Re: Heads-up: Traffic Server summit in October 2013
On 30 October 2013 08:31, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Thank you so much for taking the time to hit down your thoughts for the event in a box. We'll include this in the project and hopefully have something concrete to help with some of the items. I do have a question for you. If the ASF provided the necessary equipment and accounts for you to record and stream the event do you have any idea how many more people would have benefited from your event? If I may input a side note, even though the question was not directed generally. I, like many others, cannot afford to participate in many (or any) conferences. Having a stream available afterwards, enables me to virtually participate. The stream(s) need only be the important parts, like key speech, panel discussion, important technical presentations. Also slowly building a video catalog of important conferences/speeches would help promote ASF, and serve as a knowledge base. just my opinion. rgds jan I. Ross Sent from my Windows Phone From: Leif Hedstrom Sent: 10/29/2013 13:38 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Heads-up: Traffic Server summit in October 2013 On Sep 20, 2013, at 8:41 PM, Leif Hedstrom zw...@apache.org wrote: In terms of how event in a box would have helped you, if you have any specific observations we would love to here them. We can't promise to provide everything, but we'll do our best. Yep, let me collect that and reply in a few days or so. Alright, so we completed our Summit. Overall, it was pretty successful I think, about 40 people attended at least one of the 2 days. Below are some of the thoughts I collected while organizing this. Cheers, — Leif The below is also shared via this Evernote link: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s29/sh/dd0155ff-21f6-47f1-84a1-fb74b56241aa/38e3021c87c54e22dac3f871fd4ce08d Equipment: • One of the most frustrating things to deal with is getting appropriate A/V equipment (and software / accounts / services) to be able to allow for remote participation. Some ideas could be to provide • • Actual hardware such as cameras, high end microphones (satellite microphones would be good), or going hog wild, advanced TP devices. • Software as appropriate for helping with this (streaming / group chats etc.) • Perhaps get account(s) with service providers such as YouTube event streaming (closed beta I think?), WebEx, Cisco/Tandberg TP or Citrix. Administration • A check list for all things that *must* be done per ASF requirements (e.g. trademarks). • Check list for other things that the organizer should be aware of. Examples: • Session schedules • Session Chairs • Where to post these schedules • How to get the word out in general. PR / Press help. • Tools / sites to help with registrations, schedules, calendar, and such planning Knowledge • How (if any) help can people get from Travel budget. How would an organizer look into this ? • Sponsoring in general. This is a big void for me personally, we’re lucky to have PMC members who can get lunches and locations for our meetings :).
Re: Event-in-a-Box
On 30 October 2013 22:27, Isabel Drost-Fromm isa...@apache.org wrote: On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 09:02:36 PM Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: 2) This may sound like a wildly crazy idea but looking over the mid-sized box - if we add a few flyers to that and (in case we want to) Apache shirts to sell to happy users to me this looks like a pretty good model for a booth in a box. The information this estimate is based on: http://wiki.fsfe.org/Booth and http://www.debian.org/events/checklist I forgot one important source: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Advice_for_Booth_Beings I never stop being amazed which goodies are hidden in our wiki, thx for the link. One thing I miss in what I have read so far, is a bit of a timeline. How long time before an event: - should a box be reserved - will the box arrive (be shipped) How soon after the even: - should be box be returned - or sent on to next event. I am sorry if I overlooked the information. rgds jan I. Cheers, Isabel
Re: FW: Are you interested in proposing an OSU Senior Design Project?
On 1 September 2013 05:30, Steven J. Hathaway shath...@e-z.net wrote: For ASF associates that wish to contribute time and ideas for student senior projects, here is an opportunity hosted by Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. I have already volunteered a project and will be a mentor if it is accepted. Thx for the hint, I have added a project on behalf of AOO, which I would like to mentor if accepted. rgds jan I. The students and professors are very anxious to support the open source development community. A major hosting of Apache infrastructure is done at their Open System Labs (osuosl.org) on the Oregon State University campus. Sincerely, Steven J. Hathaway shathaway@a.o __**__ From: mike bailey [m...@eecs.oregonstate.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 2:37 PM To: m...@eecs.oregonstate.edu Subject: Are you interested in proposing an OSU Senior Design Project? Colleagues -- Have you always wanted a particular software tool developed for your use, but have never had the time to do it yourself? Well then, read on. Have I got a deal for you! My name is Mike Bailey. I am the professor who runs the OSU Computer Science Senior Capstone class. The Capstone class is a 3-quarter (Fall, Winter, Spring) career preparation experience. The major piece of this is doing a significant 2-4 member team project. When the students come to the first class on September 23, I want to present them with a list of exciting, creative, and real-experience software engineering project possibilities. This is where you come in. I am looking for you to use your needs and experience to propose those project possibilities. A web site has been setup to give you more information, and let you enter and edit your project proposals: http://cs.oregonstate.edu/**capstone/proposeproject2013.**htmlhttp://cs.oregonstate.edu/capstone/proposeproject2013.html You have until September 23 to get yours in. That is the date the students will see them, and will start the selection process. In that process, I ask the students to bid on their top 5 choices. I ultimately make the final project assignments, but I try to take their preferences into account. I find I get better results that way. There will likely be more projects proposed than students teams to do them. *So, really sell your project.* Definitely don't understate its cool-ness factor! Give me a call or send me an email if you want to discuss cool-ness. After projects have been selected, we follow a client-contractor model in which I run the software contract company and you are one of our valued clients. The students report to me, but you, as client, work directly with them to design the requirements, set the timeline, and approve the progress. You also get to assign 20% of their grades. Any project can be proposed from anybody. I don't care where you are from, just that your project represents an excellent software engineering learning experience for the students. Do remember, however, that these are seniors. They have taken the core classes so far, but most have not taken some of the electives that would really help in some projects, such as graphics, AI, computer vision, etc. They can learn some of those things on the fly, but that takes some time away from the project development. Keep that in mind when proposing. If you have questions or want to discuss project possibilities, feel free to contact me at: Mike Bailey Professor, Computer Science Oregon State University 2117 Kelley Engineering Center 541-737-2542 m...@cs.oregonstate.edu Thanks for your time -- I look forward to working with you! -- Mike Bailey --**-- Mike Bailey, PhD Professor, Computer Science 3D Graphics, Scientific Visualization, GPU Computing Oregon State University 2117 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis, OR 97331-5501 541-737-2542FAX: 541-737-1300 m...@cs.oregonstate.edu http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb
imprtant notice to all forum users.
friday august 16 from approx. utc 17:00 and until sunday night, all forums will be down for maintenance. During thst time the forums might be sporadically available, but in general there will be no response from the server. For the main bulk of the maintenance it is not possible to show a forum down message, but if I get a file with html, I will gladly activate that for the periods where httpd runs. This is the first big step in a longer maintenance plan, the following requires only downtime og 2-3 minutes. rgds jan i ps. please spread the word on your forum.
Re: imprtant notice to all forum users.
sorry wrong mail addr. it is solely the apache open office forums. rgds jan i On Aug 12, 2013 3:02 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: friday august 16 from approx. utc 17:00 and until sunday night, all forums will be down for maintenance. During thst time the forums might be sporadically available, but in general there will be no response from the server. For the main bulk of the maintenance it is not possible to show a forum down message, but if I get a file with html, I will gladly activate that for the periods where httpd runs. This is the first big step in a longer maintenance plan, the following requires only downtime og 2-3 minutes. rgds jan i ps. please spread the word on your forum.
Re: Apache Ambassadors
On 1 July 2013 18:34, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: On 06/25/2013 08:42 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: I'd like to do some things to make it easier for our members and committers to be ambassadors for Apache, and I'd like to propose a concrete step, inspired by Roy, from a thread on another list. (Eventually it might be fun to have an official Apache Ambassadors program, which, like the other AA, is a 12 step program. However, I've only figured out steps one and two: 1) Be Shane (which he's already doing), and 2) Be like Shane (which encompasses many of the other steps.) ) Anyways, here's the concrete suggestion: Design and print t-shirts for our committers that plan to attend any event, containing a word cloud or artistic rendering of project names within the outline of a huge feather and underlined with a specific message that we want to convey ... like I volunteer at Apache / ask me how. How's this for a start: http://drbacchus.com/projects.**html http://drbacchus.com/projects.html +1 I like it. I would think a more rounded figure in both ends might be more balanced. rgds jan I. -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com Shosholoza
Re: ApacheCon 1998 and feathers
On 24 June 2013 18:10, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: Does anyone remember the full history around the large foam feather that was present at ApacheCon 1998? Specifically, who made it? http://drbacchus.com/the-**apache-featherhttp://drbacchus.com/the-apache-feather No I dont, but please once you find out, make a blog post and lets all remember this part of history. rgds jan I. -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com Shosholoza
Re: t...@apache.org ?
On 7 May 2013 20:03, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: We already have a listing at [1]. It's hidden behind 2 clicks from the main site. We could use that as a starting point. Uli [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ On 07.05.2013 18:22, Noah Slater wrote: A note to committers@ might be a good first start. But, in general, I really think we need to do a better job of communicating the existing mailing lists we have. Perhaps a page on the main site, or on the community site, would be a good start. On 7 May 2013 16:58, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: ...the problem with Yet Another Mailing List, which is that we don't know about the ones that we already have, and so how will people know about this one. Hmm. Dunno We'll tweet about it! Tell the world! Write fantastic things on it so that people link to it! Marketing! Seriously...that's a problem, but it's easier to be aware of one general list than tons of specialized ones. -Bertrand +1 I might see the list a bit different, but never the less, I see it as an opportunity to have committers get aquinted across projects. I f.x. am a C++ programmer (main focus protocols, low layer stuff), heavy project leader experience, and today PMC in openoffice...I look for a project that could use my experience. Such a list would be a general place to talk about that. rgds Jan I.
Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF
On Apr 10, 2013 7:27 PM, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de 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? one suggestion would be to make an apache page, that in short tell 1) what should a proposal contain 2) what is required with asf to be mentor (on a asf project) 3) a short part about asf and our cooperation with google 4) How to proceed. I know you and others have e-mailed all that information, and quite a lot more. A page (which are referenced in the e-mail) would make it easy for someone like me, to get the information I need fast, and if I feel it, I can always find more details. Thx for doing a great job, and yes there could have been more projectsbut take it positively, we have some projects. Rgds jan I. Uli
Re: Development.rdf and ApacheSpeakers.rdf
Thanks I am on the maps now. have a nice new years eve. Jan I. On 30 December 2012 09:19, Nick Burch n...@apache.org wrote: On 29/12/12 16:14, janI wrote: I have added myself to development,rdf and apachespeakers.rdf and committed the change. However even now after a couple of days I do not show up on either map (mentor/speaker), can someone give me a hint what I do wrong. It looks like something changed on the zone back in October, which made the solaris cron more picky, and broke the daily svn up of the xml files. I've tracked down the required fix and implemented it, seems to be working again now, so hopefully you now show up! Nick
Development.rdf and ApacheSpeakers.rdf
Hi I have added myself to development,rdf and apachespeakers.rdf and committed the change. I have controlled in svn that my change is active (jani). I show up on the committers map, so the foap file should be ok. However even now after a couple of days I do not show up on either map (mentor/speaker), can someone give me a hint what I do wrong. thx in advance. jan I.
