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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:02:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@generationjava.com>
To: Jakarta Commons Users List <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: ApacheCon talks
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Good idea.

I'm not wanting to do a 3 hour talk, but the next level is 1 hour and
that'd be quite tight.

I'm not sure if 3 talks will be considered too much, but will propose it
that way. sandbox, commons-1 and commons-2.

Thanks,

Hen

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

> If there is more than 1 hours material, perhaps split the talks into two1
> hours by the narrow interface/broad interface categorisation.
> ie.
> Collections/Lang/Codec/IO/... have broad shallow API
> Betwixt/JXPath/Digester/... have narrow deep API
>
> That way you could include the sandbox ones with the relevant group. There
> still may not be enough material though.
>
> Stephen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Pugh" <epugh@upstate.com>
> > I agree w/ the 3 hour thing..  to be honest, I don't think I can keep my
> > interest up in anything for 3 hours unless there is a handson component..
> I
> > agree though that raising the visibility of commons would be nice..  Often
> > people don't know about all the great libraries available and how they can
> > help them!
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Torsten Curdt [mailto:tcurdt@vafer.org]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:14 AM
> > > To: Jakarta Commons Users List
> > > Subject: Re: ApacheCon talks
> > >
> > >
> > > Henri,
> > >
> > > > I'm pondering the idea of giving one/two talks at the ApacheCon in
> > > > November.
> > >
> > > Not sure how many people a talk about the sandbox
> > > would attract ...but IMO commons would be a good
> > > thing to talk about. Actually I thought about
> > > submitting a proposal myself.
> > >
> > > But IMHO 3 hours (wow!) is way to much ...I know
> > > there is much to talk about - but I doubt you can
> > > keep people interested in a set of libraries for
> > > more than an hour.
> > >
> > > My 2 cents
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > --
> > > Torsten
> > >
> > >
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