ApacheCon EU 2014: Full Schedule

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10:30am CET

The Apache Way - Nick Burch, Quanticate

The ""Apache Way"" is the process by which Apache Software Foundation projects are managed. It has evolved over many years and has produced over 100 highly successful open source projects. But what is it and how does it work?

In this session we'll discover at how an Apache project is (and isn't!) managed. We will see how the foundation provides an technical and legal infrastructure for each project, and how the Apache Way provides the governance scaffolding for individual projects. This provides the framework for Apache projects which are then free to apply the Apache Way to ensure their project succeeds.

Having attended this session you will have a better understanding of the inner workings of both the foundation and its projects. With this understanding you will be better equipped to engage with and benefit from Apache projects.

Speakers

Nick Burch

CTO, Quanticate

Nick began contributing to Apache projects in 2003, and hasn't looked back since! Most of the projects Nick has worked in belong in the "Content" space, such as Apache POI (ex-PMC Chair), Apache Tika and Apache Chemistry. As well as coding projects, Nick is also involved in a number... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 10:30am - 11:20am CET
Dery/Mikszath

Business, Experience Level - Beginner | Community, Experience Level - Beginner

11:30am CET

Bending The Rules: Community Over Code Over Policy - Andrea Pescetti, Apache OpenOffice PMC

A popular misconception in some circles is that Apache values policy so much that it effectively damages a project's opportunity to grow. Reality is, whenever the Apache policy gets in the way of a project something is wrong. But the current policy and practices were conceived as tools to help projects rather than damaging them. The incubation (and, later, the presence) of OpenOffice at Apache brought the need to rethink several policy issues and set precedents for new ones. In most cases, we found the solution by going back to the rationale for a policy and implementing it in the right way for our case. We'll see several examples of cases where policy was reinterpreted in order to help the project and not to obstacle it.

Speakers

Andrea Pescetti

Member, Apache OpenOffice PMC

Andrea Pescetti has been active in free and open source software communities since 2001. He is currently serving as member of the Apache OpenOffice PMC, and helping the project as a volunteer, mainly in the Release Management and Localization fields. In his ordinary work activity... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 11:30am - 12:20pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Any | Operations, Experience Level - Any

1:40pm CET

Sharing Apache's Goodness: How We Should Be Telling Apache's Story - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) excels at many things - fostering strong open source communities, creating excellent software, providing infrastructure to do the work, and providing a framework to verify the software before it's released.

But many projects want more from a foundation. In particular, they want to ensure that the world knows about the good work that they're doing, and the contributors want a foundation to provide resources to help take on tasks that developers typically do not enjoy or do well.

In this talk, Brockmeier will make the case for marketing FOSS projects in general, and specifically why Apache needs to evolve to help not only create software for the public good, but promote its projects as well.

Speakers

Joe Brockmeier

Head of Community, Percona

Joe Brockmeier is Head of Community at Percona. Brockmeier has been involved in open source for more than 20 years, is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has previously worked at Red Hat, Citrix, and SUSE. He also has an long history in the tech press and publishing... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 1:40pm - 2:30pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Business, Experience Level - Any | Community, Experience Level - Any

2:40pm CET

Patches Welcome - Contributing To Apache Projects In A Nutshell - Isabel Drost-Fromm, Elasticsearch

For an outsider the way open source projects in general and Apache projects in particular work seems complex and hard to understand. Cultural differences not only between corporate work and open source collaboration but also across projects make things even harder.

This talk tries to outline some of the basics of what makes a successful committer at Apache: Why should you understand the culture and get involved if you are using one of the Apache projects? What are valuable contributions? How do you stay committed without over committing yourself in case someone invites you to become official committer?

Speakers

Isabel Drost-Fromm

Open Source Strategist, Europace AG

Isabel Drost-Fromm is Open Source Strategist at Europace AG Germany. She's a member of the Apache Software Foundation, co-founder of Apache Mahout and mentored several incubating projects. Isabel is interested in all things FOSS, search and text mining with a decent machine learning... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 2:40pm - 3:30pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Beginner | Developer, Experience Level - Beginner

3:50pm CET

RTFM? Write a Better FM! - Rich Bowen, ASF

Ever notice that the projects most likely to tell you to RTFM tend to have the worst FM? That's because the virtues of a docs team - Dilligence, Patience, and Humility - happen to be the virtues of kinder politer people, too.

Come learn some tips of writing better documentation, providing better end-user support, and just possibly growing your project community.

Rich has been doing Open Source documentation for 20 years, and some folks say he's kind of good at it.

Speakers

Rich Bowen

Open Source Strategist, AWS

Rich Bowen has been involved in open source since before we started calling it that. He's a member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he currently serves as a board member and VP Conferences. Rich is an Open Source Strategist at AWS.

Monday November 17, 2014 3:50pm - 4:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Any | Wildcard, Experience Level - Any

4:50pm CET

A Development Analytics Dashboard For Apache Cloudstack - Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona, Bitergia

The Apache CloudStack Development Analytics Dashboard helps to better understand how the project is evolving and performing. Using information from git, Jira and mailing lists, several charts and numbers provide some insight on relevant parameters of the project. The talk will explain the meaning of the different panels in the dashboard, and will use them and some complementary quantitative data to analyze specific aspects of the inner life of the project. Those will be used to describe the CloudStack community, its activity, and some of their most important development processes.

CloudStack Dashboard: http://projects.bitergia.com/apache-cloudstack/browser/

Speakers

Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona

Co-Founder, Bitergia

I'm one of the founders of Bitergia, the software development analytics company, and associate professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. I've been working in quantitative empirical analysis of FOSS development for years, participating in several international R&D projects. I'm currently... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 4:50pm - 5:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Beginner | Developer, Experience Level - Beginner

9:00am CET

Apache Incubator: The Gateway Into The “Apache Way” And A Continual Mentoring Venue - Suresh Marru, ASF & Roman Shaposhnik, Pivotal

New projects enter the Apache Software Foundation through the Incubator program. Wealth of IPMC members guide the podlings teaching the Apache Way. Mentors and incubator community assist in learning through the releases process, albeit sometimes in a hard way. As the podlings graduate and enter into a self-governance mode, the priority of making stringent releases and the vigor of community engagement is often diluted. This talk will cover the perspective of those incubating project members who later came back to the incubator to help others learn from mistakes they made. Pay it forward or perverse sense of payback -- you’ll be the judge. Either way, Apache Incubator is a unique project under the ASF umbrella that brings together a diverse set of members all bound by the same goal: keep the “Apache Way” spirit alive in the projects joining the foundation and graduated projects.

Speakers

Suresh Marru

Suresh Marru is a Member of the ASF and is the PMC chair of the Apache Airavata project. He directs the Science Gateways program within the flagship US Cyberinfrastructure: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). Suresh focuses on promoting Apache Way in science... Read More →

Roman Shaposhnik

Director of Open Source, Linux Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and Data, oh but also unikernels

Tuesday November 18, 2014 9:00am - 9:50am CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

10:00am CET

But We're Already Open Source! Why Would I Want To Bring My Code To Apache? - Nick Burch, Quanticate

So, your business has already opened sourced some of it's code? Great! But now, someone's asking you about giving it to these Apache people? What's up with that, and why isn't just being open source enough?

In this talk, we'll look at several real world examples of where companies have chosen to contribute their existing open source code to the Apache Software Foundation. We'll see the advantages they got from it, the problems they faced along the way, why they did it, and how it helped their business. We'll also look briefly at where it may not be the right fit.

Wondering about how to take your business's open source involvement to the next level, and if contributing to projects at the Apache Software Foundation will deliver RoI, then this is the talk for you!

Speakers

Nick Burch

CTO, Quanticate

Tuesday November 18, 2014 10:00am - 10:50am CET
Dery/Mikszath

Business, Experience Level - Beginner | Community, Experience Level - Beginner

11:20am CET

Podling Post-Mortem: Looking Back On Incubation And Lessons Learned - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat

As part of the Apache CloudStack project, I had a chance to see first-hand some of the good and bad choices made during Apache CloudStack's incubation. We'll take a look at a successful graduate more than a year after its exit from the Incubator, and where things went well and where they didn't go so well. Also will have plenty of advice for companies/projects looking to join the ASF.

Speakers

Joe Brockmeier

Head of Community, Percona

Tuesday November 18, 2014 11:20am - 12:10pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Any | Wildcard, Experience Level - Any

1:30pm CET

Supporting Apache Brands While Making A Profit - Shane Curcuru, ASF

Does your company want to capitalize on the Apache brand? Are you interested in seeing how closely you can tie your marketing into the latest Apache projects? Do you recognize the importance of supporting the Apache ecosystem, not just with code contributions but other actions?

As VP of Brand Management for all Apache projects, I can help show business and technical leaders some of the ways they can respectfully and successfully market and position their own services in relation to Apache project brands.

The key message is: Apache project governance is independent; but we are happy to have businesses build their software and services on any Apache software products. You may incorporate Apache brands within your brands, but in specific ways that still give our communities credit.

Speakers

Shane Curcuru

Founder, Punderthings Consulting

Shane serves as V.P. of Brand Management for the ASF, setting trademark and brand policy for all 250+ Apache projects, and has served as five-time Director, and member and mentor for Conferences and the Incubator. Shane's Punderthings consultancy is here to help both companies and... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Business, Experience Level - Intermediate | Community, Experience Level - Intermediate

2:30pm CET

Policing Apache Project Brand Use By Third Parties - Shane Curcuru, ASF

Wondering what to do about the new BestHadoopNews.com website? Don't know how to approach your employer's plans to launch BigCo's SuperLucene product? Need help advising your clients on branding Apache project related services or training or documentation or...? Brand policing and dealing with third parties improperly using your Apache project's brands is a difficult topic to raise. Find out about the existing PMC Branding Reporting Guidelines, and have a chance to ask the expert questions on how to approach third parties. Learn about the kinds of uses of Apache project brands that are not an issue, or are nominative use, and learn how important it is to defend our project logos. The strong reputation of your project and Apache overall relies on every PMC policing their own brand effectively and fairly. Get help here!

Speakers

Shane Curcuru

Founder, Punderthings Consulting

Tuesday November 18, 2014 2:30pm - 3:20pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Business, Experience Level - Intermediate | Community, Experience Level - Intermediate

3:50pm CET

Contributing To CouchDB - Jan Lehnardt, ASF

Become a Hero!

Open Source projects are only as good as the people that work on them. A project's first objective should be to increase its developer base. Consequently, this talk invites you to learn what little it takes to make a meaningful contribution to CouchDB.

This talk is a tour through the CouchDB Apache project and wider community. It explains the way the peoject works and where it can be improved, and how.

One of the bigger stumbling blocks for contributors is CouchDB's implementation language Erlang. However, there is plenty to do without ever touching Erlang and we'll show you what you can do.

Finally, if you are not afraid to dive in, we'll give you a gentle introduction to CouchDB's Erlang implementation.

Speakers

Jan Lehnardt

CEO, Neighbourhoodie Software

Jan Lehnardt is the PMC Chair and VP of Apache CouchDB, co-creator of the Hoodie web app framework based on CouchDB as well as the founder and CEO of Neighbourhoodie Software. Heâ€™s the longest standing contributor to Apache CouchDB.

Tuesday November 18, 2014 3:50pm - 4:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

4:50pm CET

Apache Stratos Roadmap And Strategy - Lakmal Warusawithana, WSO2 Inc

Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. For developers, Stratos provides a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable applications. IT providers benefit from high utilization rates, automated resource management, and platform-wide insights, including monitoring and billing.

This session will focus on the roadmap for Apache Stratos and how it can become a disruptive force in the current PaaS market.

Speakers

Lakmal Warusawithana

Senior Director Developer Relations, wso2 inc

Lakmal Warusawithana is the Senior Director - Cloud Architecture of WSO2. Lakmal has a long history of working in open source, cloud, and DevOps technologies and has been Vice President of Apache Stratos PaaS Project. Lakmal is an architect for containerization and deployment orchestration... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 4:50pm - 5:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Intermediate | Wildcard, Experience Level - Intermediate

9:30am CET

Understanding Docker And Containerizing Your Applications - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat

Creating excellent software is just half the story. Getting it deployed is the other half - and we all know how challenging that can be. Thanks to Docker containers, though, deploying open source applications has never been easier!

In this presentation, we'll take a look at the basics of Docker containers, then conduct a demo of deploying a service with Docker containers. Next we'll take a look at how to create containers and deploy a service using Docker, GearD, and more.

Speakers

Joe Brockmeier

Head of Community, Percona

Wednesday November 19, 2014 9:30am - 10:20am CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Intermediate | Operations, Experience Level - Intermediate

11:40am CET

Introduction To Apache jclouds - Ignasi Barrera, Abiquo

Apache jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud and utilizes your Java or Clojure development skills. The jclouds API gives you the freedom to use portable abstractions or cloud-specific features. It's a multi-cloud toolkit that works with both public and private clouds.

There is a great community behind this toolkit working together to provide a better experience for developers in the cloud. Their goal is to simplify the control of many different clouds while still giving you the freedom to use cloud-specific features. The result is a toolkit that allows developers to write better code, in a shorter period of time, that works with supported clouds.

Learn about what jclouds can do for you.

Speakers

Ignasi Barrera

Founding Engineer, Tetrate

Ignasi is an engineer that has been building hybrid multi-cloud platforms and SDN solutions for more than 8 years. He is a long-term open source contributor, especially to the Apache jclouds project (a Java library that provides common APIs for all the major cloud providers). In 2015... Read More →

Wednesday November 19, 2014 11:40am - 12:30pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Any | Developer, Experience Level - Any

2:00pm CET

Cloud Storage With Apache jclouds - Andrew Gaul

Object stores provide a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective abstraction to build applications in both the public and private cloud. Apache jclouds abstracts all major providers, allowing Java source-level compatibility while providing access to vendor-specific interfaces. This talk will cover how to integrate jclouds into applications and how to manage containers and objects. It will also discuss differences between providers, scaling out the number of clients and number of objects, and tradeoffs in application design.

Speakers

Andrew Gaul

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Chief simulacrum officer, chronicler of hipster museums, and Potemkin geek.

Wednesday November 19, 2014 2:00pm - 2:50pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Beginner | Developer, Experience Level - Beginner

3:00pm CET

Taming The Cloud Database With Apache jclouds - Zack Shoylev, Rackspace

Managing application infrastructure is not what developers want to spend time figuring out. The challenge of quickly automating facets of application development such as database infrastructure setup is still present in many cloud application projects. This presentation will introduce developers to current cloud services (private and public clouds, terminology, service types, OpenStack) and relevant Java SDKs. This will include discussing the advantages of using open source, portable, and provider-agnostic solutions versus more closed systems. The talk will describe high-level jclouds architecture and present code examples to manage cloud-based database infrastructure using OpenStack Trove. Due to popular demand, a short tutorial on implementing abstraction layers and custom APIs for databases in jclouds will also be presented.

Speakers

Zack Shoylev

Software Developer, Rackspace

Zack is a Software Developer for Rackspace and a contributor to the Apache jclouds project. In addition to working on code, Zack often puts on his Developer Advocate hat and has previously given talks about jclouds and the cloud at ApacheCON and JavaOne.

Wednesday November 19, 2014 3:00pm - 3:50pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Intermediate | Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate