On 23/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
especially those who live in the US may be pleased
to know that the website of the next ApacheCon North America is online:
http://na.apachecon.com/
The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon, USA, 26-28 Feb 2013.
The Call for Papers is already open and will stay open until 12 Nov 2012
If anybody missed this: the deadline for submitting talks is 11 Nov (so
in 3 days; and I was mistaken in writing 12 Nov, apparently it's closing
one day earlier).
North-American community members, please do submit a talk (if someone
needs an incentive: having a talk accepted will save you the 1300 USD
admission fee). Others are welcome too, of course.
I won't attend ApacheCon NA or submit a talk, for a few reasons:
1) Time. ApacheCon is amazing, but I can't take another week off from
my, totally unrelated, job to attend the US edition too. (I also prefer
to spend my money in different ways, but time is the main issue).
2) Overlapping events. In the first weekend of that month (February
2013) we will already have FOSDEM in Brussels, which I will very likely
attend.
3) Conference spirit. ApacheCon US seems a business-oriented conference,
while ApacheCon EU is the "community edition". We have plenty of project
members, especially in North America, who will feel perfectly at home in
a business-oriented conference, while the "community edition" is just
fine for me.
I might be wrong about item 3, but a lot of people on this list have
probably attended both ApacheCon NA and ApacheCon EU and can explain the
difference better than I can.
Regards,
Andrea.
