On 10 April 2015 at 23:09, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> To get people involved we need to provide value. Today, we offer no value. > So, if I may, I would like to answer a slightly different question. The one > I want to answer is "how can we provide value so that PMCs will proactively > maintain a central events calendar?" Here's my starting answer, more ideas > very welcome... > > VP Brand has added a clause to the events policy that requires avoidance > of event date clashes. > > Marketing is ramping up on a quarterly report that, once we are in the > swing of things, will be broadly distributed (and thus provide visibility > for events listed in the calendar). > > We have a budget for stickers and other such giveaways at community > events, we won't ship those unless it's on the calendar. > Marketing can announce the events on twitter etc, when they are in the common calendar, and not only in quarterly reports. THE calendar get a link from www.apache.org and thus gets a lot more hits.. It must be easy to add events, no long mail discussions, but a simple web page and e.g. the acceptance from comDev (similar to moderating a mailing list). It is also not just about value, but also about knowing....I started in one calendar where I saw ACEU was missing, then I searched for another event and came across the other calendar. Our events should not be found by accident. I believe having ONE calendar that is been given links from top pages and being actively promoted, is good value for all PMCs, whereas n calendars are of no value. rgds jan I. > > More?.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com] > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 2:01 PM > To: dev > Subject: Events calendar > > Today I found out about yet another Apache event that is almost here and I > hadn't heard about before. > > I also noticed that http://www.apache.org/events/ is ... kinda > embarrassing. > > This, in conjunction with Jan's question a week ago about who managed the > calendar on people.a.o, which is completely a separate thing from the > calendar I thought he was talking about - the Google calendar, at > http://community.apache.org/calendars/conferences.html - makes me wonder > why this is so hard for us. > > So, two questions: > > 1) What other calendars are out there, and what can we do to consolidate > them? > > 2) How can we get PMCs to put their events in that consolidated calendar, > once it exists, so that we don't have all of these last-minute event > surprises, and, also, so that we can help in promoting our communities' > events? > > Suggestions welcome. > > I, for one, am a fan of nuking every calendar we come across, and > publishing the above Google Calendar all over the place, and then making a > google form for people to submit events. > > --Rich > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - > @apachecon >
