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Thank you to all of our speakers, attendees, and sponsors for helping to create an especially spectacular event. Be sure to check out (and post) photos on Flickr. An extra special thank you to the all of the wonderful volunteers who worked on Saturday to help reNew Orleans!

Next stops, Beijing and Amsterdam! 

• The first Apache Meet Up in China will be 5 December 2008 in Beijing, with BarCamp Beijing following on 6 December 2008.

• ApacheCon Europe 2009 will be 23-27 March in Amsterdam. Hope to see you there as we kick-off the celebration of 2009, the 10th year Anniversay of the ASF!

Unable to attend ApacheCon?  No Problem!

Can't make ApacheCon this week in New Orleans? You can still watch live video streams of all the keynotes, Apache 101 sessions, and our system administration track.

Keynotes and our Apache 101 lunchtime sessions are free; the full sysadmin track #1, including httpd Performance on Wednesday, System Security on Thursday, and Server Stack Administration talks on Friday are available for a fee.  Paying users may replay video streams after the event unlimited times.

Keynotes include (all available for free)

• David Recordon, Six Apart (Wednesday 09:30)
  "Learning from Apache to create Open Specifications"
• - Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Ph.D. (Thursday 11:30)
  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
• - Sam Ramji, Microsoft (Friday 11:30)
  "struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)"

Reminder: New Orleans is CST or UTC/GMT -6 hours, and has already fallen back.

Register to watch our live video streams.

Just register for the live streaming and follow the event live from your own PC. After the live transmission, you can view repeats of the talks, whenever and as often as you like.

Click HERE to sign up.

• My Schedule - click the green plus signs to show you're interested in attending different sessions
• Participate in the discussion about sessions and keynotes by commenting with other participants
• Browse Profiles - see who else is attending ApacheCon, click off on who you want-to-meet or are a fan of
• Fill in the details of your profile, and have your blog, photostream, or links appear in the external blogs and photos streams
• Find other attendees who are participating in the ASF, or are contributed to Hadoop, or who think OFBiz is their favorite project

Join FUSE and Kevin Schurb of Special EFX-BodyArt LLC. Kevin is a retired Firefighter/EMT and a New Orleans local, who will be applying airbrush tattoos. Visit the FUSE booth in the Expo Hall for a TAT and show your Apache Pride. Kevin will be available:

• During the Welcome Reception, Wednesday 6:30-8:00 PM
• Thursday 11:00-11:30 AM and 12:30-2:00 PM

• David Recordon - "Learning from Apache to create Open Specifications"
• Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Ph.D. - "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
• Sam Ramji - "struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)"