On 5/23/2019 3:46 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I am aware *that* Kevin is looking into an event in Africa at some
> unspecified time in the future. That he has considered South Africa
> and/or Ghana. To the best of my knowledge there is no location or plan
> as of yet.
Agreed. My point for all here is that I am working to align waterfowl
for the idea of an event in Africa. It won't be out of the blue for
Rich if/when I can get a proposal to planners to discuss. Getting a
proposal together has been a lot of very interesting work.
>
> On 5/23/19 11:55 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>> For the Africa event, Rich is appraised of my work and status. No
>> worries
>> there and I am working hard to get a detailed plan of attack for his
>> review
>> and discussion on planners.
>>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2019, 11:50 Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2019-05-23 8:19, Awasum Yannick wrote:> 3.) Money to sponsor an
>>> Apache Con in Africa(even a road show) or some
>>>> other under represented location. Has there been an Apache Con in
>>>> Asia or
>>>> developing parts of the world?
>>>> I mostly hear about North America and Europe.
>>>
>>> With my ASF Director hat on, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not initiate work
>>> on running any medium or large sized conference in any territory
>>> without
>>> first discussing your idea with Rich Bowen and the Conferences
>>> committee. These are massive undertakings and require team planning and
>>> careful consideration, not just one person's heroic efforts. The ASF
>>> only has so much bandwidth to run these in any given year.
>>>
>>> Small events ("meetup" sized) already have a new budget line-item that
>>> I'm working on, and there will be a nice and easy way to run these with
>>> minimal involvement necessary from the ASF side.
>>>
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