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 rgard...@apache.org 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

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

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

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 requirements.

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

Re: Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

2010-07-22 Thread Ross Gardler
On 21/07/2010 19:33, Shane Curcuru wrote: I was just wondering... The Labs project (a place where any committer can starup their own independent mini-project to work on, potentially with other committers) has been awfully quiet lately. I was wondering: is doing an article or FAQ or some sort