Hi All A quick update on this.
They sent me a copy of their suggested email blast and I've sent it to Sally to take a look and also the ComDev PMC. Thanks Sharan On 2018-01-04 12:12, "Sharan Foga"<sha...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All > > I've got a response back from them and they still would like us to > participate in their offer. > > ASF Involvement > I asked about Apache involvement in the event since if we are listed as a > community sponsor then we generally have a booth or at least a talk at the > event. Their response was as follows: > > âÂÂour community sponsors help promote our event and, in return, we help > promote their company. One of our PRO speaker workshops by Denis Magda of > GridGain is on "Apache Ignite Service Grid: Foundation of Your > Microservices-Based Solution" > > Email Blast > They are going to send me a copy of their email blast so we can look at that > to see if it would be acceptable or not. They seem to be OK with it being > limited to the ComDev mailing list, a paragraph on our blog and a tweet. > > They also said that we could do create an email about or promoting the ASF > that they would send out to their event mailing list. > > So that is the latest status. As soon as I get more info, I will let you know. > > Thanks > Sharan > > On 2017-12-04 17:03, "Bill Cole" <billc...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 30 Nov 2017, at 12:38 (-0500), Alex Harui wrote: > > > > > I wouldn't mind reading and > > > deleting as many as a dozen marketing-type emails per year if it got > > > the > > > ASF's name out in front of people that don't already know about us > > > > Using email to get an organization's name out in front of people who > > don't know about it has a name and there's an ASF project whose purpose > > is identifying such email so the targeted users can keep it out of their > > mailboxes entirely. > > > > Thankfully, outright spam to people who don't know about the ASF doesn't > > seem to be what is being proposed. I suspect that the DeveloperWeek > > organization may not understand that there is no marketing email list at > > the ASF and that the best they can get is what Sharan has already > > offered. > > > > -- > > Bill Cole > > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > > Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
