Hi Rich, A big +1. To scale out, we may also refer to how Arduino Day operates 659 events in 106 countries on March 16 2019. I helped out and participated Arduino Day 2019 - Beijing. Please see more details in https://day.arduino.cc/
Best regards, Ted Liu, ASF Member, Sponsor Ambassador, Incubator PMC Member 2019 年 3 月 23 日周六 1:00，Rich Bowen<rbo...@rcbowen.com> 写道： On 3/22/19 12:59 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > I like the idea especially the roadshow first to establish a beachhead. I > would add that a collocated event might be ok in some circumstances too as > a first landing. Yes, I just added collocated as a category in the document I'm working on. Thanks for that reminder. > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 11:28 Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: > >> Several years ago, due to many reasons (let's call it "dysfunction" for >> now) ConCom - the Conferences Committee - was disbanded by the Board, >> and replaced with a single individual - myself - designated as VP >> Conferences. This was largely due to break the gridlock of dealing with >> 30 people, with 50 opinions, for every single time-sensitive decision >> around events. >> >> So far, so good. >> >> As we are faced with a sudden explosive expansion in our official stable >> of events, we are building ad-hoc processes for managing these. >> >> Again, so far, so good. Having dedicated per-event leads is working >> remarkably well in 2019. >> >> I have ... concerns ... going into 2020. With pushes to add events in >> Brazil, China, South Korea, Japan, India, and who knows where else, I am >> concerned that this is going to get away from us again. And it's not so >> much about control, as about having early failures in new markets and >> harming our chances for the future. >> >> I would like, for example, to have policies around how we expand into >> new regions. Like, say, that you can't do an "ApacheCon" in a new region >> before doing a "Roadshow" there to scout it out, so to speak. I don't >> want to squish enthusiasm. I also don't want to suddenly be expected to >> fund, promote, and organize 8 conference with a machine designed to run >> two. >> >> I digress. >> >> I would like to propose the following. >> >> 1) That we (primarily, myself, Ross, and any former members of ConCom >> who are able to participate) clearly document why ConCom failed, and was >> disbanded. To do this in a dispassionate non-fault-finding way. >> >> 2) That we document how the new Events organization will be managed, >> explicitly documenting ways that we will avoid the failings of ConCom. >> >> 3) That we establish a new Events PMC, documenting how it will related >> to both Marketing and ComDev (since there will always be overlap in >> those two places). >> >> Ross, is this something that you can help me with over the coming 6 >> months or so? >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> > -- 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
