Last week I was on holiday and I was seeing maps everywhere. I saw road maps and tourists maps of curse, but I also saw maps illustrating the influence of an architectural style, of a religion or of a language… I saw maps of wines giving more identity to the wines. My wife was even reading an old French book containing "La carte du tendre".
Why did I tell you that? Because when seeing all those maps, I realized how a map is an excellent tool to present very different aspects of a territory (even a virtual territory), and I was wondering if it the ASF land couldn't be such a territory. On one single picture (with a few variations), we could presents all the apache projects, how they relate together, things that they have in common, their link with standards, etc.. I can imagine a map of the ASF land, with some fertile valley (build management, web framework, XML…), with TLP being countries, some with provinces. You would have rivers, like the HTTP rivers traversing countries like HTTP Server, tomcat, etc.. You would have a repository lake close to the maven country, not really far from a small city named Ivy. To represent the standards, you would have mountains or hills named RFC-x, or IETF-y. You would also have forest named JSR-xxx. On the North of the ASF land, you would have the Community Ocean, with a few havens like PRC, Legal, Board (or maybe you prefer to see them inland). On the East you would have the big JCP forest. Maybe the West would be the GPL Mountains. I guess you could also add roads with traffic depending on the number of persons 'travelling' from one mailing list to another. You could show the geology. On the east, all around the Jakarta country you would have java ground, on other regions you will have C, C++, python grounds, etc. And I'm sure that the community would have quiet a lot of other things to add. I let you imagination works. I sent this on this mailing list because I know the people here are coming from a lot of different "ASF regions". I guess that [EMAIL PROTECTED] could have been an alternative, but it is here that new project born. I have thus preferred to launch the idea here. Did you like the idea? Are there people here wanting to collaborate on it? What does the mentors here advices for the next steps? -- Gilles SCOKART --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
