Fwd: PMCs: the ApacheCon CFP is out. Help increase your Project's exposure!

[Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>]

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Subject: PMCs: the ApacheCon CFP is out. Help increase your Project's exposure!
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:56:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Sally Khudairi <sk...@apache.org>
Reply-To: private@wicket.apache.org,	sk@apache.org
To: pmcs@apache.org, private@incubator.apache.org
CC: ASF Marketing & Publicity <pr...@apache.org>,  Jim Jagielski 
<ji...@apache.org>,  ApacheCon 2011 NA Planners <pl...@apachecon.com>

Hello PMC Chairs --

The ApacheCon Call for Participation has opened today!

We encourage you to help promote both ApacheCon and your Project's presence at 
the event: please drop a line to your dev and user mailing lists, forward the 
ASF blog announcement, retweet updates from the @TheASF and @ApacheCon feeds, 
blog about the CFP being open/your participation, and ask members of your 
community to help spread the word.

This year's CFP process is different.

Every submission must be made online at http://na11.apachecon.com/ ("Submit" 
link, online submission form is towards the bottom of the guidelines). Each week 
between now and the close of the CFP (29 April at midnight PT) we will be 
collecting submissions and forwarding them to you (Excel doc; possibly an Open 
Office spreadsheet as well).

We need you to please --

1) Note which sessions are of interest to your Project;
2) Note any sessions that would fall under your domain but are not relevant to 
you; and
3) Assign a contact person who can answers any questions we may have


We will be updating the spreadsheets with Projects' comments as well as any 
potential cross-pollination opportunities (where a proposal would fall under 
more than one theme/track, for example). This is intended to be a collaborative 
process: we encourage you to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Once the CFP closes, we will group the sessions and assign a theme/track chair 
to work with you during the decision-making and speaker notification process (20 
May-30 June). If you would like to propose a volunteer to act as theme/track 
chair or organizer (preferably the same as the above contact person, but we're 
otherwise accommodating), please do so as well.

We will be posting promotional resources online and opening registration in the 
near future, and will be keeping you abreast of new developments as they arise.

Thank you in advance for your help. We look forward to working with you.

- Jim Jagielski and Sally Khudairi
   ApacheCon Program co-Chairs