Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-07 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Stefan Seelmann seelm...@apache.org wrote: Christian, do you have time to come to Munich on the 30th? Let's discuss that off-list, I think that isn't interesting for the other subscribers of this list. If we can do a Friday/Saturday, I'll happily come up from

Re: Publicising events (was Re: The theory of retreats)

2011-03-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On the other hand, with my ConCom hat on I would probably respond along the lines of it's worth considering places like Xing, but we will never reach all of the possible social networks/event announcement lists/event feeds etc. We should encourage all people interested in the ASF to publicise

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Apache Roundtable needed? Would it be ok for you to meet in a smaller group first and together with another UserGroup first? I mean, for example, the GTUG (GoogleTechnologyUserGroup) The requirements for an event to qualify for ConCom support are documented at

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-04 Thread Stefan Seelmann
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Nils Hitze nhi...@gmail.com wrote: Can you get either 3 apache committers, or 2 apache committers + 2 others to agree to help run a one day BarCamp in Bavaria? (BarCamps are probably easier and cheaper to put on than Retreats) If so, concom is ready to help

The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm a little puzzled by the retreats. On the one hand, the members and incubator lists have a constant stream of commentary of one snarkiness or another about our focus on individuals, rather than corporations. Then we have the retreats, which to me seem to select people with very strong corporate

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, thing #1, I missed the weekend aspect. So I'm effectively 50% nuts. I mean 'selection' in the 'self-selection' sense of the term. I confess that I don't have a suggestion. I wish I'd started by asking about who turns up. A few days ago, we had a load of anti-corporate messages on the

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
I feel simliar to Benson. Ireland is very nice, but it has a very high cost on time. I just took a look at the committers map. Wasn't there an effort before to bring together Apache people (and interested) in a specific area? 10 people from bavaria can make it in one day to an event and back. Cost

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Ulrich Stärk
We are doing something like this in Berlin already: every month or so we meet for an Apache Dinner. Usually there are 2-4 members, 6 or so committers and a few guests, all from the area. Uli On 03.03.2011 14:54, Christian Grobmeier wrote: I feel simliar to Benson. Ireland is very nice, but it

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Christian Grobmeier wrote: 10 people from bavaria can make it in one day to an event and back. Cost should be very low. Of course not the same as a big meet'n'greet in ireland, but it might help people coming into apache or finally meet at least the people near you. From

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Right now we are using a mailing list hosted by Isabel Drost. Not everyone has a XING account, though, so a mailing list might be better suited. Or is there a way to hook up a mailing list with a XING group? No, no way to combine this. Guess it will get more visibility through such a

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Christian Grobmeier wrote: btw, whats ml are using? I would like to subscribe, if possible For retreats, it's normally concom@ and retreats@. For barcamps, generally it's concom@ for the initial proposal, then an event specific one for the organising. Nick