Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Pierre Smits
Excuse me for contributing... Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM * Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:

RE: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
ApacheCon is not owned by the ASF (other than the brand that is). We are not talking about ApacheCon, we are talking about a calendar of events. -Original Message- From: Pierre Smits [mailto:pierre.sm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 2:27 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject

RE: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
The events calendar *is* owned by ComDev. How far ComDev volunteers want to go in driving its value is potentially up for debate, but who owns the calendar is not. As one volunteer, I want to work with ComDev volunteers to make better use of the calendar. Ross -Original Message- From

Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Pierre Smits
I am not convinced that communication of events (and a calendar is a communication mechanism) is part of the tasks of the ComDev office. Yes, the ComDev office can support projects on the howto. But such a mechanism should be owned by the MarPub office, and they should push. Best regards, Pierre

Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread jan i
On 10 April 2015 at 23:26, Nick Burch wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> 1) What other calendars are out there, and what can we do to consolidate >> them? >> > > I tried to consolodate everything to the "official" Apache Events calendar > as maintained in google docs + displayed

Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: 1) What other calendars are out there, and what can we do to consolidate them? I tried to consolodate everything to the "official" Apache Events calendar as maintained in google docs + displayed on the comdev site, and a Lanyrd conferene guide which was

Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Pierre Smits
The question is surely important, and can't be circumvented for a organisation that spends a load of money on furthering the projects and their works. Not only do we need mid and long term plans from every office, but we also need the supporting and governing processes and procedures written down

Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread jan i
On 10 April 2015 at 23:09, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > To get people involved we need to provide value. Today, we offer no value. > So, if I may, I would like to answer a slightly different question. The one > I want to answer is "how can we provide value so

RE: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
To get people involved we need to provide value. Today, we offer no value. So, if I may, I would like to answer a slightly different question. The one I want to answer is "how can we provide value so that PMCs will proactively maintain a central events calendar?" Here's my starting answer, more

Re: Who manages calendar on people.a.o ?

2015-04-10 Thread Rich Bowen
On 04/04/2015 07:17 AM, jan i wrote: Hi Is it comDev that manages the calendar on people.a.o ? I have 2 questions: - Can we please have apacheCON EU added (I cannot find a description how to do it). - Why does it not refer to our comDev calendar ? thanks in advance for any information. I

Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Rich Bowen
Today I found out about yet another Apache event that is almost here and I hadn't heard about before. I also noticed that http://www.apache.org/events/ is ... kinda embarrassing. This, in conjunction with Jan's question a week ago about who managed the calendar on people.a.o, which is complete