2019 Conferences to have a MicroProfile booth

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Cesar Saavedra

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Jan 25, 2019, 8:31:25 AM1/25/19
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Hello MicroProfile community!

We have been discussing the idea of sponsoring a dedicated MicroProfile booth at some selected conferences during 2019. One of the motivations of this endeavor would be to present the entire MicroProfile community as a united front at these conferences. The MicroProfile booth would be sponsored by community members willing to provide funds and/or technical resources to staff it, etc.

To this end, we are reaching out to you for your feedback about potential top conferences for MicroProfile to have a booth. We cannot (and should not) have a booth at every single conference every year so the goal is to target a handful of them where we can reach a large targeted audience interested in enterprise Java microservices. (Here's a good reference sheet for Jakarta EE conference attendanceAnd here’s another good list). What do you think about the following list? Remember, we need to keep this list to a handful of conferences to make this endeavor manageable.
  1. DevNexus (March 6-8)
  2. JavaLand (March 19-21) (Germany)
  3. Devoxx France (April 17-19)
  4. Devoxx UK (May 8-10)
  5. JNation (June 4) - Portugal
  6. Oracle Code One (Sep 16? TBD)
  7. EclipseCon Europe (Oct 21-24)
  8. Voxxed Days Microservices (Oct 29-30?) (Paris)
  9. Devoxx Belgium (Nov)
Thanks,
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Cesar Saavedra
Senior Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager

Amelia Eiras

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Feb 1, 2019, 7:32:27 PM2/1/19
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Happy friday MicroProfilers, 

First, Gracias Cesar for sending to the forum a written follow up and pulling into MP, the conference sheet from the Jakarta EE project, both items completed with great form. :)

The current exchanges in the thread are fantastic yet I must use my email interface to not lose the other 2 emails on this thread. 

Copy/paste yet our reply to question below is also placed in the call minutes. 

Jan 21st Marketing hangout minutes:


Question for Tomitribe and our reply:

  1. Amelia, would Tomitribe be interested in this idea? If so, which option would you prefer for contributing towards having a MicroProfile booth at every event?

ANSWER: 2/1/19
Amelia: zero for booth ONLY option.
Tomitribe would like to see this MicroProfile moving away from the traditional booth sponsorship and start focusing in the creation of the MicroProfilers Champion’s Program [MP-CP] instead.
We know that many of the traveling MicroProfilers today are NOT ONLY those speakers under the Partners’ known but actually individual MicroProfilers not associated with any company.
We need to connect the MP- Champions =  Globally.
I think any budget we might come up with,  after doing some research, needs to be placed by Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 and enable metrics and tracing from day 1 so that by each iteration, we can adjust it with enough flexibility.
Vendor Neutral Booth could be consider- our recommendation is a max (if paid) 2 per year:  1 in USA and 1 in EU. Reminder that no Vendor can use the scanned leads from the Vendor Neutral booth for sales follow up. That was decided since the creation of the Project.
  • Without mentioning any Conference names, many in our industry would offer OSS projects such a MicroProfile a 100% free booth in support of its Community.
  • When that occurs, I recommend budget is spent on adding value to that event by for example:
  1. Sponsorship the event’s community Party
  2. Coffee breaks
  3. Lanyard sponsorships
  4. The list goes on...
INSTEAD OF TRADITIONAL BOOTH: THE MP-CHAMPIONS CREATION IS IDEAL:
Brainstorming: NOT focusing in the how yet, just sharing the crude value
GOALS

  • Provide individual MicroProfilers with at least 6 to 10 t-shirts per MP session.  For instance, T-shirt and stickers [could be shipped globally when requested] to the MicroProfiler(s) who are not a part of the list of Vendors listed in MP.io
  • Some travel coverage could be added as an option & buffer for those MicroProfilers who do not have the support of their employers (NOT added in the list of Partners) yet would like to particiapete. DOING SO, could likely initiate the MicroProfile Champions.
  • Using git, we can have past abstracts ready to be used by new interested Speakers who are not yet known but who are interested in sharing their knowledge on MicroProfile and need a jump-start.
  • MP website will need to be the master tracking to enable much of the structure for the program
  • ….

- NOTE:
  • In 2018, a few Partners brought the Neutral MicroProfile booth for DevNexus 2018
  1. $10,000 was given the the EF Team
  2. Conf organizers provided the booth at $0 cost
  3. 300 t-shirts and ~ (number cannot recall) stickers were printed
  4. There is a left over budget from that event still for the project to use in 2019 given the kindness of the Event organizers.

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About the planning of conferences to keep anyone attending as a speaker & sponsor or just attendee. I have placed the copy of the sheet Cesar (RH) shared in the MP drive under 2019 Events folder



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