Hi Nick, Did you get any feedback from TAC regarding below?
Regards, Pierre On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Reading the application questionaire for the ApacheCon EU 2012 event i > found some inconsistencies and/or unclear wordings in questions and the > associated explanations. I advise you to have a look at it. > > Q01 - Which country will you be travelling to ApacheCon from? > If you wish to attend an ApacheCon outside of your region (eg ApacheCon US > from Europe), please also outline why you should attend this event, instead > of a more local one. > > Better would be: > Q01 - From which country will you be traveling to the ApacheCon event? > If you wish to attend the ApacheCon event outside your region (Europe vs > ApacheCon NA or ApacheCon APAC, North America vs ApacheCon EU or ApacheCon > APAC, Asia vs ApacheCon EU or ApacheCon NA), please outline why you should > attend this event outside your region, in stead of attending a more local > event. > > Better would be: > Q02 - How many days are you intending to attend the event, and which > sessions do you intend to visit? > Full details of the schedule of sessions may be found at > http://www.apachecon.eu > > Remark: this description might be a bit hard to swallow (and subsequently > difficult to answer this question), as the schedule of the event is > presented to the public later than the application for travel assistence > regarding this event closes. > > Q07 and Q14 basically ask the same question. > Q07 - Which Apache projects are you involved in at the moment? > Please outline your involvement briefly (e.g. answer user queries on the > mailing lists, have submitted bugs/patches, work on integration with > Project Foo). > Q14 - Are you currently involved in Apache project(s)? > If you are currently involved in an Apache project, are you willing to > have the TAC approach the PMC of that project for more information? If so, > please mention which project you are involved in here. > If you are currently a student, and can provide a letter of recommendation > from a faculty member, please include that. Please make sure that it > includes the name of the institution, and contact details for the faculty > member. > > Q15 - Any additional information you'd like to supply? > > Remark: this question should be the last question before Q19 - To confirm > you application, please sign your name here. > > Q19 - To confirm you application, please sign your name here. > > Better is: > Q19 - To confirm you application, please state your name here. > > I also believe that questions should be grouped together. The first > grouping could the questions related to the event (including Q16), the > second grouping regarding the income, insurance, passport,etc, and the last > grouping could be about the projects involved and the rest (Q15, Q19). > > Of course, my native language is not English (any variety) and this just > an opinion. > > Regards, > > > Pierre Smits > > ApacheCon EU 2012 <http://www.apachecon.eu> - Sinsheim, Germany > Apache OFBiz <http://ofbiz.apache.org> > > -- Pierre Smits ApacheCon EU 2012 <http://www.apachecon.eu> - Sinsheim, Germany Apache OFBiz <http://ofbiz.apache.org>
