Re: Apache in Month of November 2020 (News Video)

[Suresh Marru]

Very nice Videolog, thanks for taking time to start this initiative Swapnil.

Suresh

> On Dec 2, 2020, at 3:10 AM, Swapnil M Mane  wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Hope you are doing well.
> Recently I have experimented with a video on Apache News Roundup.
> Here is what happened this month in Apache.
> 
> https://youtu.be/daud_G6YyV0
> 
> I am also working on more videos and content for spreading Apache and
> open source awareness, I will keep you posted on this.
> More content can be found at the YouTube channel 'Open Source Wave'
> https://s.apache.org/OpenSourceWave
> 
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> Swapnil M Mane,
> www.apache.org
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Re: Does GSoC help develop communities?

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Rich,

Do you prefer to see cumulative statistics or PMC wise? With a small effort, I 
can get detailed statistics from Apache Airavata. GSoC has been great for the 
project and is one of the primary sources to induct fresh blood. We have a 
decent retention rate, students have stayed around, earned committerships, then 
became PMC Members, graduated and moved onto real jobs and still continue to 
contribute (not always by code though). 

Engaging the students and mentoring them takes time, but we have spun it around 
and used it as an opportunity to improve documentation and contribution 
workflow.

Hope  this experience summary helps the discussion, will be happy to elaborate 
and provide specific examples. 

Cheers,
Suresh

> On Dec 5, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> 
> Nobody is suggesting we have a 10 year plan with milestones and
> deliverables. I'm suggesting that when we do something under the heading
> of "community development" we have an obligation to make some attempt to
> measure it to determine if it actually moves us in that direction.
> 
> Nobody is saying that we shouldn't participate in GSoC. I'm suggesting
> that before we promote GSoC to our projects, we should have some numbers
> (we've been doing this for years. surely there's some numbers that we
> could gather her?) that show projects that it's worth their time. Or
> warns them that it might not be.
> 
> I don't care how much time individuals spend on GSoC. I care that we are
> telling projects that it's a worthwhile thing for them to spend *their*
> time on, and we don't appear to have actually taken the time to find out
> of that's true.
> 
> 
> On 12/05/2016 08:59 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Gruno  wrote:
>>> ...The task of ComDev is developing community. If we don't have any data or
>>> interest in acquiring such to show that this is in fact helping towards
>>> that, then we should consider whether the current strategy is the right
>>> thing to focus on
>> 
>> I disagree with the need for comdev to have a strategy.
>> 
>> At the technical level the ASF doesn't have a strategy, it just
>> provides space for its projects to exist and flourish.
>> 
>> I think comdev can operate in the same way, as a loose group of
>> volunteers who collectively help develop communities, without
>> necessarily having a global comdev strategy to follow.
>> 
>> Three examples:
>> 
>> 1) A small group is running GSoC, which as Uli mentions doesn't cost
>> the ASF anything and actually brings some money in. GSoC clearly helps
>> our mission by helping a few community members join the ASF every
>> year. Exactly how many is not very important if volunteers agree to
>> run it.
>> 
>> 2) Sharan and others have started work on diversity initiatives -
>> another subset of folks sharing common interests that match the
>> overall comdev mission.
>> 
>> 3) I led a small group to develop our maturity model, I think it's a
>> very useful tool. I think we made just one change to it in 2016, it's
>> stable but useful and maintained. Others don't care about that or
>> didn't have time to help - no problem.
>> 
>> You could argue that these things are disjoint but they are all small
>> steps that help towards our overall mission. We don't need much
>> coordination between them, IMO just making sure the comdev PMC agrees
>> with these things happening, and doing out best to unify their
>> communications channels to create synergies is good enough.
>> 
>> Comdev can just provide a space for volunteers to help develop
>> communities, that's good enough for me. If others want more structured
>> activities feel free to do them but don't expect all PMC members to
>> necessarily join or to feel bad if they don't.
>> 
>> -Bertrand
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Re: ApacheCon CFP, review committee needed

[Suresh Marru]

I am happy to help, if needed. 

Suresh

> On Feb 13, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> 
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I appear to have dropped the ball on an important aspect of the
> ApacheCon CFP, and your urgent assistance is needed.
> 
> I need a small committee of assistants to help rate the talks and select
> the schedule. Please let me know ASAP if you wish to participate.
> 
> A reminder: We license the ApacheCon brand, and the Apache brand itself,
> to a third party to produce our event. We act as subject matter experts
> for them, but they make all the final decisions. Being on this committee
> does not mean that we are running the event, or even making the decisions.
> 
> Note 2: This committee will be much smaller than last year, so please
> don't be offended if your offer is politely rejected. Having a huge
> content committee caused logistical difficulties in the last few events,
> and LF has requested that we have a smaller number of participants this
> time.
> 
> Note C: LF is putting in place a new CFP system, so we won't be mucking
> about with Google Docs this time, for which I'm sure we're all grateful.
> We will, however, need to learn and work with their new system.
> 
> Thanks to anybody that can help in this effort.
> 
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Re: Want a Mentor

[Suresh Marru]

For students with JavaFX experience, in Apache Airavata projects we intend to 
have some GSOC projects on this topics. It will involve porting existing Java 
Swing based application to JavaFX. Hop by the dev list 
(d...@airavata.apache.org ). Ofcourse you want 
to subscribe first to make sure you get replies. 

Suresh

> On Jan 15, 2016, at 4:35 AM, Chema Polo  wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> I have experience with Java Swing and JavaFX and this project looks very
> interesting.
> 
> Can I help in the project as well?
> 
> Thanks in advance and kind regards
> 
> Chema
> 
> 2016-01-14 21:37 GMT+01:00 Roger Whitcomb :
> 
>> Hi Kapil,
>>I just wanted to reach out to see if you might be interested in the
>> Apache Pivot project (http://pivot.apache.org)?  This is written in Java,
>> and is an alternative to Java Swing, JavaFX and/or SWT as a way to build
>> rich Java GUI applications.
>>We (as the Pivot PMC) haven't really setup any formal projects for
>> mentees yet, but I know of a lot of things that could be done, if you are
>> at all interested.
>> 
>> Let us know,
>> ~Roger Whitcomb
>> Apache Pivot PMC Chair
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/14/16 11:59 AM, Kapil Jain wrote:
>> 
>>> Still struggling to find a project and take my first step. Looking for
>>> mentor who can just help me in getting started.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Kapil Jain 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can someone please help me in finding out a suitable project where I can
 contribute? I'm more interested in Hadoop and Java. But can work on
 another
 project and/ or language.
 
 
 
 
 On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Ross Gardler <
 ross.gard...@microsoft.com
 
> wrote:
> Welcome.
> 
> Please see details of the process at
> http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html
> 
> It should be noted that 95% of the work is on your side. Success in open
> source is about self motivation and self management. The other 5% is
> about
> asking for help when you hit a barrier. The above link should provide
> enough info to get you started.
> 
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> 
> From: Kapil Jain
> Sent: ‎1/‎11/‎2016 8:24 AM
> To: dev@community.apache.org
> Subject: Want a Mentor
> 
> I would like to join apache mentorship programme and want to contribute
> to
> Apache Hadoop project.
> 
> I have Java skills required for the project.
> 
> I'm unable to figure out how to contribute. Please assist.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kapil
> 
> 
 
>> 

Re: Seeking Help

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Dnyaneshwar,

As John and Alangi have pointed, your first step is to email airavata dev
list at dev at airavata.apache.org and then find some starter tasks to
contribute as described in the get involved document.

Suresh

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:07 AM John D. Ament  wrote:

> Dnyaneshwar,
>
> You should probably reach out directly to the Apache Airavata project.
> They have a pretty good Getting Involved and Mailing List section.
>
> https://airavata.apache.org/community/get-involved.html
>
> https://airavata.apache.org/community/mailing-lists.html
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM dnyaneshwar shendurwadkar <
> dny...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Respected Sir,
> >   I am 2nd year computer science engineering student from Indian
> > Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna.I would like to contribute to Apache
> > AIravata project.As I am new on this project what I suppose to do first.
> >
> >
> > Thanking You,
> >
> > Dnyaneshwar Shendurwadkar
> >
>

Re: Hosting Searchable Release Specific Documentation

[Suresh Marru]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:18 PM Dave Cottlehuber  wrote:

> > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Suresh Marru  wro
> > > > Can I get some advice on how projects deal with hosting release
> specific
> > > > documentation? In addition to the CMS and Wiki, I am exploring
> > alternatives
> > > > which have a good search built-in. I preciously came across ASF
> projects
> > > > hosting documentation on read the docs [1] and floss manuals [2]
> (sorry
>
>
> hi Suresh
>
> For Apache CouchDB, we use sphinx & also readthedocs to generate
> content, from .rst files, included in the source code itself up until
> 2.0, which uses a separate repo as the source code now is built from a
> set of smaller code modules.
>
> Either way, they are processed & bundled into the source tarball at
> release creation time and, directly available from the couchdb instance
> itself when it's installed - a nice feature as the right version of docs
> is always to hand.
>
> sphinx provides searchtools.js which knows how to use the inverted index
> generated during build time. This works pretty well in my experience.
>
> readthedocs.org is awesome and I suspect a number of projects could
> benefit from a similar sort of toolchain. It just adds the new version's
> docs alongside the old ones with a toggle switch in the top corner to
> switch version, every time we push a new release out. I forget the exact
> mechanism, but IIRC its a new signed tag in the main repo.
>

Thank you Dave, I will follow closely couchdb release procedure document[1]
to find the mechanics. I will appreciate, If you happen to find a quick
reference on how and when the documents are published to readthedocs.org.

Thanks,
Suresh
[1] - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Release+Procedure


>
> A+
> Dave
>
>

Hosting Searchable Release Specific Documentation

[Suresh Marru]

Hi All,

Can I get some advice on how projects deal with hosting release specific 
documentation? In addition to the CMS and Wiki, I am exploring alternatives 
which have a good search built-in. I preciously came across ASF projects 
hosting documentation on read the docs [1] and floss manuals [2] (sorry I could 
not trace all the links of projects using them, but [3] and [4] are examples). 
I read the thread on github pages [5], but it did not have a conclusive end. 

I am looking for something immediate, any suggestions please? It will be great 
if there is a precedence so we could just refer or even better plagiarize the 
scripts or approaches.

Thanks,
Suresh

[1] - https://readthedocs.org/ 
[2] - http://en.flossmanuals.net/  
[3] - https://readthedocs.org/projects/cloudstack-administration/ 

[4] - https://readthedocs.org/projects/trafficserver/ 

[5] - http://markmail.org/thread/bmbi65q7zdiej6dj 

Re: Guidelines for Project Websites

[Suresh Marru]

Sharan,

Probably you are looking for - http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html 
 

Cheers,
Suresh

> On May 26, 2015, at 7:11 AM, Sharan Foga  wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> We are looking at updating our project website. Before starting any major 
> re-design I wanted to check if there are there any Apache guidelines that we 
> need to adhere to? (I'm thinking especially about where any ASF related 
> information needs to located).
> 
> Thanks
> Sharan

Re: [ApacheCon] Scheduling help, pass 2

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Rich,

I was confused about waitlisted talks, if there are talks which can of 
potential interest, I also prefer to give that a go first. But frankly I could 
not find any wait listed science talks (but I might have not looked at correct 
place).

Regarding this talk, the connection to ApacheCon is it is a downstream usage of 
Apache Airavata. I feel this will be interest to the rest of the Science Track 
presenters and attendees. The speaker to think, his general purpose application 
framework is applicable beyond science usage, but I myself have not spent time 
to gauge those aspects. 

Suresh
P.S. My interactions with the presenter also included him planning to bring 
this talk to Apache (either as  stand alone incubator or merge into Airavata). 
But I did not see those as a qualifier for the talk hence did not discuss them.


> On Mar 17, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> 
> Sorry, Suresh, I dropped this thread entirely last week.
> 
> We would, of course, want to take waitlisted talks from the CFP first before 
> we go out to solicit other talks.
> 
> From the abstract you share here - it's unclear to me how this talk fits at 
> ApacheCon - not that we're completely uninterested in external projects, but 
> if there's a connection, that would give it more weight. Can you elaborate on 
> that?
> 
> --Rich
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/13/2015 10:27 AM, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> On Mar 11, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Craig has mentioned me that we have several slots that have opened up due 
>>> to cancellations.
>>> 
>>> Looks to me that we have two in Science, one in "Big Data; Big Picture", 
>>> two in "Content". and one in “Mobile"
>> 
>> Hi Rich,
>> 
>> Are you still looking to fill the two science talks? I have reached out to 
>> academic colleagues in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston area to consider 
>> attending the conference. One of them expressed interest to give a talk. 
>> This might appeal to the science track attendees. Here are the details for 
>> consideration:
>> 
>> Abstract:
>> This talk will discuss the GenApp framework, a new open framework generating 
>> code on a set of scientific modules that is easily extensible to new 
>> environments.  For example, one can take a set of module definitions and 
>> generate a complete HTML5/PHP science gateway and a Qt4/GUI application on 
>> the identical set of modules.  If a new technology comes along, the 
>> framework can easily be extended to new “target languages” by including 
>> appropriate code fragments without effecting the underlying modules. One 
>> motivation for the development was based upon observation of the life cycle 
>> of scientific lab generated code, which frequently is underfunded and 
>> developed by overburdened researchers.  Many times useful code and routines 
>> are lost with the retirement or redirected interest of the scientists.  One 
>> goal for this framework is to insure good scientific software be preserved 
>> in an ever evolving software landscape without the expense of a full time CS 
>> staff.  This framework is currently
> being used to wrap scientific code performing small angle scattering 
> computations, but is not restricted to any one discipline.  A successful GSoC 
> 2014 project integrated GenApp with Apache Airavata for execution of modules 
> on variously managed cluster resources in the HTML5/PHP, Qt3/GUI and Qt4/GUI 
> “target languages”.   In this presentation, Emre Brookes will explain the 
> framework, demonstrate its application and discuss his plans for growing the 
> community.
>> 
>> Bio:
>> Emre is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the 
>> University of Texas Health Science Center at San Ant   To provide the 
>> scientific community access to these methods, he created the first UltraScan 
>> Science Gateway, which has since migrated to Apache Airavata.  These methods 
>> annually use millions of cpu hours of parallel resources supporting 
>> scientific research world wide.  His work concentrates on developing tools 
>> for analysis of scientific experimental data.  He is the primary developer 
>> of the US-SOMO hydrodynamic modeling suite http://somo.uthscsa.edu and is 
>> actively involved with the hydrodynamic modeling, small-angle scattering and 
>> high-performance computational communities. He has given over 30 talks at 
>> conferences in these areas and has, as of this writing, contributed to 29 
>> peer reviewed publications.  His most recent work, GenApp, focuses on 
>> developing an open framework to ease deployment of new and legacy 

Re: [ApacheCon] Scheduling help, pass 2

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 11, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> 
> Craig has mentioned me that we have several slots that have opened up due to 
> cancellations.
> 
> Looks to me that we have two in Science, one in "Big Data; Big Picture", two 
> in "Content". and one in “Mobile"

Hi Rich,

Are you still looking to fill the two science talks? I have reached out to 
academic colleagues in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston area to consider 
attending the conference. One of them expressed interest to give a talk. This 
might appeal to the science track attendees. Here are the details for 
consideration:

Abstract:
This talk will discuss the GenApp framework, a new open framework generating 
code on a set of scientific modules that is easily extensible to new 
environments.  For example, one can take a set of module definitions and 
generate a complete HTML5/PHP science gateway and a Qt4/GUI application on the 
identical set of modules.  If a new technology comes along, the framework can 
easily be extended to new “target languages” by including appropriate code 
fragments without effecting the underlying modules. One motivation for the 
development was based upon observation of the life cycle of scientific lab 
generated code, which frequently is underfunded and developed by overburdened 
researchers.  Many times useful code and routines are lost with the retirement 
or redirected interest of the scientists.  One goal for this framework is to 
insure good scientific software be preserved in an ever evolving software 
landscape without the expense of a full time CS staff.  This framework is 
currently being used to wrap scientific code performing small angle scattering 
computations, but is not restricted to any one discipline.  A successful GSoC 
2014 project integrated GenApp with Apache Airavata for execution of modules on 
variously managed cluster resources in the HTML5/PHP, Qt3/GUI and Qt4/GUI 
“target languages”.   In this presentation, Emre Brookes will explain the 
framework, demonstrate its application and discuss his plans for growing the 
community.  

Bio:
Emre is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the 
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Ant   To provide the 
scientific community access to these methods, he created the first UltraScan 
Science Gateway, which has since migrated to Apache Airavata.  These methods 
annually use millions of cpu hours of parallel resources supporting scientific 
research world wide.  His work concentrates on developing tools for analysis of 
scientific experimental data.  He is the primary developer of the US-SOMO 
hydrodynamic modeling suite http://somo.uthscsa.edu and is actively involved 
with the hydrodynamic modeling, small-angle scattering and high-performance 
computational communities. He has given over 30 talks at conferences in these 
areas and has, as of this writing, contributed to 29 peer reviewed 
publications.  His most recent work, GenApp, focuses on developing an open 
framework to ease deployment of new and legacy scientific codes.

Let me know if this if of interest and I can follow up.

Suresh

> 
> If you have any insight into any of these areas, please let me know what 
> talk(s) you think we should swap in for those missing talks. Just get in 
> touch with me and I'll send you what remains of the track, so that you know 
> what we're working with.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Rich
> 
> -- 
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> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Sally,

I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and 
should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and 
also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f 
 

Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I 
will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts. 

Suresh

> On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:
> 
> Perfect, thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 2015-03-12 18:57, Sally Khudairi wrote:
>> Got it. OK.
>> 
>> Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that 
>> work for you?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Sally
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *From:* Ulrich Stärk 
>> *To:* Sally Khudairi ; "pr...@apache.org" 
>> *Cc:* "dev@community.apache.org" 
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
>> *Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of 
>> Code 2015
>> 
>> Hi Sally,
>> 
>> yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.
>> 
>> I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross 
>> will. There's nothing
>> planned at the moment.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Uli
>> 
>> On 2015-03-12 18:42, Sally Khudairi wrote:
>>> Thanks, Uli.
>>> 
>>> I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
>>> 
>>> Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
>>> 
>>> Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something 
>>> special there?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sally
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *From:* Ulrich Stärk mailto:u...@spielviel.de> 
>>> >>
>>> *To:* "pr...@apache.org  >> >" mailto:pr...@apache.org> 
>>> >>;
>> Sally Khudairi mailto:s...@apache.org> 
>> >>
>>> *Cc:* "dev@community.apache.org  
>>> >" 
>>> mailto:dev@community.apache.org>
>> >>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
>>> *Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer 
>>> of Code 2015
>>> 
>>> And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to 
>>> get an announcement out
>>> this year.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Uli
>>> 
>>> On 2013-04-09 14:11, Ulrich Stärk wrote:
 Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It 
 would be cool if we could
 get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
 
 Uli
 
  Original Message 
 Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization 
 for Google Summer of Code
>>> 2012
 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
 From: Ulrich Stärk mailto:u...@spielviel.de> 
 > 
 
>>  >  >>
 CC: dev@community.apache.org  
 > 
 
>> >>
 
 Hey Sally & Co.,
 
 this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC 
 endeavours. Yesterday, we have
 been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 
 [1],[2]. This means that
 over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by 
 Google and will be
 working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code 
 written but also to
 introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some 
 new long-term committers.
 More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now 
 encouraged to discuss ideas
 with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive 
 list of already existing
 project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from 
 March 16 until March 27,
>>> coding
 will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed 
 timeline.
 
 Can you please run any press release past us (dev@community.apache.org 
 
>> 

Re: [VOTE] Replace projects.apache.org with projects-new.apache.org

[Suresh Marru]

+ 1.

Suresh

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> 
> I'd like for us to go ahead and replace projects.apache.org with 
> projects-new.apache.org. It now has all the functionality that projects.a.o 
> has, and much more, and there's no reason to have two sites up. If you object 
> to moving forward with this, please say so.
> 
> [ ] +1, do it
> [ ] +0, whatevs
> [ ] -1, No (and say why, so we can address the problem)
> 
> --Rich
> 
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Re: ApacheCon Schedule spreadsheet

[Suresh Marru]

Here is the schedule link - 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/schedule
 

 or the direct sched link - http://apacheconna2015.sched.org 


Suresh


> On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:39 AM, jan i  wrote:
> 
> I thought the spreadsheet was now "dead" and we use the LF scheduler ?
> 
> rgds
> jan i
> 
> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Roman Shaposhnik  >
> wrote:
> 
>> Ditto here ;-)
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Alexander Bezzubov > 
>> > wrote:
>>> Hi Rich,
>>> 
>>> may I request an access to the schedule spreadsheet please?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> BR,
>>> Alexander
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Henry Saputra >> 
>> >
>>> wrote:
>>> 
 HI Rich,
 
 Could I request access to the schedule spreadsheet please?
 
 Thanks,
 
 
 - Henry
 
 On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Rich Bowen > > wrote:
> 
 
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k6Fbr7ijMs2PJunN9lhsjq7NjnSXRCVXTJHAHRqWshc/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> This is read-only because it's not the authoritative source, but is a
 copy.
> There's some overlap between Content and Science. There's also some
 overlap
> in the Community track.
> 
> Please send comments here. Note that we're supposed to notify speakers
> yesterday.
> 
> --Rich
> 
> --
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com  - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.

Re: ApacheCon Schedule

[Suresh Marru]

On Feb 24, 2015, at 4:00 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> On 02/24/2015 03:44 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>> Just a quick FYI: It looks like the acceptance emails are
>> going out but it does not mention which talk(s) was
>> accepted. Kinda hard if you've submitted several talks. :)

I have the same question as I am in the same situation (as probably many others 
on this list). 

>> 
> 
> Which leads to a very important question: What was the reply-to set to on 
> that? (Hopefully not me!)

Reply to is set to ccr at linuxfoundation.org , so 
you are spared by Craig Ross :) 

Suresh

> 
> --Rich
> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon

Re: [APACHECON] Proposed Science and Healthcare Track

[Suresh Marru]

Thanks Lewis for volunteering to be the science track chair and pulling 
together the talks. It looks great. 

Suresh

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rich and Folks,
> 
> Here is version 2 which is more comprehensive.
> Again, one of my own presentations is in here I want to make that clear to
> people.
> Thank you
> 
> Day 1 - Science
> Getting Started with Apache OODT, Tom Barber
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4150
> 
> Applying Apache Hadoop to NASA’s Big Climate Data, Glenn Tamkin
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4145
> 
> 
> Apache Tika: Cool insights into Polar Data, Annie Burgess
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4131
> 
> 
> Streaming-OODT: Combining Apache Spark's Power with Apache OODT, Michael
> Starch
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4100
> 
> 
> Exploring Apache Tika's Translate API to Enable Linguistic Analysis of
> Scientific Metadata through Internationalizing NASA JPL’s Physical
> Oceanographic Data Active Archive Centre, Lewis John McGibbney
> 
> 
> Content extraction from images and video in Tika, Chris Mattmann
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4244
> 
> Day 2 - Science and Healthcare
> * Apache Airavata overview and roadmap, Suresh Marru
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4287
> 
> Programming Math in Java - Lessons from Apache Commons Math, Phil Steitz
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4231
> 
> 
> Userfriendly workflows with Apache OODT, Tom Barber
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4149
> 
> 
> Pharmacovigilance - Big Data for RealTime Drug Monitoring, Pei Chen
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4081
> 
> Redefining ETL pipelines with Apache technologies to accelerate
> decision-making and execution for clinical trials, Eran Withana
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4195
> 
> Linked Biomedical Dataspace: Extending Apache Jena to Federate Large Scale
> Open Data Repositories, Claude N. Warren, Jr.
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/3994
> 
> Day 3 - Science
> 
> Development of IBM Watson with UIMA DUCC, Eddie Epstein
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4199
> 
> 
> IPython Notebook and Apache Spark as a Unified Data Science Interface for
> Hadoop, Casey Stella
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4155
> 
> 
> Apache UIMA BoFs, Marshall Schor
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4197
> 
> 
> The Emergence of the Datacenter Developer, Kiersten Gaffney
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4185
> 
> 
> Filtering Twitter with UIMA, Daniel Gruhl
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4166
> 
> Internet of Things, Justin McLean
> 
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/4191

Re: Apachecon US 2015 Texas

[Suresh Marru]

On Sep 18, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Pierre Smits  wrote:

> Hi Rich, All,
> 
> Is a timetable/ list of milestone dates available regarding the event,
> stating when papers need to be submitted, reviewed, etc.?

Hi Pierre,

I am not sure if Rich has thought through the full time table yet, but the data 
when papers needs to be submitted is February 1st as listed on the CFP - 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp

Suresh

> 
> Best regards,
> Pierre Smits
> 
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> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
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Re: GSoC Mentors - need a volunteer to speak w/Cat Allman from Google

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Melissa,

I am available at that time and will be happy to share some success stories. I 
have tried two three approaches in betters engaging students and ways to 
attract them to contribute beyond GSoC. I will be happy discuss all these 
experiences.

Thanks,
Suresh

On Jun 25, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Melissa Warnkin  
wrote:

> GSoC Community:
> 
> Are there any GSoC mentors available next Wednesday at 9:30AM Pacific to jump 
> on a call with Upayavira, Ross, myself and Cat Allman from Google? She would 
> like to talk to past Apache GSoC mentors about their projects and experiences 
> with the GSoC program.
> 
> Having the opportunity of providing your experience to the folks responsible 
> for this program at Google is a great way of showing them the impact their 
> sponsorship of GSoC has on the students!!
> 
> Please let me know who is available to share with us your success stories, 
> and I will have Cat forward the call information.
> 
> Thank you so much
> 
> 
> ~Melissa

Re: Introduction: students want to learn about Apache

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Noirin & Shauna,

Just a comment. I gave a brief talk on the career panel at the open hatch event 
in Indiana University, Bloomington and the whole event was indeed fascinating. 
I will not be able to help with any of these upcoming events in person, but 
will be happy to help as needed remotely.  

Suresh

On Apr 9, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Nóirín Plunkett  wrote:

> Community Project,
> 
> Let me introduce Shauna, from Openhatch.org.
> 
> She sets up events for college students who are interested in open source.
> Her next batch of kids, at George Mason University (April 19th -
> http://hackmason.org/openhatch/), is interested in Apache--would anyone be
> available to go and talk with them? Alternatively, would anyone be
> available to participate remotely/via video call? (I've known Openhatch for
> several years now, and can strongly vouch for their awesome bona fides.)
> 
> Openhatch also have events coming up in Boston (April 26th and 27th),
> Chicago (April 26th), Salinas (May 3rd) and elsewhere, where Apache people
> would be very welcome to get involved.
> 
> There are a few main ways to be involved as a mentor.  For people who are
> local to an event, they are very welcome to come and mentor throughout the
> day.  This usually means answering questions, sometimes presenting
> activities, and helping students contribute to projects.  The last part of
> the day involves a period of 1-3 hours where students begin to make
> contributions to open source projects.  If people feel there are specific
> projects they know well--particularly projects you're a committer for--you
> can help students contribute to those projects specifically.
> 
> To be a "project lead" one does not have to be there in person--you can do
> this remotely by being paired with a local mentor.  It's also important to
> note that mentors don't have to be programmers, and contributions are not
> just code contributions.  Any kind of open source contribution is welcome,
> as are any kind of contributor.  :)
> 
> Lastly, it's also possible to be part of their "remote career panels".
> When Openhatch don't have enough people to do an in-person career panel,
> they get open source professionals from around the country to join in on a
> video call where students ask questions like, "How do people make money off
> of open source?"  "Was it hard to find a job working on free/open source
> software?" and others.
> 
> Questions are probably best directed to Shauna herself--I'm just the
> conduit :-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Noirin

Re: Miscellaneous sessions that still need labels

[Suresh Marru]

Second one might better fit with Architecture track if there is room.

Suresh

On Mar 17, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> I could use some help on these. Can someone suggest what tags/labels/tracks 
> should be associated with the first three of these? (I can guess the fourth 
> one.)
> 
> --Rich
> 
> 
>  Original Message 
> Subject:  Miscellaneous sessions that still need labels
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:54:01 -0700
> From: Angela Brown 
> To:   Rich Bowen 
> 
> 
> 
> Hey Rich,
> 
> These sessions need to be labeled - ideas on what track label they should go 
> under? Thanks!
> 
> Osmosis - a PDF Conversion Tool using Apache PDFBox and Apache POI 
> 
> *
> *
> RESTless API Design with Apache Thrift: Experiences from Rearchitecting 
> Apache Airavata 
> 
> 
> Using Apache Commons SCXML 2.0: a general-purpose and standards based state 
> machine engine 
> 
> 
> Creating Hybrid Apps with Sencha Touch and Apache Cordova 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Angela Brown
> Director of Events
> The Linux Foundation
> 660 York Street, Suite 102
> San Francisco, CA 94110
> T: +1.415.368.4840
> E: ang...@linuxfoundation.org 
> W: linuxfoundation.org  and 
> events.linuxfoundation.org 
> 
> Check out the Linux Foundation Event Experience - http://youtu.be/-WUeelICQ2U
> 
> 

Re: Help finding missing talk

[Suresh Marru]

On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> 
> On 02/19/2014 03:12 PM, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> Hi Rich et al,
>> 
>> As we briefly discussed on IRC, I see this talk[1] on Thrift use case from 
>> Airavata got lost in Big Data track. I reached out to thrift PMC for 
>> alternative thrift talks and Jake Farrell volunteered to co-presnet if this 
>> RESTless talk is selected (making it more general with Airavata as one of 
>> the use case). Since there is vacant slot in track 10 on day 1, can we have 
>> it there? It seems to be reviewed by 7 reviewers with decent rating.
> 
> I need to start by giving my canned response that I'm giving to everyone:
> 
> We had 250 talk submissions. We had 162 talks, which we then expanded to 168 
> to fit in yet more content. Even then, we had to eliminate 80 talks, many 
> (most) of which were worthy of running if we had had more space.
> 
> I'm very reluctant to open the floor to lobbying for individual talks, 
> because that way lies madness, hurt feelings, and resentment.
> 
> Having said that, you mention that we have an open slot.
> 
> We expanded Monday into a tenth track to accommodate the Fast Feather Track. 
> We  put two additional talks there because 1) the speakers were already going 
> to be at the conference and, 2) because of my miscommunication with Angela we 
> sent acceptance notices to them when they were already marked as rejected.
> 
> We are already receiving cancel notices from folks whose plans have changed 
> since the CFP and are not able to attend, and if we don't need the tenth 
> room, we will slim back down to 9.
> 
> So, with that context, I'll say that I'm willing to have this conversation on 
> this list, but I wanted to be completely up front about my extreme reluctance 
> and the reasons for it.
> 
> Discuss amongst yourselves.

With no further comments on this thread, any objections to schedule this talk?

Suresh

> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
> 

Re: Help finding missing talk

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Rich et al,

As we briefly discussed on IRC, I see this talk[1] on Thrift use case from 
Airavata got lost in Big Data track. I reached out to thrift PMC for 
alternative thrift talks and Jake Farrell volunteered to co-presnet if this 
RESTless talk is selected (making it more general with Airavata as one of the 
use case). Since there is vacant slot in track 10 on day 1, can we have it 
there? It seems to be reviewed by 7 reviewers with decent rating. 

Cheers,
Suresh

[1] - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/1736

On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Suresh Marru  wrote:

> On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:15 PM, jan i  wrote:
> 
>> On 14 February 2014 21:09, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>> 
>>> I was looking over the tasks I reviewed. It was at one point in
>>> Architecture track, not sure where it was moved to. Any help tracking in
>>> tracking it down:
>>> 
>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/proposals/1736
>>> 
>> 
>> its in hadop/big data line 35  in the big spreadsheet. And that track is
>> not scheduled at the moment.
>> 
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aii-SgCdw8ptdDczdGxtRVl3X1hVbGtxWDF0WU5Hanc#gid=8
> 
> Thanks Jan, now I see it and it explains. 
> 
> Suresh
> 
>> 
>> rgds
>> jan I.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Suresh
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 

Re: Helping with the CFP

[Suresh Marru]

Well the easy fix is to lock down the permissions on the doc and all of us who 
volunteeredcan request access directly on the doc. Explicit permissions on the 
docs might help you figure out who is suggesting what changes instead of 
Anonymous user7.

Suresh

On Feb 6, 2014, at 12:06 AM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> Oh for the love of god.
> 
> Well,  I hasn't indended to post the url to a publicly archived mailing
> list,  but there it is.
> 
> Thats what happens when I answer email on my phone on the way to the train
> station
> 
> Bah.
> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen, mobile edition
> rbo...@rcbowen.com
> On Feb 6, 2014 6:04 AM, "Rich Bowen"  wrote:
> 
>> Http://tm3.org/cfpreview
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Rich Bowen, mobile edition
>> rbo...@rcbowen.com
>> On Feb 6, 2014 12:55 AM, "Jan Willem Janssen" <
>> janwillem.jans...@luminis.eu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Rich,
>>> I'm also willing to help you selecting tracks/categorising talks.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>>  Jan Willem
>>> 
>>> Rich Bowen  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If you'd like to help with the CFP process (in addition to, or instead
>>> of, reviewing talks) one thing you can do is help me to categorize talks
>>> by track. I have roughly 100 talks that I'm not sure where they go.
>>> 
>>> If you'd be able to help, please let me know, and I'll give you the URL
>>> of the Google doc - I don't want to post it in a publicly archived place
>>> because it's world-writeable.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
>>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
>>> 
>>> 

Re: Helping with the CFP

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Rich,

I will be glad to help with tracks. Please email me the link, or share the 
google doc to sureshmarru at gmail dot com

Suresh

On Feb 5, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> If you'd like to help with the CFP process (in addition to, or instead of, 
> reviewing talks) one thing you can do is help me to categorize talks by 
> track. I have roughly 100 talks that I'm not sure where they go.
> 
> If you'd be able to help, please let me know, and I'll give you the URL of 
> the Google doc - I don't want to post it in a publicly archived place because 
> it's world-writeable.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
> 

Keynote suggestion: NIST Big Data Working Group

[Suresh Marru]

Hi All,

I have solicited an abstract from Prof. Geoffrey Fox [1] at Indiana University 
for keynote ideas at ACNA 14. Here is an idea:

-
Topic: Implications of the NIST Big Data Working Group  Apache Big Data 
Software Stack

Over the last six months, the Big Data public working group 
http://bigdatawg.nist.gov/home.php  set up by NIST has collected 60 different 
from use cases; 51 general and 9 aimed at security and privacy. It also 
developed a reference architecture, taxonomy and roadmap. The general 
applications all include a summary of current software and analytics and future 
directions. We divide these applications by the nature of their data and their 
computational model deriving patterns that are compared with the NIST reference 
architecture and the capabilities of the current Apache Big Data projects. We 
suggest taking the patterns ("generic applications") and providing 
implementations - using the Apache stack as much as possible -- that can be 
used to test both performance and features of the Apache stack and the 
effectiveness of the NIST reference architecture. We propose building these 
patterns on FutureGrid and discuss this with some very early results.
---

I think Prof. Fox will draw good audiences and his broader perspectives on 
technology trends related to ASF projects will be interesting to the ACNA 
audience. His MOOC’s are also popular [2] and might be relevant topic to touch 
upon as well. 

Suresh
[1] - http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/fox-geoffrey-charles.shtml
[2] - 
http://www.soic.indiana.edu/discover/news-events/news/2014/fox-mooc-named-in-10-moocs-for-techies-by-computerworld.shtml

Re: GSoC @ApacheCon

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Lewis,

Great idea. I can help out connecting to local universities. 

Suresh

On Jan 18, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney  
wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> Title says it all.
> Are we up for having a workshop... of sorts?
> I don't think we made the most of hooking up with Universities/colleges
> when we were in Portland... lets not make that mistake again.
> Best
> Lewis
> 
> -- 
> *Lewis*

Re: Content Committee, ApacheCon 2014

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Rich,

I will volunteer to help out on behalf of Airavata PMC.

Thanks for pulling this all together. Denver in April should be fun.

Suresh

On Dec 12, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> Dear PMCs,
> 
> In the coming days, we'll be hearing more about ApacheCon 2014, and what we 
> need to do to make it happen.
> 
> This time around, we, the folks at the ASF, will be responsible for selecting 
> content, while the conference producer will be responsible for *EVERYTHING* 
> else.
> 
> Content selection is no small task, and I need help. While there are several 
> people who have already volunteered to be part of a content selection 
> committee, I'd also like to ask each PMC which wants to be represented in the 
> selection process to volunteer one person to represent them in this task.
> 
> We'll be using the RFP infrastructure supplied by the producer so all you'd 
> be on the hook for is being willing to review a list of talk proposals 
> specific to your project, and voting for/against them in some method which 
> that RFP process provides. Final schedule construction falls to the producer, 
> and, I suppose, to me.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen
> rbo...@rcbowen.com
> http://rcbowen.com/
> 

Re: Tomcat server and web.xml

[Suresh Marru]

Hello Vivek,

You should ask this question on tomcat project mailing lists to get the right 
attention - http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html

Suresh

On Jun 27, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Vivek Tailang  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible that we can replace the web.xml with annotation with making 
> some changes in tomcat server core product?
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Vivek Tailang
> 
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Re: DRAFT: Board meeting reminder

[Suresh Marru]

On Jun 11, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Ross Gardler  wrote:

> I've always got something to say ;-)

Not always, but many a times they save others to say the something, like now :) 

Thanks Rich for the draft, very nice. I had two suggestions on meeting 
recurring and adding to guest list, Ross commented on both of them.

Suresh

> Comments in the doc - include, adapt or ignore at your pleasure.
> 
> Thanks Rich,
> Ross
> 
> On 11 June 2013 19:17, Rich Bowen  wrote:
>> As promised, I'm planning to send a reminder to members@ regarding the
>> upcoming board meeting. I thought I'd run the draft past this list to ensure
>> that 1) it's accurate and 2) that there's nothing that anyone else feels we
>> should add to this, in the interests of avoiding 12 follow-ups to clarify,
>> correct, amend, etc.
>> 
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hHSexhbgSgwg4dow8XgXZFidd4F-FoQEJ5xySSDxYhg/edit?usp=sharing
>> 
>> Please make comments either directly on the document, or in reply to this
>> message. I'd like to send the reminder by Friday, unless folks think that
>> Monday makes more sense.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Rich Bowen
>> rbo...@rcbowen.com
>> Shosholoza
>> 

Re: Adding to JIRA

[Suresh Marru]

Sigh!! address completions. 

Thanks for catching it Noah and sorry for the spam. 
Suresh

On Jun 9, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Noah Slater  wrote:

> I think you sent this to the wrong list. Perhaps send it to the Climate
> list.
> 
> 
> On 9 June 2013 13:50, Suresh Marru  wrote:
> 
>> Climate JIRA admins,
>> 
>> Can you please add me to JIRA developers, I am unable to assign tickets to
>> myself and close them.
>> 
>> My JIRA user name is smarru.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Suresh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> NS

Adding to JIRA

[Suresh Marru]

Climate JIRA admins,

Can you please add me to JIRA developers, I am unable to assign tickets to 
myself and close them.

My JIRA user name is smarru.

Thanks,
Suresh

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mentoring related mailing lists

[Suresh Marru]

I echo the same. Both are very good ideas. 

Suresh

On Jun 8, 2013, at 1:15 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (398J)" 
 wrote:

> +1 to rename code-awards@a.o to mentors@a.o -- seems to be
> mentor traffic always.
> 
> +1 to students@a.o
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> ++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Senior Computer Scientist
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
> Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov
> WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
> ++
> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
> ++
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Luciano Resende 
> Reply-To: "dev@community.apache.org" 
> Date: Saturday, June 8, 2013 10:14 AM
> To: Apache ComDev 
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Mentoring related mailing lists
> 
>> With the pilot mentor programme that we are starting, I was thinking on
>> creating a new mailing lists for the students (e.g students@c.a.o) where
>> they would discuss general questions and/or issues related to the
>> mentoring
>> program. I have thought about just using dev@c.a.o  for this, but based on
>> the GSoC mailing lists experience, I'm a bit afraid to just flood the list
>> with general questions which then might drive the other users away.
>> 
>> Also, a minor thing, but does it also make sense to rename code-awards to
>> mentors@c.a.o ?
>> 
>> 
>> Thoughts ?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Luciano Resende
>> http://people.apache.org/~lresende
>> http://twitter.com/lresende1975
>> http://lresende.blogspot.com/
> 

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Pilot mentoring programme with India ICFOSS

[Suresh Marru]

On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Luciano Resende  wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Luciano Resende wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Luciano,
>>> 
>>> Looks like the JIRA filter [1] did not get created or is private - here
>>> is the error message - "The requested filter doesn't exist or is private."
>>> 
>>> Suresh
>>> 
>>> [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12324056
>>> 
>>> 
>> Looks like my jira filter is not public, working on that.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Should be fixed now.

Thanks Luciano for the quick fix. I now see the project ideas. 

Looks like the filter includes the current GSOC projects which are already 
underway. Which may be OK, just thinking loud how this will work.

Suresh


> 
> 
> -- 
> Luciano Resende
> http://people.apache.org/~lresende
> http://twitter.com/lresende1975
> http://lresende.blogspot.com/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Pilot mentoring programme with India ICFOSS

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Luciano,

Looks like the JIRA filter [1] did not get created or is private - here is the 
error message - "The requested filter doesn't exist or is private."

Suresh 

[1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12324056

On Jun 7, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Luciano Resende  wrote:

> The ASF has been participating in many mentoring initiatives, and it's now
> partening in a pilot project with India ICFOSS to provide mentoring for
> undergraduated and graduated students that have interest in learning how to
> participate in open source communitites at ASF.
> 
> Initial details about the programme are available on the Community
> Development website [1]. Additional information about proposing project
> ideas, and other logistics details will be sent to Apache Project PMC lists
> soon.
> 
> [1] http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme-icfoss-pilot.html
> 
> -- 
> Luciano Resende
> http://people.apache.org/~lresende
> http://twitter.com/lresende1975
> http://lresende.blogspot.com/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Suresh Marru as new Community Development PMC member

[Suresh Marru]

Thank you Luciano, Piergiorgio, Chris and Bertrand for the warm welcome. 

Glad to hang out here, looking forward to provide some concrete contributions,
Suresh

On May 6, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz  wrote:

> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Luciano Resende  wrote:
>> Please join me in welcoming Suresh Marru to the Community Development PMC.
> 
> Welcome Suresh and thanks for your contributions!
> -Bertrand

Re: t...@apache.org ?

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Bertrand,

This is a great idea + 1.

Infact a useful exchange of ideas of will be on release versioning and audit of 
stability. To be precise, when should we call a software 1.0, the PMC can 
decide itself, but can it solicit feedback from other projects which went this 
route and have them spend an hour or two providing feedback? Other than apache 
con, there are scant technical venues where projects share knowledge, 
experience and some tricks of the trade. I am not saying a new mailing list 
will address any of these, but could booster some discussions. 

Thanks,
Suresh

On May 7, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We don't seem to have a place for cross-cutting technical discussions
> at the ASF - language and system issues, standards implementations,
> etc.
> 
> To fix this, I suggest creating a public t...@apache.org list, owned
> by comdev, with the following rules:
> 
> -Technical discussions on cross-cutting topics that are directly
> related to Apache projects
> 
> -Each new thread MUST have one or several [markers] in the subject
> line to identify the topics. For example, [java], [osgi], [linux] etc.
> 
> I volunteer to get the list started, as an experiment.
> 
> WDYT?
> -Bertrand

Re: Clarification on students own project

[Suresh Marru]

On May 2, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz  wrote:

> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:
>> ...Those projects normally can simply be ignored
> 
> +1, IMO students who don't do their homework (like looking at the
> projects we suggest) should fail early, let's not waste energy on
> those proposals.
> 
> Of course, if the next Steve Jobs has a fantastic proposal they should
> feel free to submit it, but my guess is that that one would look
> better than two lines of hastily crafted vague ideas.
> 
> -Bertrand

Totally agreed Bertrand and Uli. I will hope there will be some plans in 
forests of weeds. But I do not intend to spend any energy fishing for these. 
When I randomly come across anything worthwhile, I will point to comdev gsoc 
page. If they are coming back next year they will know where to look.

Suresh

Clarification on students own project

[Suresh Marru]

Hi All,

There are quite a few gsoc proposals, proposing their own projects and are 
hitting totally out of the rough. I think we should limit these students to 
encouraging proposing new ideas to one of the ASF projects but not totally new 
projects. I am not sure if any of these students will bother to read the gsoc 
documentation on the comdev website, but if in case they do, I added a special 
note. 

Can you please review and refine the last note in the "Students: read this" 
section at - http://community.staging.apache.org/gsoc.html. If its ok as is, 
please publish the changes. 

Cheers,
Suresh

Re: Website frontpage style

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Luciano,

This is very nice, the information is nicely organized. Few suggestions:

* I think the "Welcome to the Community Development (ComDev)!" is too big and 
distracting. How about changing it to h2? 
* The information about ComDev PMC is very informative, but I am not sure if 
the third column needs highlighting. Can the banner text include a 4th 
paragraph with links and use the third column for other information?
* Can the third column be used to define and describe "Apache Way"?

Great modifications over all,
Suresh

On Apr 23, 2013, at 1:42 AM, Luciano Resende  wrote:

> I was wondering if we could have a better format for the frontpage of the
> ComDev website, and worked on a quick prototype available in [1] and would
> appreciate any feedback on it.
> 
> Thoughts
> 
> [1] http://people.apache.org/~lresende/community/
> 
> -- 
> Luciano Resende
> http://people.apache.org/~lresende
> http://twitter.com/lresende1975
> http://lresende.blogspot.com/

Re: svn commit: r1468843 - /comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html

[Suresh Marru]

On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

>> +
>> +  
>> +The Apache Software Foundation
>> +  
>> +  > class="pull-right">
> 
> You meant class="span3 pull-right". Also, can you please make it 
> HTML5-compliant [1]? In addition,
> it looks a bit odd in the layout, you could try tweaking it. Bootstrap has a 
> special class for
> search boxes, we should use it.
> 
> Uli
> 
> [1] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element#html5

Hi Uli,

I committed the changes, please verify if these address your concerns. Also, 
the best bootstrap search class I can find was the .navbar-search. I like 
adding the search bar to the menu it is looking nice and pretty. But that is 
making the bar wrap into two lines. So I left it in the current position.

Cheers,
Suresh

P.S. Sorry for not getting to this sooner, I was traveling to and from Boston 
both on wrong days. Back home and glad Boston is safe now. 

Re: svn commit: r1468843 - /comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html

[Suresh Marru]

Thanks Uli, this is great feedback. I will get these changes as soon I get 
online.

Thanks,
Suresh

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> On 17.04.2013 13:30, sma...@apache.org wrote:
>> Author: smarru
>> Date: Wed Apr 17 11:30:20 2013
>> New Revision: 1468843
>> 
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1468843
>> Log:
>> adding a google custom search box
>> 
>> Modified:
>>comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html
>> 
>> Modified: comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html
>> URL: 
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html?rev=1468843&r1=1468842&r2=1468843&view=diff
>> ==
>> --- comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html (original)
>> +++ comdev/site/trunk/templates/standard.html Wed Apr 17 11:30:20 2013
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
>> +
>> 
>> @@ -135,20 +134,42 @@
>> 
>> 
>>   
>> -The Apache Software Foundation
>> -Meritocracy in Action.
>> +
>> +  
>> +The Apache Software Foundation
>> +  
>> +  > class="pull-right">
> 
> You meant class="span3 pull-right". Also, can you please make it 
> HTML5-compliant [1]? In addition,
> it looks a bit odd in the layout, you could try tweaking it. Bootstrap has a 
> special class for
> search boxes, we should use it.
> 
> Uli
> 
> 
> [1] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element#html5

Re: Google CSE for community website

[Suresh Marru]

On Apr 17, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> +1. Go ahead!

I committed the search box addition (r1468843), please review it in staging and 
publish if it is ok - http://community.staging.apache.org/

Note that, the search points to the published site and not staging.

Suresh

> 
> On 17.04.2013 04:26, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Kudos to Uli, the new com-dev site is awesome and easily navigable. But 
>> given the wealth of information but one needs to know how to navigate to it. 
>> Can we add a google search engine to the site? If its ok, I can commit it 
>> for review.
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>> 
>> 

Google CSE for community website

[Suresh Marru]

Hi All,

Kudos to Uli, the new com-dev site is awesome and easily navigable. But given 
the wealth of information but one needs to know how to navigate to it. Can we 
add a google search engine to the site? If its ok, I can commit it for review.

Suresh

Re: GSOC:faster screensharing

[Suresh Marru]

On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:19 AM, rahul bhola  wrote:

> hi,
> please do check i am not able to subscribe to  d...@openmeetings.apache.org

Can you elaborate, what did you try and what is not working for you?

Suresh

> regards
> Rahul

Re: GSOC:faster screensharing

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Rahul,

Each of the projects listed in the Apache Ideas page are communities by itself. 
So you should contact the appropriate dev mailing list. You can google Apache 
$PROJECT and find the mailing list from the website. First subscribe and then 
post, otherwise you may loose replies. For this particular project, it will be 
[1]

Cheers,
Suresh
[1] - http://openmeetings.apache.org/mail-lists.html
On Apr 14, 2013, at 7:43 AM, rahul bhola  wrote:

> hi,
> this is with reference to the link
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENMEETINGS-556
> 
> i guess i could work out on arrangement for faster file sharing without
> actually the need of buffering the screen shots
> 
> please guide me whom should i discuss this with
> 
> 
> regards
> Rahul Bhola
> Bits Pilani Goa
> B.Tech
> Computer Science

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

[Suresh Marru]

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Luciano Resende  wrote:
> One of the issues is that we keep using GSoC + year as tag, so we pretty
> much discard all the previous years project ideas that are still open. I
> think using something generic like GSoC would make our project idea look
> bigger without much overhead on mentors to prepare year over year.

I see that in 2013 ideas, there are JIRA's created all the way from 2005 
through 2013. I worry if you automatically carry over the issues to next year, 
we might end up with some unattended projects. What if the mentor (who proposed 
it previous year) does not have time or interest or the project is no longer 
relevant? I think it is not too much to expect from the mentor to go to the 
previous year JIRA's and change the tag from gsoc2012 to gsoc2013. If students 
are commenting on zombie ideas and do not get a response, that might not send a 
good signal. If a mentor is not having 30 minutes to create or modify a JIRA 
should we expect them to mentor a student, review and accept code and provide 
feedback?

Suresh

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

[Suresh Marru]

On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> On 11.04.2013 16:41, Ross Gardler wrote:
>> On 11 April 2013 14:26, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11.04.2013 15:17, Rich Bowen wrote:
 
 On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Mark Struberg wrote:
 
> In this light, 33 is not that bad a number.
 
 
 How does that compare to past years?
 
>>> 
>>> 27 in 2012, so about the same (the 33 also contain some sub-projects). But
>>> at the same time the
>>> number of our TLPs and podlings grew so the ratio of participating
>>> projects is lower than last year.
>>> 
>> 
>> As I find myself saying every year. It's about quality not quantity.
> 
> It's both. I find it an alarming sign that our numbers don't increase with 
> our size.
> 
>> 
>> Our pass rate in the ASF is higher than the programme overall. Part of the
>> reason for this is that we spend a great deal of time making sure the right
>> students get chosen, but also because our mentors are very committed. We
>> state that we expect around 5 hours a week from mentors. That is a
>> significant commitment but providing that time does give us a higher
>> success rate.
>> 
>> Personally, I wouldn't consider 33 projects low. We only get around 35-40
>> slots anyway.
> 
> I need to correct you. We got 55 slots in 2011 of which 15 were returned and 
> I believe almost the
> same number last year and again we had to return a significant number because 
> we didn't have the
> mentors and participating projects to fill them.

Hi Uli,

I am not trying to be onerous on your to hunt statistics from previous years 
but thinking out loud.

For 2013 there are 173 project ideas, I am assuming there is a many to one 
mapping of mentors to ideas. Since there is a recommendation to have one to one 
mapping of mentor to projects (with exceptions allowed under certain 
conditions), are we running into an issues where multiple projects are getting 
good proposals and mentors are choosing one and leaving out rest? If so do we 
want to encourage already committed mentors to recruit others in PMC to become 
mentors? I know you have repeatedly insisted on this, but wondering if 
something more should be done in the area?

Roughly speaking 33 PMC's (PPMCs included) prosed these ideas. Based on 
previous years experience, how much of percentage of these ideas are not 
attracting students? If so do we want to educate on what makes a good gsoc 
project? 

Suresh

> 
> Uli

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

[Suresh Marru]

Lots of good thoughts already, and I agree with Ross it is the quality and not 
quantity. 

But I think not all projects have the awareness and what they can get out of 
GSoC. There is a lot of good documentation as Uli and others have pointed out.  
PMC's have to be motivated to look at them. Email is good for most of the 
asynchronous communication needs, but my 2 cents will be to conduct an open 
forum webeminar and reach it out to all committers and pmcs. My experience if 
some one can ask questions directly it will bootstrap better interest than 
emails notifications. If such thing will be useful, I am willing to organize 
and coordinate. 

Suresh

On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects that 
> submitted project ideas
> that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are subprojects 
> I believe. With 138
> PMCs plus 35 podlings, this is less than one fifth of our projects.
> 
> We only had 34 ideas one week before our application was due.
> 
> I run into committers that are not members of their projects PMCs who are 
> eager to be mentors but
> have no clue about what's going on because nobody from the PMC forwarded my 
> emails to their dev lists.
> 
> So the problem seems twofold: no interest and not reaching the right people. 
> The latter could be
> improved by simply sending to committers@ instead of pmcs@ but it's the first 
> that worries me.
> 
> I believe GSoC and every other opportunity to attract new contributors to our 
> projects should be a
> key priority of our PMCs. Apparently it's not, for whatever reasons. I could 
> think of missing
> cycles, indifference, and wrong priorities.
> 
> So what could we do to increase awareness for the opportunities GSoC offers 
> and that this program is
> important to the foundation? Write more emails? Ask the board to mandate a 
> section in board reports
> detailing the project's GSoC endeavors? Any ideas?
> 
> Uli

Re: GSoC 2013 Mentoring Organizations

[Suresh Marru]

Nice catch Joe.

Melenge Admins, Should we wait for the full list of 177 orgs to be published? 
Currently we only see 104.

Thanks,
Suresh

On Apr 8, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Joe Brockmeier  wrote:

> I'm wondering if the list is fully populated. Front page says 177
> organizations, the accepted orgs page says it lists 104.
> 
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013
> 
> Seems like a very short list of a-named orgs at the moment. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> jzb
> -- 
> Joe Brockmeier
> j...@zonker.net
> Twitter: @jzb
> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Dan,

Congrats!!, you seem to have many more interesting stuff going on than gsoc 
itself. Great that you triggering gsoc ideas amongst all of it. I was just 
doing a friendly reminder to ensure PMC is watching and comfortable with the 
ideas so the students will have some one to reach out when they need help. 
Looks like you already are aware of it, nice.

Take it easy,
Suresh
 
On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Dan Filimon  wrote:

> I'm actually not planning to mentor the project myself. I mean of
> course, I'll help the mentors or students if they need, but this
> summer is pretty hectic for me (graduating, moving to a new city...)
> so I can't take on the commitment.
> 
> And, I'll become a committer soon enough I think. I'm working on a
> larger feature that's actually also my senior project. I'm liking the
> experience and I think it'd be great for other students too. :)
> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Dan Filimon  wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks! We have a JIRA.
>>> I'm not on the private list. Have yet to become a committer. :)
>>> I'll let everyone know so we can get the ideas going.
>> 
>> Hi Dan,
>> 
>> Every one is encouraged to propose ideas, but will you have one of the 
>> committers officially mentor the project?
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:
>>>> Hey Dan,
>>>> 
>>>> On 26.03.2013 18:25, Dan Filimon wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm working on Mahout and have just realized the deadline for GSOC is
>>>>> this week! We haven't made up a list of ideas or found mentors yet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are we too late?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Almost. Did none of my two emails to your private list get through?
>>>> 
>>>> Anyway. Label your issues in JIRA with "mentor" and "gsoc2013" and they'll 
>>>> show up in our ideas list
>>>> automatically. If Mahout doesn't use JIRA, file the issue against the 
>>>> COMDEV project in JIRA.
>>>> Application deadline for us is the 29th. That means our ideas list should 
>>>> be done by then.
>>>> 
>>>> Mentor applications will come later, once we are accepted.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Uli
>> 

Re: Mahout in GSOC 2013

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Dan Filimon  wrote:

> Thanks! We have a JIRA.
> I'm not on the private list. Have yet to become a committer. :)
> I'll let everyone know so we can get the ideas going.

Hi Dan,

Every one is encouraged to propose ideas, but will you have one of the 
committers officially mentor the project?

Suresh

> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:
>> Hey Dan,
>> 
>> On 26.03.2013 18:25, Dan Filimon wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> I'm working on Mahout and have just realized the deadline for GSOC is
>>> this week! We haven't made up a list of ideas or found mentors yet.
>>> 
>>> Are we too late?
>>> 
>> 
>> Almost. Did none of my two emails to your private list get through?
>> 
>> Anyway. Label your issues in JIRA with "mentor" and "gsoc2013" and they'll 
>> show up in our ideas list
>> automatically. If Mahout doesn't use JIRA, file the issue against the COMDEV 
>> project in JIRA.
>> Application deadline for us is the 29th. That means our ideas list should be 
>> done by then.
>> 
>> Mentor applications will come later, once we are accepted.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Uli

Re: GSoC 2013

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Manish,

Good that you are starting early, some projects have started to tag gsoc 2013 
but not all. At this time, I suggest you take a look at GSOC 2012 ideas to get 
an idea - http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012ideas .  Also if you are interested in a 
particular project at ASF (http://apache.org/ for the list) but haven't seen an 
gsoc idea, just ask in the dev mailing list.

Suresh

On Mar 15, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Manish Agrawal  wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am Manish Agrawal, a 3rd year student of Mathematics and computing
> department from IIT Delhi.
> 
> I want to participate in GSoC 2013 through one of the ASF projects. I would
> be really thankful if you could please suggest me how should I proceed for
> the same.
> 
> Hoping for a reply.
> 
> Thanks
> Manish Agrawal

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 2, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Ross Gardler  wrote:

> On 2 March 2013 10:37, Shane Curcuru  wrote:
> 
>> Quick sanity check: would it be worthwhile to explore having a non-code
>> project?
> 
> 
> Google have always, in the past, been against non-code projects in GSoC.
> 
> Assuming this has not changed, your ideas are better suited to the other
> initiative which is more high school level (I forget its name) but it runs
> later in the year and projects are discreet and less code focussed. We've
> not participated in that programme for a good few years but that's only
> been due to lack of someone to drive our engagement.

Is it Google Code-in [1] ? Documentation seems to rightly fit here. 

Suresh
[1] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/2012/

> 
> Ross
> 
> 
> 
>> We often decry the lack of understandable or organized technical
>> documentation, especially on the apache.org site.  Similarly, we could do
>> a much better job simply clearly describing things for branding, making
>> fundraising look a little prettier, having an easier to navigate events
>> area, etc.
>> 
>> Should I try to find enough discrete tasks  here to submit a
>> documentation-type GSoC idea?  Or is that not likely to find any students /
>> going to be too much work to pull together?
>> 
>> I love the idea of offering a non-heavy-code project, and I will have a
>> little spare time over the summer (when I'm taking a 12 week leave of
>> absence from $dayjob).
>> 
>> Ideas? Anyone want to help?
>> 
>> - Shane
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
> Programme Leader (Open Development)
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Shane,

a big + 1 for what you want to accomplish, but I am afraid it might not qualify 
as a GSOC project. There was a discussion on gsoc mentor lists recently if CSS 
qualifies as a gsoc project. There were mixed opinions without concluding 
thoughts but it was clear documentation does not quality. GSOC seem to 
emphasize on the coding aspects [1]. 

Few options come to my mind though: 
* HCI students may want to pick it as a good use case and deliver. It will be 
tough to motivate but if they can pick it up as a capstone project or get 
attracted to earn commitership in ASF they might.
* Free lance content strategists might be very interested to do this kind of a 
job in return for some visibility. I have come across few of them some time ago 
but blank at this minute to provide pointers.
* Similar to logo contest, may be we should post this as a task and cross 
fingers if it gets picked up.

Suresh

[1] - 
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#goals

On Mar 2, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Shane Curcuru  wrote:

> Quick sanity check: would it be worthwhile to explore having a non-code 
> project?  We often decry the lack of understandable or organized technical 
> documentation, especially on the apache.org site.  Similarly, we could do a 
> much better job simply clearly describing things for branding, making 
> fundraising look a little prettier, having an easier to navigate events area, 
> etc.
> 
> Should I try to find enough discrete tasks  here to submit a 
> documentation-type GSoC idea?  Or is that not likely to find any students / 
> going to be too much work to pull together?
> 
> I love the idea of offering a non-heavy-code project, and I will have a 
> little spare time over the summer (when I'm taking a 12 week leave of absence 
> from $dayjob).
> 
> Ideas? Anyone want to help?
> 
> - Shane

Re: GSoC 2013 - A better interface for students to select projects

[Suresh Marru]

Hi All,

I am giving a talk on Tuesday about Student Engagement with Apache Projects - 
http://na.apachecon.com/schedule/presentation/134/. As I polish my slides, I 
realize the improvements on GSOC will be a great topic to brainstorm in this 
session. 

Any volunteers to help me with this talk? I realize its last minute, but if 
Norin or Uli would like to summarize GSOC in this session that will be great as 
well. I will be traveling today to Portland but available all day tomorrow if 
we can chat in person.

Thanks,
Suresh

On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> +1
> 
> What I like about our current approach is that it filters out those who are 
> not willing to work with
> an issue tracker which is a fairly common thing to do as an open source 
> developer. Concensus at the
> summit seemed to be that it's a good idea to filter out those very early that 
> are not willing to put
> in some effort. We can ask our projects to give some more information about 
> their ideas and have
> them provide that information as labels in jira. Students can then filter for 
> those labels.
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 15.02.2013 18:00, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Luciano Resende  
>> wrote:
>>> ...I would like to make things a little more simple for the students to
>>> find the project that best match their skiils or the areas of their
>>> interest. The idea is to crawl our jira issues and add some more
>>> metadata to the jira based on foap project details, and then present a
>>> UI where students can have more choices to filter project ideas, like
>>> by language (e.g. c or java ) , by area (e.g. cloud), etc...
>> 
>> Sounds good, but beyond that we shouldn't hold the student's hands too
>> much IMO - we want those who are not ready to do their homework to
>> fail early ;-)
>> 
>> -Bertrand
>> 

Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Suresh Marru]

Thank you Ross and Uli for these details. It really helps to understand what it 
takes and the time commitments are very reasonable and comforting.

Hi Uli,

Thanks for your efforts last year and volunteering this year. I will try to be 
pro-active as much as possible, but even if am not, feel free to pull me in as 
you need assistance.

Cheers,
Suresh

On Feb 15, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> That's quite accurate and corresponds with my experience in the last two 
> years.
> 
> I expect to put in a bit more this year as I want to tidy up our websites a 
> bit.
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 15.02.2013 15:57, Ross Gardler wrote:
>> Others are likely reading this and wondering if they have the cycles to be
>> an admin. So here's my experience, other admins may have slightly different
>> experiences.
>> 
>> The admin is very busy in the run up to and selection process (easily 5
>> hours a week, for a few weeks - shared between admins). This is promoting
>> the activity, updating website, answering questions, filling forms and
>> monitoring Googles mentor mail list Once underway the admin role goes down
>> to about half an hour a week (each admin). This is monitoring the mentor
>> list and communicating things back. Around mid-term there are a couple of
>> weeks at about 5 hours (shared between admins). This is the same monitoring
>> but there is more to do now, like chase missing student reports etc. Then
>> back to the 1 hour per week monitoring work. Finally in the wrap up a few
>> more weeks at 5 hours per week (chasing missing reports, blogs, data
>> collection, feedback to PMC chair for board report etc.)
>> 
>> Sometimes there is a burst of activity when a mentor or student is having a
>> problem. Usually this will fit in the time estimates above. However, once
>> every couple of years there is something more serious that requires careful
>> investigation. This can take an addition 5-10 hours depending on the case.
>> It's these kinds of things that will usually draw on those hovering on the
>> sidelines to help out if necessary.
>> 
>> Ross
>> 
>> 
>> On 15 February 2013 13:58, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:24 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Chris,
>>>> 
>>>> thanks for the heads up.
>>>> 
>>>> Folks, I'd like us to get started with this ASAP. The application period
>>> hasn't started yet but we
>>>> need to get the word out to our projects and have them collect ideas.
>>>> 
>>>> I've got some cycles and would volunteer as the org admin again. Any
>>> others?
>>> 
>>> Hi Uli,
>>> 
>>> I am willing to help co-ordinate and I will be mentoring project as well.
>>> I do not know the time commitments for admins. So I will not sign up for
>>> official admin, but will be mostly around to help you guys as needed.
>>> 
>>> Suresh
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Also I think we should look at our procedures and discuss if anything
>>> needs to be improved. One
>>>> thing is the "who goes to the mentor summit" discussion we had last
>>> year. Historically these were
>>>> the org admins. I was there last year as one of the org admins but I
>>> would have liked it if there
>>>> was one of the mentors as well because I missed some insights into the
>>> actual mentoring. I'm
>>>> therefore proposing that this year we send at least one mentor. We'll
>>> have to establish criteria for
>>>> chosing a mentor to send but I could think of tying this to additional
>>> effort put into the program
>>>> such as mentoring more than one student or creating publicity with blog
>>> posts about the projects
>>>> they are mentoring.
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> 
>>>> Uli
>>>> 
>>>> On 11.02.2013 21:22, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>>>>> Guys FYI.
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Carol Smith mailto:car...@google.com>>
>>>>> Reply-To: "gsoc-mentors-announce+own...@googlegroups.com>> gsoc-mentors-announce+own...@googlegroups.com>" <
>>> gsoc-mentors-announce+own...@googlegroups.com>> gsoc-mentors-announce+own...@googlegroups.com>>
>>>>> Date: Monday, February 11, 2013 11:02 AM
>>>>> To: "gsoc-mentors-annou...@googlegroups.com>> gsoc-mentors-annou...@googlegroups.com>" <
>>

Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Suresh Marru]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:24 AM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> thanks for the heads up.
> 
> Folks, I'd like us to get started with this ASAP. The application period 
> hasn't started yet but we
> need to get the word out to our projects and have them collect ideas.
> 
> I've got some cycles and would volunteer as the org admin again. Any others?

Hi Uli,

I am willing to help co-ordinate and I will be mentoring project as well. I do 
not know the time commitments for admins. So I will not sign up for official 
admin, but will be mostly around to help you guys as needed.

Suresh

> 
> Also I think we should look at our procedures and discuss if anything needs 
> to be improved. One
> thing is the "who goes to the mentor summit" discussion we had last year. 
> Historically these were
> the org admins. I was there last year as one of the org admins but I would 
> have liked it if there
> was one of the mentors as well because I missed some insights into the actual 
> mentoring. I'm
> therefore proposing that this year we send at least one mentor. We'll have to 
> establish criteria for
> chosing a mentor to send but I could think of tying this to additional effort 
> put into the program
> such as mentoring more than one student or creating publicity with blog posts 
> about the projects
> they are mentoring.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 11.02.2013 21:22, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>> Guys FYI.
>> 
>> From: Carol Smith mailto:car...@google.com>>
>> Reply-To: 
>> "gsoc-mentors-announce+own...@googlegroups.com"
>>  
>> mailto:gsoc-mentors-announce+own...@googlegroups.com>>
>> Date: Monday, February 11, 2013 11:02 AM
>> To: 
>> "gsoc-mentors-annou...@googlegroups.com"
>>  
>> mailto:gsoc-mentors-annou...@googlegroups.com>>
>> Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013
>> 
>> Hi GSoC mentors and org admins,
>> 
>> We've announced that we're doing Google Summer of Code 2013 [1]. Yay!
>> 
>> If you would like to help spread the word about GSoC, we have presentations 
>> [2], logos [3], and flyers [4] for you to use. Please host meetups, tell 
>> your friends and colleagues about the program, go to conferences, talk to 
>> people about the program, and just generally do all the awesome 
>> word-of-mouth stuff you do every year to promote the program.
>> 
>> The GSoC calendar, FAQ, and events timeline have all been updated with this 
>> year's important dates, so please refer to those for the milestones for this 
>> year's program. NB: the normal timeline for the program has been modified 
>> for this year. You'll probably want to examine the dates closely to make 
>> sure you know when important things are happening.
>> 
>> Please consider translating the presentations and/or flyers into your native 
>> language and submitting them directly to me to post on the wiki. 
>> Localization for our material is integral to reaching the widest possible 
>> audience around the world. If you decide to translate a flyer, please fill 
>> out our form to request a thank you gift for your effort. [5]
>> 
>> If you decide to host a meetup, please email me to let me know the date, 
>> time, and location so I can put it on the GSoC calendar. Also, remember to 
>> take pictures at your meetup and write up a blog post for our blog using our 
>> provided template for formatting [6]. If you need promotional items for your 
>> attendees, please fill out our form [7] to request some; we're happy to send 
>> some along. We can provide up to about 25 pens, notebooks, or stickers 
>> and/or a few t-shirts. Please keep in mind, though, that shipping 
>> restrictions and timeline vary country-to-country; request items early to 
>> make sure they get there on time! If you have questions about hosting 
>> meetups, please see the section in our FAQ [8].
>> 
>> Please also consider applying to participate as an organization again this 
>> year or maybe joining as a mentor for your favorite organization if they are 
>> selected this year.
>> 
>> We rely on you for your help for the success of this program, so thank you 
>> in advance for all the work you do!
>> 
>> [1] - 
>> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-google-summer-of.html
>> [2] - 
>> http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramPresentations
>> [3] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocLogos
>> [4] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers
>> [5] - http://goo.gl/gEHDO
>> [6] - http://goo.gl/wbZrt
>> [7] - http://goo.gl/0BsR8
>> [8] - http://goo.gl/2NGfp
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Carol
>> 
>> 
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Re: Advice on inviting Apache insight to NSF SI2 meeting?

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Jim,

Its great to hear you will be able me make it. I am sure NSF will greatly 
appreciate your perspectives. We will be happy to provide a case study from 
Airavata. 

Suresh

On Dec 3, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Jim Jagielski  wrote:

> I am certainly close, if they think I'd be a suitable person.
> 
> On Dec 1, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Ross Gardler  wrote:
> 
>> Anyone able to help the NSF out at a meeting in DC in Jan?
>> 
>> See below for more info.
>> 
>> On a personal note I've noticed an increased, and genuine, interest in how 
>> to improve the impact of publicly funded research outputs from the NSF in 
>> the last couple of years. We are even seeing important components turning up 
>> in the Incubator. I hope we can send someone able to help them understand 
>> how we do things around here. It's your (US) tax dollars going into this 
>> work.
>> 
>> I'd normally do this myself but I have a clash on these dates.
>> 
>> Let me know privately if you are interested and I'll help you/them figure 
>> out who the best fit is.
>> 
>> Ross
>> 
>> Sent from my tablet
>> 
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: "James Howison" 
>> Date: Nov 30, 2012 9:31 PM
>> Subject: Advice on inviting Apache insight to NSF SI2 meeting?
>> To: "Ross Gardler" 
>> 
>> Hi Ross,
>> 
>> I'm organizing a panel at an upcoming meeting for the PIs of all the 
>> projects funded by the SI2 funding program at the NSF (SI2, or SI^2, is the 
>> main Scientific Software funding program at the moment).
>> 
>> The panel is going to focus on Software Impact, and I'd like to have someone 
>> who can inject an understanding of the importance of community, including 
>> Incubator considerations such as non-salaried developers etc.  We're also 
>> considering adopting the DOAP way of describing the projects and their 
>> infrastructure as a way of helping projects and the program overall 
>> catalogue their activities.
>> 
>> The meeting is in DC in January Jan 17 and half-day 18th.  Does anyone from 
>> Apache come to mind (including yourself) that would be relevant either with 
>> experience in Incubation, or from the DOAP/catalogue.  Do you think your 
>> experience with SIMAL would be relevant here, might you be interested?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> James Howison
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> James Howison
>> Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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Re: [VOTE] Participate in a GSoC like project

[Suresh Marru]

+ 1 (I believe non-binding)

These may have great long term impact and education motivators for projects. 

Suresh
On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:32 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:

> This is an unusual vote in that it is running in parallel to the
> DISCUSS thread as a result of external time restraints. It is also
> unusual in that I am not likely to be able to leave it running for a
> full 72 hours for the same reason (minimum 36 hours, will push as late
> as I can). For this reason please feel free to vote -1 if you feel
> this is insufficient time to properly evaluate (I've even provided
> this as a vote option)
> 
> Please see the parallel DISCUSS thread before voting (in particular
> note the DISCLOSURE there which means I have a conflict of interest in
> this vote and thus will not be voting).
> 
> [ ] +1 Agree to sign a non-binding letter of intent to participate in
> a GSoC like pilot project as described in this votes DISCUSS thread
> 
> [ ] -1 Do not participate in the OSKA pilot project due to limited
> time for appropriate consensus building
> 
> [ ] -1 Do not sign because ...
> 
> -- 
> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
> Programme Leader (Open Development)
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com



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Re: GSOC 2012 Projects

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Nitika,

Yes  you are right, GSoC has Apache as an organization, but within apache there 
are multiple projects and you have a wide variety of projects to choose from. 
Did you check apache ideas page at - http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012ideas There 
are 118 project ideas for you to choose from. If you like any project, you 
should be able to google the appropriate dev mailing list and start engaging in 
discussions as you work on your proposal. Almost all of the apache project 
mailing list are easy to find. Even better (and suggested) way will be for you 
to create a Apache JIRA account and comment on the project idea. That will be 
automatically cc'ed to the project dev mailing lists. 

Suresh

On Mar 21, 2012, at 6:42 PM, nitika gupta wrote:

> Hi Developers,
> Does anyone have more information on GSOC 2012 projects. There are a
> couple of JIRAs labelled at GSOC under apache but I am not sure how
> exactly the process works. Do we go about proposing projects based on
> the JIRAs and talk to the specific community about it? How does the
> selection of the projects on the apache side work? GSOC has apache as
> one of the organisations but apache has various projects under
> it(hive, hadoop, cassandra, pig etc.)
> 
> Does someone have inputs on the GSOC process for apache?
> 
> Nitika

Re: mentor multiple gsoc projects

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote:

> On 19.03.2012 13:26, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Can a mentor propose multiple gsoc ideas? What happens if multiple of these 
>> projects proposals are selected? Do they have to solicit replacements within 
>> their PMC? or can they continue and mentor multiple projects until the end?
>> 
>> Also, can a project have multiple mentors?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Suresh
> 
> You really should familiarize yourself with our GSoC processes. All of that 
> has been asked before
> and is available either in the mailing list archives or on our webpages.
> 
> To answer your questions: Mentoring two or more projects is allowed but 
> discouraged and needs
> explicit allowance by the GSoC admins. It will only be granted if the mentor 
> has made clear that
> they are experienced and understand the additionally required expenditure of 
> time. Two or more
> mentors per project is not only allowed but encouraged. Indeed we want the 
> whole community to be the
> student's mentors.
> 
> Uli

Thanks Ross & Uli. 

Got it. Yes, I am going through the mailing lists and websites as well, I am 
getting most of them, but issues like this are not explicitly stated and I 
wanted to clarify.

Great work from all you guys in the past years, very impressive the way you are 
organizing this. 
Suresh

mentor multiple gsoc projects

[Suresh Marru]

Hi All,

Can a mentor propose multiple gsoc ideas? What happens if multiple of these 
projects proposals are selected? Do they have to solicit replacements within 
their PMC? or can they continue and mentor multiple projects until the end?

Also, can a project have multiple mentors?

Thanks,
Suresh

Re: Sign up for GSoC ASF Mentors

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 18, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:

> Hello Suresh,
> 
> Have you sufficent rights and knowledge to update
> http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html
> 
> I am puzzled how to subscribe to
> code-awa...@apache.org
> 
> The usual "subscribe" as subject returns an error.

Hi Svante,

Did you get a confirmation email asking you to reply in response to your email 
to code-awards-subscr...@apache.org? 

> In addition private/committers/MailAlias.txt seems to be out of date, see 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/README and a few words how to 
> "You should also register your '''GSoC Link Id to 
> committers/GSoCLinkId.txt''' in above guide 
> would be helpful, I am not yet within
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/GsocLinkId.txt
> 
> though I would prefer to handle everything by the single site configuration, 
> ie. https://id.apache.org
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Svante

I think thats a INFRA suggestion for future. But for now, you will have to 
checkout the folder https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers and add 
your email and link_id and commit back GsocLinkId.txt.

Hope that helps,
Suresh

> 
> On 17.03.2012 17:12, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> 
>> Apologies to every one who are receiving multiple copies of this email.
>> 
>> You are receiving this email because your project has added ideas to GSoC 
>> 2012 [1].  Just a friendly reminder that if you are mentoring a GSoC project 
>> and if you haven't already done so, you will need to subscribe to 
>> code-awa...@apache.org. This is the mailing list for receiving all gsoc 
>> coordination email. 
>> 
>> Subscriptions to code-awards will only be accepted from addresses known to 
>> belong to ASF committers, so please use your @apache.org address to 
>> subscribe if possible, or at least an address that can be matched to your 
>> @apache.org address via the ASF's private/committers/info or 
>> private/committers/MailAlias.txt data.
>> 
>> Suresh
>> [1] -http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012ideas 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: Suresh Marru 
>>> Subject: Sign up for GSoC ASF Mentors
>>> Date: March 17, 2012 11:28:54 AM EDT
>>> To: code-awa...@apache.org
>>> 
>>> If you are planning to mentor a student for this year's Google Summer of 
>>> Code for a ASF project, please follow the following steps:
>>> 
>>> 1) Sign-in/Register and obtain your Melange link_id from GSOC website [1].  
>>> If you have previously registered you can find your link_id under "My 
>>> Profile". If this is your first time,  you will have to first register and 
>>> link your google account and obtain a link_id.
>>> 
>>> 2) As a mandatory pre-requisite make sure your Apache ID and Melange 
>>> link_id are mapped in [2] 
>>> 
>>> 3) Go back to Melange website and sign up for ASF mentor, the direct link 
>>> for the same is [3]
>>> 
>>> You are encouraged to promote your idea, but please don't do anything else 
>>> yet on the Melange website, especially don't rate applications when they 
>>> start to coming in. We will inform you when to do that.
>>> 
>>> On-Behalf of gsoc-admins,
>>> Suresh
>>> 
>>> [1] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
>>> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/GsocLinkId.txt
>>> [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache
>> 
> 

Re: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization application has been accepted.

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Uli,

Pointes noted and lesson learned. 

Thanks to Nick, I edited the gsoc page with 2012 info, but checked it in, You 
may want to review/update and publish it.

Suresh

On Mar 17, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote:

> Suresh,
> 
> lazy concensus means "Give people enough time to comment. If nobody objects, 
> go ahead". The waiting
> period normally is 72 hours - enough time for people not checking mail for a 
> weekend or in weird
> time zones to have a chance to comment (exceptions might for example be 
> approaching deadlines
> requiring immediate action or something similar, but that hasn't been the 
> case here). Please keep
> that in mind next time.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 17.03.2012 16:24, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> Thanks Ross,
>> 
>> Since I did not see further comments, I will assume lazy consensus and will 
>> send this email to code-awards and to the dev lists to remind the potential 
>> mentors to subscribe to code-awards if they haven't already done so.
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>> 
>>> Last year Uli helpfully collated some notes on the admin tasks,
>>> including email templates etc.
>>> 
>>> See http://community.apache.org/gsoc-admin-tasks.html
>>> 
>>> I'll let admins answer your questions though.
>>> 
>>> On 17 March 2012 00:03, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Suresh,
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you have bandwidth, it would be great to send out an email asking
>>>>> people to sign up as mentors. It's very important that they add their
>>>>> linkid to committers/GSoCLinkId.txt BEFORE they request the chance to
>>>>> be a mentor (otherwise we're liable to reject the request). You should
>>>>> be able to cog off Uli's mail last year.
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I copied Uli's email from last year and updated it, please review and 
>>>> suggest any changes. If we post it to code-awards@, will it reach to all 
>>>> the intended mentors?  or should we look up the PMC's who added tasks to 
>>>> gsoc2012 label and cc the relevant dev lists?
>>>> 
>>>> -
>>>> If you are planning to mentor a student for this year's Google Summer of 
>>>> Code, please follow the following steps:
>>>> 
>>>> 1) Sign-in/Register and obtain your Melange link_id from GSOC website [1]. 
>>>>  If you have previously registered you can find your link_id under "My 
>>>> Profile". If this is your first time,  you will have to first register and 
>>>> link your google account and obtain a link_id.
>>>> 
>>>> 2) As a mandatory pre-requisite make sure your Apache ID and Melange 
>>>> link_id are mapped in [2]
>>>> 
>>>> 3) Go back to Melange website and sign up for ASF mentor, the direct link 
>>>> for the same is [3]
>>>> 
>>>> Please don't do anything else yet, especially don't rate applications when 
>>>> they start to coming in. We will inform you when to do that.
>>>> 
>>>> On-Behalf of gsoc-admins,
>>>> Suresh
>>>> 
>>>> [1] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
>>>> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/GsocLinkId.txt
>>>> [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> 
>>>>> We also need someone with a few minutes to update
>>>>> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> (I'll have more time for these things on Sunday--currently preparing
>>>>> for St Patrick's Day :-))
>>>>> 
>>>>> N
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Nóirín Plunkett  
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I've filled out the basics--I'm a bit busy right now, but it should be
>>>>>> enough to get us on the list :-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> N
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Noirin,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do you need volunteers to fill out the description and tasks for ASF? I 
>>>>>>> tried the link and it said you have to be the admin or back-up admin. I 
>>>>>>> was asked by 2, 3 potential students thats ASF is missing, it will be 
>>>>>>> nice to get us there quickly.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Suresh
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>>>>>>> From:  
>>>>>>>> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM
>>>>>>>> Subject: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization
>>>>>>>> application has been accepted.
>>>>>>>> To: noi...@gmail.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Your Organization Application for "The Apache Software Foundation" in
>>>>>>>> Google Summer of Code 2012 has been accepted.
>>>>>>>> Please click 
>>>>>>>> "http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2012?org_id=apache
>>>>>>>> to fill in the necessary information and create your Organization.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Google Open Source Programs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
>>> Programme Leader (Open Development)
>>> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: How to edit the website?

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 17, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote:

> Hold it please for the moment Suresh. The email must also include information 
> about our new mentor vetting procedure. I'm on the road atm and will respond 
> in more detail later or tomorrow UTC.
> 
> Uli

Hi Uli,

Sorry did not know of the new vetting procedure you mention. I was just 
following your last two years emails and sent a note earlier this morning. I 
will hold on before I do anything else. I was just trying to inform pmc's as I 
have seen students with interest knocking. 

Suresh 

> 
> Am 17.03.2012 um 17:51 schrieb Nick Burch :
> 
>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Suresh Marru wrote:
>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>>>> We also need someone with a few minutes to update
>>>> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
>>> 
>>> I was trying to update the gsoc website with 2012 information but could not 
>>> find how to do so. I logged into cwiki account but did not find the 
>>> community or com-dev as a project from dashboard. Will appreciate any 
>>> pointers.
>> 
>> It's managed through the CMS
>>   http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
>> 
>> I'd suggest you install the bookmarklet from 
>> <https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark> to your browser, then click that when 
>> you're on the page to start editing
>> 
>> Nick

How to edit the website?

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:

> We also need someone with a few minutes to update
> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

I was trying to update the gsoc website with 2012 information but could not 
find how to do so. I logged into cwiki account but did not find the community 
or com-dev as a project from dashboard. Will appreciate any pointers.

Suresh

Re: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization application has been accepted.

[Suresh Marru]

Thanks Ross,

Since I did not see further comments, I will assume lazy consensus and will 
send this email to code-awards and to the dev lists to remind the potential 
mentors to subscribe to code-awards if they haven't already done so.

Suresh

On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:

> Last year Uli helpfully collated some notes on the admin tasks,
> including email templates etc.
> 
> See http://community.apache.org/gsoc-admin-tasks.html
> 
> I'll let admins answer your questions though.
> 
> On 17 March 2012 00:03, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>> 
>>> Suresh,
>>> 
>>> If you have bandwidth, it would be great to send out an email asking
>>> people to sign up as mentors. It's very important that they add their
>>> linkid to committers/GSoCLinkId.txt BEFORE they request the chance to
>>> be a mentor (otherwise we're liable to reject the request). You should
>>> be able to cog off Uli's mail last year.
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I copied Uli's email from last year and updated it, please review and 
>> suggest any changes. If we post it to code-awards@, will it reach to all the 
>> intended mentors?  or should we look up the PMC's who added tasks to 
>> gsoc2012 label and cc the relevant dev lists?
>> 
>> -
>> If you are planning to mentor a student for this year's Google Summer of 
>> Code, please follow the following steps:
>> 
>> 1) Sign-in/Register and obtain your Melange link_id from GSOC website [1].  
>> If you have previously registered you can find your link_id under "My 
>> Profile". If this is your first time,  you will have to first register and 
>> link your google account and obtain a link_id.
>> 
>> 2) As a mandatory pre-requisite make sure your Apache ID and Melange link_id 
>> are mapped in [2]
>> 
>> 3) Go back to Melange website and sign up for ASF mentor, the direct link 
>> for the same is [3]
>> 
>> Please don't do anything else yet, especially don't rate applications when 
>> they start to coming in. We will inform you when to do that.
>> 
>> On-Behalf of gsoc-admins,
>> Suresh
>> 
>> [1] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
>> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/GsocLinkId.txt
>> [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>>> We also need someone with a few minutes to update
>>> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
>>> 
>>> (I'll have more time for these things on Sunday--currently preparing
>>> for St Patrick's Day :-))
>>> 
>>> N
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Nóirín Plunkett  wrote:
>>>> I've filled out the basics--I'm a bit busy right now, but it should be
>>>> enough to get us on the list :-)
>>>> 
>>>> N
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>>>>> Hi Noirin,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you need volunteers to fill out the description and tasks for ASF? I 
>>>>> tried the link and it said you have to be the admin or back-up admin. I 
>>>>> was asked by 2, 3 potential students thats ASF is missing, it will be 
>>>>> nice to get us there quickly.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Suresh
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>>>>> From:  
>>>>>> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization
>>>>>> application has been accepted.
>>>>>> To: noi...@gmail.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Your Organization Application for "The Apache Software Foundation" in
>>>>>> Google Summer of Code 2012 has been accepted.
>>>>>> Please click 
>>>>>> "http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2012?org_id=apache
>>>>>> to fill in the necessary information and create your Organization.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Google Open Source Programs
>>>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
> Programme Leader (Open Development)
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization application has been accepted.

[Suresh Marru]

On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:

> Suresh,
> 
> If you have bandwidth, it would be great to send out an email asking
> people to sign up as mentors. It's very important that they add their
> linkid to committers/GSoCLinkId.txt BEFORE they request the chance to
> be a mentor (otherwise we're liable to reject the request). You should
> be able to cog off Uli's mail last year.

Hi All,

I copied Uli's email from last year and updated it, please review and suggest 
any changes. If we post it to code-awards@, will it reach to all the intended 
mentors?  or should we look up the PMC's who added tasks to gsoc2012 label and 
cc the relevant dev lists?

-
If you are planning to mentor a student for this year's Google Summer of Code, 
please follow the following steps:

1) Sign-in/Register and obtain your Melange link_id from GSOC website [1].  If 
you have previously registered you can find your link_id under "My Profile". If 
this is your first time,  you will have to first register and link your google 
account and obtain a link_id.

2) As a mandatory pre-requisite make sure your Apache ID and Melange link_id 
are mapped in [2] 

3) Go back to Melange website and sign up for ASF mentor, the direct link for 
the same is [3]

Please don't do anything else yet, especially don't rate applications when they 
start to coming in. We will inform you when to do that.

On-Behalf of gsoc-admins,
Suresh

[1] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
[2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/GsocLinkId.txt
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache

---

> We also need someone with a few minutes to update
> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
> 
> (I'll have more time for these things on Sunday--currently preparing
> for St Patrick's Day :-))
> 
> N
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Nóirín Plunkett  wrote:
>> I've filled out the basics--I'm a bit busy right now, but it should be
>> enough to get us on the list :-)
>> 
>> N
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>>> Hi Noirin,
>>> 
>>> Do you need volunteers to fill out the description and tasks for ASF? I 
>>> tried the link and it said you have to be the admin or back-up admin. I was 
>>> asked by 2, 3 potential students thats ASF is missing, it will be nice to 
>>> get us there quickly.
>>> 
>>> Suresh
>>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>>> 
>>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>>> From:  
>>>> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM
>>>> Subject: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization
>>>> application has been accepted.
>>>> To: noi...@gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Your Organization Application for "The Apache Software Foundation" in
>>>> Google Summer of Code 2012 has been accepted.
>>>> Please click 
>>>> "http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2012?org_id=apache
>>>> to fill in the necessary information and create your Organization.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> 
>>>>  Google Open Source Programs
>>> 

Re: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization application has been accepted.

[Suresh Marru]

Thanks Noirin,

Unless some one gets to these, I will work on these tasks late evening eastern 
time (about 4, 5 from now).

Suresh

On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:

> Suresh,
> 
> If you have bandwidth, it would be great to send out an email asking
> people to sign up as mentors. It's very important that they add their
> linkid to committers/GSoCLinkId.txt BEFORE they request the chance to
> be a mentor (otherwise we're liable to reject the request). You should
> be able to cog off Uli's mail last year.
> 
> We also need someone with a few minutes to update
> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
> 
> (I'll have more time for these things on Sunday--currently preparing
> for St Patrick's Day :-))
> 
> N
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Nóirín Plunkett  wrote:
>> I've filled out the basics--I'm a bit busy right now, but it should be
>> enough to get us on the list :-)
>> 
>> N
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Suresh Marru  wrote:
>>> Hi Noirin,
>>> 
>>> Do you need volunteers to fill out the description and tasks for ASF? I 
>>> tried the link and it said you have to be the admin or back-up admin. I was 
>>> asked by 2, 3 potential students thats ASF is missing, it will be nice to 
>>> get us there quickly.
>>> 
>>> Suresh
>>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:
>>> 
>>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>>> From:  
>>>> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM
>>>> Subject: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization
>>>> application has been accepted.
>>>> To: noi...@gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Your Organization Application for "The Apache Software Foundation" in
>>>> Google Summer of Code 2012 has been accepted.
>>>> Please click 
>>>> "http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2012?org_id=apache
>>>> to fill in the necessary information and create your Organization.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> 
>>>>  Google Open Source Programs
>>> 

Re: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization application has been accepted.

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Noirin,

Do you need volunteers to fill out the description and tasks for ASF? I tried 
the link and it said you have to be the admin or back-up admin. I was asked by 
2, 3 potential students thats ASF is missing, it will be nice to get us there 
quickly.

Suresh

On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:

> -- Forwarded message --
> From:  
> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM
> Subject: [The Apache Software Foundation] Your organization
> application has been accepted.
> To: noi...@gmail.com
> 
> 
> Your Organization Application for "The Apache Software Foundation" in
> Google Summer of Code 2012 has been accepted.
> Please click 
> "http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2012?org_id=apache
> to fill in the necessary information and create your Organization.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  Google Open Source Programs

Re: Admins for GSoC 2012

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Noirin,

As my schedules are permitting, I will certainly help with proposing, 
evaluating and mentoring. I will be happy to help out as backup admin if 
needed, but I am not particular. I am glad to get involved either way and get 
the t-shirt :) 

Suresh

On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote:

> Applications are now open, and I've started going through the process.
> 
> Several people offered to be a backup admin, but the form only allows
> us to have one backup.
> 
> For those of you who've offered, do you specifically want to help with
> the admin side (mostly a matter of chasing up mentors for evaluations,
> and mentors & students for mid-term and final reports), or would you
> be equally happy to help by proposing, evaluating or mentoring
> projects (a task that doesn't require you to be an admin)? You'll get
> a t-shirt either way :-)
> 
> If you really want to help with the admin side, please create a
> profile in Melange
> (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012) and send
> me your linkid.
> 
> Uli, unless you object, I'd suggest that we put someone who hasn't
> been an admin before as the "official" backup (so that they can see
> the whole thing from the inside). Your help is very, very welcome, of
> course, but I think it's advantageous to spread the knowledge too :-)
> 
> Noirin



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Re: Maven local repository

[Suresh Marru]

Hi Karesh,

If you look in your ~/.m2/repository/ you will see bunch of directories. Within 
this root of local repository, you will see that artifacts will be organized by 
$groupId/$artifactId/$version/ 

So if your two project are pulling in different jars, then both projects should 
not affect each other at all.  You can safely work on both of them. In the 
cases, where both project depend upon same version of a jar, once the jar is 
download into local repo, the second project will use the local version instead 
of downloading it again. There are cases, some times bad versions can pulled 
from a unwanted repo which rarely breaks the build of first project, but thats 
very rare. You can easily track those bad jars and remove the directory and you 
will be fine again. You should not worry about sharing .m2 and safely work on 
both projects. Bravely dive into the new project and hack-on.

Suresh

On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Karesh Arunakirinathan wrote:

> Hai all,
> 
> If I try to do build the two maven project in the same machine that will
> affect the any of the other project ? Because .m2 local repository is same
> for the machine But I am not sure about this issue. Could any one please
> help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Karesh
> Undergraduate (CSE)
> University of Surrey.



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Re: [Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

[Suresh Marru]

> I'd be delighted to admin again this year. Volunteers for backups warmly
> welcomed, or start thinking about your task proposals :-)

> Noirin
On Feb 4, 2012 11:32 AM, "Ross Gardler"  wrote:

> See below.
>
> First order of business is volunteers for the admin role

Hi Norin & Ross,

I am not sure whats involved in volunteering as a backup admin, but I have time 
and interest to help out with this task. But beware, I only have passive 
information about GSOC and will need guidance. Either way, I am looking to 
engage Airavata incubator project and I am hopeful we will have quite a few 
mentors and projects some of them who have mentored before or were students 
when in college. 

Suresh

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