebrecht
This event will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ApacheCon
Europe 2008 will be held April 7-11 at the Mövenpick hotel in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (same location as the Europe 2007
conference). Currently SCP has a contract with the Mövenpick hotel
for 2008, but Charel Morris (SCP) is considering to stay in
Amsterdam for several years in order to build the conference and
attendance. However, no final decision has been made. The Europe
2008 conference will (like previous conferences) consist of 2 days
of training sessions and 3 days of normal sessions. The call for
papers will be published by the end of September. For the first
time the call for papers will include 2-day training sessions in
addition to half-day and full-day training sessions. Regarding
2-day sessions, we are contacting potential trainers directly in
addition to the call for papers. The deadline for the call for
papers will be 26 October 2007, and the planning meeting will be
held 10+11 November 2007 in Atlanta (the weekend before ApacheCon US
2007). The www.eu.apachecon.com Web site still shows the old 2007
data, but has been updated to include a note about the date and
location of the Europe 2008 conference, and the upcoming call for
papers. The ApacheCon Europe 2008 planning team (currently)
consists of the following ASF members: Martin van den Bemt, Noel
J. Bergman, Rich Bowen, Danese Cooper, Shane Curcuru, Lars
Eilebrecht, Justin Erenkrantz, Santiago Gala, Nóirín Plunkett,
William A. Rowe, and Carsten Ziegeler. The lead for ApacheCon
Europe 2008 will be Lars Eilebrecht, with Nóirín Plunkett being the
co-lead. The contact address for the planning team is
planners-2008-eu@apachecon.com. Arje Cahn (Hippo) was a great help
with ApacheCon Europe 2007 (mainly regarding PR), and he has offered
to help with the 2008 conference again.
* ApacheCon US/2008
Leader: None yet chosen
This will be held in New Orleans.
* ApacheCon Peru/2008
Leader: None yet chosen
This event will be co-located with the VISION 2008 conference
as USMP in Lima. The name may be other than ApacheCon, like the
OS Summit was. However, since there is already VISION 2008 and
Open Source Day happening, it's unclear what the name of our
portion will be.
