Fwd: ApacheCon North America - early bird ticket reminder, and how to get involved!

[Adam Estrada <es...@gmail.com>]

FYI

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>
Date: Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Subject: ApacheCon North America - early bird ticket reminder, and how to
get involved!
To: committers@apache.org


Hi All

First up, as you hopefully all know, it's just over 2 months until
ApacheCon North America in Portland! Very very heavily discounted
committers tickests are still available, for the amazing price of $275.
However, they're only available until the 31st of December, so don't delay!
After that there are no committers discounts, and the price jumps to $1095,
so you really don't want to miss out if you can.... The full conference
program is now available, if you need that to convince people to let you
go, you can find it at
http://na.apachecon.com/**schedule/<http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/>

To register at the knock-down rate, head to
http://acna13.eventbrite.com/and use your @
apache.org address along with the promotion code committer-13 to get the
"Committer Registration" rate. Remember, discounted committer registration
is only available until the end of December, so don't miss it!


Secondly, there are lots of chances for projects to get involved in
ApacheCon, before, during and after, so make sure you book your travel and
accomodation so you're around to take part in it all!

On the Sunday before the conference, we've a BarCamp taking place. The
Monday features a hackathon, which presents a chance to work on new code
for your project, or get involved / try out a new one. During the
conference in the early evenings we've things running from the last talk
onwards, including mini BarCamp sessions, Lightning talks and more. Every
evening from 8pm we'll have our usual Project Meetups and BoFs. Finally,
after the event on the Friday and Saturday, some projects will be hosting
their own dedicated hackathons.

To find out more about what's going to be happening before / during /
after, so you can plan your accomodation and travel, please see (and sign
up!) on the ApacheCon Wiki - <http://wiki.apache.org/**
apachecon/CommunityEventsNA13<http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/CommunityEventsNA13>
>


Finally, if Portland isn't your home town, and you really wish there was an
Apache event near where you live, help is available! Sadly there's no magic
conference fairy who'll wave a wand and make an event appear, no matter how
much we all wish there was... What there is is plenty of advise,
experience, mentoring, funding and support. If you're interested in helping
make something happen in your area, join the small-events-discuss list
http://s.apache.org/SED and the community can help you get started!

Nick
(On behalf of the planning team)