> On Nov 22, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
>
> The CFP for ApacheCon Austin closes on February 1st, so we have just over 2
> months to get our content solicited for that event. I need your help.
>
> At ApacheCon EU this week, I spoke with a number of project PMCs. I requested
> that they attempt to put together what they feel would be a good track - ie.,
> a list of topics that they feel would need to be covered in order for their
> project to be properly represented - and then attempt to solicit *those*
> talks from their user/dev community.
>
> This has a few benefits over the standard "what do you want to talk about?"
> CFP process. One, you end up with the talks that represent a full coverage of
> a project, without big holes. And it's a great way to encourage new speakers
> who are having trouble deciding what they might speak about.
>
> I believe I'll be getting tracks from:
>
> * Cloudstack
> * OFBiz
> * OpenOffice
> * Mesos
> * httpd
>
> I would ask that you make this request of your project PMC, those of you who
> have a project (or more) that you are active on. Or find the person who
> should own this.
In Denver 2014, Apache Traffic Server had its own track. As much as I’d like to
say it was successful, I really don’t think it was. The audience was pretty
much the same people that attended the ATS Summit at the end of the week :).
So, for 2015, I’d personally prefer ATS does not get its own track, but is
hopefully allowed at least 2-3 slots in some other “Web server / ops” related
track.
I know of a couple of very, very interesting presentations that would fit this
more general audience. One in particular from Comcast is incredible, and will
blow peoples mind. But alas, if it’s narrowed into being an ATS only track, I
think it’ll be lost to the broader audience. What I’m hoping from the ATS
community perspective for ACNA 15 is something like
* A few presentations that would fit into a non-ATS specific track
(Web-ops, A patchy web etc.)
* At our ’15 Summit, which we hope will be adjacent to ACNA, we do ATS
specific presentations
Fwiw, we tried a different format for our last fall Summit in California a few
months ago, and it was well received. It was a mix of developer, operations,
and dev ops topics and presentations, as well as design discussions (we split
it into two different types of tracks).
What’s my point of all this rambling? Well, what I’m trying to say is that
having entirely project specific tracks might work well for some large
projects, but probably not all. Certainly not for the ATS project.
>
>
> Question: Do you think we need a dedicated mailing list for this, or should
> we continue to do this on dev@community? (I'm open to either way, but if
> folks feel strongly one way or the other, we should do that.)
I’d prefer keeping it on dev@community, but no strong preference.
Cheers,
— Leif
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