Sander Temme wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > >> Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: >>> I'd like to start up a lab for developing an API for external >>> registration companies to use to access the ApacheCon database. >>> Right now it's an evolved ad-hoc mess that has actually devolved >>> over time, since we've adapted to each new reg company. >> >> So, is this dead then? > > I do like the idea of having the Conferences PMC establish a boundary > between foundation-specific data and their own. However, should that be > a Lab, or should it be a project overseen by the Conferences PMC? In > the latter case, you can Just Do It under your own PMC, no need to get > Labs involved. However, it'd perhaps be easier to attract > attention/collaboration in this space. > > The conference and its interaction with the Apache community has many > aspects, ranging from managing the web site to allowing the > committership to grade session proposals without you having to jump > through hoops and manipulate e-mail addresses. Perhaps our own > federated ID system that we can use between these infrastructures? But > then we're back to the question of how we manage our community's > identity information in the first place, the Apache CA, etc. Can of > worms. On the other hand, it'd be nice to see/manage the ApacheCon > website from ASF svn, and perhaps folks would like to help out with > that, too. > > Anyway, that was kind of my reaction when I saw your proposal: very > interesting, potentially far-ranging and no way I could spend enough of > my copious spare time to help out. > > Would you be interested in bringing the software/website into the > Conferences PMC space?
Either way it's fine with me. Ken, you have enough +1 and enough time left, so go ahead and start the lab if you wish to do so. -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
