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TomcatCon Where (and when) next?
All,
TomcatCon London 2017 took place yesterday and was even more successful
than hoped. We sold 16 tickets for a full day of content from 3 Tomcat
committers.
I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank our sponsors.
Liferay generously provided the venue - including all the associated
organisation. This provided us with a very nice venue, removed a
significant amount of the organisational overhead and also removed all
of the financial risk to the PMC members organising the event.
c2b2 generously purchased 2 tickets and contributed towards the other
expenses (speaker travel expenses, buying a microphone so we could
record some of the sessions, name badges, etc,).
We were able to record 4 out of the 6 sessions and these will be
uploaded to YouTube and linked from the Tomcat website hopefully by the
end of the week.
As planned, the event generated a sufficient surplus to underwrite the
next event. With this in mind, thoughts are already turning to future
events.
We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next
event. Please add your suggestions to this thread.
Some points to keep in mind:
- Events close to one or more Tomcat committters will generally have
lower overheads due to reduced travel costs. At this point that
probably means Europe if the event runs without sponsorship.
- Sponsorship to cover speaker travel and/or to provide a venue
increases the options available with regard to location. I was
serious when I said in a previous thread that the next event could be
in India if a sponsor offered to provide a venue and cover speaker
travel.
If you'd like to discuss sponsorship options privately, please feel free
to contact me off-list.
With regards to timing, the aim is to try and organise one of these
events every couple of months. That probably means we need to start
thinking about event N+1 and N+2 in parallel.
I look forward to your suggestions,
Mark
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Re: TomcatCon Where (and when) next?
Posted by Coty Sutherland <cs...@redhat.com>.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> Mark,
>
> On 9/27/17 5:14 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> TomcatCon London 2017 took place yesterday and was even more
>> successful than hoped. We sold 16 tickets for a full day of content
>> from 3 Tomcat committers.
>>
>> I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank our
>> sponsors.
>>
>> Liferay generously provided the venue - including all the
>> associated organisation. This provided us with a very nice venue,
>> removed a significant amount of the organisational overhead and
>> also removed all of the financial risk to the PMC members
>> organising the event.
>>
>> c2b2 generously purchased 2 tickets and contributed towards the
>> other expenses (speaker travel expenses, buying a microphone so we
>> could record some of the sessions, name badges, etc,).
>>
>> We were able to record 4 out of the 6 sessions and these will be
>> uploaded to YouTube and linked from the Tomcat website hopefully by
>> the end of the week.
>>
>> As planned, the event generated a sufficient surplus to underwrite
>> the next event. With this in mind, thoughts are already turning to
>> future events.
>>
>> We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next
>> event. Please add your suggestions to this thread.
>>
>> Some points to keep in mind:
>>
>> - Events close to one or more Tomcat committters will generally
>> have lower overheads due to reduced travel costs. At this point
>> that probably means Europe if the event runs without sponsorship.
>>
>> - Sponsorship to cover speaker travel and/or to provide a venue
>> increases the options available with regard to location. I was
>> serious when I said in a previous thread that the next event could
>> be in India if a sponsor offered to provide a venue and cover
>> speaker travel.
>>
>> If you'd like to discuss sponsorship options privately, please feel
>> free to contact me off-list.
>>
>> With regards to timing, the aim is to try and organise one of
>> these events every couple of months. That probably means we need to
>> start thinking about event N+1 and N+2 in parallel.
>>
>> I look forward to your suggestions,
>
> Washington, DC would be a lovely place to have a TomcatCon. :)
+1, it's only an hour flight for me :)
> I'd be happy to organize the event. Not too many Tomcat committers in
> the area, but lots of ASF folks are here, including jimjag (though his
> schedule is sometimes awkward). We held a BarCampApache here in 2012
> on a Saturday and got ~45 attendees. Tomcat would probably have a
> smaller draw from that crowd, but there might be more locals who would
> be more interested in a more focused set of topics rather than the
> wide-ranging chaos that often accompanies a BarCamp.
>
> There are quite a few big internet companies with presences around
> here (e.g. Living Social, Facebook, etc.) but I'm not sure which ones
> utilize Tomcat within their technology stack. They may be willing to
> give us some meeting space, however, since most of those companies end
> up being "friends of open source" even if they aren't
> directly-benefiting from one particular tool.
>
> - -chris
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Re: TomcatCon Where (and when) next?
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Mark,
On 9/27/17 5:14 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> All,
>
> TomcatCon London 2017 took place yesterday and was even more
> successful than hoped. We sold 16 tickets for a full day of content
> from 3 Tomcat committers.
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank our
> sponsors.
>
> Liferay generously provided the venue - including all the
> associated organisation. This provided us with a very nice venue,
> removed a significant amount of the organisational overhead and
> also removed all of the financial risk to the PMC members
> organising the event.
>
> c2b2 generously purchased 2 tickets and contributed towards the
> other expenses (speaker travel expenses, buying a microphone so we
> could record some of the sessions, name badges, etc,).
>
> We were able to record 4 out of the 6 sessions and these will be
> uploaded to YouTube and linked from the Tomcat website hopefully by
> the end of the week.
>
> As planned, the event generated a sufficient surplus to underwrite
> the next event. With this in mind, thoughts are already turning to
> future events.
>
> We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next
> event. Please add your suggestions to this thread.
>
> Some points to keep in mind:
>
> - Events close to one or more Tomcat committters will generally
> have lower overheads due to reduced travel costs. At this point
> that probably means Europe if the event runs without sponsorship.
>
> - Sponsorship to cover speaker travel and/or to provide a venue
> increases the options available with regard to location. I was
> serious when I said in a previous thread that the next event could
> be in India if a sponsor offered to provide a venue and cover
> speaker travel.
>
> If you'd like to discuss sponsorship options privately, please feel
> free to contact me off-list.
>
> With regards to timing, the aim is to try and organise one of
> these events every couple of months. That probably means we need to
> start thinking about event N+1 and N+2 in parallel.
>
> I look forward to your suggestions,
Washington, DC would be a lovely place to have a TomcatCon. :)
I'd be happy to organize the event. Not too many Tomcat committers in
the area, but lots of ASF folks are here, including jimjag (though his
schedule is sometimes awkward). We held a BarCampApache here in 2012
on a Saturday and got ~45 attendees. Tomcat would probably have a
smaller draw from that crowd, but there might be more locals who would
be more interested in a more focused set of topics rather than the
wide-ranging chaos that often accompanies a BarCamp.
There are quite a few big internet companies with presences around
here (e.g. Living Social, Facebook, etc.) but I'm not sure which ones
utilize Tomcat within their technology stack. They may be willing to
give us some meeting space, however, since most of those companies end
up being "friends of open source" even if they aren't
directly-benefiting from one particular tool.
- -chris
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Re: TomcatCon Where (and when) next?
Posted by Olaf Kock <to...@olafkock.de>.
On 27.09.2017 23:14, Mark Thomas wrote:
> We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next
> event. Please add your suggestions to this thread.
I've sent a more thorough reply privately and will be happy to assist in
continuing Liferay's sponsorship. This will be easiest to secure if it's
close to any of Liferay's european (or worldwide) offices. Frankfurt,
Madrid, Budapest come to my mind (but there are more - and even more if
we're looking for the other continents)
I don't know where all the committers are located. I'd be happy to
assist organizing in my home town Hamburg as well. Unfortunately I
couldn't make it this time...
Olaf
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Re: TomcatCon Where (and when) next?
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
Hi all,
I'm starting to think about this again and the next event is looking
like a workshop / training event in Manchester, UK in January.
Details are still TBD so this is your opportunity to make suggestions to
steer the event to what you want it to be.
The rough outline is:
- Manchester UK
- 22nd or 15th January
- central Manchester location
- workshop / training format (lots of hands on - bring a laptop)
- possible topics
- TLS (how it works, configuring, debugging)
- reverse proxy (how it works, configuring, debugging)
- debugging with thread dumps
- <your suggestions here>
- cost ~£80 per person
- delivered by me
Feedback and suggested topics welcome.
Mark
On 04/10/17 18:46, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. Pulling the various suggestions so far we have:
>
> - Frankfurt, Germany
> - Paris, France
> - Washington DC, USA
> - Manchester, UK
>
> With some of those locations coming with a venue provided and/or
> potential for sponsorship.
>
> My current thinking (and this is just my personal view although it is
> informed by the suggestions) is:
>
> - Frankfurt
> - possible for March (ish) 2018
> - rjung can get there easily
> - I can get there fairly cheaply
>
> - Paris
> - possible for after Frankfurt - May? (ish) 2018
> - remm is near by
> - I can get there fairly cheaply
> - at least one session in French (so not me for that one)
>
> - Washington
> - too far / expensive for non-US committers without significant
> sponsorship
> - maybe wait and see what the plans are for ApacheCon in 2018 and run
> TomcatCon alongside it much like we did in Miami
>
> - Manchester
> - possible for January 2018
> - easy for me to get to
> - asking a lot for other committers to travel so soon after London
> - maybe run it more as training / workshop (i.e. large % of hands-on)
> rather than a conference as this makes it less of an issue if it is
> just me presenting
>
>
> Between the conference and the recent security issues, I've been rather
> busy these last few weeks so I want to take the opportunity to catch up
> a bit before starting on the planning for these events. I wanted to get
> the above down on email to give folks an opportunity to provide some
> feedback.
>
> Also, as previously promised, I've put some notes on the organisation
> and finances for the London event on the wiki:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/TomcatCon
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/TomcatCon+London+2017
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 27/09/17 22:14, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> TomcatCon London 2017 took place yesterday and was even more successful
>> than hoped. We sold 16 tickets for a full day of content from 3 Tomcat
>> committers.
>>
>> I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank our sponsors.
>>
>> Liferay generously provided the venue - including all the associated
>> organisation. This provided us with a very nice venue, removed a
>> significant amount of the organisational overhead and also removed all
>> of the financial risk to the PMC members organising the event.
>>
>> c2b2 generously purchased 2 tickets and contributed towards the other
>> expenses (speaker travel expenses, buying a microphone so we could
>> record some of the sessions, name badges, etc,).
>>
>> We were able to record 4 out of the 6 sessions and these will be
>> uploaded to YouTube and linked from the Tomcat website hopefully by the
>> end of the week.
>>
>> As planned, the event generated a sufficient surplus to underwrite the
>> next event. With this in mind, thoughts are already turning to future
>> events.
>>
>> We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next
>> event. Please add your suggestions to this thread.
>>
>> Some points to keep in mind:
>>
>> - Events close to one or more Tomcat committters will generally have
>> lower overheads due to reduced travel costs. At this point that
>> probably means Europe if the event runs without sponsorship.
>>
>> - Sponsorship to cover speaker travel and/or to provide a venue
>> increases the options available with regard to location. I was
>> serious when I said in a previous thread that the next event could be
>> in India if a sponsor offered to provide a venue and cover speaker
>> travel.
>>
>> If you'd like to discuss sponsorship options privately, please feel free
>> to contact me off-list.
>>
>> With regards to timing, the aim is to try and organise one of these
>> events every couple of months. That probably means we need to start
>> thinking about event N+1 and N+2 in parallel.
>>
>> I look forward to your suggestions,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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Re: TomcatCon Where (and when) next?
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
Thanks for the suggestions. Pulling the various suggestions so far we have:
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Paris, France
- Washington DC, USA
- Manchester, UK
With some of those locations coming with a venue provided and/or
potential for sponsorship.
My current thinking (and this is just my personal view although it is
informed by the suggestions) is:
- Frankfurt
- possible for March (ish) 2018
- rjung can get there easily
- I can get there fairly cheaply
- Paris
- possible for after Frankfurt - May? (ish) 2018
- remm is near by
- I can get there fairly cheaply
- at least one session in French (so not me for that one)
- Washington
- too far / expensive for non-US committers without significant
sponsorship
- maybe wait and see what the plans are for ApacheCon in 2018 and run
TomcatCon alongside it much like we did in Miami
- Manchester
- possible for January 2018
- easy for me to get to
- asking a lot for other committers to travel so soon after London
- maybe run it more as training / workshop (i.e. large % of hands-on)
rather than a conference as this makes it less of an issue if it is
just me presenting
Between the conference and the recent security issues, I've been rather
busy these last few weeks so I want to take the opportunity to catch up
a bit before starting on the planning for these events. I wanted to get
the above down on email to give folks an opportunity to provide some
feedback.
Also, as previously promised, I've put some notes on the organisation
and finances for the London event on the wiki:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/TomcatCon
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/TomcatCon+London+2017
Mark
On 27/09/17 22:14, Mark Thomas wrote:
> All,
>
> TomcatCon London 2017 took place yesterday and was even more successful
> than hoped. We sold 16 tickets for a full day of content from 3 Tomcat
> committers.
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank our sponsors.
>
> Liferay generously provided the venue - including all the associated
> organisation. This provided us with a very nice venue, removed a
> significant amount of the organisational overhead and also removed all
> of the financial risk to the PMC members organising the event.
>
> c2b2 generously purchased 2 tickets and contributed towards the other
> expenses (speaker travel expenses, buying a microphone so we could
> record some of the sessions, name badges, etc,).
>
> We were able to record 4 out of the 6 sessions and these will be
> uploaded to YouTube and linked from the Tomcat website hopefully by the
> end of the week.
>
> As planned, the event generated a sufficient surplus to underwrite the
> next event. With this in mind, thoughts are already turning to future
> events.
>
> We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next
> event. Please add your suggestions to this thread.
>
> Some points to keep in mind:
>
> - Events close to one or more Tomcat committters will generally have
> lower overheads due to reduced travel costs. At this point that
> probably means Europe if the event runs without sponsorship.
>
> - Sponsorship to cover speaker travel and/or to provide a venue
> increases the options available with regard to location. I was
> serious when I said in a previous thread that the next event could be
> in India if a sponsor offered to provide a venue and cover speaker
> travel.
>
> If you'd like to discuss sponsorship options privately, please feel free
> to contact me off-list.
>
> With regards to timing, the aim is to try and organise one of these
> events every couple of months. That probably means we need to start
> thinking about event N+1 and N+2 in parallel.
>
> I look forward to your suggestions,
>
> Mark
>
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