How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
NOTE: copying members@ and community@ since this might be helpful to many people. As many of you know, three cocoon committers were nominated then elected members of the Apache Software Foundation yesterday. Since I've been inquired by a few on how the system works, I'll spend some words on the

Re: Common documents across the ASF

2003-06-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 05:31 AM, Glen Stampoultzis wrote: At 01:09 PM 19/06/2003, you wrote: Why NOT have shared documents?  I've heard it said that the CVS organization is the barrier.  OK, so why not look at what reasonable steps could relieve that barrier?  What would happen if we had

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: NOTE: copying members@ and community@ since this might be helpful to many people. WoW! - Excelent summary. Can we put this up somewhere on one of the foundation pages please, if need be as 'Stefano's excelent and balanced view' :-) Dw.

[OT] Concept Maps

2003-06-22 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi, Sorry for this slightly OT message. About 2 years ago, I discovered the Concept Map idea (http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/) and I began to do a simple proof of concept here: http://jakarta.apache.org/~vmassol/maps Better examples from the NASA are available here:

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-22 Thread Astrid Keßler
As many of you know, three cocoon committers were nominated then elected members of the Apache Software Foundation yesterday. Since I've been inquired by a few on how the system works, I'll spend some words on the process and what it means for me. Thank you very much for these words, Stefano.

Meeting @ LinuxTag, KA, Germany

2003-06-22 Thread Erik Abele
[I'm crossposting this to community@ and party@ to catch some more eyes; please reply on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, some time ago we already had a discussion about a possible ASF meeting here in Germany. We also started to collect the locations of the interested people (see