On 24 September 2014 17:11, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > On 09/24/2014 10:56 AM, jan i wrote: > >> Another little thought. How about trying to get the original team (as many >> as possible) to talk about that release, how is was, how it felt etc...do >> it on video, and edit it all into a keynote with one (or more) >> commentators. >> > Brian has agreed to reach out to the original team and get as many of them > as possible to attend. However, I do *not* want to do a panel session of > people reminiscing. Allow me to share my thoughts on this. > > ApacheCon is about the ASF, and we want to be constantly preaching the > message that ASF != httpd. Brian is a visionary, and does great things in > the world at large, and I want him to talk about a bigger picture than just > old memories. The old memories will be part of it, but the message is that > we are now 200 projects, and what we've learned getting from there to here. > > I'm concerned that having the "old guys reminiscing" talk will detract > from that larger message, as well as reinforce the message that the ASF is > mired in the past - something that we're actively fighting in our messaging. > > Now, it would be cool to have that as a session, in the httpd track. But > not as a keynote. I hope you see my thinking on this. > I agree on your POW....always good to see a topic from multiple angles, I focussed to much on our long history.
> > Although ... the idea of getting brief video clips of each of the founders > and making a *short* vignette to show at the beginning of the keynote might > be kind of awesome. Some of the are kind of hard to find these days, but > most of them are reachable. Not to forget how we could such videoclips for marketing "now - then". rgds jan i. > > > --Rich > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >
