Hi all,
I just wanted to feed back to you some things we managed to arrange for this
year.
After our first attempt to co-locate with another conference at last year’s
Solutions Hamburg, I had a meeting with the organizer of the conference in
Hamburg last Wednesday. Based on our experience from last year we did notice,
that people unfamiliar with Open-Source didn’t show the interest in soft-topics
such as “Apache Way” and how we do Open-Source at Apache, but did show interest
in Open-Source in direct discussions. We came to the conclusion that for
spreading the word about Apache and how we do Open-Source a booth would be
better.
And that’s what we are being offered by Silpion this year. They are offering us
the following package:
* A shared half day track we will be sharing with an Open-Source lobby
organization “OSB Alliance” (Probably 2 talks with 45 minutes each)
* A Keynote in the main lobby of the conference
* A 3-day premium booth 2m x 2m including printing, setup all included (We
have to provide the graphics and they take care of the printing)
* The booths will be setup like large “X”es where one booth is a 2x2m
slice of the X. There we have 2 x “2x2,5m” walls we can have fully printed)
* The option for a second Keynote at an area handled by
governmental-organisations (About 800-1200 attendees)
All that free of charge for the ASF.
My company was asked to become a commercial partner and would have to pay about
the price of a middle-class car for the same package :-)
As Apache was the only organization that didn’t mess up and really appeared in
person, we will be the ones in charge of everything and OSBA will be
coordinating with us. I will be meeting with one of their representatives this
Thursday.
Would be cool if we could come up with some ideas about what talks we want to
have.
I would suggest something showing success-stories of how Apache is changing the
World with what we do. Something that shows the effect on the IT world we are
having and how we actually do it. We sort of have to catch the interest of the
attendees by some practical stuff, some reports from the trenches.
We also need volunteers to staff the Apache Booth on one, some, all days of the
conference: I would be willing to help on all days (with little gaps, if I get
talks to the conference accepted).
If someone could do that, coming up with the 2 times 2x2,5m Images we should
have on the walls of the booth, that would be awesome. Silpion said in the
past, most companies only have their name and Logo printed on this, I think a
colorful and flashy booth could attract more people.
Also, if someone is interested in being a Keynote Speaker at that conference
(maybe a double keynote speaker), please raise your electronic hands or point
to someone we could try to convince to come ;-)
So far, the update.
Chris
