Sounds like a great idea and perhaps this could be our apachecon EU? With some funding and backing and minimal costs to attendees?
Don't want to ruin your idea either but I do not know what a holocracy or Alexanderplatz. So I am just throwing ideas out and will look at your survey! Regards, KAM On May 10, 2017 4:15:24 PM EDT, Isabel Drost-Fromm <isa...@apache.org> wrote: >CAREFUL: This mail was posted to lists with different visibility >levels. >I would love to see any discussion following it happen in public. While > >I'm subscribed to a few of our events lists, I would assume many people > >at Apache aren't which is why IMHO dev@c.a.o might be a good place to >take this proposal apart. > > >Hi, > >TL;DR: Back when I created Berlin Buzzwords I did so to have an excuse >to invite lovely people from all over the world to visit Berlin. It >took >until last week for me to ask some people outside of the NoSQL/ search/ > >big data circles what I would have to do to get them to travel to >Berlin. The answer I got? "Just ask" - So here I am. > > > >Longer version (I know I'll regret thinking about this a second after >hitting send): > >Looking in vain for an existing group of people to exchange ideas >around >the topic of distributed team management across organisation >boundaries, >last summer I started organising http://achnee.wordpress.com - "async >cat herding" meetup for exactly this topic. I've scheduled it at lunch >time, received lots of interest, but for one talk at a time usually >attracted only roughly 20 attendees. > >Ever since I started that thing my head has been tossing around the >idea >to see if one could arrange something bigger. Something that touches >community management, open development, inner source, project >neutrality, foundation growth, async communication - essentially some >sort of Apache Community Summit, or Apache Community Hackathon to >overload the meetup acronym's meaning. > >I started working for a new employer (Europace.de, fintech founded in >1999, meetup friendly, organised holocratically***) as "Open Source >Strategist"*. Shortly after starting there a colleague (Stefan, CC'ed) >told me that this company has space for 180ppl total at no cost (2 >rooms, one of which can be split, so it's 3 rooms max). This >information >got me thinking, the result of that thinking made Stefan "slightly" >nervous ;) However that same result also made a handful of ASF >affiliated people smile when I shared it with them, so I thought it >would make sense to take the idea one step further: > >With this mail I would like to see how much interest there would be in >attending an event that is solely about Apache project leadership >topics. > >If there's only <20 ppl, I'm happy to offer my family's living room, >been there, done that before - promise to keep the 3D printer switched >off this time around. > >If there's <70ppl, we can easily host this in the Europace Casino >meetup >room, no big deal, there's plenty of experience in how to do that there > >including one video recording set should we be inclined to record any >talks. > >For the case that there's <200ppl interested, we will need some >organisation time up-front, but I have been told that we would be >welcome. > >If more than 200ppl attend, I'd have to get creative. > > >Up until 200ppl I'd keep the event free as in free beer to everyone who > >contributed to Apache and hand out tickets on a first come first serve >basis. Free as in free beer means no first class catering, no >reimbursement for speakers, no fancy conference hotel to spend all your > >conference days in. However Europace.de is located close to Berlin >Alexanderplatz - you won't starve for a lack of food. Nor will you get >bored if you need some fresh air, happy to share local knowledge on >what >to do, where to eat, what to see ;) > > >Apart from number of attendees there are a couple open questions I'm >aware of: > >- In terms of topics I would love to focus on developer >collaboration, Apache Way, Community leadership, distributed teams**. >If >we want organised tracks, I'd need speakers. For a first iteration I >won't setup a double blind submission and review system and instead >keep >things as simple as possible which implies a good chance of unfairness. > >- For marketing I would love to bring this to the Berlin Buzzwords >team, >I can talk to German publishers, would rely on Apache channels for >everything else. > >- Should someone want professional videos and want to pay for that I >can >see if I can get you in touch with the ppl who have done this in the >past at Buzzwords, if not, maybe Google Live Hangouts could be an >option >(have done this for the past two achnee meetups, worked ok-ish, depends > >on bandwidth). > >- I have no idea wrt. to pricing - to avoid contractual obligations, >tax >implications and personal liability stuff I'd shoot for minimising >number of signed contracts/ money collected with the caveat that people > >would have to be honest in giving back tickets they don't need (which >currently doesn't work with meetup.com organised events here in >Berlin). >I've had crowdfunding suggested before - yes, this is an option, if we >find or create an intermediate entity to collect and wisely spend the >money that is not me - otherwise among other things my tax declaration >get's even more complicated than it already is, and no I won't be the >one creating an e.V. for that myself for the same reasons that I didn't > >do that back when Berlin Buzzwords was founded: I'm not a paperwork >loving person, sorry. > > >If you are interested in all of this, I have prepared a short poll for >you: > >https://goo.gl/forms/XOceZSt8byzSD8ac2 > > >Cheers, >Isabel (about to regret having hit send in a minute, not proof reading >as otherwise I won't send this out...) > > > >* If any of you have any good advise on where/ how to start and which >pitfalls to avoid, lets talk separately. > >** Mostly out of personal interest and because I'm frustrated that for >me it seems easier to find such content by anyone but the Apache >Software Foundation, but maybe that's my personal filter bubble. > >*** Press teaser adapted, shortened and translated from the official >German version: Hypoport AG is a FinTech service provider in the >financial industry. The business model is based on a portfolio of >institutional customers, private clients, financial services companies. > >Europace AG is a 100% subsidiary of Hypoport, developing and operating >an online financial market place called Europace, the largest German >platform for real estate financing, building loan products, and advise >credit products. Europace is connecting roughly 400 partners - banks, >insurances, financial sales institutions. Several thousand users are >handling roughly 35k transactions each month with a volumn of about 4 >billion Euro via the Europace platform. > > > >.oO(I'm wondering if anyone really reads until down here...)
