[opencms-dev] Fwd: [OSCOM] OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 RFP

[Paul D. Bain]

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>REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
>
>OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004
>ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland
>Wednesday, Sept 29 - Friday, October 1, 2004
>
>[Please feel free to forward this notice far and wide!]
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>The theme of OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 is "Cross-Pollination".
>This will be a joint conference between OSCOM and the Apache Software
>Foundation. The conference will have 4 tracks:
>
>1) OSCOM Technical / Community Track
>2) OSCOM Business / Legal Track
>3) ApacheCon Track 1
>4) ApacheCon Track 2
>
>The Open Source content management community is rich and varied
>with many projects such as OpenCMS, Plone, Midgard, Apache Lenya,
>Cofax, Drupal, and many others. Almost all Open Source CMS rely
>on Apache technology, and we look forward to lots of
>cross-pollination between the Apache and CMS communities.
>In addition, market awareness is rapidly growing, with several
>Open Source CMS and Apache projects being mentioned favorably
>in recent analyst reports.
>
>Audience
>
>OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 is a place for developers,
>vendors, integrators and users to mingle and learn from each
>other. We aim to make the conference as interactive as possible.
>
>Scope of Proposals
>
>Individuals and companies interested in making
>presentations, giving a tutorial, or participating in panel
>discussions regarding CMS or an Apache project at
>OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 are invited to submit proposals.
>Proposals will be considered in two classes: tutorials and
>convention presentations (sessions).
>
>Product presentations for track 2 will be asked to follow
>a standard structure (see Appendix A) to make them more
>comparable to each other. This will help decision makers
>to quickly learn about the pro's and con's of various
>Open Source CMS.
>
>Besides presentations from CMS projects and vendors,
>we are especially looking for proposals dealing with
>interesting uses of content management and related
>problem areas from law, business and society.
>
>Session presentations are 45 minutes long, and tutorials
>are a half-day (3 hours). If you are interested in
>participating in or moderating panel discussions, or
>otherwise contributing to the conference, please let us
>know (and please include your area of expertise). If you
>have an idea for a panel discussion or a particularly
>provocative group of panelists that you'd love to see
>square off, feel free to send your suggestions to
>oc4 at oscom.org.
>
>For the Apache tracks, we are interested in
>proposals covering:
>
>o Apache Web server topics (installation, compilation,
>   configuration, migration, ...)
>o All Apache Software Foundation projects (Jakarta,
>   mod_perl, Xerces, et cetera)
>o scripting languages and dynamic content
>   (Java, PHP, Perl, TCL, Python, XML, XSL, etc.)
>o Security and eCommerce
>o Performance tuning, load balancing, high availability
>o tips for writing Apache Web server modules
>o Technical and non-technical case studies
>o new Web-related technologies
>
>Only educational sessions related to projects of the Apache
>Software Foundation or the Web in general will be considered
>(commercial sales or marketing presentation won't be accepted;
>please contact oc4 at oscom.org if you're interested in
>giving a vendor presentation, e.g. "lunch bag session").
>
>
>
>Submitting Proposals
>
>Proposals may be submitted to oc4 at oscom.org for
>OSCOM and Apache tracks.
>
>Keep in mind that proposals need not be works of art.
>A quick summary or abstract of the talk you plan to give
>is sufficient for consideration. We prefer outlines for
>tutorials. The proposal is what the conference committees
>uses to select speakers, so give enough information that
>the committee can tell what you'll be covering. As the
>conference approaches, we will request additional
>information about your proposal as necessary.
>
>NOTE: All presenters whose talks are accepted will receive
>free registration at the conference. Travel / accomodation
>allowances will be handled on a case by case basis.
>
>
>
>Important Dates
>
>Proposals Due: July 15, 2004
>Registration Opens: August 1, 2004
>Speaker Notification: August 1, 2004
>Presentation Files Due: September 1, 2004
>
>
>
>
>
>Appendix A: Structure of CMS Product Presentation
>
>Introduction (5 min)
>Demo of Highlights (10 min)
>Feature List (10 min)
>Case Study (15 min)
>Q & A (5 min)
>
>
>
>--
>Gregor J. Rothfuss
>Wyona Inc.  -   Open Source Content Management   -   Apache Lenya
>http://wyona.com                   http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya
>gregor.rothfuss at wyona.com                       gregor at apache.org
>
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