Re: [EVENT] Add Flink Forward EU 2019 to the ASF event calendar

[sharanf]

Hi Myrle

Sorry I missed it. I can do it and will also see  I can add you with 
admin for the calendar. The more the merrier :-)


Thanks
Sharan

On 2019-08-04 17:44, Myrle Krantz wrote:

Hey y'all,

Nobody seems to have picked this up, and I don't know how to edit the
calendar.  Can someone point me to some directions?

Thanks,
Myrle

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 11:15 AM Fabian Hueske  wrote:


Hi everyone,

We got the brand approval for Flink Forward EU 2019.

Could somebody please add the conference to the event calendar?
Flink Forward will take place 7th to 9th October 2019 in Berlin (two weeks
before ApacheCon EU).

Thank you very much,
Fabian

Am Di., 9. Juli 2019 um 10:14 Uhr schrieb Fabian Hueske <
fhue...@apache.org

:
Thanks Rich!
I'll reach out to ASF brand and get back here once once I got the OK from
them.

Thanks, Fabian

Am Mo., 8. Juli 2019 um 18:39 Uhr schrieb Rich Bowen 

On 7/8/19 12:29 PM, Fabian Hueske wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'd like to ask to add "Flink Forward EU 2019" to the ASF event

calendar.

Flink Forward will take place 7th to 9th October 2019 in Berlin (two

weeks

before ApacheCon EU).

This is the 9th Flink Forward (5th in Europe, 3 in US, 1 in China) and

the

last time we got ASF brand approval was for Flink Forward China in

December

2018.
Since then, the branding did not change and website [1] was only kept

up to

date.

Can you add Flink Forward EU 2019 to the calendar or do we need ASF

brand

permission before that?


Yes, I would be glad to add it to the calendar, but, yes, you need the
OK from brand first.

--Rich

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Re: community assistance

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Hi Mark

I am in Las Vegas next and if you are too and have some time then I'd be 
happy to understand what is needed to to help maintain this.


Thanks
Sharan

On 2019-09-02 23:06, Mark Thomas wrote:

On 16/08/2019 17:24, Mark Thomas wrote:

On 12/08/2019 14:43, Mark Thomas wrote:

On 12/08/2019 13:52, Claude Warren wrote:

I have a standup at 2pm Dublin time every day, and I am giving my ApacheCon
talk to the office at noon Thurs.  But other than that I am free.  how were
you thinking of doing the education (i.e. online meeting/screen share,
phone, video)?

I was thinking online meeting / screen share. Shouldn't take too long.
We can fix a time once we have an idea of Christofer's schedule.

Sorry, time just slipped away from me today. I meant to get back to you
mid-afternoon today.

I've got one outstanding request to complete. I'll get that done shortly
as I'm unlikely to have time over the next couple of weeks. I imagine a
few requests will arrive between now and the start of September and I'll
get back in touch then when I can walk you through the process and then
we can share out the new requests.

Hi Claude,

Can you do some time Weds, Thurs or Fri this week?

Mark



Mark



Mark



Claude

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:41 PM Mark Thomas  wrote:


Claude, Chistofer,

Thanks for the offer to help.

At the moment, it is just me that sets projects up on RedBubble. I'd be
happy to run you both through the process so we can share the load.

What are your diaries like this week for me to set up a demo? My diary
is empty apart from Wednesday afternoon. It looks like we are all in
Europe so finding a time should be fairly easy.

Mark


On 09/08/2019 08:33, Claude Warren wrote:

Sharan or whomever might know.

I see that you seem to handle most of the requests for things like adding
stickers.  While I don't have a lot of time I think I have enough to

assist

in things like putting stickers on RedBubble.  Is there a way I can

assist?

Claude





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Re: Please Add Rya and ECharts to Redbubble

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Excellent and thanks Mark!

On 2019-09-02 23:31, Mark Thomas wrote:

On 22/08/2019 20:42, Sharan Foga wrote:

Hi Mark

Please can you add the logos for Rya and ECharts be added to the Redbubble 
store.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/comdev/works/40935492-apache-rya?asc=u

https://www.redbubble.com/people/comdev/works/40935551-apache-echarts?asc=u

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Apache Event - Embracing the Apache Open Source Software Community

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Hi Everyone

Please see email below from Xiangdong Huang about an Apache event held 
recently at a Chinese university. Links to videos and slides are below.


It's great to hear that the event went well and hopefully we can blog 
and tweet more about it.


Thanks
Sharan

--
Hi all,

Many thanks for supporting holding the Apache Event in Tsinghua 
University in China.


More than 150 students and young developers attended the lecture. 
Students liked the stickers, and enjoyed the talks very much I think.


I have uploaded the videos and slides (and have got the permission of 
authors) to Youtube and SlideShare.


You can find them from [1]~[10].

There are some stickers left.  I also customized 3 boxes of glass 
clothes (Apache logo printed), and there are two boxes left.  （Thank 
Sharan for posting the stickers to me :D)


By the way, do I need to write something (in English) to broadcast the 
event to the community@ mailing list  or the blog? Or some photos to the 
twitter?


Thank everyone once again. Cheers!

[1] The whole video, Apache Event - Embracing the Apache Open Source 
Software Community (Panel Discussion included): https://youtu.be/vDc7nUb7V0w

[2] Craig's talk, The Apache Way : https://youtu.be/JZbR5vW7oL0
[3] Junping Du's talk (Chinese), The practice of enjoying Apache : 
https://youtu.be/cCQ52QPtZ_s
[4] Willem Jiang's talk (Chinese), Getting Started: How to join an Open 
Source project: https://youtu.be/Ly54ckucpmE
[5] Liang Zhang's talk (Chinese), Apache ShardingSphere Community's 
Exploration and Expansion: https://youtu.be/V-ZX1onkFhQ
[6] Craig's slides: 
https://www.slideshare.net/jixuan1989/craig-the-apache-way
[7] Junping Du's slides: 
https://www.slideshare.net/jixuan1989/the-practice-of-enjoying-apache
[8] Willem Jiang's slides: 
https://www.slideshare.net/jixuan1989/willem-ning-jiang-getting-started-how-to-join-an-open-source-project-apache-event-in-tsinghua-2019
[9] Liang Zhang's slides: 
https://www.slideshare.net/jixuan1989/practice-of-building-apache-sharding-sphere-iincubator-community
[10] Xiangdong's slides: 
https://www.slideshare.net/jixuan1989/from-a-student-to-an-apache-committer-practice-of-apache-io-tdb


Best,
---
Xiangdong Huang
School of Software, Tsinghua University

 黄向东
清华大学 软件学院

Re: Thoughts on study about the impact of the Apache ecosystem on community diversity of open source projects

[sharanf]

Hi Isabella

Thanks very much for reaching out to me.  It's great to hear that you 
are interested in the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and doing some 
research on the the potential lifecycle of incubating projects. I think 
that the topics that you are looking to gather information on cover a 
few areas within the ASF. While Community Development is a general 
umbrella covering all Apache communities, we do have specific areas that 
are focussed specifically on D&I and Apache Incubator itself.


Our Apache Incubator community oversees the whole Apache incubation 
process while  D&I community has been instrumental in performing the 
latest survey of diversity within the Apache communities and may be able 
to give you a better indication of what diversity information we have 
and can share.


In the meantime I will try to respond inline to your various points below.

A key tool we use to gather statistics and metrics for all Apache 
projects is another Apache project called Apache Kibble which collects 
contribution and statistics information on incubating projects too so 
maybe take a look at.



On 2020-11-02 16:10, Isabella Ferreira wrote:

Dear Sharan Foga,

My name is Isabella Ferreira and I was in your presentation at 
CHAOSScon Europe 2020. Based on your presentation, I saw that you are 
involved in several initiatives to encourage diversity within the ASF.


We, a group of Canadian and Dutch software engineering researchers, 
are interested in understanding why some projects joining Apache 
incubator grow and succeed, and others fail. Based on this study, our 
eventual goal is to formulate recommendations for projects considering 
to join Apache in terms of expectations and best practices. We aim to 
share our findings with the Apache community as well as software 
practitioners and researchers.


So far we have manually classified the incubator proposals of 292 
projects to understand their motivation. We have found that these are 
the top-5 reasons for joining the Apache incubator:


1.
Community building
2.
Community diversity
3.
Follow an established development process (such as the "Apache Way")
4.
Increase user base
5.
Expected collaboration with other projects


As the next step, we would like to evaluate to what extent joining the 
Apache ecosystem has enabled projects to achieve their goals. In 
particular, we are interested in questions like:


 *
Did the number of organizations contributing to Apache projects
increase compared to before joining the Apache incubator?



We have been using Apache Kibble to generate statistics for all our 
projects and we don't currently track track organisational affiliation 
properly but there have been discussions about ways to improve and 
include it.


For projects coming into Apache Incubator, I believe some organisational 
affiliation is captured initially to ensure diversity of project 
affiliation and the lack of dependency on one specific company. As you 
mention sometimes a project enter incubation to grow their communities 
as they need to diversify to survive.



 *
Did the geographical spread of contributions to Apache projects
increase compared to before joining the Apache incubator?



I don't think Apache Kibble captures geographical location of 
contributions but it does capture the time and date of the contribution, 
if that is any help.



 *
Did the gender diversity of contributions to Apache projects
increase compared to before joining the Apache incubator?



We do have the contributor id but Apache Kibble doesn't specifically 
capture or report on this information. Perhaps our D&I community may be 
able to help you here with some relevant details from the last Apache 
Diversity survey.


While the GitHub and Subversion repositories of Apache projects 
provide information about the kind of contributions made (size, 
complexity, etc.), the information needed to address the above 
questions is not as readily available.


Hence, as the current VP of the Apache Community Development, we would 
like to have your thoughts on what would be the best way to obtain 
access to the above diversity data, without breaching any 
confidentiality concerns:


 *
Is there a means to get access to Apache patch submitters’
contributor agreements, for research purposes? If so, what is the
process for this (e.g., NDAs to sign)?



Tha ASF site publishes publicly the list of people and companies that 
have signed an Individual or Corporate Contributor Licence Agreeement 
(ICLAs). If you are asking for access to the actual document signed, 
then no - this is not possible.



 *
Alternatively, is there a way for us to provide R or Python
analysis scripts that someone with data access could run on our
behalf, as such only exposing aggregate data to us?
 *
Another alternative would be to perform a series of interviews
and/or a survey amongst Apache contributors, although the success
 

More Details on FOSDEM ASF Virtual Booth

[sharanf]

Hi All

I have some additional info from the FOSDEM organisers and have updated 
the wiki page.


https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/FOSDEM+2021 



We need to start working on pulling the booth website together with the 
content to be displayed.


My suggestion for the booth objectives are:

1. Attracting visitors (this is a key part of having a booth, getting 
people to come and talk to us!)

2. Promote the  ASF and its Projects by:
   - Running a mini track with demos or short presentations 
showcasing specific projects

   - Having project experts available to chat and answer questions
   - Having people available to answer questions about the ASF
3. Run video content that gives basic information about the ASF and what 
we do


I think the most important thing is having real people available to talk 
to. So if you would like to spend time on the booth talking about and 
answering questions about your projects then please add your details to 
the wiki page along with your project. We can then promote the date and 
time of the session as part of our booth content to attract people.


The booths open at least an hour before any of the FOSDEM talks so we do 
have an opportunity to catch people at the beginning of their day.


Remember that there will be a lot of devrooms running throughout the 
weekend so if we do decide to run a mini track then it needs to be 
interesting enough that people will want to come. The standard talk 
length for FOSDEM is 30 minutes so I'd like to suggest that our booth 
talks be shorter maybe 10 or 15 minutes with a chance for attendees to 
talk to the presenters and ask questions.


If you don't want to present but simply want to be around to talk then 
that's OK too. The key thing we need to understand is which projects 
will be represented during the event so we can tailor our content to fit.


So what needs to happen now?
The most important task now is that we need to build our virtual booth 
site, test it and then send the links to the FOSDEM team before FOSDEM 
starts on 6th February!


As a first step we need to create a couple of github repos based on the 
FOSDEM stands content. More instructions and details 
https://github.com/FOSDEM/stands-website/blob/master/README.md 



Any volunteers willing to help with getting this started?

Thanks
Sharan

Offer of Mentoring and Coaching to All Apache Communities

[sharanf]

Hi Everyone

I'd like to introduce you to Veronica Tomat. She contacted us a few 
weeks ago looking for ways to volunteer and contribute to our 
communities. Veronica is new to Apache and she is very keen to help out 
by offering her time and skills to us, including coaching, diversity & 
inclusion, mentoring mentors, cross cultural negotiation etc.


These topics come up regularly in our community track presentations as 
areas that our communities need to understand and learn about, so this 
could be an opportunity for us to help improve and reinforce these 
skills within our communities.


I've included Veronica on this email so will let her respond and provide 
more details of what she can do, how to contact her and how she would 
like to manage the sessions.


Welcome Veronica and thanks for contacting us!

Thanks
Sharan/
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Re: Board reporting project stats feature broken - Email stats seem to have zero weeks

[sharanf]

Hi Mike

Thanks for the bug report - we will investigate.

I took a quick look at Daffodil's dev mailing list for week 5 (8th - 
14th February) and I see emails for 2nd, 3rd and 4th of February and 
then no other emails sent until 16th February. This is probably why 
there is nothing in the email stats for week 5.  If you can find an 
email that was sent during week 5 on the list that I've missed then 
please send a link so that we can dig into the issue some more.


I will also follow up on the others issues that you have mentioned.

Thanks
Sharan

On 2021-03-05 15:54, Beckerle, Mike wrote:

INFRA (D. Gruno) told me to get support for this from dev @ community.

JIRA is down right now (can't create a ticket) so I'm sending this in 
email.


Board reports are due shortly. The email stats are very broken.

My project

https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?daffodil

shows 1 dead week (week 5),



when I'm quite sure there was traffic from looking at the mail 
archives at


https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@daffodil.apache.org

This is actually improved. Yesterday there were zeros for all weeks of 
2021. This screenshot is from yesterday:



We're not the only project having this problem.

https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?plc4x

which as of this writing has same issue:


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[REMINDER] CFP for FOSS Backstage closes soon!

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Hi All

A reminder that if you want to submit a talk for FOSS Backstage 
 then the CFP will be closing soon.


For those of you not familiar with FOSS Backstage it is a great 
conference that explores a lot of the non coding related topics around 
open source (e.g  governance, legal and collaboration). The scope of 
some of the talks they are looking for is very similar to what we 
generally include as part of the Community Track at ApacheCon so if you 
have submitted to our Community Track in the past then you can 
definitely submit something to FOSS Backstage.


The conference is planned to be partly online and partly in person - so 
you can choose which part of the conference you want to submit to.


You can find out further details on the CFP at the link below:

https://foss-backstage.de/news/call-participation-now-open 



And if you want to submit something then here is the CFP link:

https://pretalx.com/foss-backstage-2022/cfp 



The CFP closing date is 22nd November just before midnight so don't 
leave it until the last minute!


Thanks
Sharan

[REMINDER]: Submissions Open for Community Track at ApacheCon New Orleans

[sharanf]

Hi All

The CFP for ApacheCon NA in New Orleans is open and wanted to remind you 
that we have a Community track and we are looking for your submissions.


So what is the Community track? It's an opportunity for anyone from our 
communities to talk about and share what they have done, learned or 
experienced as part of being in involved with Apache.


So what sort of topics are we looking for? (Here are some examples to 
get you thinking :-)


 * Your Apache story..How and why did you get involved with the ASF?
 * What does it mean to you to be a Contributor, Committer, Member or
   Officer in the Foundation?
 * What does the Apache way mean to you? What are your real life
   stories about understanding and adopting it?
 * Did you or your project have any particular challenges to overcome?
   What happened? What worked? And what didn't!
 * How diverse and inclusive are our communities?What have you seen or
   experienced?
 * All those with knowledge of Apache branding, licencing, governance -
   please feel free to submit something that will share your knowledge
   with others.
 * Do you have any data or opinions about where we are now and what our
   future communities could evolve into?

The Community Track is all about our communities sharing their thoughts 
and experiences with others, so that we can learn from it.
I'm going to mention this upfront as we always seem to get a rush of 
submissions in the last week or even the last 24 hours of the CFP - so 
although the CFP closes on 23rd May - please don't leave it to the last 
moment to submit something :-)


Please see below for a link to the CFP 
 and you can alsofind out more 
details on the ApacheCon site .


It's great to finally be planning a face to face event and we are 
looking forward to your submissions :-)


Thanks
Sharan

Reminder: CFP Closing Soon - Get Your Community Track Submissions In

[sharanf]

!Hi All

The CFP for ApacheCon is closing soon so if you were planning to submit 
something and havent done it yet ...then it's time to get it done. The 
CFP will close at 00:01 GMT on Monday 23rd May 2022 so make sure you 
know what this is in your own timezone.


Here is the link for submissions cfp.apachecon.com/

Looking forward to getting some great talks for our Community Track.

Thanks
Sharan

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Reviewers Needed for ApacheCon Community Track

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Hi All

The CFP for ApacheCon will be closing soon and we are now looking for 
some volunteers to help us review the proposals. One thing we are 
currently asking of the track reviewers is that they are not planning to 
make a submission to the track they are reviewing.


If you are interested in helping out and haven't made a submission to 
the Community track then please respond.


Thanks
Sharan

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Locating the Items Needed for ASF Booth - New Orleans

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Hi All

With ApacheCon NA not too far away - I need to do an inventory of the 
stuff we have in the US that we have used for past events that can be 
used for the ASF booth. Taking a look at the information on our wiki 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=81789772 
I am not sure how up to date it is. So if you have stuff such as 
banners, swag etc (or know someone who is looking after some) then 
please ensure that the wiki is updated so we have visibility of where 
everything is.


The main things I am looking for are:

 * Our ASF branded tablecover / table throw
 * The large step and repeat banner for behind the booth
 * Various rollup banners such the Apache Feather and List of Projects
   (though I think we might need to generate a new banner for the list
   of projects since we have a few more since the last one was printed!)
 * Any swag / giveaways we have leftover from previous events

Once we can get these located we can organise getting these taken to or 
shipped to the ApacheCon venue in New Orleans.


Thanks
Sharan

Where to Get an Updated Graphic with List of ASF Projects Logos

[sharanf]

Hi All

For Apachecon and other events we generally have a roll up banner with 
the logos of all the projects under the ASF umbrella. We also have had 
variations of these such as Incubator only projects.The current banners 
we have are out of date so I'd like to know where I can get an updated 
graphic of good enough quality to create and order a new banner.


As it's external facing I know that M&P need to approve it and in the 
past I think it has been generated via various means (Daniel, Central 
Services and Sally :-). I know we haven't had face to face events for a 
while so it hasnt really mattered so much but as things open up we need 
to ensure we have up to date banners that reflect our existing projects 
- so my question is who is responsible for generating these type of 
graphics that are being used as our official ASF ones? (as I'd like to 
get an updated one for ApacheCon)


Thanks
Sharan

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Project Stickers for the ASF Booh at ApacheCon New Orleans

[sharanf]

Hi All

I am preparing the order for project stickers for ApacheCon New Orleans. 
Traditionally the ASF booth is the place to come and get your projects 
stickers, chat and have fun!.


If you are going to be at ApacheCon and would like to have some of your 
project stickers available at the ASF booth then please let me know by 
responding to this thread.


I have been through the ApacheCon schedule and created a list of all the 
projects that have talks at the event on the ComDev Wiki 
https://s.apache.org/z0es8. so will be ordering stickers for all those 
on the list. If your project is not on the list and you would like to 
have some stickers - then please respond to this thread with the project 
name and I will add it.


Please note this also includes getting stickers for  incubating projects 
:-)


I'll be putting the order on 14th September to make sure it can be 
delivered in time.


Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans with a booth packed with 
project stickers!


Thanks
Sharan



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[MARKETING] Thanking Bona Fide Masks for Their ASF Face Masks Donation

[sharanf]

Hi

Please could we give a shout out via our ASF social media channels to 
acknowledge the donation of 2400 free masks for ApacheCon NA from the 
team at Bona Fide Masks !


These masks will be used as part of the Covid-19 safety measures for the 
event.


Thanks
Sharan

ApacheCon New Orleans - Community Track Report

[sharanf]

Hi Everyone

Sorry this is a little late - I feel like I am still recovering from 
ApacheCon in New Orleans (and no - I don't mean that I have a mega 
hangover :-)


Just being at an in person event again - and at ApacheCon was amazing. 
From the first day seeing familiar faces turn up and say Hello to 
watching talks with standing room only. Meeting new people, having fun, 
making jokes and also of course the serious conversations made it a 
great experience - I totally enjoyed it all. Even breaking a tooth on 
the first day couldn't dampen my enthusiasm (though it might have made 
me a little short tempered every now and then!)


I know that a lot of  people couldn't make it due to various reasons and 
unfortunately Swapnil Mane our ComDev PMC Chair and Co-Track Chair of 
the Community Track was on of them. I was really hoping for us to get to 
meet in person but it wasnt to be. I hope that Swapnil and all the 
others that didn't get the chance to experience this ApacheCon will get 
that opportunity in the future.


So now to business - first of all I'd like to say a huge thank you to 
all our speakers came along to speak at the Community Track! You are the 
ones that really made the track successful. Our track attracted a really 
good audience and I think the topics on the schedule were a good mix 
that helped not only inform but also gave the chance to interact.


Thank you to Mick Semb Wever for opening our Community track with a 
presentation about Community @ Cassandra. We also heard stories from a 
variety of projects including Lucene and Airflow which shows that we all 
have something to share that could help other communities evolve and 
grow. We had sessions on Avoiding Burnout, Fundraising at the ASF, GSoC, 
starting up a project, running events,  the Apache Way - all interesting 
and well attended.  I'd be happy to hear any comments or feedback from 
any of you that attended the sessions.


Special mentions goes out to Eric Pugh who stepped in at the last moment 
to fill a gap in the track schedule and also to the TAC team who 
tirelessly helped me with stock for the ASF Booth. The booth was well 
stocked with our latest swag items which were also well received ... 
they disapperared pretty quickly.


As ever kudos and endless gratitude goes out to the the Conferences team 
of Rich Bowen, Ruth Suehle and Brian Proffitt (plus all those others 
behind the scenes) who had the busiest week ever but dealt with all the 
issues and stress with quick, calm efficiency.


What a blast! Let's get ready for the next one!

Thanks
Sharan


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Location Available in London for ASF or Project Meetups

[sharanf]

Hi All

During ApacheCon I met Michel Sumbul. He was keen to mention that his 
company has an office based in London and they are willing to offer the 
ASF use of the location for holding events and meetups. I think Michel 
mentioned that the venue coud hold up to 200 people. (Please correct me 
if this is wrong!)


So if you or your project are interested in or thinking about organising 
a meetup or event in London then please respond and we can connect you 
to Michel.


Thanks
Sharan

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CFP for FOSS Backstage 2023 is Open!

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Hi All

The Call For Papers for FOSS Backstage is now open 
https://23.foss-backstage.de/call-for-papers/


The CFP will close on 6th November please don't leave it to the last 
moment if you want to send in a proposal for a talk, panel discussion, 
lightning talk or workshop!


For all those that don't know about FOSS Backstage, it a conference 
around all aspects of open source such as community, governance, legal 
and more. You can find out more details on their website 
https://23.foss-backstage.de/ . The event will take place on 13th and 
14th March 2023


In the past we have had a strong participation and collaboration with 
FOSS Backstage so it is great that another event is being planned.


Please feel free to spread the word and follow FOSS Backstage on Twitter 
https://twitter.com/Fossbckstg


Thanks
Sharan


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FOSDEM 2023

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Hi All

In case you haven't heard yet. FOSDEM 2023  is 
back as an in person event. Millions of developers (ok perhaps 
thousands!) will converge on Brussels to enjoy this mega meetup.


We usually try to have an ASF booth at the event. The call for stands is 
open so I'll put in a submission for a stand for the ASF and see how it 
goes. We should find out by 1st December if we get a stand or not.


Thanks
Sharan

RE: Re: Proposition to organise Apache meetup in central London

[sharanf]

Hi Michel

Thanks again for the offer of the meeting location - and I hope that we 
do get something planned just to get things started.


A question - what sort of timeframe are your offices available for? Are 
you thinking 2-3 hours, half a day, a full day, morning, evening etc? It 
would be good to understand the options and any constraints.


Thanks
Sharan


On 2022/12/05 10:39:43 Mark Thomas wrote:
> Hi Michel,
>
> I be interested in any sort of general community meetup. Doesn't need to
> be project specific although I can always talk (at length!) about Tomcat
> given the opportunity. I could also talk about security vulnerability
> handling, code signing or trademarks if there was any interest in those
> topics.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 04/12/2022 17:25, Michel Sumbul wrote:
> > Good evening everyone !
> > Im Michel Sumbul andwas present at the apacheCon where I had 
multiple chat with different peopleabout organising more meetup in 
London to promote more Apache project andhelping the community to meet.
> > The company I'm working for, G-Research, have an office in central 
London where we already organise quite often differentmeetup about 
different topic (opensource, Math, technology talk, etc..) and wecan 
easily welcome 200 peoples.
> > We would like to know if the Apache community would be interested 
to organise withus some meetup at our office (for free) ? It could be 
about any Apache project,to promote the technology / project and help 
the community to meet / growth. As long asthere is no sale speech from 
company.
> > If yes, happy to start the discussion how to organise this more 
concretely.

> >
> > Michel
> >
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REMINDER: Still Possible to submit talks to FOSDEM CFPs

[sharanf]

Hi All

This is a general reminder that FOSDEM has a few CFPs that are still 
open. As well as talks for the Main Tracks, FOSDEM has a large range of 
Developer Rooms where you can submit talks to. ASF projects have been 
widely represented in the past as our projects fit many of the Developer 
Room categories.


Unfortunately the Community Track CFP has closed but there are a few 
that are still open so please click the Developer Room link to check the 
submission deadline date.


https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/

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Sharan


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FOSDEM 2023 Wiki Page

[sharanf]

Hi All

As mentioned I have setup a page on the ComDev wiki to manage our FOSDEM 
involvement.


https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/FOSDEM+2023

Please take a look and add your details if you'd like to help out with 
booth setup or tear down, generally help out on the booth or would like 
to spend some time on the booth talking to people about your project.


We have the booth available for 2 days (Saturday and Sunday) so please 
take a look and book your slots. We are initially taking bookings in 
blocks of 2 hours and will see how many projects sign up, so if we find 
there are some free slots, then people can get more time. Every year we 
have people come along asking about specific projects and we are not 
experts on them all...so this is why we need you!


If anyone has already had a talk accepted then please add it to the list.

Thanks
Sharan

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FOSDEM 2023 Update

[sharanf]

Hi Everyone

I am back and still in the process of recovering from FOSDEM last 
weekend so wanted to post a quick update. After two years of being an 
online conference due to the pandemic it was great to get back to an in 
person event...and FOSDEM excels at being an in person event. I can't 
begin to describe how great it felt to be back behind the booth talking 
to people about the foundation and our projects. I saw so many familiar 
faces of people who keep coming back to say Hello! One guy showed me an 
ASF branded USB extender that I gave him a few years ago at FOSDEM for 
helping me out with a Kibble demo...:-)


Now normally it rains in February. If there's one thing that seems 
assured - it's rain at FOSDEM... well this time it was a little 
different. I won't say it didn't rain (because it did) but not that 
much. And even more unexpected was the sunshine ..Maybe the city 
Brussels was happy to have an in person FOSDEM again too so put on some 
good weather for us:-)


Our booth has usually been on the first floor of K block right at the 
top of the stairs but this time we were given a new location. We were on 
the ground floor on the left hand side along by the windows. We were 
also near to one the entry / exit doors. Our position meant that people 
had to pass by us to get in or out - so we got a lot of foot traffic. 
The FOSDEM team grouped foundations linked to Community Advocacy 
together so we were alongside OpenUK, FOSSASIA, Software Freedom 
Conservancy. FSFE, FOSSASIA, Ecliipse Foundation etc.


On Saturday I arrived with the bag of swag to find a few people ready 
and waiting to help out with setup. We quickly put up the banner (it 
definitely needed two people!), blew up some balloons and got the booth 
table covered in stickers (So much so that during the event people came 
to take photos of our display). We kept telling people that this was 
only a small selection of ASF projects. Even so - we did have requests 
for stickers we didn't have (so they are on my list for next time). Also 
we ran out of the HTTP Server stickers (everyone wanted a sticker of the 
first ASF project). We ran out of stickers for Apache Maven, Apache 
Kafka this time.


As well as stickers we gave away some balloons for the children (and 
some adults too), cleaning cloths for glasses and screens, mugs, head 
tubes, pens, small cable bags, key rings and mask extenders (as there 
were a few people with masks). The cleaning cloths were very popular - 
everyone wearing glasses seemed to want one.


For the things that we had limited supply of - we told people that to 
get one would cost 'a good conversation' :-) So we had some really good 
conversations - about projects, technology and I think even open source 
software for space technology! This is one of the reasons that having a 
booth presence is so good for outreach and general community building.


People also came to talk to us about other open source events that were 
being organised that they hoped we or our communities might be 
interested in participating in. One of these was the Open System Days 
Croation Linux Users Conference who have a CFP open 
https://www.dorscluc.org/call-for-speakers/. We also offered a free 
meeting room for community meetups for any developers based in and 
around Portugal.


We had people from different projects spend some time on the booth - so 
special shoutout and huge thanks to Claude Warren, Matthew de 
Detrich, Arnout Engelen, Myrle Krantz, Jarek Potiuk, Gilles Sadowski, 
Johan Corveleyn, Jean-Frederic Clere, Herve Boutemy for helping out on 
the booth. Thanks also to everyone that dropped by to say Hi and chat 
-it was all fun.


There were rumours of 1 attending people but nothing concrete. 
Usually FOSDEM attracts over 8000 developers. Whatever the number there 
seemed to be an endless stream of people, there were lots of people at 
the foodcarts, on the first and second floors, walking to and from the 
other buildings and going in and out of the talks.  I understand that 
many of the talks have been recorded so if you didn't make it then you 
will still get a chance to see it. If you have never experienced FOSDEM 
then I would encourage you to keep it on your radar and see if you can 
make it to the next one.


Once again I would like to sincerely thank everyone that was involved in 
helping out to make our participation at FOSDEM a success. Am already 
looking forward to doing it all again next year if we get the chance.


Please feel free to respond with any of your FOSDEM experiences, 
feedback, thoughts or general comments!


Thanks
Sharan


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Re: Stickers for Apache Guacamole?

[sharanf]

Hi Mike

If you'd like the Apache Guacamole stickers to be added to the Redbubble 
store then yes this is the place to request getting that done. In the 
past if a project has an event or meetup then ComDev sometimes has 
limited budget to get some stickers printed for the project for the event.


If you'd like us to add Apache Guacamole stickers the the Redbubble 
where you can purchase things yourself then this process is this:


 * We check that the logo requested to be added is the official project
   logo and it must exist in https://apache.org/logos/
   
 * We will also send a message to the Apache Guacamole PMC to let them
   know about this request and get the OK to go ahead
 * We will then add the project logo to the Redbubble store and send a
   link to the project PMC to review and approve the logo layout on the
   various swag items (including stickers)
 * Once approved by the project PMC the new logo items are available
   for purchase in the Redbubble store

Thanks
Sharan


On 2023-02-23 19:29, Michael Jumper wrote:

Hello,

Perhttps://www.apache.org/foundation/buy_stuff.html#shop, would it be
possible to get stickers for Apache Guacamole?

Thanks,

- Mike

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Community Track CFP Open for Community Over Code (Formerly ApacheCon)

[sharanf]

Hi All

This is a note to let you know that we are running a Community Tracks 
for Community Over Code (Formerly ApacheCon 
). If you haven’t seen the announcement 
then please take a look. The event will take place in Halifax, Nova 
Scotia, Canada from 7^th - 10^th October 2023. (And yes the dates are 
correct – it starts on a Saturday!)


Having a track means that our community has the opportunity to participate.
*
*So why should you submit something for the Community Track CFP?

The ASF and our communities are always evolving and growing. We are 
still attracting new projects and new contributors. It’s this diversity 
that makes us sustainable so it becomes important that we hear from the 
people within all our communities. What topics could you talk about and 
submit? Your experience of being part of the ASF is important.


How and why did you become involved with the ASF? What does it mean to 
you to be a Contributor, Committer, Member or Officer in the Foundation? 
How do you understand and interpret our collaborative culture? What are 
your real life stories adopting it? Did you or your project have any 
challenges to overcome?


All those with knowledge of branding, licencing, governance - please 
feel free to submit something that will share your knowledge with others.


How diverse and inclusive are our communities? Do you have any data or 
opinions about where we are now and what our future communities could 
evolve into?


The Community Track is all about our communities sharing their thoughts 
and experiences with others, so that they can learn from it - so please 
submit if you have something you want share. And if it’s your first time 
submitting – then no problem, we welcome all submissions. (And if you'd 
like to submit something to any other track-- then that's fine too!. 
There is no reason you can't submit muitiple talks to multiple tracks)


So get thinking and when you are ready please use the CFP link below to 
make your submission.


Submit to the CFP 

You can find more details on the website. https://communityovercode.org/

Looking forward to your submissions :-)

Thanks
Sharan and Swapnil

Reviewers Needed for Community Over Code NA Community Track

[sharanf]

Hi Everyone

It's coming up to that time again... The CFP for Community Over Code 
North America will be closing soon (on 13th July to be precise!) and we 
are now looking for some volunteers to help us review the proposals. One 
thing we are currently asking of the track reviewers is that they are 
not planning to make a submission to the track they are reviewing.


If you are interested in helping out and haven't made a submission to 
the Community track then please respond.


Thanks
Sharan

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Project Sticker Requests for Community Over Code NA

[sharanf]

Hi All

I'm putting together the sticker order for CoC NA. We've taken a look at 
the schedule and any project that has a talk on the schedule will have 
stickers ordered. I've created a wiki page for the event with the 
details - so please take a look


https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Community+Over+Code+NA+2023

If you'd like stickers for your project to be available at the ASF booth 
then please add the project name to the table on the wiki.


As time is short - I will be putting the order in tomorrow at that 
latest to ensure that they will be delivered in time.


Thanks
Sharan

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