The community development project aims to help newcomers to The Apache
Software Foundation take their first steps on their way to being a part
of our community.
There are no specific issues requiring board attention at this time.
Main items to report
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- addition of Isabel Drost, Nick Birch, Noel J. Bergman and Kathey
Marsden to the Community Development PMC
- documentation of proposed mentoring programme [1]
- commencement of our first mentored participant [2]
- two press interviews in response to word of mouth discovery of the project
- GSoC has been officially announced and will be run this year with
Noirin Shirley as admin, Ross Gardler and Luciano Resende as co-admins
- creation of a "people near you" webapp populated with people available
for presenting or meeting those interested in the ASF - this is not yet
public as we are awaiting the creation of a zone on which to host it
Main items for next period
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- Move documentation of GSoC from wiki.apache.org to community.apache.org
- Launch of the "people near you" webapp
- Launch of the ASF GSoC engagement
- Preparation for the official launch of the ASF mentoring programme
(which will occur after GSoC has commenced)
[1] http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-11
