Yesterday’s office hours were the best-attended yet, with *seven* people at one point. Please plan to come next time!
There were several topics of conversation: ALCs were discussed, with two main focuses: * Expanding to University groups (Apache Community @ University of Kentucky, etc) and the opportunity to attract participants from the student demographic. It was noted that there was a successful University event several years ago, run by Swapnil and others, and that was a model to try to replicated. * Lowering the bar for creation of ALCs when there are not already 2 PMC members in the city/region attempting to create a group. The ALC Ghana has been approved, with the caveat that the Apache member/PMC member who is acting in a mentor role isn’t actually there, but is in contact with the folks running it. Projects.apache.org <http://projects.apache.org/> — While Projects.a.o is a useful tool for certain things, as an onramp for new contributors, it’s not awesome. You have to already understand the committee vs project hierarchy. You have to pretty much already know what you’re looking for. And you have to then figure out how to get from there to the actual community/project. We can do so much better. We talked about Drew’s awesome new metro map thingy — https://dfoulks1.github.io/project-map/maps/asf_metro.html — which gives folks a way to visualize how projects relate to one another. We then talked about how most projects will look at this and say “Well, actually …” and that’s an opportunity to get them to participate more in the curation of the data that we use to understand them. That, in turn, led to discussion of DOAP vs asf.yaml, and how the two file formats can complement one another, and/or if we should burn DOAP files with fire. We also talked about https://home.apache.org/calendar/ and that it’s time to maybe swap that in to events.apache.org <http://events.apache.org/> to let more people curate their calendar entries, and to have calendar entries across more categories. Some projects (Iceberg comes to mind — https://iceberg.apache.org/community/#apache-iceberg-community-calendar) already do an amazing job of publicizing their community calendar. Other projects might need a little help. But what none of them do is cross-foundation publication of their events. This could provide that. I don’t think that’s everything but those were the main topics. Others who were present are encouraged to fill in what I missed. -Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
