[ANN] Community Over Code Conference NA 2023 in Halifax, Canada, 7-10 Oct 2023, CFP is OPEN!

[Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>]

All,

[Cross-posting to dev@, please reply to users@]

The Community Over Code Conference (formerly ApacheCon) North America 
2023 is in-person in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It will be held 7 - 
10 October 2023 at a location to-be-announced.

The call-for-presentations (CFP) is currently open and Tomcat is a part 
of the "web servers" track this year.

https://communityovercode.org/

The link for the CFP is at the top of the page, where you can submit a 
proposal.

Note that you don't have to have the presentation ready to go today in 
order to make a proposal. It's just gotta be ready around 30 seconds 
before you start to present it ;)

(There is a tradition at these conferences of editing ones slides during 
the previous presentation. I don't recommend it, but anyone who is 
intimidated by the process can rest assured that even repeat-presenters 
are putting things together at the last moment.)

Anyone who has never attended an ASF conference should consider making 
this year their first: it's great fun, and you get to meet a lof of 
folks from all over the ASF, not just the Tomcat or httpd people, but 
folks working on projects you've never even heard of.

If you aren't sure if you are interested in presenting, or aren't sure
if you have the experience, knowledge, etc. to warrant a position as a
speaker, please consider the following:

1. This is a welcoming community
2. This community exists to serve YOU
3. You are a part of this community
4. Helping others within the community encourages others to do the same
5. Topics can be very wide-ranging. Here are some examples of
presentations from previous ASF events:

   [From Committers / directly about Tomcat]
   - Running Apache Tomcat on GraalVM
   - Tomcat in clusters and clouds
   - Using Let's Encrypt with Tomcat
   - Securing Tomcat
   - Reverse-proxying Tomcat
   - Load balancing with Tomcat
   - Clustering with Tomcat

   [From Non-Committers or not directly about Tomcat]
   - Packaging Tomcat for Linux Distributions
   - I Love Lucee -- a Java implementation of Cold Fusion
   - Routing CDN traffic at scale using Tomcat
   - Secure Web Applications using Apache Fortress
   - Monitoring Tomcat; various tools
   - Building Reactive Applications on Tomcat
   - Troubleshooting performance using thread dumps
   - High Throughput Production Systems on Tomcat
   - Why I Love Open Source
   - Introduction to Spring Boot
   - Tomcat, TomEE, and Meecrowave
   - Apache Tomcat: Enabling Scripting Languages in JSPs

   If you are using Tomcat at $work and doing something interesting,
we'd love to hear about it.

6. You don't need to be the foremost expert in $feature to talk about it
7. We are actively looking for speakers to talk about these and other
topics:

   - Deploying Tomcat in an auto-scaling environment (e.g. AWS EBS)
   - Tomcat should really have [Feature X]
   - Whatever you think might be interesting!

Please consider speaking ESPECIALLY if you haven't done so before. If 
you are worried about whether your idea is good enough: don't. Just 
submit your idea to the CFP -- you don't have to write-up the 
presentation in order to submit an idea, just write a paragraph or two 
about what you want to do -- and the track chairpersons 
(chairpeople?[1]) will decide whether or not to include your 
presentation in the event. (And chances are good that if you submit an 
idea it will be accepted.)

Please reply to the users list with any questions you may have about
ApacheCon, the Tomcat track, or submitting a talk proposal.

Thanks,
-chris

On behalf of all Community over Code NA 2023 web-server/Tomcat Track 
chairpersons.

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