Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project (May 2008)
General News
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* Renewal of SCP Contract
The ApacheCon contract with SCP has an evergreen clause, and the
conference committee has voted to renew the contract.
* New Committee Member
The conference committee has voted to add Sally Khudairi as a new
member. Sally received 9 +1 votes (and no other votes). The change
was acknowledged by the board April 16, 2008.
* Hackathon Survey for ASF Committers
The conference committee is planning to make some changes to the
ASF Hackathon events, and is currently running a survey for ASF
committers asking them about their preferences and wishes for
future Hackathon events. The result of the survey will be published.
In addition there is a discussion page about ApacheCon and Hackathon
on the ApacheCon wiki at the following URL:
http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheConBrainStorm
* ApacheCon events in 2009
The conference committee and SCP are in the process of selecting
the venues for the 2009 events. Currently the plan is to hold
ApacheCon Europe 2009 in Amsterdam the last week of March again
for the last time, and ApacheCon US 2009 in Oakland in November.
Regarding Europe SCP has been made aware that we need to find a
solution regarding the Hackathon and the new BarCamp event, i.e.,
that charging a high fee is not option.
Conference Overview
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* ApacheCon US 2008
Location and date: New Orleans, November 3-7, 2008
Lead: Shane Curcuru
Co-Lead: Noel J. Bergman
Planning list: planners-2008-us@apachecon.com
Producer: Stone Circle Productions, Inc.
* OSSummit Asia 2008 (joint-conference with Eclipse Foundation)
Location and date: (location and date to be defined)
Leaders: J Aaron Farr, Justin Erenkrantz, Noirin Shirley
Planning list: planners-2008-asia@apachecon.com
Producer/Owner: OSSummit LLC
ApacheCon US 2008 News
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* No news since last board report.
OSSummit Asia 2008 News
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* No news since last board report.
