Proposals for ApacheCon 2001 in; help us choose! (fwd)

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Well, this is new. You choose what sessions at ApacheCon you want. 

I don't think it's a fair approach by ApacheCon committee, as by applying
this approach they are going to make the big player even bigger and kill
the emerging technologies, who will definitely not get enough quotes and
thus will not make it in :( I'm not on the committee, so I cannot really
influence, but I'll try anyway.

So if you want to get as many mod_perl sessions as possible your voting is
most important.

The original announce is attached.

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Subject: Proposals for ApacheCon 2001 in; help us choose!

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Greetings!

If you're not interested in Apache and the ApacheCon conferences,
read no further.

The deadline for session proposals for the ApacheCon 2001 event
in Santa Clara in April 2001 has passed, and we have received more
than 150 submissions.  That's a lot, and we could sure use your
help figuring out which ones to schedule (since we'll have fewer
than half as many session slots).

To help you help us, two changes have been made to the ApacheCon
Web site.  The first is that anyone can now get an 'account'
on the site, whether you've attended ApacheCon in the past or not.
This allows you to participate in things like.. well, like the
next item.

The second change is a form that lets you rate the submissions
according to how interested you'd be in attending if it were
scheduled.  The planners will use this feedback in figuring out
which sessions are likely to be the best and/or most popular.

Go to <URL:http://ApacheCon.Com/html/login.html>.  If you already
have an ApacheCon account, log in with it.  If you've forgotten
your password, use the lower half of the form and press 'send password.'
If you don't have an account yet, use the lower part of the form
and click 'create account.'  In either of the last two cases,
wait for the mail message sent to your email address, and then
log in using the top half of the form.

Once you're logged in, choose the 'rate CFPs' link under the
ApacheCon 2001 headline.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions..
and thanks for your support!
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Ken Coar                    <http://Golux.Com/coar/>
Apache Software Foundation  <http://www.apache.org/>
"Apache Server for Dummies" <http://Apache-Server.Com/>
"Apache Server Unleashed"   <http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/>

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Re: Proposals for ApacheCon 2001 in; help us choose! (fwd)

[Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:

>
> Well, this is new. You choose what sessions at ApacheCon you want.
>
> I don't think it's a fair approach by ApacheCon committee, as by applying
> this approach they are going to make the big player even bigger and kill
> the emerging technologies, who will definitely not get enough quotes and
> thus will not make it in :( I'm not on the committee, so I cannot really
> influence, but I'll try anyway.

I agree, and I've written to Ken the same. The benefit of refereed papers
by a technical committee is that you tend to get a good balance of
technologies at the conference. This way you will only get the best known
technologies talked about, I believe. I hope camelot change their mind on
this one.

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