ApacheCon 2005 Comes to Europe

dirkx writes "For the first time in 3 years - the Apache gathering will be once again in Europe." The next ApacheCon Europe will take place July 18-22 in Stuttgart, Germany. It will start off with tutorials about anything from Apache to Tomcat to XML, then continue with presentations on more in-depth topics: scaling, security, and more.

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[WebHostingGuy]

Conferences can be a good source of information for both the end user and the developer. A lot of the times you can directly interact with developers who make the decisions on where the software is going. If you use Apache a lot then this is of interest to you. A lot of people extend the functionality of Apache and being able to discuss this with others provides a benefit.

As for traveling a lot of the time the people traveling are traveling on behalf of a company so long distance travel is not a problem. (And if you consider that sometimes flying from the US to Europe is actually cheaper than flying from the West Coast to the East Coast then this doesn't make a difference). And lastly, as the other person posted the other half of the world isn't flying long distance to attend the conference; they are just taking a Eurorail pass to get there.