On 04/10/2015 04:26 PM, jan i wrote:
On 10 April 2015 at 23:09, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <
ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
To get people involved we need to provide value. Today, we offer no value.
So, if I may, I would like to answer a slightly different question. The one
I want to answer is "how can we provide value so that PMCs will proactively
maintain a central events calendar?" Here's my starting answer, more ideas
very welcome...
VP Brand has added a clause to the events policy that requires avoidance
of event date clashes.
Marketing is ramping up on a quarterly report that, once we are in the
swing of things, will be broadly distributed (and thus provide visibility
for events listed in the calendar).
We have a budget for stickers and other such giveaways at community
events, we won't ship those unless it's on the calendar.
Marketing can announce the events on twitter etc, when they are in the
common calendar, and not only in quarterly reports.
My impression has always been that Marketing isn't going to do messaging
around project-specific events like this. But we, as individuals, can do
that. I've been doing some project-specific promotion lately, as folks
may have noticed. As an individual member.
THE calendar get a link from www.apache.org and thus gets a lot more hits..
It must be easy to add events, no long mail discussions, but a simple web
page and e.g. the acceptance from comDev (similar to moderating a mailing
list).
It is also not just about value, but also about knowing....I started in one
calendar where I saw ACEU was missing, then I searched for another event
and came across the other calendar. Our events should not be found by
accident. I believe having ONE calendar that is been given links from top
pages and being actively promoted, is good value for all PMCs, whereas n
calendars are of no value.
rgds
jan I.
More?....
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com]
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 2:01 PM
To: dev
Subject: Events calendar
Today I found out about yet another Apache event that is almost here and I
hadn't heard about before.
I also noticed that http://www.apache.org/events/ is ... kinda
embarrassing.
This, in conjunction with Jan's question a week ago about who managed the
calendar on people.a.o, which is completely a separate thing from the
calendar I thought he was talking about - the Google calendar, at
http://community.apache.org/calendars/conferences.html - makes me wonder
why this is so hard for us.
So, two questions:
1) What other calendars are out there, and what can we do to consolidate
them?
2) How can we get PMCs to put their events in that consolidated calendar,
once it exists, so that we don't have all of these last-minute event
surprises, and, also, so that we can help in promoting our communities'
events?
Suggestions welcome.
I, for one, am a fan of nuking every calendar we come across, and
publishing the above Google Calendar all over the place, and then making a
google form for people to submit events.
--Rich
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