On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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? > So that would be question G in my survey. > 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 >
