Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Call For Participation for ApacheCon North America 2013

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From: Sally Khudairi <sk...@apache.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Call For
Participation for ApacheCon North America 2013
To: "announce@apachecon.com" <an...@apachecon.com>


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Portland, Oregon sets the stage for "Open Source Community Leadership
Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation", the theme for the 25th edition of
Apache's popular conference series


Forest Hill, MD – 2 October 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open
Source projects and initiatives, today announced ApacheCon North America
2013. The ASF's official conference, trainings, and expo returns to North
America 24 February-2 March 2013 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
in Portland, Oregon.


ApacheCon draws Open Source users, developers, gurus, students, novices,
community managers, and enthusiasts to address today's issues,
opportunities, and solutions focusing on the ASF's many diverse projects
and initiatives. The event takes place 24 February-2 March 2013, starting
with pre-conference trainings, BarCamp, and hackathon the first two days;
main conference + expo 26-28 February; followed by post-conference sprints,
workshops, and team building events.

This year's theme is "Open Source Community Leadership Drives
Enterprise-Grade Innovation", reflecting the enormous reach of the ASF's
software projects, from the ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server to dozens of
initiatives in the Apache Incubator and Labs such as Allura, CloudStack,
Cordova (nee Phonegap), Flex, and OpenOffice.

The Call For Papers is now open through 5 November 2012. Early-bird
registration will open 23 November 2012.

Developers and users of Apache technologies are invited to share their
experiences, ideas, inspirations and knowledge. From the flagship Apache
HTTP Server to Cassandra to Hadoop to Lucene/Solr to OODT to TrafficServer,
Apache products power half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of
operations, billions of objects, and enhance the lives of countless users
and developers.

The ApacheCon program is created by Apache Members and Committers for the
community-at-large: all content is carefully reviewed and selected by
Apache Project Management Committee contributors. All those with an
interest in Apache software are welcome to submit a proposal and celebrate
the diversity of the projects under the Apache banner.

Who Should Attend
ApacheCon is for everyone! ASF affiliation is not required to present at,
attend, or otherwise participate in ApacheCon. First held in 1999 for
developers and users of the Apache Server to meet face-to-face, ApacheCon
is the ASF's official conference, trainings, and expo series, and the
public showcase for Apache innovations.

ApacheCon is the ideal opportunity for those currently developing
Apache-based solutions, as well as those interested in committing code to
an Apache project, contributing to the Apache Incubator, or enhancing their
Open Source products and community practices. In addition, ApacheCon is a
great way to meet the individual contributors behind some of the industry's
most popular Apache projects through hands-on educational sessions and
ample networking opportunities.

Stay Informed + Get Involved!
Keep up-to-date on the latest developments by subscribing to
announce@apachecon.com and following @ApacheCon on Twitter. Those
interested in becoming a part of the event planning process are invited to
join and contribute to the apachecon-discuss mailing list at
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-discuss/ . Locals
and those familiar with the Portland area are invited to contribute to the
"local guide" wiki as well!

Important Dates
5 November 2012: Call For Participation closes
23 November 2012: Early-bird registration opens
24-25 February 2013: Pre-Conference Trainings, BarCamp, and Hackathon
26-28 February 2013: Main Conference + Expo
1-2 March 2013: Post-Conference Sprints, workshops, team building

ApacheCon is produced by The Open Bastion in partnership with The Apache
Software Foundation.

For more information and to submit a presentation proposal, visit
http://apachecon.com/.

About The Open Bastion
The Open Bastion is the events arm of Open Source technology and education
consultancy Holden Web. Founded by PyCon creator Steve Holden, The Open
Bastion specializes in producing high-quality, Open Source and corporate
technology events in the United States and Europe. Deeply committed to
developing and supporting the Python community, Holden chaired the first
three PyCon events and launched the OpenPython conference series held
bi-coastally and regionally across America. Building on its success
developing, seeding, and supporting Open Source community events, the
company’s planning and management services have grown to include DjangoCon
US in 2010, OpenDjango in 2012, and ApacheCon North America 2013. More
information, including upcoming conferences, is available at
http://theopenbastion.com/ and @TheOpenBastion on Twitter.

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one
hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server —
the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's
meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual
Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely
available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users
worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache
License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists,
mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user
conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit
charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP,
Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW
Group, SpringSource/VMware,
 WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/or follow @TheASF on Twitter.

"Apache", "Allura", "Apache Allura", "Cassandra", "Apache Cassandra",
"CloudStack”, "Apache CloudStack”, "Cordova", "Apache Cordova", "Flex",
"Apache Flex", "Hadoop", "Apache Hadoop", "Apache HTTP Server", "Lucene",
"Apache Lucene", "OODT", "Apache OODT", "OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice",
"Traffic Server", "Apache Traffic Server", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.

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Contact:
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
press@apache.org+1 617 921 8656


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