[OOTB-hive] The Future of Alfresco Summit

[Jeff Potts]

I feel like it doesn't really matter that much but as you and Gab have both mentioned it I think you actually are asking the community to do it. If we all agree that a single conference in both the U.S. and Europe is important but if Alfresco isn't putting on the events, then you are, by default, asking the community to do it (with your help of course which is awesome).

If you had continued putting on community friendly summits in both places BeeCon wouldn't be necessary.

This isn't a bad thing. Obviously we won't have the same resource level as we would have but if we all pitch in we can still have a cool event.

My blog post title was a summary of what I think I correctly assess as the situation. I didn't mean for it to be overly negative although it is a bit frustrating.

Jeff



> On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Ole Hejlskov <ole at phpfreak.dk> wrote:
> 
> Bees,
> 
> We have received a lot of feedback on this email and I would like to clarify a few things.
> 
> First of all, we wanted to give everyone a heads up on the cancellation of Summit as soon as possible. This means that we haven't had time to update http://summit.alfresco.com just yet, but we are working on updating the page with the new plan for Alfresco Days. I have asked if we can do anything to speed up this process.
> 
> Second, we are not asking the community to take on the responsibility of a conference. BeeCon has been in the works for a while now, and we have been fully supportive of the idea from the beginning. We are committed to do a developer focused event, but it does not make sense for us to make an event that would essentially compete with BeeCon. Instead we chose to embrace our community's efforts and offer our help - all in the spirit of transparency and collaboration.
> 
> I hope this clarifies things, please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.
> 
> /Ole
> 
> 
>> On 8 Jul 2015, at 19:29, Ole Hejlskov <ole at phpfreak.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> My fellow Bees,
>> 
>> We received a lot of feedback on our hosting a single global Summit in the Americas. Our plan didn't meet the needs of the large portion of our developer community in Europe, and it wasn't likely to meet all our goals for our global network. At the same time, you got excited about organizing a true community-led BeeCon. This conference would meet a lot of the same goals we had for Summit, specifically as a developer and open source conference.
>> 
>> After lots of internal discussion, we are changing our strategy:
>> 
>> * We are canceling the planned Alfresco Summit 2015 in New Orleans.
>> 
>> * In order to bring our content to more customers and prospects, we will be increasing our pace of Alfresco Day events. These are free to attend, and held in various cities around the world. We have received lots of positive feedback on these events from those of you who have attended, and we are adding a separate track of developer content at these events. 
>> 
>> * We want to support you with BeeCon. We need to explore with you the ways in which participation from Alfresco corporate makes sense.
>> 
>> * We appreciated your willingness to collaborate with us and not have your conference interfere with our plans for Summit. Canceling Summit hopefully makes it possible for you to have a larger event this fall, instead of a small event this fall and another event next spring.
>> 
>> * We will use the session proposals we received for Summit in order to plan Tech Talk Live webinars, as well as to select presenters for Alfresco Days. If you prepared a proposal, but did not submit it, please send it to community at alfresco.com. We also encourage you to submit to BeeCon when the call for papers opens.
>> 
>> We think this course of action is the best way to meet our goals and the goals of our developer and open source communities. We appreciate your collaboration and are interested in your feedback.
>> 
>> We are excited about adding developer content to Alfresco Days. This means you will have more opportunities to improve your skills and network with the community, partners and Alfresco staff. We will announce a full plan for the events soon.
>> 
>> We apologize to those who have already booked travel. We hope you still get to visit and enjoy New Orleans without being stuck in a conference center. If you make it as far west as Utah, Richard promises to cook you dinner at his house and you can play some soccer with his family ;)
>> 
>> /Ole
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