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| title: ApacheCon North America Announces "Open Source Community Leadership Drives |
| Enterprise-Grade Innovation" |
| date: '2012-12-12T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: conferences |
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Program for 25th edition of official conference series of The Apache
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| Software Foundation showcases dozens of key Apache projects across Big Data, Cloud
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| Computing, Infrastructure, Messaging, Scientific Applications, and more.</i></b><i><o:p /></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Forest Hill, MD – 12 December
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| 2012 –</b> ApacheCon, the official conference, trainings, and expo of The
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| Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the program and early registration
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| incentives for ApacheCon North America 2013.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">The 25th edition of the ASF's popular conference and
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| community series will take place 24 February-2 March 2013 at the Hilton
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| Portland & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, with the following agenda:<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">24-25 February: pre-conference trainings, BarCamp, and Hackathon
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| activities<br />
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| 26-28 February: main conference + expo, evening events, BOFs, and MeetUps<br />
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| 1-2 March: post-conference sprints, workshops, and team building events<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">This year's theme is "Open Source Community Leadership
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| Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation", reflecting the enormous reach and
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| influence of the ASF. Apache products power half the Internet, petabytes of
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| data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhance the lives of countless
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| users and developers.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Community-led
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| Programming<o:p /></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">Selected by Apache Members and Committers, the ApacheCon
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| program celebrates the diversity of the many projects under the Apache banner. Track
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| highlights include:<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Overture and Beginners –Apache 101<br /> </i></b><i> --Apache projects & topics include CloudStack,
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| CXF, Flex, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Kafka, Syncope, tools & incubation<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- A Patchy Web –the future of servers and performance<br /> </i></b><i>--Apache projects & topics
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| include Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat, Traffic Server, Cloud Computing, modules, monitoring,
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| performance, proxying, security, troubleshooting<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Community Over Code –the nuts and bolts of The Apache Way<br /> </i></b><i>-- topics include branding, committership,
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| community development, collaboration, documentation, enterprise solutions, open
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| development, staffing management, student engagement, volunteer effort<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Tapping the Stream –all about enterprise integration and messaging<br /> </i></b><i>--Apache projects & topics
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| include Apollo, Qpid, Rave, Streams, integration, next-generation messaging,
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| OpenSocial<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Cloud Crowd –leading the evolution: strategies, transitions,
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| disruptions</i></b><br /> <i>--Apache projects & topics include
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| Cloudstack, Hadoop, HBase, authorization, delivery models, enterprise adoption,
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| object storage, performance, scalability, troubleshooting, virtual machines</i><o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Apache in Science –innovation in bleeding-edge scientific applications<br /> </i></b><i>--Apache projects & topics
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| include Airavata, OODT, Solr, Big Data management & processing, metadata,
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| cancer research, climate science & modeling, environmental satellites, radio
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| astronomy<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Apache Open Office –the latest on the Award-winning leading Open
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| Source productivity suite<o:p /></i></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Bigger Big Data –beyond scaling, capturing, analyzing, searching, and
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| storing petabytes of data <br /> </i></b><i>--Apache projects & topics
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| include CouchDB, Flume, Hadoop, HBase, Sqoop, analysis, API management, configuration,
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| data transfer, distributed systems, Firefox, integration, Helix, parsing, queries,
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| real-time processing, smart search, troubleshooting<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- How Secure? –essential Web security issues <br /> </i></b><i>--Apache projects & topics
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| include Shiro, authentication, Big Data, certification, cryptography, key
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| management<b><o:p /></b></i></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Cassandra –powering high performance, distributed data sets with Apache
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| Cassandra<o:p /></i></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>- Caravan –navigating enterprise integration using Apache Camel</i></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">Additional popular ApacheCon sessions also return, including "State of the Feather", "The Apache Way", "The Business of Open Source", and the Fast Feather Track for an insider’s view of select projects in the Apache Incubator and Labs.</p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Join Us!<o:p /></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">ApacheCon draws Open Source users, developers, gurus, students,
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| novices, community managers, and enthusiasts to address today's issues,
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| opportunities, and solutions focusing on the ASF's many diverse projects and
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| initiatives.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">Anyone interested in Apache products is welcome: ASF
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| affiliation is not required to present at, attend, or otherwise participate in
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| ApacheCon.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Registration
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| Information<o:p /></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">Early registration incentives include savings of up to $300
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| when registering by 31 December 2012, as well as special rates for students and
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| Apache Committers. Many pre- and post-conference events, evening project MeetUps
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| and BOFs are available to the community free of charge. To register, visit
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| <a href="http://na.apachecon.com/">http://na.apachecon.com/</a> .<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">Discounted sleeping room rates have been secured for ApacheCon
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| attendees at the conference hotel until 28 January 2013. Requests made after
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| the cutoff date or after the room block is sold out (whichever comes first) will
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| be fulfilled based on availability at the prevailing rate of the hotel. Participants
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| are encouraged to register early at <a href="http://na.apachecon.com/venue/">http://na.apachecon.com/venue/</a> .<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sponsors, Exhibitors,
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| and Partners<o:p /></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">ApacheCon Sponsors include AppDynamics, IBM, HP, RedHat, and VMWare, and are
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| joined by SourceForge, official event Media Partners. For sponsor, exhibitor,
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| and community partnership opportunities, contact Nancy Asche <acnasponsorsATtheopenbastionDOTcom>.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">Conference registration is complimentary for members of the
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| press and analyst community with valid credentials. For media partnerships and registration,
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| contact Corinna Rogers at <corinnaATstaedelcommsDOTcom> or on +1 404 941
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| 4234 for more information.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Staying Informed, Getting
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| Involved<o:p /></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">To register or make a donation, visit <a href="http://na.apachecon.com/">http://na.apachecon.com/</a> .
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| To volunteer, connect with participants, or contribute to the "local
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| guide" wiki, visit http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ .<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">To keep up with the latest developments and program updates,
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| <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce">subscribe to announce@apachecon.com</a>, follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCon">@ApacheCon feed on Twitter</a>, and
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| track the event on Lanyrd at <a href="http://lanyrd.com/2013/apachecon/">http://lanyrd.com/2013/apachecon/</a> .<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">ApacheCon is produced by The Open Bastion in partnership
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| with The Apache Software Foundation.<b><o:p /></b></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal">"Apache", "ActiveMQ Apollo", "Apache
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| ActiveMQ Apollo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Camel",
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| "Apache Camel", "Cassandra", "Apache Cassandra",
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| "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CXF", "Apache
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| CXF", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB", "Flex",
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| "Apache Flex", "Flume", "Apache Flume", "Hadoop",
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| "Apache Hadoop", "HBase", "Apache HBase", "Hive",
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| "Apache Hive", "Apache HTTP Server", "Kafka", "Apache
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| Kafka", "OODT", "Apache OODT", "OpenOffice",
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| "Apache OpenOffice", "Qpid", "Apache Qpid", "Rave",
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| "Apache Rave", "Shiro", "Apache Shiro", "Solr",
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| "Apache Solr", "Sqoop", "Apache Sqoop", "Streams",
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| "Apache Streams", "Syncope", "Apache Syncope", "Tomcat",
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| "Apache Tomcat", "Traffic Server", "Apache Traffic
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| Server", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The Apache Software
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| Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
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| respective owners.<o:p /></p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal"># # #<o:p /></p> |
