I attended Nicks sessions in Budapest - they were *excellent*. Using them as a model for Austin is to be recommended.
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Hadrian Zbarcea [mailto:hzbar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 3:23 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Why the Apachecon (was Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed) Awesome Nick. Is there a recording or something for it? Hadrian On 02/04/2015 06:10 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> For example, I would love to have some kind of an event at the >> ApacheCON that would encourage as many folks as possible to learn >> about various ASF projects. I have some ideas around running a kind >> of lighting talks/reading group where each participant is randomly >> given an ASF project and is required to present on it in 5 minutes or >> something. > > Or you could go crazy, aim for sharing information on an even greater > number of projects, pick ~40, give them all to one person, and get > them to do a 40 minute talk with a minute on each one! > > I actually did two such talks in Budapest, one for content related > projects: > http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/2236d3a762fd00df45922ca084ec326 > a > and one for big data related ones: > http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/30981664d3aba98f8a84a16136602ce > b > > They're a non-trivial amount of work to put together, and you probably > won't fill a room, but they almost always get great feedback from > those who attend. One memorable comment was someone from a project I > covered saying I'd done a better elevator pitch for their project than > they'd ever managed :) > > So, based on those experiences, I'd very much encourage people to > propose and give many-project overview talks like those, and even > better come up with ideas like this to help spread the load of > delivering them. They do work, they are popular, and we need more! > > Nick
