Agreed: How we got here is nice; where we are going (and where we *should* be going) is better :)
On Sep 24, 2014, at 11:11 AM, 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. > > 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. > > --Rich > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
