Good afternoon,
I have been in direct contact with Mike Bates re a CRM for fundraising
activities (not the whole OFBiz community). In fact, I sent a follow-up email
to him yesterday and plan to give him a ring in a day or two if I do not
receive a response (I don't want to put too much pressure on him! ;) ).
HTH,~M
From: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>;
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: The ASF and Apache OFBiz (was: Re: ASF Status website and project
health reporting)
Ha! Yes I did mean "contacted" :-)
I may have misunderstood the status of this. I know Melissa is intending to
follow up, I thought that she had. Since you seem interested I'll ensure
Melissa sees this thread.
Ross
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Smits [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The ASF and Apache OFBiz (was: Re: ASF Status website and project
health reporting)
Ross,
As far as I can tell, only Rich has contacted the community of the OFBiz
project regarding management of fundraising activities. I assume you that is
what you meant, not contracted.
Regards,
Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Note, we have recently been discussing how OfBiz can help with
> management of the fundraising activities. Melissa (our EA) is in
> contract with the project. It seems to me that this would be the
> simplest starting point (and isn't public facing, so less of a design
> overhead).
>
> Other than that, as Shane says, anything that does happen needs to
> happen with the infra team on board.
>
> Thanks Ross
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ________________________________
> From: Shane Curcuru<mailto:[email protected]>
> Sent: 10/15/2014 4:57 AM
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; Jacques Le
> Roux<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: The ASF and Apache OFBiz (was: Re: ASF Status website and
> project health reporting)
>
> The best place to start this discussion in terms of needs is over on
> the dev@community mailing list - no need to include folks individually
> unless they ask.
>
> There are several different issues to work on:
>
> - Need and design: what does the ASF or some projects actually need,
> and how could we better present a design that would be easier to use
> and maintain? Note also that projects use a wide variety of site
> generation and maintenance tools, and to get better adoption any new
> tool needs to fit easily into existing Forrest, Maven, or other tools
> that various projects use (i.e., adoption on a per-project level, like
> for project.a.o/mailinglist pages, would be up to each project)
>
> - Work: Who is actually going to provide the code, take feedback from
> various parties, and help maintain any new solution? This is where
> having an iterative design is important, because many of these efforts
> start with great new volunteers, but never get finished or fully
> deployed when the rest of the world interferes with people's dayjobs.
>
> - Code: Any apache.org hosted solution needs to be maintained by the
> infra team. In particular, infra is moving to centralize all the
> per-person data into our custom LDAP scheme, which is being expanded
> to include PMC membership and plenty of other data. Some info is on the blog:
>
> https://blogs.apache.org/infra/tags/ldap
> https://id.apache.org/
>
> There's been a lot of updates to how the core LDAP is being used and
> is exposed on http or https endpoints in the past year, so it would be
> useful to get a better overview of what the core people/projects data
> is available already.
>
> - Shane
>
> On 10/13/14 9:19 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
> > Hi Gabriella,
> >
> > I have been pondering a bit on how Apache OFBiz could support The
> > ASF as the unified front end regarding:
> >
> > * subscribing to and unsubscribing from mailing lists of projects and
> > offices
> > * profiling the Projects, Corporate Officers, ASF Members, Vice
> > Presidents, PMC Members, Committers, Contributors and Offices
> > * the invitation processes regarding new ASF Members, PMC Members and
> > Committers
> > * the 'Change of Guard' process regarding Board Members, Office and
> > Project VPs
> >
> > Based on some demo data I have mocked up how this could look like
> > and have created a Powerpoint to show and explain this a bit.
> > In the attached PDF you can get a feel of some screenshots. In the
> > notes of each slide you'll find a short description.
> >
> > If you would like to investigate and/or pursue the possibilities
> > further, feel free to contact me to exchange ideas, viewpoints, etc.
> > If you have trouble accessing the attached file please send me a note.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >
> > Pierre Smits
> >
> > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> > Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade
> > http://www.orrtiz.com <http://www.orrtiz.com/>
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Gabriela Gibson
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Pierre Smits
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Recently we exchanged some thoughts (twitter and otherwise)
> regarding the
> > > status of Apache top level projects and about how the
> > reporting by
> the ASF
> > > to the projects and the wider communities could be improved.
> > >
> > > Currently the status pages at http://status.apache.org
> > regarding
> project
> > > health (commit activity and mailing lists) don't allow drill
> > down
> into
> > > individual projects. Is it achievable to get this kind of
> functionality?
> > >
> > > Can we (as the ASF) also provide insights in number of people
> joining and
> > > leaving the mailing lists of the projects and show what the
> trending topics
> > > over the periods?
> > > But also reporting on average depth and width of mailing list
> threads?
> > >
> > > I do believe that these kind of insights will help monitoring
> project
> > > health and investigate where projects can improve regarding
> community
> > > building.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm not so sure that mailing list subscription counts are very
> > representative -- I recently unsubscribed from almost every
> > forum I
> had
> > ever joined because classification by labelling in gmail is a hit
> > and miss,
> > and the deluge of mails that were incorrectly sorted was too much.
> >
> > Instead, I use the web interfaces for those forums now.
> >
> > So, I would like to see the mailing list web interface be improved:
> >
> > Better thread navigation; and the ability to 'one-click
> > (un)subscribe' to a
> > given thread or a watch for keywords in the subject(subject to being
> > logged
> > in). Being able to choose a digest or continuous format on a
> per-case
> > basis would also be nice.
> >
> > If that could be done, collected statistics about participation
> would be
> > far more reliable and informative.
> >
> > G
> > --
> > Visit my Coding Diary: http://gabriela-gibson.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
>
>
