Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

[Rich Bowen]

Isabel, thanks for taking this on, and for the copious detail. And
thanks to all the people that sent me "did you see this thread?!"
messages while I was traveling. :-)

In short, yes, I'm in favor of this proposal, with all my various hats
on, and will do whatever I can to support it.

The question of dates is difficult, since I'm already committed to
travel for many of the proposed dates, but I expect I'd find a way to
make it work.

And of course you could count on Feathercast and other ASF promotion
voices to promote this, although I expect a 200-person venue would fill
up pretty quickly without a huge amount of that.

Right now, I'm between trips, and focused on ApacheCon NA, so you won't
hear much more from me on this, but I'll help however I can, once this
event is over.

On 05/10/2017 04:15 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote:
> CAREFUL: This mail was posted to lists with different visibility levels.
> I would love to see any discussion following it happen in public. While
> I'm subscribed to a few of our events lists, I would assume many people
> at Apache aren't which is why IMHO dev@c.a.o might be a good place to
> take this proposal apart.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> TL;DR: Back when I created Berlin Buzzwords I did so to have an excuse
> to invite lovely people from all over the world to visit Berlin. It took
> until last week for me to ask some people outside of the NoSQL/ search/
> big data circles what I would have to do to get them to travel to
> Berlin. The answer I got? "Just ask" - So here I am.
> 
> 
> 
> Longer version (I know I'll regret thinking about this a second after
> hitting send):
> 
> Looking in vain for an existing group of people to exchange ideas around
> the topic of distributed team management across organisation boundaries,
> last summer I started organising http://achnee.wordpress.com - "async
> cat herding" meetup for exactly this topic. I've scheduled it at lunch
> time, received lots of interest, but for one talk at a time usually
> attracted only roughly 20 attendees.
> 
> Ever since I started that thing my head has been tossing around the idea
> to see if one could arrange something bigger. Something that touches
> community management, open development, inner source, project
> neutrality, foundation growth, async communication - essentially some
> sort of Apache Community Summit, or Apache Community Hackathon to
> overload the meetup acronym's meaning.
> 
> I started working for a new employer (Europace.de, fintech founded in
> 1999, meetup friendly, organised holocratically***) as "Open Source
> Strategist"*. Shortly after starting there a colleague (Stefan, CC'ed)
> told me that this company has space for 180ppl total at no cost (2
> rooms, one of which can be split, so it's 3 rooms max). This information
> got me thinking, the result of that thinking made Stefan "slightly"
> nervous ;) However that same result also made a handful of ASF
> affiliated people smile when I shared it with them, so I thought it
> would make sense to take the idea one step further:
> 
> With this mail I would like to see how much interest there would be in
> attending an event that is solely about Apache project leadership topics.
> 
> If there's only <20 ppl, I'm happy to offer my family's living room,
> been there, done that before - promise to keep the 3D printer switched
> off this time around.
> 
> If there's <70ppl, we can easily host this in the Europace Casino meetup
> room, no big deal, there's plenty of experience in how to do that there
> including one video recording set should we be inclined to record any
> talks.
> 
> For the case that there's <200ppl interested, we will need some
> organisation time up-front, but I have been told that we would be welcome.
> 
> If more than 200ppl attend, I'd have to get creative.
> 
> 
> Up until 200ppl I'd keep the event free as in free beer to everyone who
> contributed to Apache and hand out tickets on a first come first serve
> basis. Free as in free beer means no first class catering, no
> reimbursement for speakers, no fancy conference hotel to spend all your
> conference days in. However Europace.de is located close to Berlin
> Alexanderplatz - you won't starve for a lack of food. Nor will you get
> bored if you need some fresh air, happy to share local knowledge on what
> to do, where to eat, what to see ;)
> 
> 
> Apart from number of attendees there are a couple open questions I'm
> aware of:
> 
> - In terms of topics I would love to focus on developer
> collaboration, Apache Way, Community leadership, distributed teams**. If
> we want organised tracks, I'd need speakers. For a first iteration I
> won't setup a double blind submission and review system and instead keep
> things as simple as possible which implies a good chance of unfairness.
> 
> - For marketing I would love to bring this to the Berlin Buzzwords team,
> I can talk to German publishers, would rely on Apache channels for
> everything else.
> 
> - Should someone want 

Re: Using Solr/Lucene to provide our own site search?

[Shane Curcuru]

Grant Ingersoll wrote on 5/11/17 10:41 AM:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:01 AM Shane Curcuru  wrote:
...snip...
> I'll be at AC on Thursday (work schedule got screwed up, so I have to scale
> back my participation).  Happy to discuss some there.  I can demo what we
> have if that helps.

Yes, please.  If I don't find you, I'm probably hanging out at the infra
table in whatever hackathon space there is.

At this point, either you could host (but we'd need to know how to keep
the service up, or degrade nicely!) of ComDev could ask infra for a VM,
and we could host there.  Will need to explore later if we can get this
as an official infra SLA service or not (someone needs to formally
request that).

>> I'm happy for the simplest tool to get working/maintained.  The only
>> issue for me would be on the www.a.o site itself to keep the branding
>> image focused on Apache on the page you start searching from.
>>
> 
> Of course.  We can host the backend and serve up the JSON payload or ASF
> can host.  Overall branding is up to the ASF, but just like Atlassian for
> JIRA, et. al, we'd at least ask for a Powered By badge somewhere on the
> page, likely in the footer.

OK, that should be fine.  My concern is the optics of anything we host
on the www.a.o homepage itself.  When you get to search results, having
the powered by footer and text is just fine, and makes sense.

- Shane


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