SFD Event Help

2014-07-25 Thread Gaurav Saini
Hello Team, We are organizing Software Freedom day (SFD 2014) in our university. We have been organizing SFD yearly, and encourage students to participate in open-source projects. As, a Apache Committer I was thinking If I can get some swags stickers, posters and other give aways for SFD so

Re: ApacheCon Schedule announced: Help still needed

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Kienenberger
"The" would be a noun in that sentence and not an article. While I'd prefer standard capitalization, I think the most important thing is consistent capitalization rules for all talks. Let's pick a style and use it for all of them. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Lefty Leverenz wrote: > Rules v

Re: ApacheCon Schedule announced: Help still needed

2014-07-25 Thread Justin Mclean
HI, > * Identify speakers that are speaking twice at once, or back-to-back I have two talks back to back on the same day (Monday 350 + 4:50) but I'm good with that. Thanks, Justin

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that > comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes > to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events > themselves. This p

Re: ApacheCon Schedule announced: Help still needed

2014-07-25 Thread Lefty Leverenz
Rules vary, but if you're capitalizing more than the first word then the last word should be capitalized too, even if it's not usually capitalized. For example: "A Discussion of When to Capitalize the Word The." Here's a handy converter: http://titlecapitalization.com/. And here's a short expl

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread David Nalley
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Pierre Smits wrote: >> >> I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that >> comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes >> to a page that is shows a lot of information

Re: Non-released Dependencies

2014-07-25 Thread Stephen Connolly
I think the key bit here is that releases of Apache projects must have an associated source release and have been voted on by the PMC making the release. If the project you depend on is an independent project, you need to remember that their -SNAPSHOT build is *not* a release. Therefore you need i

Re: Non-released Dependencies

2014-07-25 Thread Matt Hogstrom
We followed option # 1 in Apache Geronimo. We grabbed the source for the dependency projects and built it out of the branch and eventual tag. We hard too many dependencies to wait for all projects to sync up. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org +1-919-656-0564 PGP Key: 0x0F143BC1 "Aut Inveniam Vi

Re: Non-released Dependencies

2014-07-25 Thread Greg Stein
[adding dev@community, as I believe this should go there...] On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: >... > Hi, > > there's an undergoing debate in the XML Graphics project about doing > a release that has a dependency on a snapshot version of another > (Apache, for that matter

Re: ApacheCon Schedule announced: Help still needed

2014-07-25 Thread Branko Čibej
On 25.07.2014 14:44, Mike Kienenberger wrote: > Inconsistent capitalization. I'd recommend changing titles to standard > capitalization rules. +1 to that. I had "fun" noticing that session titles that were already correctly capitalized in the submissions got mangled in the schedule. -- Brane

Re: ApacheCon Schedule announced: Help still needed

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Kienenberger
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > * Read talk titles and abstracts - send me edits for grammar, clarity, > spelling, whatever. Point out boring titles. I started to go through and send you the full list of changes, but then realized it'd be faster for you to make the changes d

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Pierre Smits wrote: I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events themselves. This page should be show

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread jan i
On 25 July 2014 10:30, Pierre Smits wrote: > I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that > comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes > to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events > themselves. This page should

Re: ApacheCon EU 2014 registration email still says Denver

2014-07-25 Thread jan i
On 25 July 2014 10:41, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi All > > I just did my speaker registration for ApacheCon EU 2014 and the > confirmation email still says "We look forward to seeing you in Denver". > > Can anyone change this to Budapest instead? > thanks for catching this, request for correction is

ApacheCon EU 2014 registration email still says Denver

2014-07-25 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi All I just did my speaker registration for ApacheCon EU 2014 and the confirmation email still says "We look forward to seeing you in Denver". Can anyone change this to Budapest instead? Thanks Sharan

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Pierre Smits
I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming events (including

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Ross Gardler
We do have an events calendar but it us underused. It would be wonderful if you could help improve things. On 24 Jul 2014 18:09, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's > activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this! > > However, on l