On 14 April 2015 at 23:44, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: > Can we progress with the calendar issue. > > Preferable I would like to get the calendar in people.a.o nuked, and > secondly tell projects (and them how, with a filter for their project) that > they can have their events in the google calendar.
It would be easy enough to drop the calendar in people.a.o, but I think it ought to be replaced with a link to the proper calendar. > To make things easy, let the projects mail this list, and one with karma > updates the calendar, using the "you must crawl, before you walk" > philosophy > > rgds > jan I. > > > On 10 April 2015 at 23:53, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > >> > >>
