• 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!

• 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:

• Schedule Grid
• Meetups
• CrowdVine - social networking site with attendee blog feeds
• Planet Apache – committer feeds
• Official Twitter Feed and a metafeed of #apachecon tweets and pictures

• Our CrowdVine calendar is up! You can connect with other attendees and create your own “my schedule” there to get a private ics feed of events you want to attend.
• CrowdVine also provides a great aggregation of attendee’s blogs, tweets, and photos too.
• OStatic by GigaOM is running a guest editor series on ASF people, including Jim (Chairman), Justin (President), and Shane (Director) so far, with more planned.
• There are plenty of evening Meetups planned on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday – free to attend by all.
• If you haven’t registered yet, there are still a few Apachecon discount codes available for another day or so – if you do a little digging or tweeting, I’m sure you’ll be able to score one!

Our keynote speakers have been announced: Brian Behlendorf, Kirrlily Robert and the Apache Pioneers’ Panel.

The blog traffic is now really picking up about ApacheCon US 2009.

• Jim writes a guest post on OStatic about the founding of the ASF (stay tuned there for more).
• Brian’s interview at The Bit Source, looking back at the founding and forward to the future.
• Our CrowdVine page has a blog feed of con attendees – you can sign up on CrowdVine too!
• Remember, BarCampApache, Monday-Tuesday 2-3 November is free to attend!
• Trainer’s interviews/podcasts galore!

• Hadoop training by Aaron Kimball
• Tomcat training by Filip Hanik does two interviews!
• Web Application Security training by Christian Wenz
• Lucene training by Grant Ingersoll

• How to Justify ApacheCon to your boss – a must read if you’re still trying to get your employer to pay your way!
• For the fun perspective, read Jeremy Thomerson’s Top Ten Reasons to attend ApacheCon – just wish I had written them first.
• Sign up now for the ever-popular Lucene Boot Camp training by Grant Ingersoll.
• Read about the definitive web server training by Rich Bowen and Jim Jagielski.
• FeatherCast now has regular podcast interviews with ApacheCon speakers, including Brett Porter on Maven Training, Aaron Kimball on Hadoop Training, and Randy Terbush, of the original Apache Group.
• Be sure to follow @apachecon, since they’re running a number of giveaways running up to the con.
• Remember, we have a number of free events, including Apache BarCamp on Monday and Tuesday!

Check out OStatic as well for some cool upcoming Apache related postings.

Check out our technology-focused schedules each day, created and organized by our PMCs and communities directly.

Follow @apachecon for the latest info, and for other great news about ApacheCon.

Want to show the world you’re attending? Check out the ApacheCon events on these popular social networking sites:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Upcoming!
• Xing
• iCal of basic events (via GoogleCal)
• 

To see the schedule and register, visit http://www.us.apachecon.com/ Be sure to consider booking your hotel now too for the special discount.

Note: Community members wishing to attend ApacheCon, but who are unable to do so due to financial reasons are encouraged to apply for Travel Assistance before 17-August by completing the form at http://www.apache.org/travel/ Financial support for flights, accommodation, subsistence, and conference fees are available. Anyone involved in Open Source is welcome to apply for financial support for flights, accommodation, subsistence and Conference fees. Hurry, applications close on 17 August.

@noirins #ApacheCon US09 schedule @ http://us.apachecon.com/c/acus2009/schedule/grid – register now @ http://www.apachecon.com/register

Check out our tehcnology-focused schedules each day, with input from the PMCs and communities themselves.

Remember: the early bird discount for general attendees – both for trainings and the conference itself – expires on 14-August, so check out the schedule now and register soon!

Some of the 10th anniversary items we’ve posted this week include:

• Chairman’s letter officially commemorating 10th anniversary
• The official Foundation blog (PRC organizing high-level posts)

Blog post about the 10th anniversary celebrations (we’re hoping to get a lot of comments on this one)

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_is_ten_years

• Live streaming of keynotes, lunch talks, founder’s panel

Note: there’s a delay of several days, but our video streaming partner Linux Magazine will be putting all the video content (free and paid) into their archive. Stay tuned for a note when it’s available in the archive, but several of these talks are definitely worth watching again.

Tip: there will also be a video or two of us – all the ApacheCon attendees – signing Happy Birthday to Apache.