On 20 April 2015 at 16:44, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Up to now, we have relied on a few contributors to communicate the messages > regarding ApacheCon and on the trickle-down approach via the private ML of > our projects. Shouldn't we be reaching out directly (and systematically) to > all our contributors by mailing directly to the user and dev MLs of our > project? We thereby reach a greater audience with thus potentially > achieving a bigger success. > We have actually also used committers@ which reached all committers in apache. > > What do you think? > I am a bit reluctant to go directly from the apacheCON Team to dev@ and user@ of our projects, doing so will probably not be seen as a positive act by the PMCs. We write to private@ on each project, in the hope that at least one PMC member will resend the mail on the list where that project has traffic. That being said, I do agree that we need to explore ways of getting the word out. rgds jan I. > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com >
