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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:20:42 -0400
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On 04/24/2014 04:02 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 23/04/2014 Rich Bowen wrote:
>> If you would like to be involved in reviewing the content for the
>> conference, please let me know.
>
> I missed Denver but I'll be happy to help with Budapest. Account 
> "pescetti".
>
>> The conference format is 3+2 - three days keynotes and conference
>> sessions, then two days other stuff. Other stuff includes tutorials (if
>> we can get them to fly this time), the CloudStack conference, a one or
>> two day Open Office user event (depending on the content we can get for
>> this)
>
> The OpenOffice (one word please) 

I'm very sorry. I have been trying to actively train myself to write 
that correctly. I won't do that again.

> event sounds like a wonderful opportunity. It would need to be 
> substantially different from the "main" ApacheCon in terms of 
> audience, fee and spirit. How can we make it excellent? Is this a task 
> of the Linux Foundation, of the PMCs, of some individuals? I see a 
> problem in waiting for content before having some basic event details 
> settled. Of course, feel free to bring this to the PMC if you need 
> feedback, a small discussion has already started.
>

I suspect that what we're looking at is "free with ApacheCon attendance" 
and then some nominal fee for everyone else. We're looking into what 
would be the minimum break-even fee that we could charge for this, if we 
skip all amenities like lunch, event events, and so on, and we'll get 
back to you on that just as soon as we can.

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