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ApacheCon discounts and free MeetUps

Shane — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:58:11 +0000

The hotel room rate discount has been extended through 19-October – this Monday – so there’s still time to get the group room rate. Some other useful posts and bits about ApacheCon have been posted this week.

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!

0×11 days until ApacheCon: Dear Speakers

Shane — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:09:02 +0000

James Duncan Davidson – a longtime ASF member and past speaker, now photographer – has some excellent tips in his post “Dear Speakers“. There’s also a lot of great commentary there about improving public speaking, especially in a geeky or tech-y crowd.

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!)

0×12 days until ApacheCon: Meet the MeetUps

Shane — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:26:11 +0000

Along with the usual array of Special Events at ApacheCon, we’ve had tremendous interest so far in the MeetUps scheduled on Monday and Tuesday evenings between 18:00 and 23:00

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.