Mailing-List: contact dev-help@community.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@community.apache.org
Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy)
Message-ID: <547CA326.4090306@rcbowen.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:19:34 -0500
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;
 rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: dev@community.apache.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: ApacheCON EU Budapest is history but will forever be
 remembered.
References: 
 <CAK2iWdQ1DDj_x2FQ+V4vUtc7Oumn=PjXUvboQpr-K0OaUV5QRg@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAK2iWdTXHWk4+Emjq2EwRaw-xvRwjBA01q5ChTbYakWHb0nmFw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: 
 <CAK2iWdTXHWk4+Emjq2EwRaw-xvRwjBA01q5ChTbYakWHb0nmFw@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


On 11/21/2014 03:45 PM, jan i wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> As one who participated in apacheCON Budapest and had an awesome week,let
> me simply congratulate Rich Bowen as "mr apacheCON", The Linux Foundation
> Team as producer and everybody who helped make it happen.
>
> To all of you JOB WELL DONE !!!

Amen and amen. Things could hardly have gone better (except if more of 
you were there), and the venue was absolutely gorgeous. A huge thank you 
to all of the people that worked so hard to make me look good. ;-)


>
> As I told LF, my only complaint is that I cannot find anything to complain
> about.

In all seriousness, my complaint is that there were so few of us there. 
We clearly need to a better job of articulating to our committers and 
their employees the value of this event. I will be attempting, over the 
coming weeks, to begin to articulate this, in various places, probably 
starting with my blog, but also looking for other places to preach the 
gospel, and will be looking for your help in doing this.


>
> ApacheCON seems to use bigger shoes everytime (looking at the foot print),
> so I look forward to see how apacheCON Austin will be even more awesome.
>
> To those of you who was not there.....mark 13th - 17th april 2015 in your
> calendars and come to apacheCON NA in Austin texas.

+1

Start working on your budget folks there to free up some dollars to send 
you, and also to sponsor the event. Please see 
https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon_north_america_returns_to 
for the specific ways that we need your help leading up to Austin.


-- 
Rich Bowen - rbowen@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon