Januar 2009 Conference Planning Committee Board Report
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Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project (January 2009)
General News
- Lars and Justin have resumed conversations with SCP about how ApacheCon
should be structured going forward. We're still in the process of
discussing the high-level parameters to ensure that we're all on the
same page about the goals of a re-structure. ApacheCon US 2008 actual
budget and anticipated Europe 2009 budget will be delivered by SCP for
review by the Conference Committee and the Board. Mutual goal is to
have initial phase of the restructuring in place by ApacheCon US 2009.
ApacheCon Europe 2009 will be produced under the current master contract
with SCP.
- Delia is working on an ASF 10th Anniversary logo for ApacheCon in
co-ordination with Sally/PRC and the Conference Committee.
- ApacheCon US 2010 will be held at the Atlanta Peachtree Westin hotel,
and ApacheCon "North America" 2011 will be held at the Westin Bayshore
in Vancouver, Canada.
ApacheCon Europe 2009 News
- Ross Gardler replaces Martin van den Bemt as co-lead for the conference
- Speaker notifications for the conference were sent in December.
- An initial Web site is available at http://www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/
Some content is still missing, and Aaron is still working on some issues
with displaying the schedule.
- Registration for the conference will be opening soon. Prices will be quoted
in EUR, but the actual registration fee will be charged in USD.
- Registration prices were slightly lowered as we no longer have to charge
VAT on conference prices in The Netherlands.
ApacheCon US 2009 News
- No news since last report.