> 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?
According to the definition here[1]: "ALC comprises local groups of Apache (Open Source) enthusiasts, called an 'ALC Chapter'. There will be a single ALC chapter per town/city. ALC is similar to Google Developer Group, Facebook Developer Circles, Mozilla Reps.” > Do any exist in the US? EU? Elsewhere? The existing ALCs are listed here[2] > What do they do? Meetups, I > guess? Do they also maintain separate parallel online communities? My experiences with ALC chapter are mainly from attending offline events like meetups and local conferences organized by ALC Beijing. I think it’s mainly about creating a space(online and offline, especially offline) for local open source contributors to meet in person, also as a way to promote The Apache Way. 1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Apache+Local+Community+-+ALC 2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ALC+Chapters Regards, Jun Liu > On Dec 4, 2023, at 8:08 PM, Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> >>
