I'll second what Ross has to say. There are huge synergies that can happen between Apache projects and often these are facilitated by the interactions between people who meet at Apachecon. Over time projects become dependencies of other projects in very powerful ways.
One example is Apache Tika which consumes both PDFBox and POI for text extraction. Tika and Lucene are consumed by such projects as Solr (technically a sub-project of Lucene) and Jackrabbit. Jackrabbit and Felix are consumed by Sling. Sling can be run within Tomcat ... I recall meeting the guy who was contributing PDFBox into the Incubator years ago at Apachecon. If anything I offered encouragement. Years later the project is mature and we actually use it at work. Who did people meet and what other projects did people learn about that might be helpful to OpenOffice? Regards, Dave On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Sure, my point is that what people did do is not necessarily representative > of the value of the event and thus is not necessarily a good indicator of > best use of funds. Since this was the stated intent of your mail I thought > it worth pointing out that it might be a useful exercise. > > My motivation is that having attended one AOO community event it is clear > to me that not many people, if any, attended my Apache Way talk. However, > there are many other ways to learn about the ASF at ApacheCon. I'd be > interested if attendees felt it useful in this regard. > > Ross > > > > Sent from mobile, forgive terseness and errors > On Nov 10, 2012 3:59 PM, "Rob Weir" <rabas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ross, this isn't a "what if" survey based on what attendees might have >> done, but didn't. I'm interesting in their actual experiences. But >> feel free to add a relevant additional question if you feel one is >> missing. >> >> -Rob >> >> On Nov 10, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> >> wrote: >> >>> You missed how useful was it in learning about the ASF >>> >>> The problem is that the answers depend on how one approached the event. >> If >>> an individual only attended the AOO track then one would not benefit from >>> the community track or other project specific tracks for example. >>> >>> Ross >>> >>> Sent from mobile, forgive terseness and errors >>> On Nov 9, 2012 8:13 PM, "Rob Weir" <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> A few questions for those who attended in Sinsheim from the AOO >>>> project. I'm hoping these answers will help us decide how to allocate >>>> resources to future events. >>>> >>>> On a scale of 1-5, where 1 is lowest and 5 is highest, how effective >>>> was attending ApacheCon EU to you for each of the following: >>>> >>>> A. Meeting other AOO project members >>>> >>>> B. Gaining new information about AOO from the formal presentations. >>>> >>>> C. Gaining new information about AOO from informal discussions with >>>> project members. >>>> >>>> D. Gaining new AOO users >>>> >>>> E. Recruiting new potential project members >>>> >>>> F. Educating others about AOO >>>> >>>> G. Learning more about other Apache projects >>>> >>>> H. Moving AOO project plans and/or technical decisions forward. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> >>
