Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-16 Thread JonL
Alberto, I will also say that I think you did a great job of promoting GWTCon and my comments should only be taken in terms of visibility of people who might not be entrenched in the community so steeply as we all are. Someone new coming into GWT, what does the message, brand and presence say

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-16 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 1:07:49 PM UTC+2, Alberto Mancini wrote: > > >> >>> There is no promotion on the main GWT site of the only currently >>> scheduled GWT conference and the normally already scheduled GWT.create >>> conference, there is no chatter about. >>> >> >> Conference

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-16 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 2:15:22 AM UTC+2, JonL wrote: > > There is no clear status of the next release or when it can be expected or > what are the blockers on the Contributor forum here. > This is not exact: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gwt-steering/uv_WsmNkti0/discussion (*not*

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-16 Thread Alberto Mancini
> > > >> There is no promotion on the main GWT site of the only currently >> scheduled GWT conference and the normally already scheduled GWT.create >> conference, there is no chatter about. >> > > Conference organizers are probably the ones who should promote their > conference; GWT core

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-16 Thread JonL
Thanks for the link Thomas! I knew something along this line must exist. However, it appears that the GWT Steering google group is not listed on the GWT Resources page, so it is kind of hidden from view and I was unaware it existed. I made a suggested edit and pull request to have it added

[gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-15 Thread Brian Pedersen
+1 all the way. I use every chance I have to spread the word about the changes JS Interop will bring to the web, but the apparent lack of engagement in the community from the people driving GWT, is giving me second thoughts. The official blog used to be OK, but that changed when google open

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-15 Thread JonL
So I agree with you 99%. What we disagree is on this point: On the other hand, I also think that exists some level of > confusion/misinformation, *but it's not a critical situation* and if you > spent some time in google groups, gerrit or github you end up knowing > exactly what's happening

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-15 Thread Ignacio Baca Moreno-Torres
IMHO current organization is pretty good, docs in the official page, news in google+, question and issues in Google groups and you can always chat with the community in ##gwt. All this 4 places are easy to contribute, so if you see less info and news is just because the community is not very news