Re: Contributing to Apache

2015-02-03 Thread shathawa
> Sir/Madam, > > I would like to participate in GSOC 2015. I found that I can work on > Apache Lucene and Apache Solr > > The reason I am contacting you is because I want to do a project > related to Search Engines. > > Can you please help me out? > > Thanks and Regards, > Subham Soni > > Subram,

RE: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
There is nothing stopping LF from promoting the CFP. Ross Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -Original Message- From: Phil Steitz [mailto:phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:38 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache

Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Phil Steitz
On 2/2/15 11:47 AM, jan i wrote: > On 2 February 2015 at 19:30, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Agreed! >> >> Also, after all is said and done, and Rich has some >> time to breathe, I'd like to know just how helpful LF >> was this time around. From the sidelines, it seems that >> they really didn't do a

Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Pei Chen
Hi Craig Ross, I would be curious to read the CFP for ApacheCon 2015 and will be willing to help with reviews if the group would allow me to... Would you be able to add 'peistation' to the CFP review system? --Pei On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > Thanks so much for people that

Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Rob Vesse
On 03/02/2015 01:11, "jan i" wrote: >We should really make that clear to people, I strongly believe the general >opinion is non-project talks are not welcome. I base this on the fact >that >a number of talks for Denver and Budapest was rejected for being too >company like. Having been a reviewe

RE: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Dennis is right. We have to be realistic about providing value to our speakers I'd e want to go beyond highly specific Apache Project sessions. For example, one of my own sessions, a lab, has drawn a comment about potentially being a sales pitch. This is ridiculous. It's a lab in which people

RE: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 01:12 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed On Monday, February 2, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: [ ... ] > Ross: "Hey, you know you a

Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed

2015-02-03 Thread jan i
On Monday, February 2, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Content is our responsibility but given I undertook to convince people > outside the usual ASF crowd to submit talks I can assure you that a lack of > promotion for the event was the biggest hurdle. To