May 2009 Conference Planning Committee Board Report
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Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project (May 2009)
General News
- The Conference Planning Committee has voted to cancel the renewal of
the current ApacheCon master contract with SCP. The cancellation letter
has been sent to SCP 25 April 2009, and SCP has confirmed receipt of the
cancellation letter 8 May 2009. The ASF will honor all its obligations
under the current conference production agreement, and at least
ApacheCon US 2009 will still be produced under the current agreement
with SCP. It is the intention of the Conference Planning Committee to
continue working with SCP, and to start discussions on a new contract
and conference production agreement with SCP.
ApacheMeetUp BarCampApache Asia 2009 (Aug/Sept)
- No further updates at this time.
ApacheCon US 2009 News (2-6 November)
- Public Relations: SCP has engaged the PR company Page One for this event
as recommended by PRC/ConCom. The PRC will take a more active role and
oversee PR for ApacheCon US 2009. Exact details are still to be worked
out.
- Contract/Pricing: the conference pricing is being proposed to the
planners R.S.N. in order to finish all of the contractual details for
this event.
- Content: the following PMC's have proposed 1/2 day or more of programming
and the timing is being coordinated this week; Hadoop, Lucene, Tuscany,
Synapse, Web Services, Directory, Geronimo, Tomcat, OFBiz, httpd
including mod_perl, and Felix, plus the ever welcome Community and
Business days. One special track is being prepared, led by Jukka, for
the umbrella of Content Technology with specific PMC's to be determined.
These tracks represent at least five major contingencies of interest,
ensuring a well rounded program for a very broad and diverse audience.
- Further PMC messaging and detailed tasks will be following by the end of
May, with the intent of opening registration on Jun 22nd with the full
blitz of PR and PMC-originated communications.