Inviting local students to the Retreat

2011-04-12 Thread Noirin Shirley
BCC ComDev - please keep discussion on the concom@ list. Committers are welcome to subscribe. We're about a month out now, and we're far from hitting capacity on the Retreat. I'm confident we'll get more signups, but I don't think we'll fill the hostel. As I've been watching GSoC mails go whizzin

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: > > If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the > ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out of > 6 students passed in 2006. 2010: 39/44 N

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-07 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Stefan Seelmann wrote: > > Christian, do you have time to come to Munich on the 30th? Let's > discuss that off-list, I think that isn't interesting for the other > subscribers of this list. > If we can do a Friday/Saturday, I'll happily come up from Zurich :-) BC

Re: GSOC application for ASF / last steps

2011-03-03 Thread Noirin Shirley
> that list ;). Saros is > an Eclipse plugin to add collaborative editing features (and others) to > Eclipse. > > Uli > > [1] http://www.saros-project.org/ > [2] http://dpp.sf.net/ > > On 03.03.2011 19:30, Noirin Shirley wrote: >> Yep, it sure does! It could b

Re: GSOC application for ASF / last steps

2011-03-03 Thread Noirin Shirley
Yep, it sure does! It could be anything from three people with some code on Google Project Hosting, to a full-blown incorporated non-profit whatever :-) And yes, it should be someone who's preparing/willing to apply :-) Noirin On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Does that inclu

Re: [VOTE] open ComDev SVN access to all committers

2011-03-03 Thread Noirin Shirley
+1 grant commit rights to ComDev site directory to all committers

Re: GSOC application for ASF / last steps

2011-03-01 Thread Noirin Shirley
Before we finally submit the application... It's my understanding that it now has one new question: do we know of any small/new orgs or projects that might want to be involved with GSoC? If anyone on the list has suggestions, it would be great to hear them :-) They don't need to be formal organis

Fwd: Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI

2010-10-18 Thread Noirin Shirley
I don't have the bandwidth to push this forward - but obviously, I think we should do it :-) Who'd like to be our admin? Noirin -- Forwarded message -- From: Carol Smith Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:10 AM Subject: Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI To: Goo

Re: Setting lures for writers?

2010-09-28 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 28/09/2010 02:47, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> As projects mature and grow, the quality of the documentation becomes >> an ever-more-important aspect. Tech writing is, however, a different >> beast from development. Some projects have been

Re: Mentor summit

2010-09-22 Thread Noirin Shirley
I don't see a reply from Stefan, and Carol wants the attending mentors to sign up ASAP at this point, so Rahul, I think the spot is yours :-) Please let me know if you need any information to sign up. Also, I'm going to put together the invoice for Google shortly - you mentioned you'd be in the a

Re: [GSoC] Mentor summit attendees

2010-09-02 Thread Noirin Shirley
I'm interested, and haven't been before, for whatever that's worth :-) Noirin On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > No we've not decided yet. Who else is interested? > > I am, but I've been before and happy to make room for others. > > Sent from my mobile device. > > On 2 Sep 20

Re: Alternate UI for mailing lists?

2010-07-27 Thread Noirin Shirley
I think this probably makes more sense on the Community Development list? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Greg Brown wrote: > Hi all, > > (hope this question is appropriate for the board list - if not, please let me > know where it should go) > > Mailing lists seem to be the primary means of co

Re: [VOTE] roll women@a.o into dev@community.a.o

2010-07-19 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Anjana G Bhattacharjee wrote: > -1 (unbinding) > > because this vote, and the "dot it" slip, reminds me of a problem of > relevance when "dotting the i's and crossing the t's" when framing any vote, > so to speak I'll admit, I'm often "lazy" when it came to consen

Re: Board process

2010-06-30 Thread Noirin Shirley
the content, or you think it belongs somewhere else in the docs :-) Thanks! Noirin On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Noirin Shirley wrote: > My version (envisaged as an additional page as part of the "How it > works" series) is at http://www.nerdchic.net/hiw-board.html > &

Re: Board process

2010-06-29 Thread Noirin Shirley
My version (envisaged as an additional page as part of the "How it works" series) is at http://www.nerdchic.net/hiw-board.html I assume apsite is RTC? :-) N On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > This is great Greg. I'll do something sensible with it once I get some free > cycl

Re: What are the basic, invariant rules of Apache projects?

2010-05-29 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > "A Project Management Committee (PMC) oversees each project on behalf of its > users, contributers, committers and the foundation itself." s/contributers/contributors/, then perfect :-) N

Re: What are the basic, invariant rules of Apache projects?

2010-05-29 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to write a blog post (on the foundation blog, or might be a > good opportunity to start the comdev blog) about the basic rules of > Apache projects. > > Trying to keep it as short as possible, with links to more info. >

Re: review of rankings complete, secoind phase started

2010-04-15 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > Noirin, let us know when you are back up to speed after the retreat. The > real admin work starts starts in earnest during this review phase. With the > majority of effort focussed around the Google deadlines. > I'm back up to date now, an

Re: GSoC applications

2010-03-11 Thread Noirin Shirley
at 3:56 AM, Noirin Shirley wrote: >> Luciano/Ross - what's your linkid in socghop.appspot.com? >> >> Thanks! > > lresende > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >

Re: GSoC applications

2010-03-11 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 11/03/2010 11:56, Noirin Shirley wrote: >> >> Luciano/Ross - what's your linkid in socghop.appspot.com? > > ross.gard...@gmail.com LinkID is set in your profile - it's not your e-mail address, but the UID th

Re: GSoC applications

2010-03-11 Thread Noirin Shirley
Luciano/Ross - what's your linkid in socghop.appspot.com? Thanks! N On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Noirin Shirley wrote: >> Applications don't open until tonight my time, but in case anyone >> wants

Re: GSoC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Noirin Shirley
Applications don't open until tonight my time, but in case anyone wants to help out, here are the questions I'll have to answer, from the GSoC FAQ :-) A lot of these seem familiar - I gather the webapp no longer provides access to last year's answers, but if anyone happened to keep notes on how we

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 is On......

2010-01-31 Thread Noirin Shirley
Thanks for the summary! I'm happy to be the admin, since I'm not expecting ;-) Or to co-admin if someone else wants the job. (Full disclosure: I haven't been much involved in the ASF side of GSoC in the past, but I've worked on documentation for the webapp, and done mentoring, as part of my 20% ti