Thank you, Etienne. Of course I know who you are <g>. Plus you were part of the "Community Over Code ... Code Over Community" project at ApacheCon in Las Vegas in 2019 https://www.peteradamsphoto.com/etienne-chauchot/
"Success at Apache" is actually part of the ASF's Marketing & Publicity activities. I've copied them here, as well as Joe Brockmeier, who has taken on the VP Marketing & Publicity role in June. What you propose below sounds good, but it's Joe's decision how to proceed. If he gives the go-ahead, I'll be happy to work with you on this, Best, Sally - - - Vice President Sponsor Relations The Apache Software Foundation Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, at 05:13, Etienne Chauchot wrote: > Hi Comdev, hi Sally, hi everyone > > I'd like to propose a blog post to the SuccessAtApache blog series. It > would be about my experience with the Apache way after almost 6 years > full time on Apache projects. I'd like to name it "A perfect society". > But before getting into more details on the subject of the blog post, > let me introduce myself: > > I'm a software engineer for more than 17 years and now specialized in > Big Data. I'm a committer and PMC member on Apache Beam and an active > contributor on Apache Flink and I contribute also a little bit (mainly > on design proposal) on Apache Spark. I'm the author of the BigData > Chronicles blog (https://echauchot.blogspot.com/) and I gave several > talks at the ApacheCon throughout the years. > > In this blog post, I plan to first describe the Apache way in details as > we know it (governed by merit, not driven by money, inclusive, > benevolent, tolerant, welcoming, mentoring etc...) > > And then I'd like to extrapolate on these ideas in the way that I > believe they lead to a sort of perfect (even if a bit utopian) society > in the sense that it is the way we all would like people and society in > general to behave. Another thing I would like to share is that I noticed > after some years working with this "philosophy" that it has also > influenced my personal daily life out of work: it becomes your standard > way of behaving in the society; meritocracy becomes a second nature, for > example you reward your home builders with gifts and public credit > because they did a good job, you reward your kids for good school work > etc... You also start to give time to others and share your knowledge, > mentoring becomes a second nature. Another big thing which is very > visible is that you now always take good care to give positive > communication, leading to positive and constructive thinking. Positivity > becomes also a second nature. > > I hope you'd be enthusiastic about this blog post and I'd like to hear > your thoughts about it. > > I must also admit that I would be very honored to become an ASF member > at some point as the ASF was a revelation to me. > > Best > > Etienne Chauchot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
