Awesome recap. Thanks to everyone who helped. Regards, KAM
On December 17, 2017 12:29:49 PM EST, Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: >Hi All > >Sorry for the delay in getting this update out to you all, but this >year's mega flu got me. > >Anyway a brief update on the Summit. > >I arrived on the Tuesday afternoon and went over to check out the >location and start our booth setup. It was easy to find and people >seemed to smile at the fact that we were located right next to the >Libre Office stand. > >Early Wednesday morning, I arrived and started setting up our table, >and not long after 9am people started coming in and dropping by our >table. > >There was a main hall was divided into various areas focussing on ther >different themes. For example our booth was in the Associations Village >(for Open Source Foundations and non profits), as well as company >booths, they also had a Legal Tech Village about the legal side or open >source, Mobility, OW2, Innovations Village. A key focus this year was >Africa and how open source is opening up new technology opportunities. > >Our Apache track ran on the Wednesday afternoon and the room we were >given held a maximum 35 people. Our talks were a mix of French and >English and attendance numbers varied from around 10 to 30. The most >popular talk being Apache Spark! > >Most of the discussions were in French and even though I haven't really >spoken French for a while â it sort of came back (well I think it did >:-). One of the most common questions we were asked is 'Does Apache >have a local company in France?' And each time we have to explain that >the Apache community is everywhere. > >Thanks very much to our speakers (Bertrand, Luciano, Martin, Ismael, >and Olivier). Thanks also to everyone who helped out on the booth. Big >thanks to Bertrand seemingly effortlessly did 3 talks at this event, (a >keynote, an ASF track one and a community track talk!) >There was also a talk on Apache Dremio on one of the other tracks that >we didn't know about until the day. > >A super special mention and kudos to Herve Boutemy and Olivier Heintz >who spent most of both days working on the ASF booth with me! > >Thanks very much to Emmanuel (our Paris insider who found us a nice >restaurant in the centre and organised a dinner for us all). > >We did have a scanning application to try and capture the number of >people we were interacting with and in total myself and Herve scanned >120 people but this really didnt reflect the total number of people >that really came along. The event attracts around 6000 attendees and we >definitely saw a lot more than 120 people over the two days. > >I heard that this is the first time they have tried out this new >conference format and I think that it works very well. I hope we get >invited to participate again next year! > >We also made some new contacts and the ASF has been invited to >participate in another Paris based open source conference which will be >English content only. > >I took a few photos so will try and get those posted on our Facebook >page soon. > >Thanks >Sharan > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
