March 2009 Conference Planning Committee Board Report
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Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project (March 2009)
General News
- The conference committee is planning to have another Apache event
in Asia for 2009, similar to the one held in Beijing in 2008.
Details are still to be defined.
ApacheCon Europe 2009 News (23-27 March)
- Lars Eilebrecht replaces Noirin Shirley as the lead for the
conference as she has unfortunately become unavailable, and
will not be able to attend the conference. Ross Gardler, and
Shane Curcuru will be helping as co-leads with the conference.
- BarCampApache was changed to be free of charge.
- On Monday and Tuesday evening Meetups for the Apache projects
Wicket, Jackrabbit, Lucene, Maven, and Portals will be held.
Each Meetup is self-organized by each project, and can be
attended free of charge.
ApacheCon US 2009 News (2-6 November)
- The Call for Papers deadline was extended until March, 14th, and
is now closed with 210 submissions. Acceptances and rejections
should be emailed by the end of April.
- The planning meeting is scheduled at the Mövenpick March 28 & 29.
The planners team includes Bill Rowe (lead), Cliff Skolnick
(co-lead), Lars Eilebrecht, Shane Curcuru, Danese Cooper,
Jean-Frederic Clere, Ross Gardler, Noel Bergman, Sally Khudairi,
Justin Erenkrantz, Santiago Gala, Rich Bowen and Noirin Shirley
(the last three are unlikely to attend the Amsterdam meeting at
this point).
- Conference registration is planned to be opened by May 2009.