Hi I'm curious about the whole idea of local ASF chapters. It's not something I'm familiar with. I guess the idea is a local presence of some kind? Do any exist in the US? EU? Elsewhere? What do they do? Meetups, I guess? Do they also maintain separate parallel online communities?
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 2:43 AM Jun Liu <ken.lj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, there > I am writing this mail to launch a discussion of starting an ALC chapter > in Hangzhou, China. This idea came to my mind when I was in Beijing > attending the Community Over Code Asia 2023 conference this September. I > talked to a couple of ASF Members, PMCs, and Committers from different > projects about this idea and got many positive feedbacks. > > Hangzhou is one of several cities in China with a considerable amount of > developers, the headquarters of many world leading tech companies. And most > importantly, many ASF projects and their main contributors or members are > from Hangzhou. As far as I know, projects like Apache RocketMQ, Apache > Dubbo were originally born in Hangzhou, Apache Flink and Apache Seata > (incubating) have most of their active contributors in Hangzhou. An ALC > chapter here would provide a platform for those ASF projects and active > contributors to build and foster a community. A community can also help to > incubating more projects since Hangzhou is never lack of innovations and > great ideas. > > I read this new chapter guide[1] laterly and am confident Hangzhou can > meet the basic requirements (also, I would like to help collect those > active ASF members and active contributors in Hangzhou later if necessary). > Would be happy to hear your comments on this idea, thanks. > > 1. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Process+to+establish+an+ALC+Chapter > > Regards, > Jun Liu, Apache Dubbo PMC Chair live in Hangzhou❤️ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
