On Jan 10, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Campos wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Rick Winscot <rick.wins...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Johnathan Campos - Apache Flex wants to have a conference in San Francisco >> on the first anniversary of the project. Since you're on the commiters >> list... you'll be donating your time - pro-bono. Oh... and btw - the >> conference can't make a dollar because it's non-profit. Oh... and btw - >> Adobe didn't agree to supporting anything like that so... you'll have to >> come up with sponsorship yourself or pay for it out of your own pocket. >> Oh... and it's possible that Apache Flex may not even have anything to >> release by the conference. Oh... and...
There are so many assumptions in here. > > > I'm not sure if this was intentionally calling me out but I'll respond. > You're right that Apache isn't really about raising money for resources... > but Spoon can do just that. > > We haven't gone too much into it but I can tell you, as I'm just getting > off another Spoon call as we get ready for a big 'post-adobe now apache' > Q&A session, that this is one of the big goals of Spoon. > > Spoon is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation with the mission to "The Open > Spoon Foundation’s mission is to promote software development innovation > through improved community involvement and effective tooling." > > We have full intentions to put on conferences, raise money, and support the > community. The conference can make money and as a non-profit use that money > to continue to support the community in a very open way. So... could > definitely pay for the normal conference things, work deals to help the > community for software, etc. If you want to join up you could help the > community in that way also. > > That help? There is an Apache Conference committee. [1] And since Spoon is a 3rd Party and not Apache Flex. There are rules for using Apache branding at such a conference. [2] For an Apache BarCamp San Francisco (no travel for me:) or wherever, there is an ML on Conference page. IIRC there are rules allowing third party contributions, but I think in kind, perhaps liquid. Or, prepare to have a presence at the next Apachecon ... Regards, Dave [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/conferences.html [2] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events.html > > -- > Jonathan Campos
