Committer Diversity Survey - Infra Related Feedback
There was a private thread started around the infra related feedback from the "Committer Diversity Survey", and it was summarized by one of our colleagues as: GitHub, GitHub, GitHub, GitHub I would like to bring my perspective around this, as I don't think it's about GitHub, GitHub, GitHub, but about what GitHub provides for their users: a self-service infrastructure that easily enables projects to be created and administered by their creators. I believe that most of the constructive feedback Apache receives around infrastructure are triggered by the fact that it is still very hard to get non-code related things done at ASF, particularly if you are new to the organization and don't know the right people to ask for help. I believe that The ASF (we) should seriously start discussing and come up with a plan to make Apache a self-service organization (something similar to https://whimsy.apache.org/ but much more focused on general services and named something like services.apache.org) so that anyone with appropriate karma could, as an example, create the necessary resources for a newly accepted Podling by submitting one form and this would trigger the creation of mailing lists, repositories all properly mirrored to github, with all necessary workflow notifications enabled, etc. Which today involves multiple steps, sometimes with interdependencies which can cause the Podling creation to take over a week. The other issue that I hear over and over again, is about the way we communicate using subscription-based mailing lists, but I believe the recent changes around https://lists.apache.org should have resolved most of the issues, as long as the hard work from infra team is properly advertised and linked from multiple places. I have added infra and general as bcc to this thread, so others can provide some feedback on the subject, but let's try not to hijack the thread into different mailing lists and keep the discussion at dev@community.apache.org mailing list. -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
Community Outreach - help
Hello, I saw the help wanted for the project below. If you still require volunteers, let me know My name: Samira OuaazMy email: sou...@yahoo.com Regards,SamiraProject: community Created by: rgard...@apache.org Task added: Mon Feb 29 2016 Difficulty: Beginner - This is an easy task that anyone can get started on Task type: Community Outreach "We have an early stage application that pulls content from meetups.com. With each import of new data it will generate a number of false positives. We need people to help review entries and, where necessary mark them as not appropriate. "
Stickers idea
Hi, I'm actually not sure this is the right place to drop this random idea of mine, so feel free to forward/ redirect/ ignore. I remember the poster with our project logos being very helpful at FOSDEM. After receiving stickers with short messages on team leadership principles recently I started wondering if in addition to our feather stickers it might make sense to print some with our core values + the feather. Maybe I'm not the only one who would like to see stuff like "community over code", "what didn't happen on list didn't happen" on laptops in the wild? Iirc we had the community thingy embedded on a larger sticker on the past already. Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
Help wanted: Someone to update meetups page
Despite the dozens of people who have volunteered to help out with the events/meetups pages on the website, nobody has actually done anything yet. I'm going to be charitable, and assume that this is because it's unclear how to do it. I would really like someone to take this task from me. Here's how you do it: 0a) Check out https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/tools 0b) Learn how to use the ASF CMS. Instructions are here: https://cms.apache.org/ (scroll to the bottom) 1) Every Monday morning, or every Friday night, run ./get_meetups in that directory 2) Edit meetups.mdtext and do a sanity check. 'Apache' matches a lot of things that are not the ASF, such as hiking groups in Apache Junction, Arizona, and several drawing and spiritual groups. Delete those lines. 3) Visit the page at http://apache.org/events/meetups.html and click your Apache CMS bookmarklet from step 0b 4) Copy/Paste the contents of meetups.mdtext into the body of that page, replacing all the events from the previous week. Publish that page. These instructions are also in http://www.apache.org/events/README.txt Please let me know if you are going to take over this task. Better yet, someone automate it. THanks. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Request for Panelists and a Moderator - Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
Hi Everyone The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference is planned for 4th â 6th October 2017 in Orlando, Florida More details can be found at the link below: http://ghc.anitaborg.org/calendar/2017-grace-hopper-celebration-women-computing/ Christine Poerschke from Apache Lucene is currently drafting a submission proposal for a one hour open source panel discussion featuring ASF Committers talking about open source and life beyond the getting started stage. This is not intended to be a panel representing the ASF in an official sense, but a panel of individuals talking about their experiences in open source and being at Apache. So we are now urgently looking for volunteers from our ASF project communities. We will need a moderator and 3 or 4 panelists (please note that no two people can be from the same organisation). More details about the requirements can be found at the following link. http://ghc.anitaborg.org/2017-speakers/submission-requirements/ The deadline for submissions is 8th March but we would like to get the submission in earlier (e.g. end of day Monday 6th) to allow for any unexpected last minute problems. Please let me know quickly if you are interested in participating as we are planning to hold a 30 minute call to discuss the submission tomorrow (Wednesday 1st March at 18.00 UK Time) Thanks Sharan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
