Re: Berlin Buzzwords BarCamp

2025-03-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, Andrew Musselman wrote: If my talk is approved I'm going to try to swing it; is barcamp that Sunday? Yes, it is! As per https://2024.berlinbuzzwords.de/2024/06/26/berlin-buzzwords-2025-save-the-date/index.html it'll be happening in the usual slot on the Sunday afternoon,

Proposal for a Working Group - wg-targetted-mentoring

2024-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I'd like to propose a new Working Group. I'm not certain the name is right, but I can't think of anything better... Help needed on that! For helping match Apache Projects who'd like new contributors, with Companies who indirectly depend on them. The aim would be to co-ordinate, provi

Re: FOAF sync towards "Nearby Apache People"

2021-04-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Richard Zowalla wrote: is the sync for https://community.zones.apache.org/map.html offline? I added a FOAF file to SVN a few days ago (according to [1]) but the content seems to be static. In addition, it seems, that the google map requires verification. I think that servic

Re: [jira] [Created] (COMDEV-368)

2020-04-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Mark Thomas wrote: On 18/04/2020 10:30, Nikhil Kumar (Jira) wrote:> Nikhil Kumar created COMDEV-368: I have disabled this idiot's account and delete the spam issue. For people who don't have infra karma, if you spot some spam on Jira (or Bugzilla), hop on the #asfinfra

Re: projects.apache.org urls showing in some projects categories

2019-10-29 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, sebb wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 23:30, Nick Burch wrote: I've spotted what looks like a data bug, but might be a code bug, on projects.apache.org. For some projects, they are being shown not against their proper category (eg library), but against a category t

projects.apache.org urls showing in some projects categories

2019-10-24 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I've spotted what looks like a data bug, but might be a code bug, on projects.apache.org. For some projects, they are being shown not against their proper category (eg library), but against a category that's prefixed with the https://projects.a.o link for their category For example, A

Re: comdev VMs need consolidation

2019-01-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Chris Lambertus wrote: community-vm (community.zones) This is way beyond what we normally provide projects, and they are taking up precious resources in our most impacted colos. These need to be consolidated down to a single VM. I’d like to work with someone on comdev to m

Re: [DISCUSSION] Running another ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2018-10-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Sharan Foga wrote: It’s been nearly 2 years since we ran our ASF Committer Diversity Survey so I think it's about time that we looked at running it again to see if things are changing. The survey results were used in several presentations last week at ApacheCon, and I reme

Re: Proposal to add "geospatial" category

2018-09-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: Following discussions at ApacheCon this week, I propose to add a new category to the following files: Is there any objection to the addition of "geospatial" category? I'd say go ahead! Some "bonus" volunteer tasks, if you have time... Firstly,

Re: What happened to the Committers Map?

2018-09-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, lewis john mcgibbney wrote: Am I correct in saying that the Committer map code did not make the transition to the new people.apache.org? It got redone on the Comdev "nearby people" tool, should be at http://community-vm.apache.org/map.html Note that it's still only base

Re: ApacheCon video

2017-10-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Rich Bowen wrote: We do have a YouTube account somewhere right? Who's got credentials to that? I don't think we have an ApacheCon one, nor a ComDev one. There is the main ASF one though: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation I believe Sally has the credentials

Re: Committer map

2017-09-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: We used to have a map view of those committers who had been willing to share their location linked under people.Apache.org - for me that map always came in handy when travelling to reach out to local ppl. Right now the map seems to be offline. It

Re: Moderators for comdev

2017-07-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Ross Gardler wrote: I'm still listed as a moderator for ComDev but I don't ever seem to take action on a moderation email. This makes me think I ought to be removed. Before I request this change can you please confirm if you are an active moderator OR are willing to become

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 25 May 2017, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: ** If you (or your startup) have conflicts there, let me know. Also tell me which date would work for you to ship your family if you have children going to school. I have no clue what summer holiday dates look like anywhere else but in the various

Missed ApacheCon? Catch up on the Apache Way + Community videos now!

2017-05-18 Thread Nick Burch
Software is Easy; People are Hard - Moderated by Benjamin Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STkwH6u4p2c * The Apache Way for Business Panel - Moderated by Nick Burch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6gEuH6Bsqo * Committed to The Apache Way - Sharan Foga http://events.linuxfoun

Re: ApacheCon ad-hockathon ;)

2017-05-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 14 May 2017, Benjamin Young wrote: A few weeks back I proposed an "Upgrading Our Apache Hackathon" https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69408218 One key thing I need to sort out is the place to do this. Rich or Shane had mentioned a particular space in the v

Re: Using Solr/Lucene to provide our own site search?

2017-03-28 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Shane Curcuru wrote: As has been pondered many times (recently by Rich and Sally, among many others), it would be really nice to better help newcomers find the right information at the ASF or our projects. We have one of the industry's leading search tools right here: why ar

Re: community.zones.apache.org needs a move - are we still maintaining it?

2017-01-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Daniel Gruno wrote: As subject says, the box it's on is slated to be decommissioned, so we either need to move the service or discontinue it. It is still being used, to host the nearby people app (nearby speakers, local mentors etc) Is there anyone willing to maintain a

Re: Task #5c18cd0e: Create Twitter list of all projects

2016-12-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Owen O'Malley wrote: Can we extend the doap to have a standard attribute for the Twitter handle? Letting the project maintain it seems like a good thing. Additionally, it would be great to have https://projects.apache.org/ track the official twitter handle for each project.

Re: Does GSoC help develop communities?

2016-11-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: It would be great to have some kind of statistics on how GSoC helps projects longer term. Do students stick around? Does the code written actually get incorporated into releases? Does it in fact contribute to the mission of Community Development, or is it

Re: Can I commit third party jar to apache project ?

2016-10-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, Jeff Zhang wrote: I am working on one ticket of apache project. And this feature requires another third party jar but unfortunately this jar is not available in public maven repository. Note that it's possible to upload other people's open source jars to maven central via

RE: How to edit a "Help Wanted" task

2016-06-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, Ross Gardler wrote: I asked Daniel about this at apachecon. Delete and recreate is the only option (unless someone wants to contribute a patch, which would be very welcome). I took a look, to see if I could contribute something for this, but... I couldn't spot the instruct

Re: Getting planetapache back

2016-05-31 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 30 May 2016, Phil Steitz wrote: I will take a shot at getting it running if I can get help getting a VM or host somewhere to set it up on and DNS set up to point to it. Any suggestions on where to put it? How are your puppet skills? We can certainly ask Infra for a virtual machine to

Re: No Unicode Feather?

2016-05-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 24 May 2016, Christopher wrote: This is a somewhat serious question (but only somewhat). Does anybody know what the process would be like to petition for a feather (ASF or otherwise) emoji in unicode? Has anybody tried doing this? A few months ago I went to a very interesting short tal

Re: Adding Missing wiki pages for projects!

2016-05-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 22 May 2016, Mark Thomas wrote: On 21/05/2016 04:02, Syed Gardezi wrote: I wanted to setup wiki pages for these projects. I wanted to ask what will be the minimal data/fields/entries/coloum_names that would be required for the wiki page of a project. That is more a question for wikipe

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 22 May 2016, Sharan Foga wrote: Is it possible for me to get some space (eg a page etc on the Comdev wiki) to put together these initial ideas and the action points? I'm also thinking of using it to help develop the ideas further and to track the actions in progress. The ComDev wiki i

Re: Convert from MoinMoin --> Confluence

2016-05-20 Thread Nick Burch
Does anyone know if a script exists for converting wiki content from MoinMoin to Confluence? I ended up writing one to go from confluence to markdown, as part of the move to svnpubsub for project websites, but that's going the "wrong" way for your needs. It might help a little bit though: htt

Re: [ApacheCon] Volunteers needed, Audio processing

2016-05-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: I would like to use this opportunity as an experiment to see if the process could be crowd sourced and automated for future events. If we could find some 15 mins to chat to educate me on what worked in the past it'd be appreciated. One idea we've had

Re: Can we add this to Apache Community Calendar: [virtual] MADlib Community Call - "Deeper Dive on 1.9" - Thurs, May 5, 9AM Pacific

2016-05-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 2 May 2016, Greg Chase wrote: I'm not a member of ComDev PMC, but always happy to help if you need more "community geeks". We could always use more community folks! Based on other responses, it sounds like I just need to do a better job of promoting virtual events in advance. I've be

Re: Can we add this to Apache Community Calendar: [virtual] MADlib Community Call - "Deeper Dive on 1.9" - Thurs, May 5, 9AM Pacific

2016-05-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Gregory Chase wrote: Please add this to the general calendar, or I'm happy to do so if I have the karma. Which calendar? We have two... The "official" events calendar, as shown in places like http://community.apache.org/calendars/ , is actually powered by a shared google

Templates for Vancouver Core+BigData speakers now available

2016-04-28 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All A little late notice, but by popular request, I've put together some slide templates for the Vancouver Apache Big Data and ApacheCon Core events These are 16:9 formatted, which I'm told is what the projectors use, and include a few different options for most page types to pick beteween

Re: Apache Core templates for Vancouver

2016-04-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:51PM, Nick Burch wrote: Using images of Vancouver kindly provided by the LF, and with image editing + style advice from a friend, I've now got provisional templates: * http://home.apache.org/~nick/ACBD16_Templat

Re: Apache Core templates for Vancouver

2016-04-26 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Nick Burch wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: On 04/21/2016 06:45 PM, Nick Burch wrote: Do we know if the projectors are 4:3 or 16:9? 16:9 That's handy for me, as most of my templates (plus the slide decks I'm using as a basis for my talks!) ar

Re: Apache Core templates for Vancouver

2016-04-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: On 04/21/2016 06:45 PM, Nick Burch wrote: Do we know if the projectors are 4:3 or 16:9? 16:9 That's handy for me, as most of my templates (plus the slide decks I'm using as a basis for my talks!) are all that already :) I've got some

Re: Apache Core templates for Vancouver

2016-04-21 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: On 04/20/2016 04:35 AM, jean-frederic clere wrote: Are there any templates for the presentations for ApacheCon Core in Vancouver? We don't have any yet. I'll see what I can do. I'm sure I could replace the images in my usual set of templates[1] with so

Re: Want to find more contributors for your Apache project?

2016-04-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Shane Curcuru wrote: Nick Wellnhofer wrote on 4/12/16 12:33 PM: This page seems to be more about Apache mailing lists in general. It took me a while to find the ComDev mailing list. Maybe the address of the list (dev@community.apache.org) and a link to the archives at h

Re: Help with task: Make our event calendar less US centric

2016-04-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Rich Bowen wrote: I wonder if perhaps, Ross, you would put your longer description on the web somewhere, and we can link to it from either the ticket, or send it to people when they ask to help in this one. Also, with my moderator hat one, please note that many of the peop

Re: ApacheCon: wiki help wanted

2016-01-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Dammina Sahabandu wrote: My username is dammina. Please add me to the Contributors Group :) On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Chema Polo wrote: My username is chemapolo could you please add me to the contributors group? Both now added, good luck with your volunteering, and thanks! N

Re: ApacheCon: wiki help wanted

2016-01-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Chema Polo wrote: I am new too and i would like to help as well. How can I help you? Thanks for volunteering! In order to prevent spam attacks, the ApacheCon wiki (like almost all other ASF wikis) is restricted so that only registered users can edit it So, what you (and

Re: Apache Big Data templates

2015-09-22 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: Sorry if this has been communicated before, but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know where to get the slides templates for the ApacheCon Budapest 2015? I'm not sure if there are official ones I think at least some people are planning

Re: Twitter account, barcamp.

2015-06-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, jan i wrote: Does anybody which email is registred for our barcamp twitter account. It's the old concom private address, concom-priv...@apache.org, which luckily hasn't been closed done just yet! I wanted to login and tweet about apacheCON, but got stuck by this mail qu

Re: Requesting Edit Access Rights to the ApacheCon Wiki Page

2015-06-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, jan i wrote: I do not have karma to give you edit rights You do now :) Nick

Re: Requesting Edit Access Rights to the ApacheCon Wiki Page

2015-06-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Shawn McKinney wrote: May I be added to the list for edit rights to this page: https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/FrontPage We'll need to know your wiki username in order to be able to grant you karma. If you could let us know what that is (being aware that you need to reg

Re: Apache meetups in the coming week

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 29 May 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: Anyways, my question is, do you folks think that this would be a useful service to provide to the community - to put this list somewhere each week. Perhaps this list, perhaps somewhere more prominent like on apache.org/events for example. events.apache.o

Re: Code repo for community.apache.org?

2015-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 21 May 2015, Michael Rice wrote: I saw a few small typos that I'd like to fix and submit PRs for, but I couldn't figure out where the source code for community.apache.org is hosted. I swear I searched as much as I had patience for on the site itself for a link to a Github repo. I even s

Re: [ApacheCon] Volunteers needed: Audio editing

2015-04-27 Thread Nick Burch
On 23/04/15 21:24, Rich Bowen wrote: 1) The files are at http://people.apache.org/~nick/raw-acna15-recordings/ 2) At https://etherpad.mozilla.org/acna-2015-audio we'll keep track of who's working on what, so that we're not wasting time/effort. Indicate who you are, and the file that you're worki

Re: Events calendar

2015-04-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: 1) What other calendars are out there, and what can we do to consolidate them? I tried to consolodate everything to the "official" Apache Events calendar as maintained in google docs + displayed on the comdev site, and a Lanyrd conferene guide which was

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: On 03/22/2015 12:40 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Thanks Nick, those are great! I consider the problem solved. +1 OK then! Please all consider http://people.apache.org/~nick/ACNA15_Template_Nick.odp as ready for use by those who wish! Nick

Re: Apache POI CTPageMar not found

2015-03-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, r01942072 wrote: I am using eclipse. I download Apache POI 3.12 Beta 1, add all jar files into java build path, but eclipse tells me that CTPageMar not found. Part of my code is shown below. This would be best asked on the POI user list, see http://poi.apache.org/mailingl

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I've had a go at updating my Budapest template for Austin, draft so far available at: http://people.apache.org/~nick/Draft_ACNA15_Template_Nick.odp I know there was a bit of feedback on the Budapest ones about visability / contrast, so advice on if these need changes before offering th

RE: ACNA Presentation Template - Crunch

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I have extracted the three background images from the ACEU14 presentation. They are not possible to morph. They are JPEGs and there is no reasonable way to extract pieces and morph the logo and conference name. I'll send you the images I used o

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Burch
On 20/03/15 19:46, Andrea Pescetti wrote: ApacheCon EU 2014 http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp (this ought to have been uploaded to the Templates site too, but apparently Linux Foundation never clarified the terms of usage for some images that Nick included into it) We do hav

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: On 03/19/2015 01:16 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Somebody, send the last one to me and I will see what I can do with it. It would help to know what is particularly liked about the last one so I don't muck it up. http://templates.openoffice.org/en/search

Re: [ApacheCon] Scheduling help, pass 2

2015-03-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: Looks to me that we have two in Science, one in "Big Data; Big Picture", two in "Content". and one in "Mobile" If you could let me know which ones in Content we have lost, and also which spreadsheet / google doc I can check to see what talks remain uncla

Re: ApacheCon Schedule

2015-02-20 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, jan i wrote: If we still have that community slot, and/or one appears with at least 2 weeks notice... Ross has promised to fill it with a talk not in CFP. Great if so! Currently, we have a "traditional" Apache Way talk in the schedule. There has been some debate about t

Re: ApacheCon Schedule

2015-02-20 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Rich Bowen wrote: * We have an empty spot in the community track. Given that community is what we *do*, it seems that we could come up with 6 community talks to schedule, and have a few fallbacks. If folks could look through the not-yet-accepted list with me and see what yo

Frameworks track?

2015-02-17 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I've just been having a look through the CFP list, and it seems from first glance like there's quite a few good framework related talks, including OSGi and CXF ones. I don't know enough to be sure though... Do we have anyone here who's an expert in that sort of area, who could volunte

Knowing which talks are already claimed by another ApacheCon track?

2015-02-16 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I'm trying to finalise the Content Technologies track for Austin, but I'm struggling to know which talks have already been "claimed" by other tracks. Some of the ones I want to include have review comments which suggest they might have been, and some I'd just guess might be. I can't se

Re: Apache Way talks

2015-02-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: There is value in these sessions, some people are completely new and we probably should still schedule them. However, I think we ought to do some new stuff along the lines of: How is the ASF different from other foundations? Why should I

Fast Feather Track - anyone want to take charge for Austin?

2015-02-12 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All Hopefully most of you will know about the Fast Feather Track? For those who don't, it's often described as: a series of short talks, 10-20 minutes in length, covering things that are new / interesting / exciting / incubating / recently changed / etc. It's a great chance to learn about

Re: Is there a wiki space for comdev?

2015-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Sure. But see, this is me testing the following assumption: given the volunteer resources (myself) ComDev could be a good place to mange pTLP related documentation. So far, the assumption is proving to be incorrect. If that's how it ends up being: we'd

Re: Why the Apachecon (was Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed)

2015-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: For example, I would love to have some kind of an event at the ApacheCON that would encourage as many folks as possible to learn about various ASF projects. I have some ideas around running a kind of lighting talks/reading group where each participant

Re: Why the Apachecon (was Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed)

2015-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Pierre Smits wrote: We are discussing again, as it seems to me, what the purpose of the Apachecon is based on talks submitted. And why is that? I'm not going to answer your email directly, but instead I'm going to try to offer some background and some history, which hopeful

Re: Is there a wiki space for comdev?

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: The ComDev wiki is (currently) on Confluence not Moin, so the root URL is https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Index Thanks for the quick reply Nick! Is there any chance I can be given karma to add pages to that wiki? I don't think I

Re: Is there a wiki space for comdev?

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: I've been wondering if comdev has its own wiki space. Looking at http://wiki.apache.org/general/ doesn't bring anything up. Would appreciate suggestions on how proceed requesting it. The ComDev wiki is (currently) on Confluence not Moin, so the root

Re: ApacheCon track descriptions

2014-12-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Sharan Foga wrote: Thanks Nick - my username is SharanFoga Karma granted! Nick

Re: ApacheCon track descriptions

2014-12-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Sharan Foga wrote: I've written a summary for the OFBiz track but am having problems editing the wiki to copy it in. Logging in is fine but I cant change anything. Please can someone check that I've got edit access? If you could tell us what username you use on that wiki,

Re: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin

2014-12-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On 11/24/2014 11:14 AM, Pei Chen wrote: Is there any interest in having a category for Healthcare? Would be interesting to see how others use ASF projects to solve different healthcare issues. Jay (from BigTop/RedHat) and I (cTAKES) were possibly thinking

Re: Apache Community Development site

2014-12-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014, Krzysztof Sobkowiak wrote: I'd like to ask whether this site (http://community.apache.org/) is a static site or generted using any static site generator (like Jekyll). It's build using the Apache CMS: http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html Where is the repository containing th

Re: Local mentors website does not update

2014-09-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Robert Kowalski wrote: I checked for Hamburg in Germany (DE) on the site http://community.zones.apache.org/ here and then, but I don't get listed. Did I miss something? ssh'ing into the community zones box, and accepting the updated svn certificate... You're there now! (

Article on "Barriers faced by newcomers to open source"

2014-08-05 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All For those thinking about how to make it easier to new comers into your projects, and get them to stay, you may find this review article (especially section 3) of interest: http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/OSS2014.pdf Nick

Re: more prominence for ASF activities?

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Pierre Smits wrote: I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events themselves. This page should be show

Re: ApacheCon keynotes

2014-05-22 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 21 May 2014, David Nalley wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I find this is an excellent idea (well, I just happened to use a couple of almost unknown Apache projects for work and I wished I had known about them earlier, since the one-line description in Boa

Re: ApacheCon keynotes

2014-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 21 May 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On May 21, 2014 3:06 PM, "jan iversen" wrote: I would like to hear a speech from one of the big software producers, and hear their vision about proprietary software contra opensource, where is the future. (a suggestion would be SAP who are very big in eu

Re: Event in a Box budget

2014-05-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 2 May 2014, rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Initially we planned to have a box in the US and a Box in the EU. However, the logistics of managing a box in the EU are more complicated. My proposal is only to budget for a US box at this time and, if necessary, seek additional funds for a

Re: ASF Youtube?

2014-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Who's got the ASF Youtube credentials? I've got ApacheCon videos to upload. I believe Sally is the master holder of these, so she's the main person to ask, though it's possible that some of the other people who have them lurk here and can pass you them a

Re: Apache Event Calendar

2014-04-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Who has access to the Apache event calendar - https://community.apache.org/calendars/conferences.html I know you do, but does anybody else? Anyone who asks! What's the policy for what gets put on there? Is it only official events like ApacheCon, barcamp

Re: ApacheCon community panel

2014-03-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Do folks think that this will make a good panel discussion (obvious, I do), and, if so, who should participate in such a panel? I'd love to see someone from the board, and someone from the Cordova PMC. Suggestions as to who that should be? I'd vote for s

Re: tika-parsers update

2014-03-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Emiliano Bossi wrote: I need to use last bouncycastle jars in my project so I provide a little change in your source code This list is the general Apache Community Development mailing list. For your case, you'll want to contact the Apache Tika developers list, see http://t

Re: Corporate Responsibility

2014-02-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Kehoe, Adam P wrote: I was wondering if you could provide the contact information of somebody in the proper department who I could talk to regarding your volunteer policies. I scoured your website but couldn't find anybody. Everyone working on projects at the Apache Softwa

Re: Fast Feather

2014-02-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 2 Feb 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: Nick, can you tell me how you envision the Fast Feather track working, from a scheduling perspective? ie, do we just give you a day-long slot and say "go for it", or is there more that we need to do on the scheduling side to accept specific talks for that

Re: ApacheCon CFP stats, and lease help get the word out

2014-01-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: With 5 days left in the CFP for ApacheCon, we have 50 papers submitted. I know that we usually get as much as half of the submissions in the last 48 hours, but we're still well under where I hoped to be at this point. Even more worrying, the overwhelming m

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On 01/15/2014 10:40 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Trouble is -- wiki doesn't let me login: RomanShaposhnik Same account I use for wiki.apache.org/incubator/ Ok, looks like the wiki was a bad idea, and I need to put it in a different wiki. You can tempora

Re: First spark summit

2013-10-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Rich Bowen wrote: I'm ex concom, but willing to help out. Let me know what email address you use with google, and I'll add you in We should (imho) have one calendar. So whichever we decide on, we should redirect the other. The events hostname sounds most memorable. Ther

Re: ATS Summit Oct 2013

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Leif Hedstrom wrote: I’m not on the ComDev PMC That can be easily fixed... ;-) but I’d be happy to help out with whatever I can. There is one thing that we could do with your input on, the so called "Event In A Box": http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-

Re: ATS Summit Oct 2013

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Leif Hedstrom wrote: Can you please also add the Apache Traffic Server Fall 2013 Summit to the events calendar? Details on this are at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Fall+2013+Summit Done. Comments for ComDev from the other thread still apply... N

Re: First spark summit

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Andy Konwinski wrote: We are planning the first Spark Summit (Spark is an incubator project) for Dec 2-3 2013. Can you add it to the event calendar ( http://community.apache.org/calendars/conferences.html) please? Added! ComDev - two things. Firstly, the current list of p

Re: Apache Ambassadors

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Rich Bowen wrote: On 06/25/2013 09:43 AM, Nick Burch wrote: As for getting the design done, most of us seem to lack the skills, but we do have a few members about with a good eye for design / with such a person nearby. Take a look at the people who designed tshirts for

Re: Apache Ambassadors

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Marcel Offermans wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 14:42 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: 3) Someone to estimate what it'll cost to ship these out to various people in various countries. Should someone just take a sufficient number to events, or should we ship to each individual? Get prices

Re: Spam on Women's Wiki

2013-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Ross Gardler wrote: Do we want to set up some spam control on the wiki? Anyone know how? I'd suggest we do set it up - most of the other wikis have now enabled it, and while it has probably put a few new people off, generally most people accept it as long as requests to b

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-13 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: Ross I think you delivered it in Vancouver. Do you happen to have some slides we could use as a starting point? Ross gave it in Vancouver: http://na11.apachecon.com/talks/19420 Nour gave it in Sinsheim: http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/1

Re: Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-02-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: I can take it if nobody else wants it. On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Benson Margulies wrote: I could Do you two want to deliver it as a joint effort? Or failing that, play rock-paper-scissors-spock and let us know who wins? :) Cheers Nick

Anyone able to give the "Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers?" talk in Portland?

2013-01-31 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All Sadly, it looks like Mohammad Nour won't be able to join us in Portland after all :( He was down to speak in the community track, giving an updated version of a popular talk - Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers? [1] Is anyone who's going to Portland able to cover this one? I

Re: Development.rdf and ApacheSpeakers.rdf

2012-12-30 Thread Nick Burch
On 29/12/12 16:14, janI wrote: I have added myself to development,rdf and apachespeakers.rdf and committed the change. However even now after a couple of days I do not show up on either map (mentor/speaker), can someone give me a hint what I do wrong. It looks like something changed on the zon

Re: Video recording at ApacheCon EU

2012-10-29 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: Then that is silly... 6 digital video cameras + 12 volunteers == a lot less than €15,000. More like 2-3000, and the cameras can be used more than once. Its not that simple to record things in decent quality with volunteers and off the shelf cameras. It

Re: Info shown in Committers by login id

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Mike Kienenberger wrote: And I don't know if this is "site-dev" or comdev, but when I was working through the local mentors issue, I noticed that "Committers by login id"[1] doesn't show as much info (like Geographic Location) that Committers List[2] and list by letter[3] sho

Re: Local Mentors

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Mike Kienenberger wrote: Forwarding to dev@community at Ross's request. Looks like there's something up with the cron entry that should be doing the daily update. I've emailed infra@ for help as I don't know why it isn't working I've manually done the svn up, and you're

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-18 Thread Nick Burch
On 18/07/12 07:13, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 8:53 PM, "Ross Gardler" wrote: On 16 July 2012 10:19, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I am willing to help but still I still dont get the details of what track chair is expected to do ? Main duty is to coordinate (or perform) ses

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I am willing to help Great, any chance that you could fill in the details on the the "Call For Tracks" google docs form? but still I still dont get the details of what track chair is expected to do ? Sorry, I thought you'd already seen the

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote: I might not be that much versed in Apache terminology, but what is a 'community track'? And what are/is the definition of the other kind? Perhaps the best way to explain it is through the talks this track has hosted in the past. Over the past few years,

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