Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 02/04/2016 10:43 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 02/04/2016 10:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: >>> ..Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!.. >> >> Thanks to all involved and thanks very much Daniel for

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Sergio Fernández
I used to ignored off-topic (or not so focused) mails to this list. But in the last months I've change to try to provide a pointer to what people are actually looking for. Is that find, Rich? What else do you have in mind? On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Rich, On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > ...I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is > better) of ideas that people can work on Given our distributed and dynamic nature I think such a list can only work in terms of a

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Daniel Thanks for the summary. I had a great time and really enjoyed being on the booth (and hey I can keep talking all day if I need to :-) Thanks Sharan Le 04/02/2016 10:33, Daniel Gruno a écrit : Hi folks (cc press@), Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week! This was the

Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Rich Bowen
Several times a month we get people either here, or contacting us individually, saying that they want to participate, and we don't do a great job of steering them to Good Things. I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is better) of ideas that people can work on.

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
Daniel Gruno wrote on 2016-02-04 10:33:52: > Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week! > This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation, > but even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive > interactions with people (never a dull moment!) and showed

Making license adjustment tools publicly available

2016-02-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! a podling recently asked me why: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/relicense/ https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/tools/copy2license.pl are only available to commiters. I see no reason why, but of course I'm appreciative of the warning here:

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. Each PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply information about their needs. The result would be a public web page potential

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Venkat Raman
Hi - It would be extremely helpful to have systems like savannah to newbies to dive in based on their skill sets and area of interest.I would like to contribute as well. But, struggling in the same way as others to get started. Regards, Venkat On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan

Re: Google's Summer of Code

2016-02-04 Thread Lionel Elle Romo
Google summer of code what would i be doing dayly if i was to volinteer On Feb 3, 2016 7:23 PM, "Roman Shaposhnik" wrote: > Hi! > > The window for mentor organizations to apply for Google's > Summer of Code 2016 opens on Monday, February 8th. > Is there anybody who's

Re: Pistachio status?

2016-02-04 Thread Sergio Fernández
Harmon, Pistachio has put a proposal to join Apache Incubator https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PistachioProposal that is currently under discussion at gene...@incubator.apache.org http://markmail.org/message/pybt755phoje6yvy On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Harmon Nine <

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > ..Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!.. Thanks to all involved and thanks very much Daniel for your summary! After missing FOSDEM for so many years I should try to attend next time, are the dates for

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Daniel Gruno wrote: Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week! Thank you for being there and for the report! I had to cancel my attendance just a few hours before my scheduled departure, but it's great to know that the ASF booth was successful as expected. This is probably the first

RE: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list together that *this* community would like to see. We can worry about other projects when we have or own house in order. A simple list, in the form of replies in this thread would be good progress. In fact a first

RE: Google's Summer of Code

2016-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html Sent from my Windows Phone From: Lionel Elle Romo Sent: ‎2/‎4/‎2016 7:32 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Mike Drob
Howe about the next volunteer that comes by asking for project ideas, we have them build a volunteer wrangling system? A bit tongue-in-cheek here, but there's a need that can be filled there. The difficulty, from my perspective, in guiding volunteers is that there is So Much under the Apache

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Melissa Warnkin
We know that's the truth, Sharan!! ;) LOL miss your smiling face, girlfriend!! A great big thank you to all who pitched in to make it a success! ~Melissa From: Sharan Foga To: dev@community.apache.org Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 5:16 AM Subject: Re:

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > Hi folks (cc press@), > > Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week! > This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation, but > even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive >

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > ...Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list > together > that *this* community would like to see Maybe I missed something but I haven't seen people looking at doing comdev

RE: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
You are right. What I meant was people here are clearly interested in the act of community development. Therefore, we should each think about what we (as individuals in ComDev) can do to support people in the projects we represent in the broader ecosystem. That's shouldn't be exclude listing

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Woonsan Ko
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Greg Chase wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > >> An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according >> to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda.

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Greg Chase
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according > to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. Each > PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply

Re: FOSDEM summary

2016-02-04 Thread Alexander Bezzubov
It was great experience at the booth and meeting many of you guys personaly, thank you Daniel for great followup! Indeed it would be awesome to expand ASF presence at FOSDEM and alike next year, as well as thave it a bit more structured in terms of - schedulle at the booth, - getting more

Pistachio status?

2016-02-04 Thread Harmon Nine
Hello -- I'm very interested in using Pistachio, developed at Yahoo, for training word2vec models. The last piece of info I could find on the web indicates that it might become an incubator project at Apache. Does anyone know what the status of Pistachio is in regard to ASF? Thanks. -- Harmon