Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Rich Bowen
On 03/31/2017 09:07 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > I don't have a firm deadline on this, but I was thinking perhaps April > 5th might be a good date. Wednesdays tend to be good newsletter days, > according to people that know about stuff like that. > Sally (VP Marketing) suggests the 12th, rather tha

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Rich Bowen
On 03/31/2017 11:30 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > I *thought* the policy for any email to committers@ was that it *must* > have an alternate Reply-To address, but I can't find where it's written > down. In Rich's newsletter case, it'd be Reply-To: dev@community here, > and we can trust Rich to reme

Apache Mahout's participation in GSoC

2017-03-31 Thread Aditya
Hello everyone! I have a few questions regarding ASF's participation in GSoC this year. I have approached the Mahout community to contribute to Mahout's development in the summer (as part of GSoC) in the form of an algorithm. Trevor Grant, a committer of Apache Mahout has agreed to mentor me and

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Shane Curcuru
Great idea Rich, if you have the time to curate the content, and also work to coordinate with the other recurring committers@ traffic (like the monthly board email, etc.) Katherine Marsden wrote on 3/31/17 11:20 AM: > My only concern with this is creating a lot of followup discussion > and chatter

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread sebb
On 31 March 2017 at 15:34, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 03/31/2017 09:26 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> >>> >> >> The draft newsletter does not seem to have instructions for opting out. >> Do you plan to add that before going live? > > The intent is that this would go to committ...@apache.org - a l

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Katherine Marsden
My only concern with this is creating a lot of followup discussion and chatter on committers. Maybe make the reply-to this list and make it clear that folks need to subscribe here if they want to see/have followup discussions. Thanks Katherine Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 31, 2017, at 7:34

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Rich Bowen
On 03/31/2017 09:26 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > >> > > The draft newsletter does not seem to have instructions for opting out. > Do you plan to add that before going live? The intent is that this would go to committ...@apache.org - a list to which all committers are subscribed. There's no o

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/31/2017 6:07 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: As you probably know, I have been pondering a (bi?)monthly community newsletter for some time. The goal is to increase the connection between projects/committers and the larger Apache Software Foundation. As we grow larger, it becomes harder and harder for

Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-03-31 Thread Rich Bowen
As you probably know, I have been pondering a (bi?)monthly community newsletter for some time. The goal is to increase the connection between projects/committers and the larger Apache Software Foundation. As we grow larger, it becomes harder and harder for projects and individuals to connect with w

Women in Big Data Breakfast Panel @ Dataworks Summit

2017-03-31 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Everyone A reminder that the Women in Big Data (WiBD) Breakfast Panel will be happening next week as part of the Dataworks Summit in Munich. https://www.womeninbigdata.org/ https://dataworkssummit.com/munich-2017/ Panel event details are as follows: - Women in Big Data Breakfast Panel - Loc