Excuse me for contributing... Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > ApacheCon is not owned by the ASF (other than the brand that is). We are > not talking about ApacheCon, we are talking about a calendar of events. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre Smits [mailto:pierre.sm...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 2:27 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Events calendar > > The question is surely important, and can't be circumvented for a > organisation that spends a load of money on furthering the projects and > their works. > > Not only do we need mid and long term plans from every office, but we also > need the supporting and governing processes and procedures written down and > made available to the ASF community. That way we al can see what needs to > be done when it needs to be done. > > For example, recent mails regarding the various activities executed for > the ACNA 15 event pointed out that things got forgotten (like presentation > templates). For such events we need scripts, and such scripts need to > evaluated and improved after the event. That way we don't make the mistakes > when doing a new event like we did in the past. > > Most importantly, Offices need to take ownership. > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:09 PM, 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. > > > > 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 > > >
