2013/7/5 Anshul Zunke <anshulzu...@gmail.com> > I think this can be done through social medias like Facebook etc. If we > create an official page of this community and some of us could give some > time in helping members of the page through their java code etc they will > get attracted towards contributing. >
I don't see training of inexperienced developers as a responsibility of commons. We have the user ML for questions about using the components. Or do you think mailing lists are to dated to attract younger people? Benedikt > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > 2013/7/5 Anshul Zunke <anshulzu...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi Benedikt, > > > > > > I will add 1 more imp point. > > > > > > We should public relations more with the student circles. No doubt > Apache > > > is very very popular in java programming group. But ppl especially > > students > > > dont know how to contribute in it. > > > > > > > But how do we do this? I Think none of us has the spare time to visit > > universities and animate students. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > All good ideas. > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > On Jul 4, 2013, at 16:20, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new > > > > > contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been > > thinking > > > > > about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there > are > > > > > several things we could do to improve our "public relations". > > > > > > > > > > Here is a list of things that I would like to change (and by this I > > > mean, > > > > > that I volunteer to do the work ;-) > > > > > > > > > > 1. Make commons more visible in coding social media > > > > > - request git mirrors for every proper component, so that > everything > > is > > > > > also at github > > > > > - add all proper components to Ohloh (and clean up the existing > ones) > > > > > - create a Twitter account where we can post news from commons. The > > > Mesos > > > > > project already has such an account. [2] > > > > > > > > > > 2. Make the website more attractive > > > > > - Use a modern design - I don't know who said it, but I loved it > when > > > > > someone said "our website looks like we're java 1.3 users". Well, > > this > > > is > > > > > true. Simone made several attempts to make commons switch to the > > maven > > > > > fluido skin [3,4,5]. I think the time has come to finally do > > something > > > > > about the website. > > > > > - include a news section on the main page - Having all the > components > > > > > listed on the home page is a good thing for navigation, but what > I'm > > > > really > > > > > interested in, are news about the development. A new git mirror has > > > been > > > > > created? Cool, thanks for telling me. Collections 4 alpha1 has been > > > > > released? Good to know, I'll download it right away. No need for a > > big > > > > fat > > > > > list that contains all components when most people probably only > use > > a > > > > few. > > > > > > > > > > WDYT? > > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/o7ef6o4ahe23k5iu > > > > > [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheMesos > > > > > [3] http://markmail.org/message/tkh4yqfcqg5i444g > > > > > [4] http://markmail.org/message/jnlyhbh5yq3zp54t > > > > > [5] http://markmail.org/message/jk4addjqw67476bk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > > > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > > > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > > > > http://github.com/britter > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Anshul Zunke > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > http://github.com/britter > > > > > > -- > Anshul Zunke > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
