Apachecon NA 2016 - Summary Update

[Sharan-F]

Hi Everyone

I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my Apachecon experience last week.

I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache booth. I think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including India, Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the US.

My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!).

On the first day I saw a familiar name  - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting about OFBiz!
Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community, and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past.

I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the attendance figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the Apachecon team.

On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was mainly focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote  (or 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk (http://redmonk.com/)  who was also one of the Apachecon keynote speakers. I did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz sits technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway this is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....)

My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th). My first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on configuration attracted 5 people.

I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at the moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on feathercast (see link below)

http://feathercast.apache.org/

I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to anyone.  It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon.....

Thanks
Sharan

[Pranay Pandey-3]

Thanks Sharan for sharing your experience. It's quite fascinating.

Pranay

On Tuesday 17 May 2016, Sharan-F <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my
> Apachecon
> experience last week.
>
> I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache booth.
> I
> think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including
> India,
> Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the
> US.
>
> My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache
> branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!).
>
> On the first day I saw a familiar name  - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz
> Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and
> Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting
> about OFBiz!
> Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community,
> and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we
> have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past.
>
> I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are
> using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference
> included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot
> topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the attendance
> figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the
> Apachecon team.
>
> On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was mainly
> focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and
> promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote  (or
> 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk
> (http://redmonk.com/)  who was also one of the Apachecon keynote
> speakers. I
> did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also
> include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz
> sits
> technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway this
> is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple
> technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....)
>
> My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th).
> My
> first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on
> configuration attracted 5 people.
>
> I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings
> and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at
> the
> moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on
> feathercast (see link below)
>
> http://feathercast.apache.org/
>
> I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to anyone.
> It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon.....
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Apachecon-NA-2016-Summary-Update-tp4680675.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

--
Thanks and regards,
Pranay Pandey

[Jacques Le Roux]

Thanks for the information and your presence there Sharan !

Jacques


Le 17/05/2016 à 10:48, Sharan-F a écrit :

> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my Apachecon
> experience last week.
>
> I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache booth. I
> think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including India,
> Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the
> US.
>
> My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache
> branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!).
>
> On the first day I saw a familiar name  - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz
> Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and
> Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting
> about OFBiz!
> Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community,
> and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we
> have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past.
>
> I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are
> using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference
> included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot
> topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the attendance
> figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the
> Apachecon team.
>
> On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was mainly
> focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and
> promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote  (or
> 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk
> (http://redmonk.com/)  who was also one of the Apachecon keynote speakers. I
> did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also
> include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz sits
> technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway this
> is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple
> technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....)
>
> My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th). My
> first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on
> configuration attracted 5 people.
>
> I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings
> and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at the
> moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on
> feathercast (see link below)
>
> http://feathercast.apache.org/
>
> I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to anyone.
> It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon.....
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Apachecon-NA-2016-Summary-Update-tp4680675.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>

[Ron Wheeler]

OFBiz is a bit of an anomaly in the Apache world where most of the
products are tools (all the Big Data stuff) or infrastructure
components  (Cloudstack, HTTP, Tomcat)
where technical details are really important.

I think that the mixing in of the framework as part of the ERP adds a
bit to the confusion.
No one chooses OFBiz because of the framework even though it is key to
the end-user functionality.

If the framework is a product, it needs to be clearly separated from the
OFBiz ERP marketing information.

If it is not a product, it becomes a one or two point item in the
feature/benefit list with the emphasis on how it adds to the ERP.

Ron

On 17/05/2016 4:48 AM, Sharan-F wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my Apachecon
> experience last week.
>
> I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache booth. I
> think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including India,
> Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the
> US.
>
> My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache
> branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!).
>
> On the first day I saw a familiar name  - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz
> Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and
> Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting
> about OFBiz!
> Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community,
> and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we
> have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past.
>
> I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are
> using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference
> included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot
> topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the attendance
> figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the
> Apachecon team.
>
> On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was mainly
> focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and
> promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote  (or
> 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk
> (http://redmonk.com/)  who was also one of the Apachecon keynote speakers. I
> did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also
> include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz sits
> technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway this
> is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple
> technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....)
>
> My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th). My
> first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on
> configuration attracted 5 people.
>
> I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings
> and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at the
> moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on
> feathercast (see link below)
>
> http://feathercast.apache.org/
>
> I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to anyone.
> It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon.....
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Apachecon-NA-2016-Summary-Update-tp4680675.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

--
Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: [hidden email]
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: [phone], ext 102

[Divesh Dutta-2]

Thanks for sharing your experience Sharan.


Regards
--
Divesh Dutta

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sharan-F <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my
> Apachecon
> experience last week.
>
> I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache booth.
> I
> think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including
> India,
> Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the
> US.
>
> My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache
> branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!).
>
> On the first day I saw a familiar name  - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz
> Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and
> Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting
> about OFBiz!
> Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community,
> and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we
> have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past.
>
> I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are
> using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference
> included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot
> topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the attendance
> figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the
> Apachecon team.
>
> On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was mainly
> focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and
> promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote  (or
> 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk
> (http://redmonk.com/)  who was also one of the Apachecon keynote
> speakers. I
> did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also
> include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz
> sits
> technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway this
> is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple
> technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....)
>
> My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th).
> My
> first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on
> configuration attracted 5 people.
>
> I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings
> and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at
> the
> moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on
> feathercast (see link below)
>
> http://feathercast.apache.org/
>
> I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to anyone.
> It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon.....
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Apachecon-NA-2016-Summary-Update-tp4680675.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-5]

Thanks Sharan,

this is a very useful summary; I am glad you and Jinghai Shi were there to
represent the OFBiz community!

Jacopo

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Divesh Dutta <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing your experience Sharan.
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Divesh Dutta
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sharan-F <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone
> >
> > I'm still getting over the jetlag but here is a quick update of my
> > Apachecon
> > experience last week.
> >
> > I went as a TAC volunteer and volunteered to help out on the Apache
> booth.
> > I
> > think we had around 18 people on TAC from various countries including
> > India,
> > Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Egypt and various parts of the
> > US.
> >
> > My main duty was talking to people about Apache and handing out Apache
> > branded caps, stickers and swiss army knives (yes swiss army knives!).
> >
> > On the first day I saw a familiar name  - Jinghai Shi, one of our OFBiz
> > Committers from China! He had come over for both Apache Big Data and
> > Apachecon and throughout the week we spent quite a bit of time chatting
> > about OFBiz!
> > Unfortunately we didn't come across anyone else from the OFBiz community,
> > and I think that could be related to the conference location as I know we
> > have had good Apachecon attendance figures in the past.
> >
> > I did meet up with quite a few people including a team from NASA who are
> > using a lot of Apache projects from the big data side, and the conference
> > included a complete Geospatial Track.Big data seems to be a bit of a hot
> > topic so is getting quite a few more attendees. We captured the
> attendance
> > figures for the majority of the sessions and will pass them on to the
> > Apachecon team.
> >
> > On Wednesday I participated in some Media Analyst training. This was
> mainly
> > focussed on understanding techniques and tools about how to market and
> > promote your project in the media. Our final test was to promote  (or
> > 'pitch') our project to Stephen O'Grady, Industry Analyst from Red Monk
> > (http://redmonk.com/)  who was also one of the Apachecon keynote
> > speakers. I
> > did a pitch for 'OFBiz' which went OK but he said that I needed to also
> > include some minimum technical details so that he could see where OFBiz
> > sits
> > technically (and since I'm not too techie – I didnt know it!). Anyway
> this
> > is an action point that I need to work on so I need to find a simple
> > technical description of what OFBiz is...(so any feedback welcome....)
> >
> > My Apachecon presentations were scheduled for the last day (Friday 13th).
> > My
> > first talk on consensus attracted 15 people and my OFBiz talk on
> > configuration attracted 5 people.
> >
> > I think that all the sessions from both conferences have audio recordings
> > and the keynotes also have video. There is some editing work going on at
> > the
> > moment to get all the audio recording published and you will find them on
> > feathercast (see link below)
> >
> > http://feathercast.apache.org/
> >
> > I really enjoyed my Apachecon experience and would recommend it to
> anyone.
> > It will be time to start thinking about Apachecon EU soon.....
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sharan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context:
> >
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Apachecon-NA-2016-Summary-Update-tp4680675.html
> > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
>