November | 2009 | Community Over Code

There was a ton of great news at ApacheCon US 2009 in Oakland this year, including some terrific blog posts about it and the Apache Way in general.

Oakland declared November 4th as Apache Software Foundation day!
PR about ApacheCon – yes, it’s worth reading, including a roundup of useful links at the end
Subversion is submitted as an ASF project (on the off chance you didn’t read the million tweets about this earlier!)
Ted Leung’s Ted Leung’s excellent wrapup, with links to great pictures
Michael Pilato talks about designing the official show t-shirt
Isabel Drost’s conference writeup (and link to her Heise article too!)
Dave Johnson’s wrapup post, featuring Roller, Shindig, Social Gadgets
James Briggs detailed writeup of each day
Wishlists for ApacheCon by Sander and Aaron – great ways to let people know what you’re interested in
Microsofties singing “Incubator Blues” at the Lighting Talks (fun video!)

Watch for a wrapup of the many different videos that came out of the conference soon!

Discount codes are still available for registering for ApacheCon, and we have plenty of free events. Tips on actually getting here:

Pack layers; the weather is a beautiful sunny 70degF days/50degF nights.
From SFO and OAK, take the BART light rail trains to the 12th Street Oakland City Center stop. From OAK, you’ll first take the AirBART bus to the BART station, which requires $3 exact change on the bus.
The Bay Bridge is open once again, so you can drive, although the BART is highly recommended unless you need assistance.
The Marriott hotel tower is kittycorner/diagonally across the street from the 12th street BART station – it’s closer than you think.
All conference events are in the Convention Center, which is in the same building as the Marriott: walk through the reception area around and past the escalators to the second floor conference rooms.
Sessions and Meetups are held on the first floor main conference halls, and in the 200-series rooms on the second floor of the convention center.

Roundup of information about ApacheCon:

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