Re: PMC Invitation to Participate in ApacheCon 2009/US

[Kevan Miller <ke...@gmail.com>]

This never made it over to our dev list. What are the communities  
thoughts? Seems like a great opportunity to me. There's been a  
followup email, which I'll forward in a sec. Looks like the response  
date is now Thursday the 23rd.

--kevan


On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:28 PM, ApacheCon 2009 US Planners Team wrote:

> Project Management Committees,
>
> For this 10th Year of the Apache Software Foundation, the Conference
> Planning Committee and Stone Circle Productions are infusing ApacheCon
> US 2009 with the same Community Spirit that guides our Open Source
> Communities themselves. With the goal of creating the most successful
> ApacheCon to-date, we are seeking the support of each ASF Community to
> help drive their content for the 3-day conference. As the PMC, we
> invite you to come forward with content based on the needs of your
> user community.
>
> First: Decide as a project, how much time you would like to fill with
> commercially viable content. Do you need a half-day or a full-day to
> achieve a professional, quality program? Don't restrict yourselves to
> presentations by the PMC members or past speakers. You are likely
> familiar with other committers, the members of your user community,
> published authors and others who would offer effective sessions.
> Consider involving the community in this process through either the
> dev or users list, as appropriate for your project. Identifying the
> exact contents and schedule of your program will come in a 2nd phase.
>
> Note: If you believe your track is better presented in tandem with
> other project(s), and you would like to work together as a small group
> of related projects to create a unified track, please discuss this
> with the other project(s) and offer one proposal you all agree upon to
> the Planners.
>
> Second: Identify your consumers. Please explain to the Planners, in
> your submission, who your attendees would be. Are they web content
> authors or developers, or backend infrastructure adopters, integrators
> or administrators? Are they technical or novice individuals,
> management or general users?
>
> Third: Communicate your interest to planners-2009-us@apachecon.com no
> later than April 21st!
>
> The Planners will get back to you by April 28th to share the general
> program schedule, and where your project best fits. You will be
> provided a mentor who will forward to you the CFP's which made the
> first cut of talk selections. Your community will then have two weeks
> to create a schedule on a Wiki page. Again, be creative, and keep in
> mind there are several opportunities for content beyond the programmed
> track: MeetUps, BOFs, symposiums, un-conference style activities, etc.
>
> In four weeks, the Planners will complete a review of the programming,
> offer final feedback, cut programming that doesn't fit into the formal
> tracks of the program, and finally attempt to fit all of the  
> programming
> into space available. Your mentor is there to help you avoid this cut
> and guide you in creating a professional and marketable track!
>
> Should a PMC choose not to participate in this process, but there  
> are still
> compelling presentations about that particular project, the Planners  
> may
> choose to run that track. Speaker acceptance/rejections will be sent  
> out
> in five weeks, once all decisions are made. All projects,  
> participating
> in this program or not, will have opportunities to get more involved  
> with
> the conference.  These will be announced over the coming months.
>
> We look forward to your PMC's response!
>
> Yours,
>
> The ApacheCon 2009 US Planning Team
>
>
>
>

Re: PMC Invitation to Participate in ApacheCon 2009/US

[Kevan Miller <ke...@gmail.com>]

All,
Any comments? I think we could easily fill a 1/2 day with relevant  
talks. Cool thing is we can plan ourselves. You don't have to write a  
talk proposal 8 months prior to the conference (which I think is  
ridiculous). Geronimo 2.2, OSGi Blueprint, current state of Geronimo  
3.0, Plugins -- all would seem like potential talk candidates.

I'm going to plan on signing us up, later today. Will happily work on  
the planning... How do others feel?

--kevan


On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:

>
> This never made it over to our dev list. What are the communities  
> thoughts? Seems like a great opportunity to me. There's been a  
> followup email, which I'll forward in a sec. Looks like the response  
> date is now Thursday the 23rd.
>
> --kevan
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:28 PM, ApacheCon 2009 US Planners Team wrote:
>
>> Project Management Committees,
>>
>> For this 10th Year of the Apache Software Foundation, the Conference
>> Planning Committee and Stone Circle Productions are infusing  
>> ApacheCon
>> US 2009 with the same Community Spirit that guides our Open Source
>> Communities themselves. With the goal of creating the most successful
>> ApacheCon to-date, we are seeking the support of each ASF Community  
>> to
>> help drive their content for the 3-day conference. As the PMC, we
>> invite you to come forward with content based on the needs of your
>> user community.
>>
>> First: Decide as a project, how much time you would like to fill with
>> commercially viable content. Do you need a half-day or a full-day to
>> achieve a professional, quality program? Don't restrict yourselves to
>> presentations by the PMC members or past speakers. You are likely
>> familiar with other committers, the members of your user community,
>> published authors and others who would offer effective sessions.
>> Consider involving the community in this process through either the
>> dev or users list, as appropriate for your project. Identifying the
>> exact contents and schedule of your program will come in a 2nd phase.
>>
>> Note: If you believe your track is better presented in tandem with
>> other project(s), and you would like to work together as a small  
>> group
>> of related projects to create a unified track, please discuss this
>> with the other project(s) and offer one proposal you all agree upon  
>> to
>> the Planners.
>>
>> Second: Identify your consumers. Please explain to the Planners, in
>> your submission, who your attendees would be. Are they web content
>> authors or developers, or backend infrastructure adopters,  
>> integrators
>> or administrators? Are they technical or novice individuals,
>> management or general users?
>>
>> Third: Communicate your interest to planners-2009-us@apachecon.com no
>> later than April 21st!
>>
>> The Planners will get back to you by April 28th to share the general
>> program schedule, and where your project best fits. You will be
>> provided a mentor who will forward to you the CFP's which made the
>> first cut of talk selections. Your community will then have two weeks
>> to create a schedule on a Wiki page. Again, be creative, and keep in
>> mind there are several opportunities for content beyond the  
>> programmed
>> track: MeetUps, BOFs, symposiums, un-conference style activities,  
>> etc.
>>
>> In four weeks, the Planners will complete a review of the  
>> programming,
>> offer final feedback, cut programming that doesn't fit into the  
>> formal
>> tracks of the program, and finally attempt to fit all of the  
>> programming
>> into space available. Your mentor is there to help you avoid this cut
>> and guide you in creating a professional and marketable track!
>>
>> Should a PMC choose not to participate in this process, but there  
>> are still
>> compelling presentations about that particular project, the  
>> Planners may
>> choose to run that track. Speaker acceptance/rejections will be  
>> sent out
>> in five weeks, once all decisions are made. All projects,  
>> participating
>> in this program or not, will have opportunities to get more  
>> involved with
>> the conference.  These will be announced over the coming months.
>>
>> We look forward to your PMC's response!
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> The ApacheCon 2009 US Planning Team
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: PMC Invitation to Participate in ApacheCon 2009/US

[Kevan Miller <ke...@gmail.com>]

FYI.

On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:10 PM, ApacheCon 2009 US Planners Team wrote:

> To all ASF PMCs;
>
> just your friendly reminder to please respond to the Planners by this
> coming Thursday (the 23rd) if your project would like to be  
> highlighted,
> and to help organize its own content for this coming ApacheCon US in
> Oakland, November 2nd-6th!
>
> We want to help you organize the possible content for your program,
> and we must begin organizing the remaining program schedule in this
> coming week, so a prompt response is really necessary.  We extended
> the deadline by two days to ensure all PMCs have a fair chance to
> consider this invitation.
>
> Remember that all the planning team needs this Thursday, is an  
> expression
> of interest, and estimated number of 1/2 or full days in order to  
> 'slot'
> the various topics into tracks.  Your mentor will follow up to  
> coordinate
> the actual scheduling process, so that the final schedule can be  
> assembled
> and we can open registration and marketing!
>
> Finally, we've had a few questions come across;
>
> Q. "I assume this also applies to the PPMCs of incubating projects -
>   if yes, note that the pmc@ alias does not reach them, AFAIK."
>
> A. We encourage the Incubator PMC to shepard any podlings that are
>   interested in participating, perhaps by organizing a fastfeather
>   style track or meetups of their more mature podlings.  The same
>   would be true for interest from subprojects, not every single
>   technology under a PMC needs to be highlighted.  It's a PMC call.
>
> Q. Just to be 100% clear, does this mean that the PMC has the  
> flexibility
>   to propose content that was not originally submitted as part of  
> the CFP
>   and/or propose modified versions of content that was submitted as  
> part
>   of the CFP?
>
> A. Yes, both.  This format of PMC-driven content allows the PMC to  
> better
>   focus any proposed accepted or rejected sessions and any forgotten  
> topics
>   to suit their community of users!  You'll be able to work with the
>   original proposers to ensure this content is most relevant today.
>
> Please continue to raise any questions to the Planners, we are happy  
> to
> answer them all!
>
>
> your ApacheCon US 2009 Planners Team
>