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From: Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com>
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On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Sander Temme wrote:

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> On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com> wrote:
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>> We'd appreciate your help in creating a little more buzz about =
ApacheCon NA.
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>> It turns out that another major West coast big data/cloud conference =
has been scheduled on exactly the same days as ApacheCon, reducing the =
anticipated effects of our marketing and PR efforts.
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> You also managed to put the conference on exactly the same days as the =
RSA Conference and Expo in San Francisco, so anyone who is in the =
security business will have to be there instead of at ApacheCon.=20
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Thanks for your input. It's true we'd rather not have clashed with RSA, =
but then so would Strata, who are also suffering because TED is using =
some of their usual speaker pool. And so it goes.

There are over a million conferences a year, worldwide, so such clashes =
are unfortunate but sometimes unavoidable, and it's much easier to =
change the future than the past. We received a low number of security =
submissions this year anyway, and the two talks in the schedule are =
appropriate to a general Apache audience.

regards
Steve Holden steve@holdenweb.com +1 571 484 6266              @holdenweb
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