ApacheCon NA 2017 Travel Assistance Applications Now Open!!

2017-01-23 Thread Melissa Warnkin
Hello Fellow Apache Enthusiasts!! The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) are pleased to announce that travel assistance applications for ApacheCon NA 2017 are now open! We will be supporting ApacheCon NA, Miami, Florida, USA, May 16th - 18th, 2017. TAC exists to help those that would like to attend

GSoC 2017?

2017-01-23 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Time flies and I still haven't gotten around to conducting the survey on GSoC. The application period for 2017 has already started and we need to apply before Feb 9. I will conduct a quick gathering of opinions on mentors@ but would like to also have opinions from the wider community. Should we ap

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-23 Thread A. Soroka
Bertrand-- Thanks, this is good stuff. I take your point about final responsibility always resting with the PMC. I think what I am looking for is exactly examples of the kind you point to in Commons. I'm going to delve into the Maturity Model a bit. --- A. Soroka Apache Jena > On Jan 23, 2017,

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:34 PM, A. Soroka wrote: > ...the project is humming along nicely, growing and changing organically, > when a Nice Person...presents > a contribution to the project. This contribution ...is _large_. It expands > the remit of the project much more > than the ordinary

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-23 Thread A. Soroka
Thanks, Shane and Roman-- These answers aren't exactly to my question, and I see now that I did a very poor job of asking it. My apologies, and let me see if I can improve that. Jena does (I think!) very nice work keeping a strong committer population and we have a perfectly fine practice with

Help with task: Create Twitter list of all projects

2017-01-23 Thread Summer Duncan
I would like to help out with the task listed at https://helpwanted.apache.org/task.html?5c18cd0e