bahhh... I have a mental block on the correct email for comdev. Re-sending with the correct address - see below
On 16 June 2013 16:13, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > Events are now under the President and we are in a period of > transition. Trademarks manage the branding aspect and you say you will > have that covered so that's fine. Small events support is provided by > ComDev. > > Any approval for funding would need to come from President as ComDev > has no budget for this. Personally I believe we should be building on > the original ConCom ideas of underwriting small events but expecting > organisers to make every effort to secure local sponsorship to cover > those costs. You can see these proposals at [1] > > I, as a ComDev member am happy to work with you on this. I have made > the comdev list the primary list on this response (small-events > remains in cc. as we have yet to migrate activity formally to ComDev, > it is currently unclear if that community has the volunteer energy to > support smaller events). As the current EVP I'm also able to help with > any proposal you want to take to President. However, please be aware > that this conversation has not yet been had with the President or the > board. The outline proposal from ConCom is therefore a very good > start, even though it was never really applied in practice (no event > organiser ever asked for underwriting). > > In terms of other activities ComDev can help with that PMC should be a > resource for ideas and input, but formal engagement there is not > required. As a small event organiser we invite you to help us improve > the materials available. Currently the resources for event organisers > are quite minimal, see [2] and the event calendar at [3] > > Ross > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ConComSupportedEvents > [2] http://community.apache.org/speakers/ > [3] http://community.apache.org/calendars/ > > On 16 June 2013 14:36, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have prepared a 1.5 day event in Augsburg, Germany. Friday will be a >> couple of presentations in the evening, Saturday is a whole day >> Hackathon on Struts. >> >> I (ASF member and Struts PMC) am organizing it. Three other Struts PMC >> members are joining, give the talks and help with the Hackathon. >> >> It's early september. >> >> Currently I am preparing the website in order to make some buzz. >> >> I already found the trademarking requirements and will send a message >> for approval when I am done of course. >> >> Is there anything else I need to do or what I could benefit of? >> >> Specifically I am currently considering to ask for a donation for the >> Hackathon day, because we don't have any sponsors yet (cost will be >> around 25€ per person), but I don't like that much. If there is ASF >> support for such mini-events, I would be glad to know about it. >> >> Also I am not sure if there is somebody i need to contact, like f.e. comdev? >> >> Thanks for all help, >> >> Christian >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> https://www.timeandbill.de
