Re: Quick OSCON debrief

2018-07-20 Thread Kay Schenk
Thanks for this wonderful and wonderfully entertaining summary and some great ideas. -- Kay ___ Sent from MzK's phone. On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 08:47 Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > Hi, all; >Here is a completely unstructured list of thoughts/notes from OSCON > before I hop on the

Re: IBM's first Index dev conf in San Francisco

2018-03-04 Thread Kay Schenk
On 02/22/2018 04:45 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Hi! I've been invited to attend the first inaugural IBM's developer conference here in SF: https://developer.ibm.com/indexconf/ I must say I liked it very much and one thing that jumped at me was how OS community friendly it was. Basically a lot

Re: Rethinking email (was Re: A plead from a chair with an overloaded mailbox.)

2017-10-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Harbs wrote: > To me, subject tags are a partial (slightly annoying) solution to the > problem. If there’s no better solution, then I suppose it could make things > better, but it would likely require a lot of retraining of folks. I wonder > how realistic that is.

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

2017-02-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On 01/31/2017 04:14 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: As Ted pointed out, it is an ancient symbol found in most Far East mythology and the Hindu religion. "Out here" you will find it quite often, on shops, temples and business cards. It doesn't "carry weight" unless it comes in black on white, with the

Re: Xenophobia in the light of President-Elect Trump

2016-12-29 Thread Kay Schenk
On 12/29/2016 07:25 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: Gavin Mabie wrote on 12/29/16 8:20 AM: Hi Community Should the community come out clearly rejecting the Trump xenophobic policies? Given the fact that community members comprise all cultures, religions and geographies? Gavin The ASF is a 501C3 no

Re: Red Hat Request for Apache High Resolution Logos

2016-07-22 Thread Kay Schenk
Apache OpenOffice has had many problems with entities just "using" our logos without permission. We have instructions for what folks should do in the page we have on Trademarks. It is possible to "steal" a png rendering without much effort but the svgs are stored in a rather obscure svn area. When

Re: Hipchat Room for Apache Women?

2016-06-13 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/13/2016 06:17 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 6/13/2016 4:45 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: Hi Everyone I discovered Hipchat last week (well I knew Infra were using it!) but found it to be quite a nice informal online environment. I was wondering whether this could be a good way to bring toget

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 1

2016-06-09 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/08/2016 05:09 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: Hi Everyone Thanks very much for the feedback. I think this topic has a lot of dimensions and it depends how far we want to go with it, and simple is always a good place to start. I'm still in the process of gathering feedback, from IT Womens Groups,

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-24 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 05/20/2016 03:02 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > > Will the board consider it, is an appropriate question here? > > > > Community development activities have been delegated to the ComDev PMC. > There's no reason for the board to consider it. >

Re: Help Wanted! (it's a title, not a request!)

2016-02-08 Thread Kay Schenk
[top posting] Super! and I look forward to seeing how this evolves. On 02/07/2016 08:01 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > Hi ComDev folks! Ramblings incoming :) > > As an aside to the 'Guiding volunteers' thread, I was talking with Rich > (Bowen) while he was at DevConf this weekend, and we got to think

please ignore, wrong list! Re: How to commit changes to 410 branch?

2015-07-09 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/09/2015 12:41 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > It seems we are still using the 410 branch for the 4.1.2 release. There > have been quite a number of changes to trunk since the 4.1.1 release > that I feel ALL these should be incorporated into 4.1.2. > > How do we get the changes from

How to commit changes to 410 branch?

2015-07-09 Thread Kay Schenk
It seems we are still using the 410 branch for the 4.1.2 release. There have been quite a number of changes to trunk since the 4.1.1 release that I feel ALL these should be incorporated into 4.1.2. How do we get the changes from trunk into the 410 branch easily? It seems we could use -- svn copy

Re: ApacheConNA 2015 slides

2015-05-07 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 19/04/2015 Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > >> Thanks Andrea. I don’t see them there yet, so maybe they are >> still delayed. Do you know how I can check if they are delayed, >> or if I simply uploaded them wrong? >> > > For the ACEU1

Re: gtk requirements for builds?

2015-03-23 Thread Kay Schenk
sorry for this post -- wrong "dev" list On 03/22/2015 02:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > GTK is enabled by default for our builds. > > I don't see this listed as a build requirement for either Windows or > Mac, however. So, should this build flag be changed to non-enabled &

gtk requirements for builds?

2015-03-22 Thread Kay Schenk
GTK is enabled by default for our builds. I don't see this listed as a build requirement for either Windows or Mac, however. So, should this build flag be changed to non-enabled generally and only enabled for Linux? -- - MzK

Re: status of ooo-extras?

2015-03-03 Thread Kay Schenk
apologies! posted to wrong list! On 03/03/2015 03:14 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > Do we have any further information on moving ooo-extras (backups of > external libraries) or any extras to SourceForge and what form this > might take? Latest discussion -- > > http://markm

status of ooo-extras?

2015-03-03 Thread Kay Schenk
Do we have any further information on moving ooo-extras (backups of external libraries) or any extras to SourceForge and what form this might take? Latest discussion -- http://markmail.org/message/xfiafpfvhvbe4tiv We've updated at least 2 libraries already and more will likely be needed. In the

recent BZ changes -- some custom fields missing?

2015-02-19 Thread Kay Schenk
We had an update to our BZ instance about a month ago. In all honesty, I didn't give the update a thorough review. Now, I see that our Release Blocker button, and Request Review button seem to be missing. Can someone else confirm this? or is it just my situation. Thanks. -- -

Re: Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-02-01 Thread Kay Schenk
VERY good! :) On 01/16/2015 09:51 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > I think Bertrand’s document is coming along nicely. > > This is half serious and half for fun, but while it will be great to have > a maturity model and top-level authoritative documents on the Apache Way, > to me, what would also help is

[CODE] keyboard shortcut definitions?

2015-01-22 Thread Kay Schenk
Does anyone know where I can find information on where actual keyboard shortcut definitions -- the actual escape sequences -- are defined for use in OpenOffice. I found an old thread on where the menus are defined -- the *.xcu files -- but the not the actual ascii sequence assignments. -- --

Re: Mailinglists - a tool from the 90s?

2015-01-18 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:26 AM, David Nalley wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Benedikt Ritter > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > over at the Apache Commons Project, we have a long discussion about our > > mailing lists. Are they to noisy? Should they be splitted up into > sublists? > > Shoul

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On 01/15/2015 02:47 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: >> ...QO30 - do we really want individual projects to have / advertise >> their own ways to take security reports?... > > We do not want that, agreed, but as I want the model to be usable by >

Re: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin

2014-11-24 Thread Kay Schenk
h is next years. Can we get the LF folks to add > the year to those event titles in the CFP system to make the two events > actually distinguishable? > > Rob > > On 24/11/2014 00:30, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > > > > > >On 11/22/2014 09:16 AM, Rich B

Re: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin

2014-11-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On 11/22/2014 09:16 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > The CFP for ApacheCon Austin closes on February 1st, so we have just > over 2 months to get our content solicited for that event. I need your > help. > > At ApacheCon EU this week, I spoke with a number of project PMCs. I > requested that they attempt

Re: Code of conduct

2014-11-18 Thread Kay Schenk
On 11/18/2014 09:46 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Christopher wrote: > >> At first glance, a big +1. This is one of the better Code of Conduct >> policies that I've seen. >> >> >> -- >> Christopher L Tubbs II >> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii >> >> On Tue, Nov 18

Re: Apache Extras PoC

2014-11-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On 11/14/2014 02:05 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >> Two questions -- >> Are we ready to go ahead with these changes to /main/external_deps.lst -- > > No we aren't! Roberto sent us a proof of concept, but he wrote that even > the URL will change,

Re: Apache Extras PoC

2014-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 29/10/2014 Roberto Galoppini wrote: > >> Here we go, the new look&feel based on some of your earlier feedback: >> http://sourceforge.net/directory/apache_extras >> > > This is much improved, thanks Roberto! The landing page is now much

Re: Article on "Barriers faced by newcomers to open source"

2014-08-05 Thread Kay Schenk
Thanks. Very instructive. On 08/05/2014 06:49 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > Hi All > > For those thinking about how to make it easier to new comers into your > projects, and get them to stay, you may find this review article > (especially section 3) of interest: > http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/25/2014 03:36 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Pierre Smits <mailto:pierre.sm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org > <http://apache.org> that > comes in t

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Kay Schenk
y, do not keep up with this, but I'm sure someone does. So, I would propose an "Events" page to keep tract of some of these. "ApacheCon" would, of course, be one very important event. > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > Some of us j

more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-24 Thread Kay Schenk
Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this! However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/, events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent "Events" tab might be in order

Re: ApacheCon EU: What I need help with

2014-07-09 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > Thank you all for your enormous help so far. I can still use some help if > we're going to make a *July 15th* deadline for CFP notifications. Here's > what you can still do: > > The spreadsheet is at *http://tm3.org/aceu2014tracks* > > > * Check

Re: ApacheCon EU: What I need help with

2014-06-30 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/30/2014 09:11 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > I need to call on all you find people who have offered help with > ApacheCon. I didn't get anything done on it this weekend, and I don't > want to be holding anybody up. These are the things that I can use help > with. > > * Reviewing talks - if you're

Re: ApacheCon EU: What I need help with

2014-06-30 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/30/2014 02:06 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 06/30/2014 05:03 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> * Sorting into tracks/categories. All of the talks are in a Google >>> Doc at >>> >https://docs.google.com/a/rcbowen.com/spreadsheets/d/ >>> >1NSFxoGYk

Re: ApacheCon EU: What I need help with

2014-06-30 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > I need to call on all you find people who have offered help with > ApacheCon. I didn't get anything done on it this weekend, and I don't want > to be holding anybody up. These are the things that I can use help with. > > * Reviewing talks - if

Fwd: RE: Apache@ OSCON question

2014-06-20 Thread Kay Schenk
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Kay Schenk" Date: Jun 20, 2014 6:55 PM Subject: RE: Apache@ OSCON question To: Cc: Thanks Dennis. I didn't even think to look at JUST the expo hall fee. So, this will help in seeing if we have interests from volunteers. At any rat

Re: Apache@ OSCON question

2014-06-20 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/20/2014 10:29 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >> OK, I'll ask about this. I think OpenOffice does have some popular items >> that have been used at other events. > > It's out of stock and needs redesign. But we could at least redesign th

Re: Apache@ OSCON question

2014-06-20 Thread Kay Schenk
minutes that Apache has applied for a booth > > at OSCON. > > > > Can we get a small update on this? Should projects provide give-aways of > > some sort if we have them? What's typically handled at the Apache booth > > at OSCON. > > > -- Kay Schenk@Apache OpenOffice “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” -- John Wooden

Re: ApacheCon keynotes

2014-05-22 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:51 PM, David Nalley wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Andrea Pescetti > wrote: > > On 21/05/2014 jan iversen wrote: > >> > >> It would also be nice to hear a keynote about "who are we today", we all > >> know our "own" projects, but currently ASF consist of soo

Re: ApacheCon Community track

2014-02-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On 02/14/2014 06:03 AM, Marcel Offermans wrote: On 14 Feb 2014, at 14:39 pm, Rich Bowen wrote: On 02/13/2014 06:28 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, jan i wrote: Especially for the community track a panel discussion, with a short introduction from each panel memb

Re: ApacheCon status and proceeding forward

2014-02-13 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 02/12/2014 11:57 AM, Jan Willem Janssen wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm a bit confused as to what the current status is on the track >> selection for ApacheCon NA. I've seen the proposed tra

Re: ApacheCon CFP: Assistance needed

2014-02-13 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Melissa Warnkin wrote: > It's a google doc, so the changes should have been saved immediately, no? > > > Well in an ideal world, yes...I > > > ________ > From: Kay Schenk > To: dev@community.apach

Re: ApacheCon CFP: Assistance needed

2014-02-13 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 02/12/2014 08:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >> I'm going through the reviewed talks and marking things as "yes" and "no" >>&

Re: ApacheCon CFP: Assistance needed

2014-02-12 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > I'm going through the reviewed talks and marking things as "yes" and "no" > in http://tm3.org/cfpreview/ based on their average score. I would > appreciate if someone would go through the CFP site and mark a line in some > way if that speaker i

Re: ApacheCon proposed tracks

2014-02-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 02/10/2014 01:54 PM, jan i wrote: > >> On 10 February 2014 18:10, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >> https://docs.google.com/a/rcbowen.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key= >>> 0ApZdtCkHHRUMdEx3YXRjTWd5Q1YtR2NRaFhwZ0xvNGc&usp=sharing#gid=2 >>> >>> These are th

Re: Helping with the CFP

2014-02-05 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > If you'd like to help with the CFP process (in addition to, or instead of, > reviewing talks) one thing you can do is help me to categorize talks by > track. I have roughly 100 talks that I'm not sure where they go. > > If you'd be able to help

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-02-04 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On 02/01/2014 04:31 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> Ok, so we're almost at the finish line as far as review submissions >> go. At this point my dashboard is saying: "You have 191 proposals >> unreviewed.". This is pretty good, but raises a f

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-29 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Jan 29, 2014 12:53 PM, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > > > As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- > > > > The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications > will > &

A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-29 Thread Kay Schenk
ut it might be advantageous in some situations to get input from multiple reviewers. ok, that's it for now... -- ----- Kay Schenk, Apache OpenOffice "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a