The "we" is the Apache NetBeans community, i.e., everything is arranged by people on the Initial Committers list or those who will be voted on as committers of the Apache NetBeans PMC, as soon as we start doing the voting for that, which will be some time from now once we're further with the code donation.
And, yes, these are all small meetups, never more than around 100 though more typically around 60 or so. Except for the main NetBeans Day in San Francisco, which could have around 700 or so, depending on the session during the Community Sunday Event right before JavaOne. Gj On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:23 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > 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 >
