OSCON Pre-conference Session for Apache OpenOFfice

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <or...@apache.org>]

There are preconference activities on June 16-17 preceding OSCON in Portland, Oregon.

See <http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ApacheAtOSCON2012>.

The Tuesday, 9am Programming & Productivity Mini BarCamp is offered for Apache OpenOfice (incubatng) and Apache DeltaSpike (incubating).  It might be a good place for ODF Toolkit (incubating) interest as well.

To attract interest and encourage new participants, it is requested that brief summaries be added to the Wiki at the appropriate topic.  The event will be publicized.

It might be useful to indicate somewhere who from the project will be there for the Mini BarCamp and related Hackathons and Roundtables.

 - Dennis

PS: It is interesting that the term "BarCamp" has taken on a life of its own.  It was originally the designation of a camp-out that was *not* FooCamp, the invitational Friends of O'Reilly camp-out that was held annually.


-----Original Message-----
From: Franklin, Matthew B. [mailto:mfranklin@mitre.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 07:58
To: PMC and PPMC addresses
Cc: concom@apache.org
Subject: RE: OSCON Pre-conference Session Participation

We have created a wiki page[1] to help organize and track the information for Apache@OSCON.  If you already mailed me your project information, I added it to the wiki.  If not, we have granted everyone write privileges, so please add it to the page ASAP.  

Also note that there is a section for any after-hours or secondary events being held by your communities.

The sooner everyone can get their information in the page, the sooner press@ can begin helping us market via twitter, blog and press release.

[1] : http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ApacheAtOSCON2012

>-----Original Message-----
>From: m.ben.franklin@gmail.com [mailto:m.ben.franklin@gmail.com] On
>Behalf Of Matt Franklin
>Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:43 AM
>To: PMC and PPMC addresses
>Cc: concom@apache.org
>Subject: OSCON Pre-conference Session Participation
>
>You are receiving this e-mail because one or more individuals in your
>community have expressed interest in participating in pre-conference
>sessions at OSCON on the 16th and 17th of July.
>
>This is an opportunity for your project and Apache as a whole to
>engage a wide audience of developers who are interested in or working
>with open source.
>
[ ... ]
>
>What we need from your PMC is information about your project that can
>be used before and during the event to draw in participants.  A good
>starting point would be a short description of your project and any
>interesting factoids that might pique a participant's interest.  As
>OSCON is only two weeks away, we ask that you provide us any
>information you can before the end of this week.
>
>We will also be working to solidify the exact plan for the day over
>the next two weeks and will be looking for your input.
>
>Thanks in advance for helping us show the rest of the open source
>community what Apache is all about.
>
>-The Apache Conference Committee