Yeah, I think we just use roadshow for "smaller than AC" because no one liked miniApacheCon. :-) Your definition is a good one. This is why you get the special pointy hat.
-- Kevin A. McGrail VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > The terms Road Show and ApacheCon are being used almost interchangeably in > our conversations, and I want to be clear as to the definitions of these > terms. > > A Road Show, as the name implies, is something with multiple stops. An > Asia Road Show, for example, might have stop in Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, and > Hong Kong. > > An EU Road Show might have a stop in Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, and London. > > A North America Road Show may have stops in DC, Chicago, San Francisco and > Orlando. > > The point being that a Road Show is something that draws a local audience, > not an international one, and focuses on the local community of > contributors/developers, rather than trying to draw people from far away. > > Road shows are typically 2 days, but can be only one day. > > The individual event will be small in scope (not necessarily attendance, > that's a different axis), having 1 or two tracks of content. It SHOULD have > an Apache Way talk at some point, given by an ASF member, but otherwise the > content can be anything Apache-related. It MAY be colocated with another > event, as we did in Berlin. > > > ApacheCon, on the other hand, is a complete conference. It will contain 4+ > tracks. It MUST have a hackathon space. It MUST have a State Of The Feather > presentation, given by the President or his/her delegate. It SHOULD have a > key signing and a BarCamp. > > Content MUST be selected by the ASF. This is a fluffy way of saying that > the VP Conferences must approve of whoever the selection committee is > comprised of. This distinguishes it from an event such as some we could > mention, where the content is selected by another org (such as the Apache > track at the upcoming Open Source Summit, by LF, in Edinburgh, for > example), or by a vendor (we'll avoid naming names). This is not to say > that those events suck, but that they are not Apache events. I hope that > distinction is clear. > > It is typically 3 or more days. > > And importantly, it is the one annual event for the continent. As such, it > draws an international audience, both in speakers and attendees. > > > I bring this up because of objections I've received privately over a > Barcelona Road Show being impossible because we're already talking about an > event in Berlin. To me, this is irrelevant. Having an Apache Road Show > every month in Europe (Except, of course, the month that contained an > ApacheCon) would be an ideal outcome if it was financially sustainable. A > Road Show is not ApacheCon. Which is why we don't call it ApacheCon. > > Now, it's the financially sustainable bit that we need to work on, one > event at a time. > > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com > http://rcbowen.com/ > @rbowen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
