Re: Wicket interest to a Content Technology track in ACUS09?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Jukka Zitting<ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, I'm not looking for just JCR-related stuff. It would be cool
> to have a track that covers all CMS-related projects in Apache.

I'm moving forward with this. Anyone interested in organizing some
Wicket-related program at the ApacheCon? The Content Technology track
is already pretty crowded so I probably can't promise you more than a
single normal session with speaker benefits (note that unlike before,
speaker travel is not covered), but we can also arrange space for
unofficial sessions, workshops, meetups, etc. To do this, I need
people who'd like to help in planning and organizing the Wicket parts
of the event. Any volunteers?

See the suggestions below and
http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/ContentTrackApacheConUs2009 for more
information.

BR,

Jukka Zitting


SUGGESTIONS

* People pay to see the scheduled content at ApacheCon. Provide
material which will reach and attract our paying audience. If you have
Geeks for Geeks content to present, please save that for the daytime
un-con tracks, or evening MeetUps/BOFs. Consider that people attending
the main tracks probably need to have a clear business case for
registration costs - but your community are free to attend the free
evening programming (and that's free as in beer!), so choose
appropriately!

* Work with your community. Some of the best presentations have been
from presenters who don't belong to that project's PMC.

* Be creative! You're not limited to the strict 50-minute-sessions
model. You can organize the schedule in whatever way makes the most
sense for your project's content. (Ensure that your attendees still
get their coffee- and lunch-breaks and keynote sessions.)

* The main track drives paid attendence, so you must submit
well-written proposals. If the proposals are not clearly written, and
answer "Who, What, and Why?", then what can be expected of the
presentations? We've reviewed the proposals that were received in the
main CFP, and they accompany this email. You can use these verbatim
(appropriately edited for spelling/to fit the program!), or work with
the submitters to refine them to work better within the track you're
planning and/or solicit completely new proposals. Use whichever
solution creates the most effective program.

* During the day, we will run un-con tracks on Wednesday through
Friday in smaller rooms (capacity ~50), also coordinated by PMCs. They
do not need to be formalized until the morning of the track, but
guidance for the prospective audience can be gathered on the un-con
tracks' wiki pages. Registration will be required to attend these
parallel tracks, but they're a great place to schedule the
?Geeks4Geeks content that's really interesting for a narrower
audience.

FREE STUFF!

During the day, on Monday and Tuesday, we will run a free BarCamp
alongside the traditional Hackathon. The space set aside for the
BarCamp and Hackathon is truly massive, and should have a very open
feel without excessive background noise. By colocating these events,
we can enable attendees to jump between hacking together and attending
BarCamp sessions.

Free evening activities include MeetUps and BOFs. These will be
organized by the PMCs, and can be scheduled for any night from Sunday
through Thursday. Wednesday night is set aside for the free BIG
FEATHER BIRTHDAY BASH! and Welcome Reception. We expect to attract
many commuting attendees from the Bay Area, both for the main program
(paid registration required) and for all of these free events and
opportunities.

REALITY CHECK

Of course the economic realities do not permit the Conference Producer
to cover the costs of everyone who has information to present to such
a diverse audience of this many topics. For this conference, for each
hour of main track material, the Producer will be covering one (1)
hotel night plus one (1) conference pass, and will provide an
additional (1) night for overseas travelers. However, the conference
will not be paying airfare for speakers from the US and Canada, and
will work on a limited case-by-case basis with those from overseas.
And with so many friends in the Bay Area, those who are not covered
can consider staying with fellow ASF members who are willing to host.

If you're not sure how this will work for you, or what it means when
you start getting creative with the program, please check with your
planning-mentor.

Re: Wicket interest to a Content Technology track in ACUS09?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback so far! In addition to Jeremy's "Introduction
to Wicket" talk there may be room for also another, more advanced
Wicket session. Jeremy already expressed interest in preparing
something like that. Anyone else interested?

If you're planning to attend the conference, do you have preferences
on what you'd like to see or hear?

BR,

Jukka Zitting

Re: Wicket interest to a Content Technology track in ACUS09?

[Maarten Bosteels <mb...@gmail.com>]

+1 for a session on Brix-CMS

Maarten


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jeremy
> Thomerson<je...@wickettraining.com> wrote:
> > I will be at ApacheCon US this year and will be presenting a one-day
> > training (on Wicket) on Tuesday.  I could do a session or two on
> > Wicket during a conference track.
>
> Great!
>
> Anyone else planning to attend the conference or interested in some
> Wicket-related stuff during the free evening hours?
>
> > I had also submitted a paper for an "intro to wicket" session, but
> > it didn't get accepted.
>
> That's just because the track schedule hasn't yet been decided.
>
> > Contact me off-list to let me know what needs to be done and what you
> > are looking for.
>
> OK.
>
> > I have no experience with hippo or brix, so if it needs to be a Wicket /
> CMS
> > session, I may not be much help - but I second the nomination for Igor!
>
> No need to be CMS-related. Anything that current or potential Wicket
> users may find interesting is within the scope of the track.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>

Re: Wicket interest to a Content Technology track in ACUS09?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jeremy
Thomerson<je...@wickettraining.com> wrote:
> I will be at ApacheCon US this year and will be presenting a one-day
> training (on Wicket) on Tuesday.  I could do a session or two on
> Wicket during a conference track.

Great!

Anyone else planning to attend the conference or interested in some
Wicket-related stuff during the free evening hours?

> I had also submitted a paper for an "intro to wicket" session, but
> it didn't get accepted.

That's just because the track schedule hasn't yet been decided.

> Contact me off-list to let me know what needs to be done and what you
> are looking for.

OK.

> I have no experience with hippo or brix, so if it needs to be a Wicket / CMS
> session, I may not be much help - but I second the nomination for Igor!

No need to be CMS-related. Anything that current or potential Wicket
users may find interesting is within the scope of the track.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

Re: Wicket interest to a Content Technology track in ACUS09?

[Jeremy Thomerson <je...@wickettraining.com>]

I will be at ApacheCon US this year and will be presenting a one-day
training (on Wicket) on Tuesday.  I could do a session or two on
Wicket during a conference track.  I had also submitted a paper for an
"intro to wicket" session, but it didn't get accepted.

Contact me off-list to let me know what needs to be done and what you
are looking for.  I have no experience with hippo or brix, so if it
needs to be a Wicket / CMS session, I may not be much help - but I
second the nomination for Igor!

--
Jeremy Thomerson
http://www.wickettraining.com




On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Jukka Zitting<ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Jukka Zitting<ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, I'm not looking for just JCR-related stuff. It would be cool
>> to have a track that covers all CMS-related projects in Apache.
>
> I'm moving forward with this. Anyone interested in organizing some
> Wicket-related program at the ApacheCon? The Content Technology track
> is already pretty crowded so I probably can't promise you more than a
> single normal session with speaker benefits (note that unlike before,
> speaker travel is not covered), but we can also arrange space for
> unofficial sessions, workshops, meetups, etc. To do this, I need
> people who'd like to help in planning and organizing the Wicket parts
> of the event. Any volunteers?
>
> See the suggestions below and
> http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/ContentTrackApacheConUs2009 for more
> information.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
>
> SUGGESTIONS
>
> * People pay to see the scheduled content at ApacheCon. Provide
> material which will reach and attract our paying audience. If you have
> Geeks for Geeks content to present, please save that for the daytime
> un-con tracks, or evening MeetUps/BOFs. Consider that people attending
> the main tracks probably need to have a clear business case for
> registration costs - but your community are free to attend the free
> evening programming (and that's free as in beer!), so choose
> appropriately!
>
> * Work with your community. Some of the best presentations have been
> from presenters who don't belong to that project's PMC.
>
> * Be creative! You're not limited to the strict 50-minute-sessions
> model. You can organize the schedule in whatever way makes the most
> sense for your project's content. (Ensure that your attendees still
> get their coffee- and lunch-breaks and keynote sessions.)
>
> * The main track drives paid attendence, so you must submit
> well-written proposals. If the proposals are not clearly written, and
> answer "Who, What, and Why?", then what can be expected of the
> presentations? We've reviewed the proposals that were received in the
> main CFP, and they accompany this email. You can use these verbatim
> (appropriately edited for spelling/to fit the program!), or work with
> the submitters to refine them to work better within the track you're
> planning and/or solicit completely new proposals. Use whichever
> solution creates the most effective program.
>
> * During the day, we will run un-con tracks on Wednesday through
> Friday in smaller rooms (capacity ~50), also coordinated by PMCs. They
> do not need to be formalized until the morning of the track, but
> guidance for the prospective audience can be gathered on the un-con
> tracks' wiki pages. Registration will be required to attend these
> parallel tracks, but they're a great place to schedule the
> ?Geeks4Geeks content that's really interesting for a narrower
> audience.
>
> FREE STUFF!
>
> During the day, on Monday and Tuesday, we will run a free BarCamp
> alongside the traditional Hackathon. The space set aside for the
> BarCamp and Hackathon is truly massive, and should have a very open
> feel without excessive background noise. By colocating these events,
> we can enable attendees to jump between hacking together and attending
> BarCamp sessions.
>
> Free evening activities include MeetUps and BOFs. These will be
> organized by the PMCs, and can be scheduled for any night from Sunday
> through Thursday. Wednesday night is set aside for the free BIG
> FEATHER BIRTHDAY BASH! and Welcome Reception. We expect to attract
> many commuting attendees from the Bay Area, both for the main program
> (paid registration required) and for all of these free events and
> opportunities.
>
> REALITY CHECK
>
> Of course the economic realities do not permit the Conference Producer
> to cover the costs of everyone who has information to present to such
> a diverse audience of this many topics. For this conference, for each
> hour of main track material, the Producer will be covering one (1)
> hotel night plus one (1) conference pass, and will provide an
> additional (1) night for overseas travelers. However, the conference
> will not be paying airfare for speakers from the US and Canada, and
> will work on a limited case-by-case basis with those from overseas.
> And with so many friends in the Bay Area, those who are not covered
> can consider staying with fellow ASF members who are willing to host.
>
> If you're not sure how this will work for you, or what it means when
> you start getting creative with the program, please check with your
> planning-mentor.
>