Nick, If I may suggest the need is for a planning team who, collectively agree to make this event a success. In the past regular calls to keep people informed, coupled with clear task descriptions in those calls have worked quite well. I get the feeling there are quite a few volunteers willing to help, is just that the tasks are a little lost in big reports (which is a huge step up from no info - thanks to everyone working hard on this)
As for the ComDev track description, note I am *not* the chair for that track. I will ensure it gets done though, thanks for flagging. Ross >From a mobile device - forgive errors and terseness On Aug 4, 2012 4:56 PM, "Nick Burch" <n...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> Can I suggest that it is long past time for separating out these issues >> and tasking appropriate volunteers for driving things forwards. We need a >> planning time. We need regular calls to make sure things are not being >> dropped. >> > > Do we have any volunteers who'd be on these calls though? > > We've had some luck with getting volunteers to sign up as track chairs, > though we've had quite a few emails from people surprised that their > favourite area hasn't magically happened due to a lack of volunteers. So, > it hasn't been as promising as we'd hoped. Quite a few of the "likely > suspects" have agreed to help with this. > > We've had excellent luck with getting people to help with investigating > hotels, site visits etc, and generally working to supply local knowledge. > > My requests for help with announcements have largely fallen on deaf ears :( > > My request for help with sponsorship have gone no-where :( > > A lot of other requests to help have gone no-where. Not meaning to pick on > you, but I notice that you've still not supplied a description for your > track, and you're not the only one :/ > > Quite a few people have explicitly said they won't be able to help out > > > > Maybe we should turn this around: > > Who is able to take on a significant role with ApacheCon Europe, who > hasn't already signed up for a role such as track chair? And what sort of > role might interest you? > > Thanks > Nick >
