Success!!! (was - [IDEA] - Frequent small events in the Netherlands)

[Mohammad Nour El-Din <no...@gmail.com>]

Hi...

   I am so pleased to announce that the 1st event Apache Meetup - NL, which
was yesterday in Arnhem, The Netherlands, was a great success:

1- We had 19-20 people
2- 2 Talks (Apache Rave and Apache Celix)
3- An open discussion about Apache and the Apache Way (I always mis Ross
which it comes to these topics :D)
4- Had a nice dinner and drinks
5- People socialized in a *very* good way
6- The venue was fantastic, a *big* great thanks to Marcel and Luminis
7-  A lot of photos have been taken
  7.1- Where can we share these photos ?
8- Presentations will be collected and shared as well
  8.1- Also where can we put them ?

The plan is going so well!

Surprise, Surprise:
- We already have plans for the coming two events, more information when we
are more sure about it!


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Marcel Offermans <
marcel.offermans@luminis.nl> wrote:

> Hello Nick,
>
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 18:51 , Nick Burch wrote:
>
> > On 10/04/12 09:46, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
> >>   1- Do not have to be a formal event at all, maybe just like a big
> >> get-to-gether
> >>   2- Mostly community driven, so we don't need to have any kind of
> >> sponsorship (Maybe just that each attendee pays a small amount of money
> to
> >> reserve the place in which we will have the event)
> >>   3- It is more about hacking and giving talks about new ideas which
> can be
> >> donated to ASF or already existing ASF projects
> >
> > Sounds fun, good luck with it!
>
> Thanks!
>
> > It's probably worth you having a chat with the Girls and Guys in Berlin
> about the Apache get-togethers they put on there. You've probably got
> similar enough numbers of committers and cultures that they could well have
> some useful advice and tips on what works well / doesn't.
>
> Are they on this list as well? If not, who can we contact that was
> involved?
>
> >>   One last thing, Recently I was introduced to Meetup.com [1], which is
> a
> >> very nice tool for planning meetups, small events and even big ones, I
> >> suggest to use it for planning the events suggested above, I would also
> >> appreciate having feedback/comments about that.
> >
> > You have to pay to have a site on meetup, even if all the events are
> free. It also has some annoyances, but it does prove to be quite a good way
> to reach out to people. (I use it to help organise a French Language event
> in Oxford, so I know it quite well, but we don't use it for Oxford Geek
> Nights, which is a tech focused event that I help with)
>
> We ended up for now using eventbrite, because meetup.com was down when we
> wanted to announce the event.
>
> Greetings, Marcel
>
>


-- 
Thanks
- Mohammad Nour
----
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
- Albert Einstein

Re: Success!!! (was - [IDEA] - Frequent small events in the Netherlands)

[Ross Gardler <rg...@opendirective.com>]

On 27 April 2012 21:55, Marcel Offermans <ma...@luminis.nl> wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2012, at 17:44 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>
>> Brilliant!
>>
>> Presentations: best we have right now is
>> http://community.apache.org/speakers/slides.html (need to put thought
>> into making decent use of that section). I'd think about hosting them
>> at slideshare and linking to that page.
>
> That makes sense, and perhaps that page should start with listing the specific events so we can relate slides and maybe photos to each event?

Per event is OK, but I'd rather that were a *different* page. The one
above is supposed to be resources for speakers. A place where people
can go to find reusable slides for x, so per topic is best. If you
want it to record things on per event basis then the concom site is
much better (which should have per event pages anyway).

Ross

Re: Success!!! (was - [IDEA] - Frequent small events in the Netherlands)

[Marcel Offermans <ma...@luminis.nl>]

On Apr 27, 2012, at 17:44 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:

> Brilliant!
> 
> Presentations: best we have right now is
> http://community.apache.org/speakers/slides.html (need to put thought
> into making decent use of that section). I'd think about hosting them
> at slideshare and linking to that page.

That makes sense, and perhaps that page should start with listing the specific events so we can relate slides and maybe photos to each event?

> Photo's: Hmmm.. we need more photo's around the apache.org site. How
> about putting them into the ComDev svn somewhere sensible and
> spreading a few good ones around the ComDev and ConCom sites.

Do we want to have the originals (RAW files, ~25MB per file in this case) there, or just the processed and resized JPEG files? I would say the latter, but if we ever want to reuse them in other materials, the originals might come in handy as well. We could also opt to just keep track of who made the pictures and have people ask them if the originals are needed. WDYT?

Greetings, Marcel

> Ross
> 
> On 27 April 2012 16:38, Mohammad Nour El-Din <no...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi...
>> 
>>   I am so pleased to announce that the 1st event Apache Meetup - NL, which
>> was yesterday in Arnhem, The Netherlands, was a great success:
>> 
>> 1- We had 19-20 people
>> 2- 2 Talks (Apache Rave and Apache Celix)
>> 3- An open discussion about Apache and the Apache Way (I always mis Ross
>> which it comes to these topics :D)
>> 4- Had a nice dinner and drinks
>> 5- People socialized in a *very* good way
>> 6- The venue was fantastic, a *big* great thanks to Marcel and Luminis

You're welcome, we were glad to host it. Big thanks to yourself a well, this definitely was a team effort!

>> 7-  A lot of photos have been taken
>>  7.1- Where can we share these photos ?
>> 8- Presentations will be collected and shared as well
>>  8.1- Also where can we put them ?
>> 
>> The plan is going so well!
>> 
>> Surprise, Surprise:
>> - We already have plans for the coming two events, more information when we
>> are more sure about it!
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Marcel Offermans <
>> marcel.offermans@luminis.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Nick,
>>> 
>>> On Apr 18, 2012, at 18:51 , Nick Burch wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 10/04/12 09:46, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
>>>>>   1- Do not have to be a formal event at all, maybe just like a big
>>>>> get-to-gether
>>>>>   2- Mostly community driven, so we don't need to have any kind of
>>>>> sponsorship (Maybe just that each attendee pays a small amount of money
>>> to
>>>>> reserve the place in which we will have the event)
>>>>>   3- It is more about hacking and giving talks about new ideas which
>>> can be
>>>>> donated to ASF or already existing ASF projects
>>>> 
>>>> Sounds fun, good luck with it!
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>>> It's probably worth you having a chat with the Girls and Guys in Berlin
>>> about the Apache get-togethers they put on there. You've probably got
>>> similar enough numbers of committers and cultures that they could well have
>>> some useful advice and tips on what works well / doesn't.
>>> 
>>> Are they on this list as well? If not, who can we contact that was
>>> involved?
>>> 
>>>>>   One last thing, Recently I was introduced to Meetup.com [1], which is
>>> a
>>>>> very nice tool for planning meetups, small events and even big ones, I
>>>>> suggest to use it for planning the events suggested above, I would also
>>>>> appreciate having feedback/comments about that.
>>>> 
>>>> You have to pay to have a site on meetup, even if all the events are
>>> free. It also has some annoyances, but it does prove to be quite a good way
>>> to reach out to people. (I use it to help organise a French Language event
>>> in Oxford, so I know it quite well, but we don't use it for Oxford Geek
>>> Nights, which is a tech focused event that I help with)
>>> 
>>> We ended up for now using eventbrite, because meetup.com was down when we
>>> wanted to announce the event.
>>> 
>>> Greetings, Marcel
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Thanks
>> - Mohammad Nour
>> ----
>> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
>> - Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
> Programme Leader (Open Development)
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
> 
> 

Re: Success!!! (was - [IDEA] - Frequent small events in the Netherlands)

[Ross Gardler <rg...@opendirective.com>]

Brilliant!

Presentations: best we have right now is
http://community.apache.org/speakers/slides.html (need to put thought
into making decent use of that section). I'd think about hosting them
at slideshare and linking to that page.

Photo's: Hmmm.. we need more photo's around the apache.org site. How
about putting them into the ComDev svn somewhere sensible and
spreading a few good ones around the ComDev and ConCom sites.

Ross

On 27 April 2012 16:38, Mohammad Nour El-Din <no...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
>   I am so pleased to announce that the 1st event Apache Meetup - NL, which
> was yesterday in Arnhem, The Netherlands, was a great success:
>
> 1- We had 19-20 people
> 2- 2 Talks (Apache Rave and Apache Celix)
> 3- An open discussion about Apache and the Apache Way (I always mis Ross
> which it comes to these topics :D)
> 4- Had a nice dinner and drinks
> 5- People socialized in a *very* good way
> 6- The venue was fantastic, a *big* great thanks to Marcel and Luminis
> 7-  A lot of photos have been taken
>  7.1- Where can we share these photos ?
> 8- Presentations will be collected and shared as well
>  8.1- Also where can we put them ?
>
> The plan is going so well!
>
> Surprise, Surprise:
> - We already have plans for the coming two events, more information when we
> are more sure about it!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Marcel Offermans <
> marcel.offermans@luminis.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hello Nick,
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2012, at 18:51 , Nick Burch wrote:
>>
>> > On 10/04/12 09:46, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
>> >>   1- Do not have to be a formal event at all, maybe just like a big
>> >> get-to-gether
>> >>   2- Mostly community driven, so we don't need to have any kind of
>> >> sponsorship (Maybe just that each attendee pays a small amount of money
>> to
>> >> reserve the place in which we will have the event)
>> >>   3- It is more about hacking and giving talks about new ideas which
>> can be
>> >> donated to ASF or already existing ASF projects
>> >
>> > Sounds fun, good luck with it!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> > It's probably worth you having a chat with the Girls and Guys in Berlin
>> about the Apache get-togethers they put on there. You've probably got
>> similar enough numbers of committers and cultures that they could well have
>> some useful advice and tips on what works well / doesn't.
>>
>> Are they on this list as well? If not, who can we contact that was
>> involved?
>>
>> >>   One last thing, Recently I was introduced to Meetup.com [1], which is
>> a
>> >> very nice tool for planning meetups, small events and even big ones, I
>> >> suggest to use it for planning the events suggested above, I would also
>> >> appreciate having feedback/comments about that.
>> >
>> > You have to pay to have a site on meetup, even if all the events are
>> free. It also has some annoyances, but it does prove to be quite a good way
>> to reach out to people. (I use it to help organise a French Language event
>> in Oxford, so I know it quite well, but we don't use it for Oxford Geek
>> Nights, which is a tech focused event that I help with)
>>
>> We ended up for now using eventbrite, because meetup.com was down when we
>> wanted to announce the event.
>>
>> Greetings, Marcel
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> - Mohammad Nour
> ----
> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
> - Albert Einstein



-- 
Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
Programme Leader (Open Development)
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com