Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

2010-07-23 Thread Anjana G Bhattacharjee
Golfing rules anticipate visual impairments to varying degrees, and in cases where required, a "coach" or "guide" can be incorporated into play [1] Best, A [1] http://www.blindgolf.co.uk/howdone.php On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM,

Re: An ASF newsletter

2010-07-23 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Ross, this is a good idea. Regards, Antoine On 7/23/2010 8:47 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: During a recent discussion on ComDev I found myself returning to the old newsletter idea. Now that blogs are used increasingly in the ASF I think we might be able to publish one without significant ad

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

An ASF newsletter

2010-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
During a recent discussion on ComDev I found myself returning to the old newsletter idea. Now that blogs are used increasingly in the ASF I think we might be able to publish one without significant additional human effort. Something like: - projects maintain a blog with whatever content they w

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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

Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

2010-07-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > ...Every reply must however disagree on some small detail, I believe we > should use correct regexps and call it w?o?...@apache.org... Right. Me, I'd much prefer sailing over golf, which is not inclusive: impossible for me to play with my la

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

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