Merge pull request #572 from hpehl/conference-recap

WildFly mini conference recap

_data/conference.yaml

@@ -9,13 +9,15 @@
     - "The session will also include a demo how to get started fast and how to deploy and evolve a very basic application."
   speaker: hpehl
   bio: "Harald Pehl is a principal software engineer at Red Hat. He works on the management capabilities of WildFly and leads the management console (HAL)."
+  slides: https://www.wildfly.org/assets/data/wmc_wildfly_intro_and_getting_started.pdf
 - title: Deploying WildFly applications to bare-metal and the cloud
   from: "15:00"
   to: "15:45"
   abstract:
     - "In this session, we'll see how Ansible can help deploy, configure, managed and maintened up to date Wildfly on any platform, from bare metal to VM and even clouds. We'll deal with Day 1 tasks in fully automated fashion, but also cover how to keep the system running after the initial deployment (Day 2)."
   speaker: rpelisse
   bio: "Romain Pelisse works at Red Hat for over a decade. He started as runtimes consultant, building on expertise on JBoss EAP (Wildfly), and moved to engineering where he became the lead of the Ansible runtimes initiative, focusing on providing the best integration possible between Red Hat middleware solutions and Ansible Automation Platform."
+  slides: https://github.com/ansible-middleware/wfl-mini-conf-demo/blob/main/slides.md
 - title: Break
   from: "15:45"
   to: "16:00"
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@
     - "In this session we'll provide an overview of what's new in the WildFly project in the last several months, particularly in the WildFly 31 release. Then we'll describe where we see things going in WildFly over the remainder of 2024 -- release plans, a possible roadmap for Jakarta EE 11 support, plans around Java SE support and ideas around significant new features and initiatives."
   speaker: bstansberry
   bio: "Brian Stansberry is the lead of the WildFly application server project and the principal architect of Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform."
+  slides: https://www.wildfly.org/assets/data/wmc_whats_new_and_roadmap.pdf
 - title: WildFly Glow
   from: "16:45"
   to: "17:30"
@@ -35,6 +38,7 @@
     - "During the presentation WildFly Glow tooling will be demonstrated."
   speaker: jfdenise
   bio: "Jean-François Denise is a principal software engineer at Red Hat. He is involved in WildFly provisioning and tooling (WildFly CLI, WildFly Bootable JAR, Openshift images, WildFly Glow)."
+  slides: https://www.wildfly.org/assets/data/wmc_glow.pdf
 - title: Feedback and closing ceremony
   from: "17:30"
   to: "18:00"

_layouts/conference.html

@@ -10,58 +10,17 @@ <h2 class="page-subtitle">A dedicated conference for the community with topics a
   </div>
 
   <div class="grid__item width-12-12 sec-title-red">
-    <h2>What you need to know</h2>
-    <dl class="c-when-and-where">
-      <dt>Date</dt>
-      <dd id="c-date" data-date="2024-03-06"><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/data/wildfly-mini-conference.ics" title="Click here to download an ICS file for the conference" type="text/calendar" download>Wednesday, March 6, 2024</a></dd>
-      <dt>Time</dt>
-      <dd>14:00 - 18:00 UTC</dd>
-      <dt>Location</dt>
-      <dd>
-        Virtually on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/_8g1rZ80u2A" target="_blank">YouTube Live</a>
-      </dd>
-    </dl>
-    <p>Registration is not required, but you can let us know that you <a href="https://forms.gle/zK6apuNk6rotXrkq5" target="_blank">plan to attend</a>. Click on the date to add the event to your calendar.<br/>You can also use the "Notify Me" button on YouTube if you would like to be notified about the conference.</p>
-  </div>
-
-  <div class="grid__item width-12-12 sec-title-yellow">
-    <h2>What you can expect</h2>
-    <p>The conference includes four sessions with topics for both beginners and advanced WildFly users. There will
-      be an opening and closing ceremony and a 15-minute break between the second and third session. We want all
-      sessions to be interactive, and you can ask questions at any time. Please subscribe to the
-      <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WildFlyAS" target="_blank">WildFly channel</a> in advance, if you want to take part in the chat.<br/>Remember this is a conference for you -
-      the WildFly community!</p>
-
-    <div class="admonitionblock note" style="margin-bottom: 2rem">
-      <table>
-        <tbody>
-        <tr>
-          <td class="icon">
-            <div class="title">Note</div>
-          </td>
-          <td class="content">
-            <div class="paragraph">
-              <p>All times are in <strong>UTC</strong>. Click on the time to show the time in your time
-                zone.</p>
-            </div>
-          </td>
-        </tr>
-        </tbody>
-      </table>
-    </div>
+    <h2>Agenda</h2>
+    <p>Our first WildFly Mini Conference took place on March 6. Many thanks to all participants! You can view the recording at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WildFlyAS" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>. The slides can be downloaded using the links below.</p>
 
     {% for session in site.data.conference %}
-    {%- capture session_bg -%}
-    {%- if session.abstract -%}c-session-blue{%- else -%}c-session-gray{%- endif -%}
-    {%- endcapture -%}
-    <div class="c-session {{ session_bg }}">
+    {% if session.abstract %}
+    <div class="c-session c-session-blue">
       <div class="c-time">
         <span class="c-from">{{ session.from }}</span><span class="c-to">{{ session.to }}</span>
       </div>
-      <div class="c-title">{{ session.title}}</div>
-      {% if session.abstract %}
+      <div class="c-title"><a href="{{session.slides}}" target="_blank">{{ session.title}}</a></div>
       <div class="c-abstract"><p>{{ session.abstract | join: "<br/>" }}</p></div>
-      {% endif %}
       {% if session.speaker %}
       {% assign speaker = site.data.authors[session.speaker] -%}
       <div class="c-speaker-avatar">
@@ -71,15 +30,15 @@ <h2>What you can expect</h2>
       <div class="c-speaker-bio">{{ session.bio }}</div>
       {% endif %}
     </div>
+    {% endif %}
     {% endfor %}
   </div>
 
   <div class="grid__item width-12-12 sec-title-teal">
-    <h2>After the conference</h2>
+    <h2>Feedback</h2>
     <p>Please take some time to answer a few questions about the conference. What did you like, what can we do
       better? It won't take long, and will help us make the next WildFly conference even better: <a
               href="https://forms.gle/ruEytViEBBwthr5K7" target="_blank">conference feedback</a></p>
 
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ '/assets/javascript/conference.js' | relative_url }}"></script>

_layouts/index.html

@@ -17,12 +17,6 @@ <h3>Now available: <span style="font-weight: 100;">Wild</span><strong>Fly</stron
 
   </div>
 
-  <div class="grid__item width-12-12 home-section">
-    <h2>Save the date!</h2>
-    <h3>We're hosting a conference on<br/>Wednesday, March 6</h3>
-    <h3><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/conference/">Wild<strong>Fly</strong> Mini Conference</a></h3>
-  </div>
-
   <div class="grid__item width-12-12 home-section">
     <div class="home-icons">
       <a href="https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly" class="github" target="_blank">Github</a>

_posts/2024-03-19-WildFly-mini-conference-recap.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title:  "WildFly Mini Conference Recap"
+date:   2024-03-19
+tags:   conference
+author: hpehl
+description: WildFly Mini Conference Recap
+---
+
+= WildFly Mini Conference Recap
+
+Many thanks to all participants of the first WildFly Mini Conference!
+
+Our first WildFly Mini Conference took place on March 6. We had four talks on the https://www.wildfly.org/conference/[agenda] and many interesting questions and feedback. The feedback we have received so far has been very positive and has encouraged us to organize similar events for the community in the future. Stay tuned!
+
+If you have missed the conference, you can watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8g1rZ80u2A
+
+If you haven't done so far, please let us know how you liked the conference using our https://forms.gle/ruEytViEBBwthr5K7[feedback form].
+
+For those who want to take a look at the slides, here are the links.
+
+* https://www.wildfly.org/assets/data/wmc_wildfly_intro_and_getting_started.pdf[Introduction to WildFly and how to get started fast]
+* https://github.com/ansible-middleware/wfl-mini-conf-demo/blob/main/slides.md[Deploying WildFly applications to bare-metal and the cloud]
+* https://www.wildfly.org/assets/data/wmc_whats_new_and_roadmap.pdf[What is new in WildFly and roadmap for future releases]
+* https://www.wildfly.org/assets/data/wmc_glow.pdf[WildFly Glow]
+
+You'll find the links also on the https://www.wildfly.org/conference/[conference page] and in the description of the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8g1rZ80u2A[recording].