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On 7/8/20 18:37, Christopher Schultz wrote: > All, > > [Cross-posting to dev@, please reply to users@] > > ApacheCon NA 2020 is now "ApacheCon @Home" due to the COVID-19 > pandemic, and will be held online 29 September - 1 October 2020. > This is a great opportunity for anyone who has never attended an > ApacheCon event to make this year their first ApacheCon. > Registration is FREE (zero-cost). > > For those who have never given a presentation at ApacheCon, this > is also an opportunity for you to submit a presentation for our > consideration: the call-for-papers is open and the Tomcat track is > hoping to fill something like 12 - 36 hours worth of > presentations, panels, and meet-ups at this conference. > > To register to attend or respond to the call-for-presentations, > please visit https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ > > Because the conference is being held online, obviously things will > be a little different than previous events. First, all > presentations will be streamed live and recorded for later replay > if you can't make a live-streaming event. "Attendance" for a live > presentation would mean streaming audio/video and at least a text > channel by which questions can be asked. I don't believe video is > supported for attendees (to see e.g. attendees faces) but it may be > possible to ask questions via audio instead text. I will follow-up > with the organizers regarding audience participation. > > To accommodate attendees (and presenters!) in various time-zones > around the world, we will be attempting to schedule live > presentations in 4-hour blocks at 3 different daily intervals > throughout the 72-hour event. To clarify, here are the presentation blocks we are looking to schedule: 4pm - 8pm China time (0800 - 1200 UTC) 4pm - 8pm East Europe time (1300 - 1700 UTC) 4pm - 8pm West US time (2300 - 0300 UTC) (I home my to-UTC math was correct.) Thanks, - -chris > My goal is to encourage each speaker to present their material > live /twice/ during the event, once in each of two separate > timezone-centric blocks (e.g. North/South America, Europe/Africa, > Asia/Oceana) if at all possible, and for several committers to be > available to "staff" each presentation to introduce speakers, > provide moderation of questions from the live-audience for the > speakers, etc. > > Schedules will be announced after the presentations have been > selected and everything is negotiated with the speakers about when > they are available. > > If you are already considering submitting a presentation for > including in ApacheCon 2020, please head-over to the CFP at > https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ > > If you aren't sure if you are interested in presenting, or aren't > sure if you have the experience, knowledge, etc. to warrant a > position as a speaker, please consider the following: > > 1. This is a welcoming community 2. This community exists to serve > YOU 3. You are a part of this community 4. Helping others within > the community encourages others to do the same 5. If you'd prefer > to pre-record your presentation, we can handle that 6. Topics can > be very wide-ranging. Here are some examples of presentations from > previous ApacheCon events: > > [From Committers / directly about Tomcat] - Running Apache Tomcat > on GraalVM - Tomcat in clusters and clouds - Using Let's Encrypt > with Tomcat - Securing Tomcat - Reverse-proxying Tomcat - Load > balancing with Tomcat - Clustering with Tomcat > > [From Non-Committers or not directly about Tomcat] - Packaging > Tomcat for Linux Distributions - I Love Lucee -- a Java > implementation of Cold Fusion - Routing CDN traffic at scale using > Tomcat - Secure Web Applications using Apache Fortress - Monitoring > Tomcat; various tools - Building Reactive Applications on Tomcat - > Troubleshooting performance using thread dumps - High Throughput > Production Systems on Tomcat - Why I Love Open Source - > Introduction to Spring Boot - Tomcat, TomEE, and Meecrowave > > If you are using Tomcat at $work and doing something interesting, > we'd love to hear about it. > > 7. You don't need to be the foremost expert in $feature to talk > about it 8. We are actively looking for speakers to talk about > these and other topics: > > - How to get started hacking on Tomcat ("How can I help?") - > Running a "split" Tomcat installation (BASE vs HOME) for easy > upgrades - Deploying Tomcat in an auto-scaling environment (e.g. > AWS EBS) - Tomcat should really have [Feature X] - Whatever you > think might be interesting! > > Please consider speaking if you haven't done so before. If you are > worried about whether your idea is good enough: don't. Just submit > your idea to the CFP -- you don't have to write-up the presentation > in order to submit an idea, just write a paragraph or two about > what you want to do -- and the track chairpersons (chairpeople?[1]) > will decide whether or not to include your presentation in the > event. (And chances are good that if you submit an idea it will be > accepted.) > > Please reply to the users list with any questions you may have > about ApacheCon, the Tomcat track, or submitting a talk proposal. > > Thanks, -chris > > On behalf of all ApacheCon 2020 Tomcat Track chairpersons > > > [1] > https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rickandmorty/images/c/cd/Furniture .p > > ng/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20160910223642 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAl8HLQsACgkQHPApP6U8 pFhf7Q//ao0Yt1cXEIhL5Ev5sNPxi+C/FuMkUBF0YQFoAUOciAbY2qC7hzvTowZK Udsuip7RxdTKvCO56kewRbK1mINgeIGHwOLlgKt+CoP83Dt/bbqTiV1xC8KcYLBP LACNYBr1ZIAcK/bnOaBhyzmg4fSfnjpkufqeSA6gZLnMgORET7jlPLds5JBdvuE/ G9p23m4nulKKFjhf+SJ2HguWGQlUzI82g1gvG7/uW57LKbOpiJKIdllHr0niqq55 7IDQHrJWx6TBg7d/FlW1XF9RzhEOHA6kipdzBzcbu2s6eiGuU2twcCyLl5A1Btuh C4jt8PlXwYAOvuXmKuec3qhDZ0LkOGJKES+FvaxYSdCO6fZsO2ZQ4CW6fZQw62/+ YF9FBFp0fsBjf5bjFoizCRXu3V1NZOQoQ6bFPccqmRNFGZPOV+ZlBY/h5KfYlawl 2bM5aiUn8NlNsAisllrmUxZN5dfV0BqzUSL50J8Ok7ZtuhqgcHZ/2W0Obt7ciCPN M+ZTGfMdoG9UfBz6Gh4GtOmNaD0mRIrOH/Ujmob4Tq9BYT1yXau70MSBzCFXyd0I KpDTou/Xt71qh0Chhg29BaX8j/UAGhAPYBY30IEWauk6psBeshCqdC/0TkN0gz46 316+3SSc1hq9rTpqjyMeuUQ6TuUcbnEN/jafrhfDG7tozHxuC+o= =0coh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
