Re: Keynote suggestion: MIFOS
On 29 January 2014 08:32, Ross Gardler wrote: > This evening I did a lightning talk for MIFOS a Micro-financing charity. It > was an internal only presentation for my employer, but in preparing it I > had excellent support from the MIFOS team.mI feel confident they could > provide us with an excellent keynote. > > This is an awesome organization making a real difference in the developing > world through open source. See > http://mifos.org/community/news/volunteer-mifos-2014 > +1 their case story reads fantastic, and if they have people who can carry it over it would be real good. They are also a project that could benefit from having their development being part of ASF when looking at their toolset, our infrastructure and e.g. translate.a.o (not to mention lots of highly motivated committers) could make a real difference. rgds jan I. > > > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Senior Technology Evangelist > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation >
Keynote suggestion: NIST Big Data Working Group
Hi All,
I have solicited an abstract from Prof. Geoffrey Fox [1] at Indiana University
for keynote ideas at ACNA 14. Here is an idea:
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Topic: Implications of the NIST Big Data Working Group Apache Big Data
Software Stack
Over the last six months, the Big Data public working group
http://bigdatawg.nist.gov/home.php set up by NIST has collected 60 different
from use cases; 51 general and 9 aimed at security and privacy. It also
developed a reference architecture, taxonomy and roadmap. The general
applications all include a summary of current software and analytics and future
directions. We divide these applications by the nature of their data and their
computational model deriving patterns that are compared with the NIST reference
architecture and the capabilities of the current Apache Big Data projects. We
suggest taking the patterns ("generic applications") and providing
implementations - using the Apache stack as much as possible -- that can be
used to test both performance and features of the Apache stack and the
effectiveness of the NIST reference architecture. We propose building these
patterns on FutureGrid and discuss this with some very early results.
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I think Prof. Fox will draw good audiences and his broader perspectives on
technology trends related to ASF projects will be interesting to the ACNA
audience. His MOOC’s are also popular [2] and might be relevant topic to touch
upon as well.
Suresh
[1] - http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/fox-geoffrey-charles.shtml
[2] -
http://www.soic.indiana.edu/discover/news-events/news/2014/fox-mooc-named-in-10-moocs-for-techies-by-computerworld.shtml
Re: Require Financial Assistance box on CFP submissions page.
Hey Lewis, If you tick that box, is it pointing to LF's funding assistance page or TAC? It used to point to LF; however, AFAIK, they are not certain at this point whether or not they have funding available, so I advised them that that page should direct folks to TAC. There is also a link to our TAC site on the website under the "Attend" tab. HTH, ~M From: Lewis John Mcgibbney To: "dev@community.apache.org" Cc: "travel-assista...@apache.org" Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:38 PM Subject: Require Financial Assistance box on CFP submissions page. Hi dev@, I wonder, is the LF also providing travel funding opportunities for ApacheConNA2014? When you submit a speaker proposal you are asked to click some boxes at the bottom, one of which is whether you require financial assistance. I just wonder if these are filtering through to the Travel Assistance Committee (CC'd TAC). Greetings from Scotia :) Lewis -- *Lewis*
Require Financial Assistance box on CFP submissions page.
Hi dev@, I wonder, is the LF also providing travel funding opportunities for ApacheConNA2014? When you submit a speaker proposal you are asked to click some boxes at the bottom, one of which is whether you require financial assistance. I just wonder if these are filtering through to the Travel Assistance Committee (CC'd TAC). Greetings from Scotia :) Lewis -- *Lewis*
A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...
As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications will be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due date for completion of reviews? There are a few submissions -- aside from some standard ASF presentations -- that are somewhat generic and don't directly apply to a specific Apache project. So -- who will be reviewing these? Or should anybody that volunteered for reviewing, review them? Can more than one reviewer rate a submission and perhaps change the decision of a previous reviewer? Just curious about this. But it might be advantageous in some situations to get input from multiple reviewers. ok, that's it for now... -- - Kay Schenk, Apache OpenOffice "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason
Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...
Since this is my first time helping with the reviews, I'm also wondering what's the objective for us reviewers? Are we expected to stack-rank the proposal in our given areas or weight them somehow? Thanks, Roman. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- > > The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications will > be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due date for completion of reviews? > > There are a few submissions -- aside from some standard ASF presentations > -- that are somewhat generic and don't directly apply to a specific Apache > project. So -- who will be reviewing these? Or should anybody that > volunteered for reviewing, review them? > > Can more than one reviewer rate a submission and perhaps change the > decision of a previous reviewer? Just curious about this. But it might be > advantageous in some situations to get input from multiple reviewers. > > ok, that's it for now... > > -- > - > Kay Schenk, Apache OpenOffice > > "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, > for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." >-- James Mason
Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...
On Jan 29, 2014 12:53 PM, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- > > The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications will > be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due date for completion of reviews? As soon as possible. I dont have a better answer. If you haven't reviewed by the time I have to make final selections, I still have to make them without. > > There are a few submissions -- aside from some standard ASF presentations > -- that are somewhat generic and don't directly apply to a specific Apache > project. So -- who will be reviewing these? Or should anybody that > volunteered for reviewing, review them? Review everything you have an informed opinion in. > > Can more than one reviewer rate a submission and perhaps change the > decision of a previous reviewer? Just curious about this. But it might be > advantageous in some situations to get input from multiple reviewers. Yes. Hopefully multiple people review each talk so that the opinion is cumulative. The more the better. Review everything in which you have an unformed opinion.
Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Jan 29, 2014 12:53 PM, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > > > As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- > > > > The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications > will > > be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due date for completion of > reviews? > > As soon as possible. I dont have a better answer. If you haven't reviewed > by the time I have to make final selections, I still have to make them > without. > > > > > There are a few submissions -- aside from some standard ASF presentations > > -- that are somewhat generic and don't directly apply to a specific > Apache > > project. So -- who will be reviewing these? Or should anybody that > > volunteered for reviewing, review them? > > Review everything you have an informed opinion in. > > > > > Can more than one reviewer rate a submission and perhaps change the > > decision of a previous reviewer? Just curious about this. But it might be > > advantageous in some situations to get input from multiple reviewers. > > Yes. Hopefully multiple people review each talk so that the opinion is > cumulative. The more the better. > > Review everything in which you have an unformed opinion. > OK, this helps... -- - MzK "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason
