• 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

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.

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.

If you don’t have your badge yet, registration will open at 08:00 in the main conference area of the hotel, upstairs from the lobby, and sessions start at 09:00 on Wednesday.

If you’re already at ApacheCon, I’m jealous – I hope you’ve been enjoying the trainings, Hackathon, and BarCampApache this year, along with the stellarly attended Meetups this year!

Along with the many data feeds about the ASF and ApacheCon, please be sure to check out the new official blog of the ASF at http://blogs.apache.org/foundation/, hosted on our own Apache Roller blogging platform, of course! Many thanks to our infrastructure volunteers for setting up our blogging system.

ApacheCon Europe 2009 publishes our downloadable Program Guide; provides live Video Streams; has free signups available for MeetUps and the BarCamp; and announces Save-the-Date for upcoming conferences and events. Everything you need to know: http://www.eu.apachecon.com

Download the ApacheCon Program Guide

The listing of everything at the conference downloadable as PDF:
http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/about/conference-resources

Can’t Attend? Live Video Streams Of Keynotes Free

Watch our keynotes and lunchtime sessions for free with live streaming video from Linux New Media. Full session tracks are available for a fee. Free and paid tracks are available in an archive later.
http://xrl.us/aceu09vid

Special Events: MeetUps, BarCampApache – Free

• It’s free to attend BarCampApache on Monday, 23 March during the day.
  http://barcamp.org/BarCampApache – Add your name to participate
• MeetUps on Monday and Tuesday evening are also free.
  Monday at 19:00: join the Maven and Portals communities.
  Tuesday at 19:00: join Wicket, Lucene, and JCR/Jackrabbit/Sling.
  http://xrl.us/aceu09mc MeetUp schedule and sign up to participate

Save The Dates! ApacheCon and More

BarCampApacheOxford

4-5 April 2009 – Oxford, England
http://barcamp.org/BarCampApacheOxford

ApacheCon US 2009 – Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The ASF!

2-6 November 2009 – Oakland, CA
http://www.us.apachecon.com

ApacheCon Europe 2010

Spring 2010

ApacheCon US 2010

1-5 November 2010 – Atlanta, GA

ApacheCon North America 2011

7–11 November 2011 – Vancouver BC, Canada

Interested in sponsoring ApacheCon?

Contact Delia Frees at delia@apachecon.com for further information.
http://xrl.us/aceu09ss Our current sponsor list

–
ApacheCon Europe 2009 Team
planners-2009-eu -at -apachecon.com
http://www.eu.apachecon.com

Remember that if you can’t make it, you’ll still be able to watch some of our content, which is being offered as a live (or recorded) video stream of ApacheCon by Linux Pro Magazine.

Astute readers will realize that I’ve finally admitted I missed a few days of updates earlier on. This was because your host – Shane – has both been working overtime at $dayjob, as well as arranging a small family birthday this past week.

That is a prime example of why some people believe in Community Over Code. One-person projects will falter when the person either moves on, gets too busy, or simply has finished the features that they needed from the projects. Projects with a handful of developers from a single company will always fall by the wayside if their company moves in a different direction, or has a major crunch period of internal work. The best way to ensure the longevity and greater success of a project is to build a community of equals around it.

ApacheCon Europe 2009 announces our Keynote Speakers; welcomes you to our Special Events; reminds you our Special Package Discount expires at the end of today; and issues last call for ApacheCon US 2009 CFPs!

ApacheCon Europe 2009 Keynote Speakers

• Wednesday: Raghu Ramakrishnan, “Data Management in the Cloud”
• Thursday: James Governor of Red Monk
• Friday: Apache Pioneer’s Panel – 10 years of The Apache Software Foundation – featuring luminaries from early days of the ASF

Special Events: MeetUps, BarCampApache, and more

• Join the Wicket, Jackrabbit, Portals, Lucene, and Maven communities in
  their free MeetUps on Monday and Tuesday night. MeetUps are for hacking
  with the committers, and bringing your user question to the community. See the MeetUp schedule and sign up to participate
• Sign up to attend BarCampApache (also free) on Monday, where everyone
  can be a speaker. Be sure to sign up your name on the wiki soon! Add your name to the BarCamp wiki to participate.

Special Discount Package of EUR 150 off *ends* after 13 March!

The Special Discount Package provides a saving of EUR 150 off of the Full Conference price, only for guests staying at the Mövenpick Hotel for 2 or more nights. To qualify for this discount you will need to register at the Mövenpick using our link for your reservation, and then register for the conference as an attendee, and select the “Special Discount Package” registration checkbox.

Book your hotel room, and Register for the conference.

CFP for ApacheCon US 2009 closes!

You may still submit a CFP for ApacheCon US 2009, held 2-6 November in
Oakland CA until the submissions closing deadline of 14 March 2009 at
12:00 GMT.

Interested in sponsoring ApacheCon or related events?

Contact Delia
Frees at delia@apachecon.com for further information. Or, see the current sponsors of ApacheCon Europe 2009.

–
ApacheCon Europe 2009 Team
planners-2009-eu@apachecon.com

http://www.eu.apachecon.com

This is a key thing to remember for anyone scheduling international conference calls, or when planning to catch your flight.

An excellent resource about times, timezones, and dates around the world is Time And Date.

Be sure to read the comments, there’s some great discussion going on there. And note these are great tips both for regular session speakers, as well as for any public speaking. And there are plenty of opportunities for you to speak at ApacheCon in our other special events.

• Sign up for BarCampApache (Monday)
• Go to a MeetUp (Mon & Tues nights)
• Submit a BOF (Wed & Thurs nights)
• Give a Lightning Talk (Thurs night)
• Really learn how to be a public speaker: attend the Media & Analyst Training session(s) on Monday (requires registration fee). Sally does an excellent job of teaching open source geeks (and everyone) how to communicate better.

(This is one of a series of catch-up posts; it’s really less than 2 weeks until ApacheCon!)

MeetUps are free for attendees, and are focused on individual project communities. In fact, the community is the primary driver to having a MeetUp – they’re doing the organizing, and the conference is happy to be able to provide space in our hotel this year. The only registration for the MeetUps is to sign up on the wiki page. If you have something to present, great; put it on the wiki, if not, just come with your questions about the project. Laptops are expected.

The ApacheMeetupsEu09 wiki page really has all the key details. If you go, tell them that Shane sent you.

• Wicket Meetup (day TBD depending on signups), has their own flickr tags.
• Jackrabbit Meetup (day TBD depending on signups), or anything about JCR; had a great meetup in 2008 too.
• Portals Meetup (day TBD depending on signups), including Portals Pluto, Jetspeed, Bridges and WSRP4J and other related projects.
• Lucene Meetup, will be Tuesday evening; ask about Lucene, Mahout, Solr, Droids, more.
• Maven Meetup (will be held if there are enough signups).

Many, many thanks to Arjé Cahn for his patience with everyone! His tireless drive to ensure the MeetUps got organized and could share our space this year, a win for everyone, both MeetUp’ers and ApacheCon attendees as well – plus thanks to all the MeetUp organizers and project committers who are planning on presenting or being there to answer questions. We hope to get a number of Amsterdam area locals coming just for the MeetUps who will get to see a little bit of what ApacheCon is about.