Hi,
As for the project news (release news), you folks can use apachenews.org (Unofficial resource, but I guess it is very useful for the users/BIGfans of the apache products). http://www.apachenews.org/ (Historically, this is the heir of the Jakarta News/ Apache News) Now, this contains the information on each projects (as far as projects provide the information in DOAP files -- http://projects.apache.org/ ). Very user-friendly website, which has more than 3-year-history, I believe. You can post hot news topics (especially, "alpha/beta-version" releases and incubation-release) on your projects to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know that annoucements upon "stable release" should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED](ASF-wide annoucement list) # I am planning to "competitive upgrade" from MovableType to # Apache Roller ;) , BTW Sincerely, Tetsuya Kitahata, ---- > (Note that a draft of this message was posted to PRC@ before posting here.) > > In recent threads on the PRC list, a couple of items came up that > might be worth bringing to the community for further discussion. These > suggestion all require community participation, and so a key question > is whether the community would participate :) > > * Extending people.apache.org with personal profiles > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] email drops > * A Roller zone for PMC blogs > > > Extending people.apache.org with personal profiles > > It's been suggested that we circulate a press release regarding the > election of the 2007-2008 board, and include some headshots and bios > of present and past officers and board members on our board page. > We've started to collect more information about the people involved in > the foundation at <http://people.apache.org>, but the site is not well > publicized. If we would like to post profiles of our board members, > perhaps we would also like work toward providing personal profiles for > all of our committers. If we added personal profiles to the > people.apache.org site, and added the capability to create a page per > ASF project or group, we might end up with "Who we are" pages for each > project that looked something like the profile page here: > <http://women.debian.org/profiles/>. For discussion purposes, I've > posted an example of an ASF personal profile at > <http://people.apache.org/~husted/profile.html>, cribbing from the > Debian site. Again, the format is for discussion purposes only. > > Should we encourage a more personal touch to our "who we are" pages? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] email drops > > A recurring PR problem is finding someone with product knowledge to > contact that's willing to respond. Perhaps we should encourage all > projects to setup individual press@ and security@ mail drops that > could go to people within the project, who could then forward valid > messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, it makes no sense to setup a project > press@ drop unless there are volunteers in the project willing to do > the work. If a project were up to handle its own press@, we could also > copy [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that there is some central oversight. > > Should we encourage per-project press@ and project@ mail drops? > > > A Roller zone for PMC blogs > > One of the most popular blogging softwares on the planet, Roller, is > now an ASF project <http://rollerweblogger.org/project/>. Perhaps it's > time to eat our own dogfood and encourage development of a Roller zone > where our PMC's can post easy-to-aggregate announcement blogs. These > would not be individual blogs as we have on PlanetApache.org, but PMC > blogs that would focus solely on project news. The initiative could be > tied to <http://projects.apache.org/>, so that there was a one-stop > shop for project news. Aside from Roller, another way to go would be > an XML-based feed, like the one that's being used at Jakarta. As > always, the tipping point would be whether we have volunteers up to > doing the work. > > Should we encourage projects blogs to post and aggregate project news > and events? > > > If the community is interested in doing more to publicize the > foundation's activities, I'm sure there are other things we could do > as well. Of course, a key question is whether we want to raise our our > profile or just be the quiet juggernaut. > > -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. - President - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terra-intl.com/ Bronze Sponsorship Member (Individual), The Apache Software Foundation -- http://sponsor.apache.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
