Call for Participation: Felix / OSGi track, ApacheCon NA 2010

ApacheCon North America 2010 will be held 1-5 November 2010, at the Westin Peachtree in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The official conference, trainings and expo of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) will run to Atlanta this November, with dozens of sessions on Servers, Cloud Computing, Search, NoSQL, Incubating projects, innovations, emerging technologies and more.

With the use of OSGi growing world-wide, ApacheCon would not be complete without a track dedicated to Apache Felix and related projects. The Project Management Committee (PMC) are currently planning our own technical track for ApacheCon. We are solliciting 50-minute presentations to fill one day at the conference.

The main theme of the Apache Felix / OSGi track revolves around "OSGi in the real world". OSGi, the Apache Felix framework and related projects are state of the art for Java development on the server, desktop or embedded device. A lot of innovation is happening here. The track focusses on tooling, patterns and other useful and exciting topics.

Submissions

Submissions are open to anyone with relevant expertise: ASF affiliation is not required to present at, attend, or otherwise participate in ApacheCon. Please keep in mind that whilst we are encourage submissions that highlight the use of specific Apache solutions, we are unable to accept marketing/commercially-oriented presentations.

All accepted speakers (not co-presenters) qualify for general conference admission and a minimum of two nights lodging at the conference hotel. Additional hotel nights and travel assistance are possible, depending on the number of presentations given and type of assistance needed.

To submit a presentation proposal, please edit the following Wiki page:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FELIXWIKI/ApacheCon+NA+2010+CFP+List

and add your proposal. Instructions are included on that page. Please mail any quesions regarding proposal submissions to marrs@apache.org.

To be considered, proposals must be received by Friday, May 28th, 2010, at midnight Pacific Time. Following this time, the most interesting proposals will be sent to the ApacheCon Planning Committee for acceptance to the conference. Note that the Apache Felix PMC does not itself accept session proposals: it merely makes recommendations to the Planning Committee.

Key Dates

Changed to conform with the announcement that was made about all technical talks in the official Apache Blog:

• May 28, 2010: Call for Participation closes
• June 11, 2010: Speaker Acceptance/Rejection notification
• November 1-5, 2010: ApacheCon NA 2010

We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

Marcel Offermans
Apache Felix / OSGi Track Coordinator