Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Srabasti Banerjee
+1I think this would be good to help newbies to get started on contributing.It is difficult to figure out whom to contact with respect to a Jira issue to work on, having skillset to do so. This can help double booking on same task too. There have been times when I signed up for an open task and

Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Claude Edney
totally agree sorry I know I'm new but this would help a lot of newbies to the mailing list because with this portal we can know all the projects available so we can join up, excellent idea! On Friday, July 21, 2017 4:25 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote: Hi, interesting topic with the job-p

Re: Are Job Postings allowed / good-etiquette on Apache Mailing lists?

2017-07-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/21/2017 2:53 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: Hi, Any chance to breath a bit of life back into jobs@ by advertising it a bit more (e.g. referring ppl posting jobs in lists there?) Isabel Thought: Should we mention it as a sponsor benefit? -

Re: Are Job Postings allowed / good-etiquette on Apache Mailing lists?

2017-07-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Any chance to breath a bit of life back into jobs@ by advertising it a bit more (e.g. referring ppl posting jobs in lists there?) Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Good point about the charitable status. What worked well for us in the past at Mahout was having a page (in our case publicly editable wiki page, but could really be anything) which lists ppl and companies available for hire in alphabetical order with a disclaimer in top that being listed means

donwload links

2017-07-21 Thread Horváth Dávid
Hi, I think be better if you use donwload links with latest symlinks. Example: http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/  Parent Directory -     v8.0.45/2017-07-01 09:13-     v8.5.16/2017-06-26 11:55-     KEYS   

Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote: > ...I think in general you will probably get more public awareness by posting > articles in newspapers or blogs, but what if I would rather invest my time in > doing instead of talking?... As an aside, I think publishing good content

Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Sharan Foga
Brilliant idea Chris so +1 from me. I think it could be a nice way to engage the committer / contributor base and also help bring in more companies to Apache. I know of one company that couldn't find enough people with experience of an ASF project locally so decided to take students on work ex

Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Michael Brohl
Hi Chris, although I am lucky to mostly work with Apache Software and the framework I spend most of my time contributing for (Apache OFBiz), I think this is a great idea! So +1 for your proposal. Best regards, Michael Am 21.07.17 um 10:25 schrieb Christofer Dutz: Hi, interesting topic w

Re: Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 08:25:24AM +, Christofer Dutz wrote: > So here’s my idea: How about having the opposite of the jobs mailing list? > Instead of a list where people can ask for people for a given task, we could > provide an Apache portal in which committers of ASF projects can sign up to

Re: Solutions.Hamburg: Invitation to provide ApacheContent

2017-07-21 Thread Sharan Foga
Thanks Myrle - great idea to summarise what we have in a simple way! (And also to Chris for the launching the initiative in the first place) So what is latest status with this? (as it sounds like a really great opportunity for Apache to showcase quite a few projects and technologies). Is it sti

Apache Consultants/Jobs portal?

2017-07-21 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi, interesting topic with the job-posting … which reminds me that I wanted to ask something going down a similar path, but couldn’t quite figure out where to ask, but I think this list is could be the best fit :-) For the last years I have been investing almost all my free time in Apache Proj