Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2017-04-04, at 02:44, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> ...As a small way to address this, my desire is to send a newsletter to >> committers every two months.. > > I like the idea (especially if you're doing the work ;-) and suggest > pu

Re: Base for presentation

2016-05-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 21 05 2016, at 11:19, Shane Curcuru wrote: > > Patricia Shanahan wrote on 5/21/16 9:41 AM: >> In connection with the "Encouraging More Women into Participate in >> Apache Projects?" I am going to try to talk to some student groups, >> especially a WIC chapter, about Apache. >> >> Part of t

Re: Apache community in Addis Ababa

2016-04-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
We had a more or less vibrant community doing Swahilii, too—but it has, as far as I know, also declined. It’s positive cline depended upon a few. Gone, gravity took over. I am still in touch with some in the region. Might be feasible to re-ignite the spark, but my guess is that it would only be

Re: Looking for speakers at Linuxwochen Vienna

2016-02-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ah, thanks for reminder. louis > On 18 Feb 16, at 14:21, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > What I had replied a coupla days ago. > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Jim Jagielski >> Subject: Re: Looking for speakers at Linuxwochen Vienna >> Date: February 16, 2016 at 9:26:56 AM EST >> To: Andre

Re: Looking for speakers at Linuxwochen Vienna

2016-02-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 18 Feb 16, at 05:53, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > > Hi ComDev, > > So any ideas on participation in Linuxwochen? IIRC some folks here have done > general Apache-centric presentations. Would it make sense to do something > similar here? It depends if we have resources to sustain a good booth

Re: ApacheCon CFP, review committee needed

2016-02-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
't be mucking > about with Google Docs this time, for which I'm sure we're all grateful. > We will, however, need to learn and work with their new system. > > Thanks to anybody that can help in this effort. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >

Re: Passion and vigilance in open source

2015-09-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 22 Sep 15, at 16:35, Ted Dunning wrote: > > Jim, > > Is that really happening? Is the fun leaving? Or is it we are all just > getting old and are forgetting the child-like wonder? I think that the fun is not leaving—rather the opposite, in fact--and that age, or more accurately, being

Software Freedom Day

2015-09-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hey Everyone, Software Freedom Day is 25 September. See: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ There’s been a seeming lack of excitement about it. In other years, for instance, many geolocal AOO communities would work with the SFD locals. This year… not so much. Why is that? Have your communities cont

Re: slack

2015-08-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
HI, > On 10 Aug 15, at 14:10, Ajoy Bhatia wrote: > > Just wanted to make a comment on the mail from Louis Suárez-Potts < > lui...@gmail.com>, in which he related his conversation with James H., a > Slack engineer. Comments are inline below. Highlighting is mine: > >

Re: slack

2015-08-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ortant > slack will be of major benefit. That’s partly it. I use IRC, too—and have since college. But mention IRC to most people, even devs who’ve been in the business a while, and you are likely now to get blank stares. C’est la vie. louis > > >> On Aug 8, 2015, at 5:09 PM,

Re: slack

2015-08-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
nce of inclusive community, is the ticket. louis > On 07 Aug 15, at 06:13, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > > We use it to communicate with people in all parts of the world. US, South > America, Several European > countries, Asia. So I'd say it's pretty global. > > Uli &g

slack

2015-08-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, I’m curious who here also uses Slack. Besides me, that is. One thing I’m interested in is, How global is its reach? -louis

Re: Standards for mail archive statistics gathering?

2015-05-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 05 May 2015, at 07:33, Boris Baldassari > wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Sorry for the late answer on this thread. Don't know what has been done since > then, but I've some experience to share on this, so here are my 2c.. > > * Parsing dates and time zones: > If you are to use Perl, the Date:

Re: Apache Way talks

2015-02-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
n Santa Bitergia may not help us.) louis > ________ > From: Louis Suárez-Potts<mailto:lui...@gmail.com> > Sent: ‎2/‎14/‎2015 9:48 AM > To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Apache Way talks > > >>

Re: Apache Way talks

2015-02-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 14-02-2015, at 11:47, Nick Burch wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: >> There is value in these sessions, some people are completely new and we >> probably should still schedule them. However, I think we ought to do some >> new stuff along the lines of: >>

Re: http://vps2.semesterofcode.com/ (something like GSoC)

2015-02-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Jan, > On 09-02-2015, at 03:36, jan i wrote: > > Hi. > > For info I have registred ASF at vps2, so we can create projects. > > The principle is much the same as GSoC, the biggest difference is that > students > get academic points instead of money. > > If anybody wants to register a project (

Re: non-technical volunteer?

2015-01-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi all, but especially Claude (and your spouse): Apache OpenOffice needs contributors of all sorts and not just technical, near-technical or technophilic. We need, we want those who can do… just about anything you, your spouse and everyone else considers worthwhile and able to be developed by a

Re: New ComDev VM

2015-01-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
wing what we've got", so it felt only natural to ask the > community development project to take over. > > site-dev may be listed as one option, but it is hardly used anymore, sadly. > > With regards, > Daniel. >> On 2015-01-15 16:42, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>

Re: New ComDev VM (was: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal)

2015-01-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Daniel, One thing—Apache’s Infra page lists site-dev@ for overhauls that seem to be like what you are proposing. See "site-dev@ The site-dev list was formed to allow for discussion of every aspect of the small number of websites that are centrally managed by the ASF (e.g. /dev/) and for co-ordi

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 14 Jan 2015, at 10:36, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) > wrote: > > As I said when you originally raised this I would recommend focusing on a > committee that tracks other data, data that is not currently well structured. > Trademarks, media, fundraising and whimsy.apache.org are all example

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, > On 14 Jan 2015, at 06:48, Daniel Gruno wrote: > > I have been working on a proposal that follows these ideas, which is > available for preview at http://projects.apache.pw/ for those interested. > Only the first two tabs in the menu currently work (and the extensive search > feature), b

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 18:09, jan i wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning wrote: > >> These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list >> has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited >> appropriate uses and that policy has served Apa

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:48, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: >> projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for >> much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad >> practice. > > If you as a project had a competitor, poss

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:05, Vincent Keunen wrote: > > > On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> Hi Marcel, >> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans >> wrote: >>> ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the >>> statement “source code only” probably app

Re: Code of Conduct - links to why they are needed etc

2014-12-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi this is a whimsical post. (also a top post) But here’s a cute code of conduct video. http://goo.gl/UZF7CW > On 20 Dec 2014, at 15:14, jan i wrote: > > On 20 December 2014 at 20:55, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> Hi, >>> On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:50, Jim Jagiels

Re: Code of Conduct - links to why they are needed etc

2014-12-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, > On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:50, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > This is great and, as noted, long overdue. Although the code > itself "simply" codifies what had been the tribal knowledge > of the ASF, and how we'd expected people to behave, NOT having > it written down was pretty sad. > > Thx to all fo

Re: Content Committee, ApacheCon 2014

2013-12-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-Dec-2013, at 15:19, jan i wrote: > > > > On 12 December 2013 20:52, Rich Bowen wrote: > Dear PMCs, > > In the coming days, we'll be hearing more about ApacheCon 2014, and what we > need to do to make it happen. > > This time around, we, the folks at the ASF, will be responsible for