On 08/22/2016 07:20 PM, sebb wrote: > On 22 August 2016 at 20:08, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 08/22/2016 02:48 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 08/22/2016 12:01 PM, sebb wrote: >>>>> Short of the infra-run places, I don't recall any project web site >>>>>> actually using this anymore, but I'm open to being proved wrong :) >>>> JMeter is one such. >>>> >>>> It's possible that others use it, given that all sites are supposed to >>>> include a link to Apachecon. >>> >>> What does "supposed to" mean in this context? Who says? Where is this >>> documented, and who is on duty to enforce it? >> >> Note: That's probably a bit of a rhetorical question, now that I am "VP >> Conferences", but I honestly can't remember any actual policy discussion >> when Leo put this in place back in 2006 or so, and since we've NEVER >> done anything in terms of actually requiring projects to do this, it >> seems a little late now to try to go back and force this into every >> site's layout. >> >> Having said that, I'm going to try to *encourage* projects to link to >> the ApacheCon site, but I don't think that a text file in the www-site >> svn repo counts as "documented policy". > > I was referring to requests such as the following [1], sent to all > PMCs in Jan 2007 by David Nalley: > > -------------------------- > Please help to promote ApacheCon amongst your project community > by linking from your project websites. > > Notes about how to display images and links to upcoming ApacheCon events. > http://www.apache.org/ads/ > http://www.apache.org/ads/adserver.txt > -------------------------- > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d58b39ee2338f0247a095bd7c549b567bbbec12fb54ab4be5c97ddb0@1169613905@%3Cprivate.apr.apache.org%3E >
Awesome. Got it. And I've neglected to renew that reminder over the last 10 years. Need to start doing that again. :) Ok, I'll work on acquiring various other sizes of images, and encourage the projects to use them. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
