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ApacheCon Oakland roundup

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!

ApacheCon room discount; Training interviews

The group discount rate ($169/night) for ApacheCon attendees staying at the conference hotel is scheduled to end today – so be sure to reserve your hotel room now if you’re planning to stay at the Marriott where the conference is held!

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

Welcome to ApacheCon Europe 2009!

Quick note: if you can’t attend ApacheCon, you can still watch the free live video streaming of our Keynotes and lunch talks! Other technical tracks are available for a fee. Remember: all times are from Amsterdam (CET), so Wednesday’s keynote “Data Management in the Cloud” with Raghu Ramakrishnan of Yahoo! starts at 09:30.

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.