Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-08-31 Thread Dave
Another consideration: unless we push PMCs to be more active with announcements on the blogs, we may not have enough blog activity to generate a worthwhile monthly newsletter. - Dave On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Dave wrote: > I now have a Roller task that runs periodically, gathers up to 3

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-08-31 Thread Dave
I now have a Roller task that runs periodically, gathers up to 30 blog entries from the last 30 days and then sends out an email that lists each entry with a link and a short excerpt. It can be configured to send out this email once a month and to only include blog entries with one specific tag, e.

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
On 23/07/2010 13:37, Dave wrote: On 23/07/2010 12:45, Dave wrote: I've written a bunch of utilities like the one you describe. It's pretty easy to implement a Roller scheduled task that fires periodically, reads the most recent X entries in a tag, forms an email and sends it out. Are those reall

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Since Dave already volunteered to tackle this and seems to be the perfect person to do so given his knowledge, I'm taking a step back. I'm there if any help is needed. Uli On 23.07.2010 14:24, Ross Gardler wrote: On 23/07/2010 11:54, Ulrich Stärk wrote: What exactly do you have in mind? Just

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Dave
> On 23/07/2010 12:45, Dave wrote: >> I've written a bunch of utilities like the one you describe. It's >> pretty easy to implement a Roller scheduled task that fires >> periodically, reads the most recent X entries in a tag, forms an email >> and sends it out. Are those really the complete require

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
On 23/07/2010 12:45, Dave wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Right. I keep forgetting blog posts. It's possible to create newsletters from them too (something like add a tag to include it in the newsletter). Now if only there were someone lurking on the comdev list loo

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
On 23/07/2010 11:54, Ulrich Stärk wrote: What exactly do you have in mind? Just a simple tool that fetches an RSS item and sents it out as an email or do you also want it to do some formatting? Well in my dream world I'd love something that gave us a magazine layout without anyone having to do

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Dave
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Right. I keep forgetting blog posts. It's possible to create newsletters from > them too (something like add a tag to include it in the newsletter). > > Now if only there were someone lurking on the comdev list looking for a way > to contribut

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Ulrich Stärk
What exactly do you have in mind? Just a simple tool that fetches an RSS item and sents it out as an email or do you also want it to do some formatting? On 23.07.2010 10:21, Ross Gardler wrote: Right. I keep forgetting blog posts. It's possible to create newsletters from them too (something li

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
Right. I keep forgetting blog posts. It's possible to create newsletters from them too (something like add a tag to include it in the newsletter). Now if only there were someone lurking on the comdev list looking for a way to contribute to the ASF, some kind of RSS to newsletter thing would be

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > ...If you want a suggestion, how about a quarterly "newsletter" to be > published > on the labs site and possibly mailed out to members@ and p...@... Or blog post...labs can easily get a blog under http://blogs.apache.org/ if needed. -Bertr

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-22 Thread Ross Gardler
On 22/07/2010 14:49, Simone Gianni wrote: > The problem is : it is quite underutilized. I'll leave it to the labs PMC to decide whether this is true and whether this is a problem or not. I'll simply remind the labs PMC that if you believe there is anything ComDev can do to help you know wher

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-22 Thread Simone Gianni
2010/7/22 Ross Gardler > On 21/07/2010 19:33, Shane Curcuru wrote: > >> I was just wondering... >> >> The Labs project (a place where any committer can starup their own >> independent mini-"project" to work on, potentially with other >> committers) has been awfully quiet lately. >> >> I was wonde

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-22 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:57, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > (removing cross-posting on priv...@labs, let's not mix private and public > lists) > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> ...Speaking personally, I see labs as outside the current scope of ComDev >> work > > I

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-22 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
(removing cross-posting on priv...@labs, let's not mix private and public lists) On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > ...Speaking personally, I see labs as outside the current scope of ComDev > work I tend to agree, labs are just sandboxes for ASF committers, there's no n

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-22 Thread Ross Gardler
On 21/07/2010 19:33, Shane Curcuru wrote: I was just wondering... The Labs project (a place where any committer can starup their own independent mini-"project" to work on, potentially with other committers) has been awfully quiet lately. I was wondering: is doing an article or FAQ or some sort