"Nearby People" (Local Mentors & Local Speakers) web app

2009-12-26 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All In Oakland, I knocked up a quick web application to help with two proposed areas of effort - Local Mentors and Local Speakers. On one side, there's a web application that people can use to find either a local mentor (eg someone to go to the pub with who won't know about your project,

Hosting a small python web app for community development

2009-12-26 Thread Nick Burch
Hi We've got a small python webapp for comdev[1], which we'd ideally like to appear underneath part of http://community.apache.org/ . It's only a few urls that could happily be under the same base url. The application in question is written in django, so can be hosted with mod_python, mod_ws

Re: "Nearby People" (Local Mentors & Local Speakers) web app

2010-01-06 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Nick Burch wrote: Otherwise, I'll also aim to get some information on the local mentor program from my barcamp notes in confluence site, so we've got something as a starting point. I've finally done this: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/disp

Re: "Nearby People" (Local Mentors & Local Speakers) web app

2010-01-07 Thread Nick Burch
Ross Gardler wrote: Note the CWiki site is auto published, so as soon as there is a link to it from http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/Index it will be available on the public site. I thought it was, so I decided not to link to it just yet :) But unless I missed something

Re: Re: "Nearby People" (Local Mentors & Local Speakers) web app

2010-01-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Ross Gardler wrote: I wonder if we should move the doap files to the committers repo though. Could we not simply just grant all committers rw permissions on the subprojects directory? My proposal to move the files to the committers repo was because it makes it easier for pe

Re: "Nearby People" (Local Mentors & Local Speakers) web app

2010-01-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Nick Burch wrote: My proposal to move the files to the committers repo was because it makes it easier for people to add themselves (no need to check out another set of files). The easier it is the more likely people are to add themselves. OK, that works for me. Assuming no

Re: "Nearby People" (Local Mentors & Local Speakers) web app

2010-01-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: ...In the meantime I think it's fine to put it on a zone. We should set up a cron job to test that it is up on a frequent basis and mail this list if not Zone sounds good to me, and we can p

Re: Zone is set up, nearby People app good to go?

2010-03-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Ross Gardler wrote: The comdev zone has been set up. Nick will you people able to setup the nearby people app? I've done some setup, but the zone's missing a few bits so I can't complete it. I've re-opened the ticket to ask for those bits, will finish it off once they're t

Re: Zone is set up, nearby People app good to go?

2010-03-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Ross Gardler wrote: The comdev zone has been set up. Nick will you people able to setup the nearby people app? It should now be up and working at http://community.zones.apache.org/ I guess we can now publish that bit of the site, and start publicising? Nick

Committers as Local Mentors?

2010-05-19 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All It seems we've had quite a number of ASF members sign up to the local mentors program, since the email a couple of months back, which is good. However, we've still a fair few gaps! What do people think about emails committers@ to ask them if people would like to sign up? From my persp

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

2010-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: 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. Looks promising to me. I've only a couple of points ASF releases consist of source code, bi

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

2010-05-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: 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. Inspired by your idea, I've sat down and written a blog post about the CLAs and release vot

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

2010-05-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Why not just post it to the foundation (or comdev) blog? I'm sure we can review it properly for you I'd say comdev, as we seem to have some momentum to start this. OK. I'll ask infra for a blog for comdev (we don't seem to have one), and wi

Community Development blog

2010-05-24 Thread Nick Burch
Hi Any chance we (comdev) could be setup with a blog on the blogs.apache.org roller instance? I'd suggest a name of comdev, description of "Apache Community Development" Initial users should probably be Ross, Bertrand and myself, and ideally Ross (as VP) given the permissions to be able to c

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

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Nick Burch wrote: ...Will also let people know when I've written some more (mentoring, and who drives a project are the two I've in mind), so we can decide if they're worth going on the comdev blog

Confluence auto-export template issue

2010-05-28 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All Any chance that the person who setup our confluence auto-export site could take a look at why we've started getting the tuscany logo and menu at the top of our pages? eg http://community.apache.org/localmentors.html Cheers Nick

Re: Confluence auto-export template issue

2010-05-28 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Luciano Resende wrote: Should be all set now [1], waiting for sync https://cwiki.apache.org/COMDEVxSITE/ Great, cheers for sorting it! Nick

[DRAFT] The Community Development project needs you to go to the pub!

2010-06-02 Thread Nick Burch
Since we all seem happy with opening the local mentors program up to all committers, I'm planning to send this to committers@ shortly. Any feedback before I do gratefully received! Nick === Hi All Some of you may have heard of the Apache

Re: The Community Development project needs you to go to the pub!

2010-06-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Mike Kienenberger wrote: http://people.apache.org/foaf/foafamatic.html has a link labeled "FAQ" which points to https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/krell/ which apparently is only accessible by ASF Members. Either that, or I've got other problems :) It sould be

Re: local speakers app

2010-06-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Ross Gardler wrote: The local speakers app is currently returning "The nearby people application will be back online shortly, sorry for the inconvenience" when searching for speakers. Hmm, I'm supposed to get an email when that happens. (Well, everyone listed in the admin

Re: The Community Development project needs you to go to the pub!

2010-06-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Nick Kew wrote: On 3 Jun 2010, at 11:57, Nick Burch wrote: As part of this, we've set up a new program - the Local Mentors Program[2], which aims to help people new to open source have a quick chat with someone more experienced who happens to live near them. It

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

2010-07-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: The idea is to close the women@ list and/or or setup an autoresponder that directs people to this list instead. +1 Nick

"Ask me about apache" badges at ApacheCon

2010-10-16 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All One thing that came up in the ApacheCon planners call this week was the problems of matching up people at the conference who are interested in contributing with people to help explain the process to them. This would seem to be a good fit for a small spot of comdev mentoring! One idea

Re: "Ask me about apache" badges at ApacheCon

2010-10-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Ross Gardler wrote: I think this is a great idea. More noticeable would be tshirts, but more expensive of course. I think we can get labels for badges covered through either the conference or marketing, but alas I don't think the budget stretches to tshirts. There's also

Moving to website to the new CMS?

2010-11-01 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All At the moment our main website is edited through confluence, auto-exported (when the plugin isn't broken...) before going onto the website. However, we don't have an easy way to know when changes happen, edits can only occur via confluence, and whenever the auto-export plugin sulks we c

Re: Moving to website to the new CMS?

2010-12-13 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Nick Burch wrote: I'd like to suggest that we instead move to the new Apache CMS: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/10/22/evolution-of-apaches-websites/ Is everyone happy for us to switch over to the imported version? I've noticed from commits th

Re: Moving to website to the new CMS?

2010-12-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Luciano Resende wrote: Are there any plans to also switch to the new Apache theme ? It's not something I'd been planning to do. However, once we're on the same setup as the main apache site, it ought to be easier for someone to make the change Nick

Re: Status of website migration?

2011-01-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Ross Gardler wrote: I know we were ready to migrate the website to the CMS, has this been done? Yup, we've been on the CMS since late December. If everyone's happy with it now, we can ask infra to remove the old site from confluence to avoid confusion Nick

Re: Status of website migration?

2011-01-26 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Luciano Resende wrote: Some of these steps seems to have removed the Apache Extras contents we had in our website https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/site/trunk/apache-extras/ What should I do to make them back ? These pages weren't under the /content/ directory so the

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Benson Margulies wrote: To me, however, the issue is the *time*, not the money. If I use vacation time for such a thing, I'm going to get some pretty hairy eyeballs across the dining room table from the my spouse and kids. If I use work time, I have to justify the time, and

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Christian Grobmeier wrote: 10 people from bavaria can make it in one day to an event and back. Cost should be very low. Of course not the same as a big meet'n'greet in ireland, but it might help people coming into apache or finally meet at least the people near you. From bav

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

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Ross Gardler wrote: In my opinion anyone who has commit access to one or more ASF projects should also be allowed to commit to our site. Publication will be limited to ComDev PMC members. Joe has confirmed in a previous thread that this is possible. I'm +1 - grant commit r

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Christian Grobmeier wrote: btw, whats ml are using? I would like to subscribe, if possible For retreats, it's normally concom@ and retreats@. For barcamps, generally it's concom@ for the initial proposal, then an event specific one for the organising. Nick

projects.apache.org urls showing in some projects categories

2019-10-24 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I've spotted what looks like a data bug, but might be a code bug, on projects.apache.org. For some projects, they are being shown not against their proper category (eg library), but against a category that's prefixed with the https://projects.a.o link for their category For example, A

Re: projects.apache.org urls showing in some projects categories

2019-10-29 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, sebb wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 23:30, Nick Burch wrote: I've spotted what looks like a data bug, but might be a code bug, on projects.apache.org. For some projects, they are being shown not against their proper category (eg library), but against a category t

Re: [jira] [Created] (COMDEV-368)

2020-04-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Mark Thomas wrote: On 18/04/2020 10:30, Nikhil Kumar (Jira) wrote:> Nikhil Kumar created COMDEV-368: I have disabled this idiot's account and delete the spam issue. For people who don't have infra karma, if you spot some spam on Jira (or Bugzilla), hop on the #asfinfra

Re: FOAF sync towards "Nearby Apache People"

2021-04-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Richard Zowalla wrote: is the sync for https://community.zones.apache.org/map.html offline? I added a FOAF file to SVN a few days ago (according to [1]) but the content seems to be static. In addition, it seems, that the google map requires verification. I think that servic

StackOverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All There's been the odd bit of discussion around StackOverflow on various lists, but I thought this was probably the best place to discuss things. Firstly, I want to make clear that I'm not suggesting we abandon all our user lists, and shift everything over to stackoverflow! However, fo

Re: Stackoverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Benson Margulies wrote: No discussion at the ASF is complete until we have had it twice. Or maybe three times, looks like our emails were sent at the same time, doh! 1) Some of us observe that many people are posting questions about Apache projects on stackoverflow.com

Re: StackOverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Benson Margulies wrote: I think that the problem of 'committer shows up as 'rep=1' is not a big problem. The existing moderation circus on SO seems to work reasonably well, and it isn't tag-specific. If committers show up and answer questions, they'll get upvotes, and event

[Validator] 1.4 beta?

2011-05-27 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I think it's been quite a while since the last commons validator release (1.3.1 seems to date from 2006!). However, there have been quite a few bug fixes since then, even if the refactoring into the routines package that was the hope for 1.4 isn't quite complete. I think it's probably

Re: [Validator] 1.4 beta?

2011-05-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Ross Gardler wrote: I think you got the wrong list Nick, that damned auto complete email thing... Commons, Community, isn't it all the same thing... ;-) Whoops, sorry! Nick

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Shane Curcuru wrote: - I'd like to add a Who We Are page to the community.a.o site. While I one hand I appreciate the idea that we promote our communities, don't have @author tags, and the like, on the other hand for newcomers I often find that they sometimes are more will

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Benson Margulies wrote: Second, I wonder about the proposed governance and logic of this whole 'java package id rules' business. Here's a scenario: someone from outside Apache fills out the form, creates a project, and *forks some Apache project into it.* Bingo, 'org.apache.*

Re: Slides Templates for Apache product talk

2012-03-06 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Olivier Lamy wrote: I wonder if we have such slides templates for doing Apache products talk. There has been talk of sorting some out, but I'm not sure we have anything yet. We'd need to find the high quality version of the feather logo first... Nick

Re: Slides Templates for Apache product talk

2012-03-06 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Erwan de FERRIERES wrote: There has been talk of sorting some out, but I'm not sure we have anything yet. We'd need to find the high quality version of the feather logo first... there is a SVG version here : http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/ Not of the most rece

Re: How to edit the website?

2012-03-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Suresh Marru wrote: On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: We also need someone with a few minutes to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html I was trying to update the gsoc website with 2012 information but could not find how to do so. I logged into cwi

Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-15 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I'm currently in the process of putting the proposed tracks for ApacheCon Europe into the website, and I noticed we don't currently have a community track proposed. I've really enjoyed past community tracks, and learnt a lot from them, so I think it'd be great if we could do one again.

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: I might not be that much versed in Apache terminology, but what is a 'community track'? And what are/is the definition of the other kind? Perhaps the best way to explain it is through the talks this track has hosted in the past. Over the past few years,

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I am willing to help Great, any chance that you could fill in the details on the the "Call For Tracks" google docs form? but still I still dont get the details of what track chair is expected to do ? Sorry, I thought you'd already seen the

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-18 Thread Nick Burch
On 18/07/12 07:13, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 8:53 PM, "Ross Gardler" wrote: On 16 July 2012 10:19, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I am willing to help but still I still dont get the details of what track chair is expected to do ? Main duty is to coordinate (or perform) ses

Re: Local Mentors

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Mike Kienenberger wrote: Forwarding to dev@community at Ross's request. Looks like there's something up with the cron entry that should be doing the daily update. I've emailed infra@ for help as I don't know why it isn't working I've manually done the svn up, and you're

Re: Info shown in Committers by login id

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Mike Kienenberger wrote: And I don't know if this is "site-dev" or comdev, but when I was working through the local mentors issue, I noticed that "Committers by login id"[1] doesn't show as much info (like Geographic Location) that Committers List[2] and list by letter[3] sho

Re: Video recording at ApacheCon EU

2012-10-29 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: Then that is silly... 6 digital video cameras + 12 volunteers == a lot less than €15,000. More like 2-3000, and the cameras can be used more than once. Its not that simple to record things in decent quality with volunteers and off the shelf cameras. It

Re: Development.rdf and ApacheSpeakers.rdf

2012-12-30 Thread Nick Burch
On 29/12/12 16:14, janI wrote: I have added myself to development,rdf and apachespeakers.rdf and committed the change. However even now after a couple of days I do not show up on either map (mentor/speaker), can someone give me a hint what I do wrong. It looks like something changed on the zon

Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-01-31 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All Sadly, it looks like Mohammad Nour won't be able to join us in Portland after all :( He was down to speak in the community track, giving an updated version of a popular talk - Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers? [1] Is anyone who's going to Portland able to cover this one? I

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: I can take it if nobody else wants it. On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Benson Margulies wrote: I could Do you two want to deliver it as a joint effort? Or failing that, play rock-paper-scissors-spock and let us know who wins? :) Cheers Nick

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-13 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: Ross I think you delivered it in Vancouver. Do you happen to have some slides we could use as a starting point? Ross gave it in Vancouver: http://na11.apachecon.com/talks/19420 Nour gave it in Sinsheim: http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/1

Re: Spam on Women's Wiki

2013-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Ross Gardler wrote: Do we want to set up some spam control on the wiki? Anyone know how? I'd suggest we do set it up - most of the other wikis have now enabled it, and while it has probably put a few new people off, generally most people accept it as long as requests to b

Re: Apache Ambassadors

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Marcel Offermans wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 14:42 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: 3) Someone to estimate what it'll cost to ship these out to various people in various countries. Should someone just take a sufficient number to events, or should we ship to each individual? Get prices

Re: Apache Ambassadors

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Rich Bowen wrote: On 06/25/2013 09:43 AM, Nick Burch wrote: As for getting the design done, most of us seem to lack the skills, but we do have a few members about with a good eye for design / with such a person nearby. Take a look at the people who designed tshirts for

Re: First spark summit

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Andy Konwinski wrote: We are planning the first Spark Summit (Spark is an incubator project) for Dec 2-3 2013. Can you add it to the event calendar ( http://community.apache.org/calendars/conferences.html) please? Added! ComDev - two things. Firstly, the current list of p

Re: ATS Summit Oct 2013

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Leif Hedstrom wrote: Can you please also add the Apache Traffic Server Fall 2013 Summit to the events calendar? Details on this are at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Fall+2013+Summit Done. Comments for ComDev from the other thread still apply... N

Re: ATS Summit Oct 2013

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Leif Hedstrom wrote: I’m not on the ComDev PMC That can be easily fixed... ;-) but I’d be happy to help out with whatever I can. There is one thing that we could do with your input on, the so called "Event In A Box": http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-

Re: First spark summit

2013-10-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Rich Bowen wrote: I'm ex concom, but willing to help out. Let me know what email address you use with google, and I'll add you in We should (imho) have one calendar. So whichever we decide on, we should redirect the other. The events hostname sounds most memorable. Ther

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On 01/15/2014 10:40 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Trouble is -- wiki doesn't let me login: RomanShaposhnik Same account I use for wiki.apache.org/incubator/ Ok, looks like the wiki was a bad idea, and I need to put it in a different wiki. You can tempora

Re: ApacheCon CFP stats, and lease help get the word out

2014-01-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: With 5 days left in the CFP for ApacheCon, we have 50 papers submitted. I know that we usually get as much as half of the submissions in the last 48 hours, but we're still well under where I hoped to be at this point. Even more worrying, the overwhelming m

Re: Fast Feather

2014-02-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 2 Feb 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Nick, can you tell me how you envision the Fast Feather track working, from a scheduling perspective? ie, do we just give you a day-long slot and say "go for it", or is there more that we need to do on the scheduling side to accept specific talks for that

Re: Corporate Responsibility

2014-02-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Kehoe, Adam P wrote: I was wondering if you could provide the contact information of somebody in the proper department who I could talk to regarding your volunteer policies. I scoured your website but couldn't find anybody. Everyone working on projects at the Apache Softwa

Re: tika-parsers update

2014-03-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Emiliano Bossi wrote: I need to use last bouncycastle jars in my project so I provide a little change in your source code This list is the general Apache Community Development mailing list. For your case, you'll want to contact the Apache Tika developers list, see http://t

Re: ApacheCon community panel

2014-03-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Do folks think that this will make a good panel discussion (obvious, I do), and, if so, who should participate in such a panel? I'd love to see someone from the board, and someone from the Cordova PMC. Suggestions as to who that should be? I'd vote for s

Re: Apache Event Calendar

2014-04-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Who has access to the Apache event calendar - https://community.apache.org/calendars/conferences.html I know you do, but does anybody else? Anyone who asks! What's the policy for what gets put on there? Is it only official events like ApacheCon, barcamp

Re: ASF Youtube?

2014-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Who's got the ASF Youtube credentials? I've got ApacheCon videos to upload. I believe Sally is the master holder of these, so she's the main person to ask, though it's possible that some of the other people who have them lurk here and can pass you them a

Re: Event in a Box budget

2014-05-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 2 May 2014, rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Initially we planned to have a box in the US and a Box in the EU. However, the logistics of managing a box in the EU are more complicated. My proposal is only to budget for a US box at this time and, if necessary, seek additional funds for a

Re: ApacheCon keynotes

2014-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 21 May 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On May 21, 2014 3:06 PM, "jan iversen" wrote: I would like to hear a speech from one of the big software producers, and hear their vision about proprietary software contra opensource, where is the future. (a suggestion would be SAP who are very big in eu

Re: ApacheCon keynotes

2014-05-22 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 21 May 2014, David Nalley wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I find this is an excellent idea (well, I just happened to use a couple of almost unknown Apache projects for work and I wished I had known about them earlier, since the one-line description in Boa

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Pierre Smits wrote: I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events themselves. This page should be show

Article on "Barriers faced by newcomers to open source"

2014-08-05 Thread Nick Burch
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/OSS2014.pdf Nick

Re: Local mentors website does not update

2014-09-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Robert Kowalski wrote: I checked for Hamburg in Germany (DE) on the site http://community.zones.apache.org/ here and then, but I don't get listed. Did I miss something? ssh'ing into the community zones box, and accepting the updated svn certificate... You're there now! (

Re: Apache Community Development site

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Krzysztof Sobkowiak wrote: I'd like to ask whether this site (http://community.apache.org/) is a static site or generted using any static site generator (like Jekyll). It's build using the Apache CMS: http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html Where is the repository containing th

Re: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin

2014-12-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On 11/24/2014 11:14 AM, Pei Chen wrote: Is there any interest in having a category for Healthcare? Would be interesting to see how others use ASF projects to solve different healthcare issues. Jay (from BigTop/RedHat) and I (cTAKES) were possibly thinking

Re: ApacheCon track descriptions

2014-12-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Sharan Foga wrote: I've written a summary for the OFBiz track but am having problems editing the wiki to copy it in. Logging in is fine but I cant change anything. Please can someone check that I've got edit access? If you could tell us what username you use on that wiki,

Re: ApacheCon track descriptions

2014-12-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Sharan Foga wrote: Thanks Nick - my username is SharanFoga Karma granted! Nick

Re: Is there a wiki space for comdev?

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: I've been wondering if comdev has its own wiki space. Looking at http://wiki.apache.org/general/ doesn't bring anything up. Would appreciate suggestions on how proceed requesting it. The ComDev wiki is (currently) on Confluence not Moin, so the root

Re: Is there a wiki space for comdev?

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: The ComDev wiki is (currently) on Confluence not Moin, so the root URL is https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Index Thanks for the quick reply Nick! Is there any chance I can be given karma to add pages to that wiki? I don't think I

Re: Why the Apachecon (was Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed)

2015-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Pierre Smits wrote: We are discussing again, as it seems to me, what the purpose of the Apachecon is based on talks submitted. And why is that? I'm not going to answer your email directly, but instead I'm going to try to offer some background and some history, which hopeful

Re: Why the Apachecon (was Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed)

2015-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: For example, I would love to have some kind of an event at the ApacheCON that would encourage as many folks as possible to learn about various ASF projects. I have some ideas around running a kind of lighting talks/reading group where each participant

Re: Is there a wiki space for comdev?

2015-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Sure. But see, this is me testing the following assumption: given the volunteer resources (myself) ComDev could be a good place to mange pTLP related documentation. So far, the assumption is proving to be incorrect. If that's how it ends up being: we'd

Fast Feather Track - anyone want to take charge for Austin?

2015-02-12 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All Hopefully most of you will know about the Fast Feather Track? For those who don't, it's often described as: a series of short talks, 10-20 minutes in length, covering things that are new / interesting / exciting / incubating / recently changed / etc. It's a great chance to learn about

Re: Apache Way talks

2015-02-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: There is value in these sessions, some people are completely new and we probably should still schedule them. However, I think we ought to do some new stuff along the lines of: How is the ASF different from other foundations? Why should I

Knowing which talks are already claimed by another ApacheCon track?

2015-02-16 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I'm trying to finalise the Content Technologies track for Austin, but I'm struggling to know which talks have already been "claimed" by other tracks. Some of the ones I want to include have review comments which suggest they might have been, and some I'd just guess might be. I can't se

Frameworks track?

2015-02-17 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I've just been having a look through the CFP list, and it seems from first glance like there's quite a few good framework related talks, including OSGi and CXF ones. I don't know enough to be sure though... Do we have anyone here who's an expert in that sort of area, who could volunte

Re: ApacheCon Schedule

2015-02-20 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: * We have an empty spot in the community track. Given that community is what we *do*, it seems that we could come up with 6 community talks to schedule, and have a few fallbacks. If folks could look through the not-yet-accepted list with me and see what yo

Re: ApacheCon Schedule

2015-02-20 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, jan i wrote: If we still have that community slot, and/or one appears with at least 2 weeks notice... Ross has promised to fill it with a talk not in CFP. Great if so! Currently, we have a "traditional" Apache Way talk in the schedule. There has been some debate about t

Re: [ApacheCon] Scheduling help, pass 2

2015-03-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: Looks to me that we have two in Science, one in "Big Data; Big Picture", two in "Content". and one in "Mobile" If you could let me know which ones in Content we have lost, and also which spreadsheet / google doc I can check to see what talks remain uncla

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: On 03/19/2015 01:16 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Somebody, send the last one to me and I will see what I can do with it. It would help to know what is particularly liked about the last one so I don't muck it up. http://templates.openoffice.org/en/search

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Burch
On 20/03/15 19:46, Andrea Pescetti wrote: ApacheCon EU 2014 http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp (this ought to have been uploaded to the Templates site too, but apparently Linux Foundation never clarified the terms of usage for some images that Nick included into it) We do hav

RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I have extracted the three background images from the ACEU14 presentation. They are not possible to morph. They are JPEGs and there is no reasonable way to extract pieces and morph the logo and conference name. I'll send you the images I used o

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I've had a go at updating my Budapest template for Austin, draft so far available at: http://people.apache.org/~nick/Draft_ACNA15_Template_Nick.odp I know there was a bit of feedback on the Budapest ones about visability / contrast, so advice on if these need changes before offering th

Re: Apache POI CTPageMar not found

2015-03-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, r01942072 wrote: I am using eclipse. I download Apache POI 3.12 Beta 1, add all jar files into java build path, but eclipse tells me that CTPageMar not found. Part of my code is shown below. This would be best asked on the POI user list, see http://poi.apache.org/mailingl

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