On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > We have continually running NetBeans Days. The next one will be in London, > Athens, Bangalore, San Francisco, and Montreal. > > Must we get clearance for each of these events? >
To answer that question, it would be important to know who 'we' is in the above sentences. If a third-party is funding and putting these events on, then yes, they'll need approval, though you can probably get approval for an entire years worth at a time. > Ideally, I think, we should try ultimately to merge as much as possible with > official Apache events, i.e., have NetBeans sessions during ApacheCon and so > on, i.e., wherever an Apache event happens is where we should include > NetBeans content. That has the benefit of the NetBeans being able to bring > its community into the Apache fold, while being able to benefit from its > organizational structures etc. Is there a list of upcoming Apache > conferences where we could submit content? Could there be something like a > NetBeans track at Apache conferences? Yes, many projects do this - check out the current ApacheCon coming up in May. There's TomcatCon, The CloudStack Collaboration Conference, FlexJS, Cordova, etc. It just takes some planning in advance and staking a claim. > > At the same time, would be great to have clearance for the various events we > have planned, which are basically "meetups", i.e., just like probably many > other Apache projects have meetups, NetBeans Days are simply meetups too. > Does each meetup of an Apache project require a special clearance process? > Small meetups (say less than a couple hundred), without an external funding source likely won't have much in the way of overhead to approve. However, if it's a 3000 person 'meetup' that costs 500k to put on, I would expect a lot more. --David
