Rich, As per your blog at https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon_north_america_returns_to please sign me up. I don't want to do a project specific track, I'm more interested in a "cloud" track. I want to create a coherent track in which each session, whilst being valuable as a standalone session about project Foo, will also be valuable in the bigger picture of "Apace in the Cloud".
I am signing up to manage this from beginning to end, including committing to being present at the event to ensure it runs smoothly. Given the breadth of the topic I'm betting that this could run for multiple days. Just tell me how many slots you want me to fill and I'm your man. Ross Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 9:16 AM To: dev Subject: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin 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 the coming days, I'd like to build a list of people that are interested in making ApacheCon Austin happen, and in particular helping get PMCs more involved in the process. If that's you, please speak up. 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.) -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
