Hi Isabel, thank you so much for this proposal. I would like to contribute on this.
Great idea :) Cheers, PJ 2017-05-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Isabel Drost-Fromm <isa...@apache.org>: > 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...) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- Piergiorgio Lucidi Technology Evangelist and Chief of Enterprise Information Management @ Sourcesense Mentor / PMC Member / Committer @ Apache Software Foundation Community Star / Wiki Gardener / Global Forum Moderator @ Alfresco Author and Technical Reviewer @ Packt Publishing Technical Advisory Group Member @ Microsoft Top Community Contributor @ Crafter Project Leader / Committer @ JBoss http://www.open4dev.com
