As trend monitoring and networking increasingly happens online, IT professionals need methodology for attending Meetups, Webinars or Conferences. The weekly mood Two weeks ago I spontaneously registered to the ApacheCon for free, the yearly rendezvous of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) with Open-Source enthusiasts. ApacheCon is not a conference like others. Indeed, its content is not addressed to potential Software Buyers, therefore owned and influenced by Marketers . Instead, it is addressed to enthusiastic Contributors and Users of a Developer community, owned and produced by Members of a Project Management Commitee (PMC). They are not selling their product but sharing their concept and vision . The ASF probably hosts the largest base of software projects , including httpd which is the most used web server according to W3Tech . The ASF is also characterized by open-source terms ( Apache ...
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