ApacheCon draws participants at all levels to explore "Tomorrow's Technology Today" across 300+ Apache projects and their diverse communities. ApacheCon showcases the latest developments in ubiquitous Apache projects and emerging innovations through hands-on sessions, keynotes, real-world case studies, trainings, hackathons, community events, and more. The Apache Software Foundation will be holding ApacheCon North America 2022 at the New Orleans Sheration, October 3rd through 6th, 2022. The Call for Presentations is now open, and will close at 00:01 UTC on May 23rd, 2022. We are accepting presentation proposals for any topic that is related to the Apache mission of producing free software for the public good. This includes, but is not limited to: Community Big Data Search IoT

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DRAFT: DO NOT PUBLISH The ApacheCon organization team and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), is pleased to announce the schedule for the next installation of our annual Apachecon event. Apachecon @Home 2021 will be held September 21 through 23, online. This year's event features content from many of our project communities, including Big Data, Cassandra, Financial Tech, Geospatial, Tomcat, Search, the Incubator projects, and many others. As usual, we'll also feature content focused on the Apache community as a whole in the Community track. Additionally, there will be a "hallway track" throughout the duration fo the conference for informal discussion. At the end of each day, we will feature BOF (Birds of a Feather) sessions for unstructured discussion of various projects and topics. The full schedule is available on the Apachecon website, and registration is now open. Registration is free, but there are several options to pay for your ticket if you wish to contribute to the mission of Apachecon and the ASF.

ApacheCon@Home 2021 was held September 21-23, and we are still in the post-event stage. Here's some numbers: There were 3555 total registrations for the event, with 61% turnout. (Hopin suggests that 51% is a typical show rate for free online events, so this is pretty good.) Ticket type breakdown: 94% $0 3.2% $10 1.6% $20 1.3% $50

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Is there a place where I can just file support/feature/bug tickets? Several of these items are things we mentioned a year ago, and we don't know if those requests ever made it to anyone. Sessions still does not have a search/sort feature, and so I still have to page through 11 pages of sessions and ctrl-f on each page. This creates a huge amount of extra work every time I need to edit a session. And since this usually happens during a tech support crisis, that adds a great deal of time and stress to an already stressful situation (ie, when the speaker cannot get into their talk). PLEASE provide a search feature on this page. This is the number one admin problem. Sponsors really need access to set up their booths before the event. Every single sponsor wants this. The lack of a visible schedule of sessions remains perhaps the biggest missing feature. People want to see the schedule of sessions listed on the website, and they cannot. Please, please, please add this feature. HUNDREDS of times during any given event, we get asked where the schedule of sessions is listed. Having to point to an external website for that listing breaks the attendee experience. This is the number one attendee problem, and a question that we have to answer every hour, all day, all through the conference. Track Chairs

Before ApacheCon is just a few days away! We hope you're looking forward to it as much as we are. We've got a bunch of great keynotes lined up for you, including Ashley Wolfe, Mark Cox, Alison Parker, Michael Weinberg, and many more! https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/tracks/keynotes.html And we have more than 190 breakout sessions across 14 tracks, including Geospatial, Community, Microservices, Financial Tech, Search, and more! For the full schedule of talks see https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/tracks/ At the end of each day, we have BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) where there will be free-form discussion of the topics discussed during the day. These are a great place to meet people that are in your technology space, including the very people that invented the tech that your company relies on. And all day, every day, there will be a hallway track, where you can ask questions, talk shop, or just socialize.

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Hi, track chairs, Thank you for all of your hard work so far, in selecting and promoting the schedule. We're almost there! Here is what I need from you next week: Register. Please. Please. Please register for the event, if you have not already. And that's about half of you. Failure to register for the event makes every one of our Hopin platform setup tasks harder, and mean that we have go to back several times to check if you have finally registered. Please do it NOW.

Dear ApacheCon Keynote Speaker, With the event just a week away, I wanted to give you some logistical information about how it's going to work on the day of your talk. Please see https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/tracks/keynotes.html for the full schedule of keynotes. Times are in UTC. Prior to the event, you MUST register for the event, so that you will be able to gain access to the conference platform. If you have not already done this, please do this NOW, at https://hopin.com/events/apachecon-2021-home Please plan to arrive at least ten minutes early for your keynote, so that we can ensure that everything is operating correctly. You will join the "backstage" portion of the Hopin platform, at https://app.hopin.com/events/apachecon-2021-home/backstage/076b14a8-0ca7-4d38-8f81-b882cf8ebaa0 This part of the platform allows us to line up speakers before they go "on stage". Please wait there while the speaker before you finishes, and then you will be put "on stage" for your presentation.

Dear ApacheCon Speaker, We are just 3 weeks out from ApacheCon, and we want to be sure you have all the tools and information you need to make your presentation at ApacheCon a success. Please also read https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/speaker_info.html for more information about the Hopin platform, and other tips about presenting at ApacheCon. Important information: First, if you have not done so already, you need to register for the event. Do that by going to https://hopin.com/events/apachecon-2021-home and signing up. Tickets are free - we just need you in the system in order to give you access to your presentation.

Published to blogs.apache.org on 2021/08/17 The ApacheCon Planners are delighted to announce our keynotes for ApacheCon @Home 2021. September 21: Ashley Wolf - The Inclusive Community Imperative (and where the next 50 million developers will come from) The amount of software that the human race will rely on in the coming decades is going to grow dramatically, and much of it will be powered by Open Source. In order to support this growth — to maintain the software we already have and create the software of the future — the Open Source community will double in size in the next five years. Ashley Wolf, head of GitHub's open source program office at GitHub, will share insight into the exponential growth and global expansion occurring in Open Source, and the evolution that is necessary to attract the incredible talent and potential of the next 50 million developers. Ashley Wolf is the head of GitHub’s open source program office (OSPO). GitHub’s OSPO focuses on empowering developers and organizations to manage open source at scale. Passionate about connecting people to technology, Ashley has been active in the open source community for ten years and currently serves on the steering committee for the TODO Group. She is also an advisor for Built By Girls, which empowers the next generation of female and non-binary leaders.

There are certain events in the open source world that provide the most impact in terms of innovation, collaboration, and education. One of those is ApacheCon, which has always brought together users with the largest collection of global Apache project communities through detailed sessions, hands-on workshops, and standalone Apache project tracks. Deliberately intimate, one of the biggest draws of ApacheCon is access to participants at all levels, from presenters to attendees to sponsors to Apache Members and Committers, Apache Project Management Committee members, ASF leadership, and more, in a collaborative, vendor-neutral environment. As as reminder to you, who attended last year's event, ApacheCon @Home will be held online on September 21-23, 2021. Registration for the event[1] is open, and we hope that you will join us again for this year's conference! This year's event features content from many of our project communities, including Big Data, Cassandra, Financial Tech, Geospatial, Tomcat, Search, the Incubator projects, and many others. As usual, we'll also feature content focused on the Apache community as a whole in the Community track. Additionally, there will be a "hallway track" throughout the duration fo the conference for informal discussion. At the end of each day, we will feature BOF (Birds of a Feather) sessions for unstructured discussion of various projects and topics. The full schedule is available [on the Apachecon website], and, again, registration is now open. Registration is free, but there are several options to pay for your ticket if you wish to contribute to the mission of Apachecon and the ASF.

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The ApacheCon organization team and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), is pleased to announce the schedule for the next installation of our annual Apachecon event. Apachecon @Home 2021 will be held September 21 through 23, online. This year's event features content from many of our project communities, including Big Data, Cassandra, Financial Tech, Geospatial, Tomcat, Search, the Incubator projects, and many others. As usual, we'll also feature content focused on the Apache community as a whole in the Community track. Additionally, there will be a "hallway track" throughout the duration fo the conference for informal discussion. At the end of each day, we will feature BOF (Birds of a Feather) sessions for unstructured discussion of various projects and topics. The full schedule is available on the Apachecon website, and registration is now open. Registration is free, but there are several options to pay for your ticket if you wish to contribute to the mission of Apachecon and the ASF. All event sessions will also be available online shortly after the event, if you are unable to attend in person.