Hi Rich, thank you so much for raising this. 100% agree with you. On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:11 PM <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > I have tried to write this email several times, and keep getting > overwhelmed. Trying again. > > Comdev has no focus. Our website is a mess. We have no clear idea of > what we do. I would like to get back to basics, and figure out what it > actually is that we do here, and get rid of the stuff that we don't. > > For example: Looking at the website, we claim we have a mentoring > program. This is not true, and I'd like to cull that entire part of the > site. But I don't want to step on people who might actually want to do > that work. > > And that's just one example. > > A while back (2017) I rather over-optimistically wrote > https://community.apache.org/about/ which was a list of things that I > hoped that we might do some day. That was a mistake, because it makes > promises that nobody is following up on. > > I want to get back to our mandate: > > Provide a wide array of information, FAQs, and help to newcomers and > existing committers, and maintains a number of helpful tools. > > We should be a repository for useful information and best practice for > people at all levels of our community: newcomers; contributors; > committers; pmcs. > > The tools that we presumably maintain include: > projects.a.o > reporter.a.o > helpwanted (I think this is EOL, realistically) > > We facilitate Apache Local Communities (which does not appear to be > references on the website?)
We have a section about ALC at the bottom right section of our site https://community.apache.org/ But agree, if it is not visible properly, we can think about updating its location or content. > > And we also facilitate GSoC > > I would like to refocus our website, and our efforts, around those > things, and drop everything else from our website, until and unless > someone actually steps up to do them. > > And, yes, I'm volunteering to do this work, but want to be sure I'm not > taking too much authority in doing so. Will be happy to collaborate with you on this effort. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
