Thanks for all the info; I hadn't followed these developments closely. It's great to see all the communities forming.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 9:01 AM Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Local ASF chapters allow us to meet the local Apache people in > person. You can find more information here[1] > This way, local open-source enthusiasts could get together by hosting > events, publishing articles, making podcasts, etc. Sharing ASF's > successful stories within the local community inspired more developers > and talented college students to join open-source development. > During the pandemic, we held online events to promote the Apache > project and advocate the Apache Way and Open Source culture in China. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Apache+Local+Community+-+ALC > > Willem Jiang > > Twitter: willemjiang > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 9:10 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
