Re: Hello

2009-12-06 Thread Isabel Drost
On Friday 04 December 2009 21:09:56 Ross Gardler wrote: > Things I think are good ideas: > > New committers resources > > New members resources I guess those would then be complimentary to what is available on apache.org already? Isabel -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Web:

Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-06 Thread Isabel Drost
On Friday 04 December 2009 21:16:32 Ross Gardler wrote: > I don't believe this is a good idea in the long term, or even medium > term, as freely edited wikis usually result in chaos and incomplete > articles. I don't know whether more restrictive access control prevents that from happening. I th

Re: Requested addition of this list to MarkMail (EOM)

2009-12-07 Thread Isabel Drost
Done same for nabble and GMane -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: SVM algo, code, etc.

2009-12-11 Thread Isabel Drost
On Fri Sean Owen wrote: > 1) Is SVM in scope for Mahout? (I am guessing so.) Yes. > 2) Who is nominally committing to shepherd the code into the code base > and fix bugs and answer questions? (Jake?) > > I'm not really bothered about this particular patch, but the more > general question. I

Re: welcome to four new PMC members

2009-12-11 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tue Ross Gardler wrote: > I'll action the necessary "paperwork" ASAP. In the meantime, welcome > and thanks for your support. Thanks for the warm welcome. Over at Lucene we have the tradition of new committers introducing themselves briefly. As comdev is still very young and I joined only rec

Re: Academic outrech activities for Hadoop

2009-12-18 Thread Isabel Drost
On Fri Ross Gardler wrote: > It was therefore agreed that there is a real need for the academic > sector to get to grips with Hadoop. Having large data sets and > practical applications such as these would undoubtedly help the > Hadoop project in terms of testing and validation. It's hoped that >

Re: Need a mentor to guide me contribute to hadoop

2010-01-02 Thread Isabel Drost
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 13:03:57 Ross Gardler wrote: > > I am pursuing my master in computer science. I would like to > > contribute to the hadoop. I suppose you have subscribed to the Hadoop mailing lists already? You should also have a look at the "How To Contribute" wiki page of Hadoop:

Re: Need a mentor to guide me contribute to hadoop

2010-01-06 Thread Isabel Drost
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:43:59 Ravi wrote: > I don't have any thing specific. I am searching to find one. However, I > have on hadoop mailing list and closely following the issues. Did you setup a (mini-)Hadoop cluster already? Did you try checking out the source from svn and building it o

Re: Mentoring Programm

2010-01-14 Thread Isabel Drost
On 14.01.2010 Luciano Resende wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM, jakub wrote: > > but i don't know wich project to join. I got some basic skills in Java, > > C/C++ and Ruby. Therefore I'm interested in programming in these > > languages. > > I'd recommend that you at least browse around t

Re: Working on CouchDB or Hadoop

2010-05-20 Thread Isabel Drost
On 19.05.2010 Sean Bartell wrote: > I was looking for something to do over the summer, and the mentoring > program looked like a good choice. I've recently developed an interest > in filesystems and NoSQL databases, so I'm interested in working on > CouchDB or Hadoop. So far, I've messed around wit

Re: What are the basic, invariant rules of Apache projects?

2010-05-21 Thread Isabel Drost
On 21.05.2010 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > I'd like to write a blog post (on the foundation blog, or might be a > good opportunity to start the comdev blog) about the basic rules of > Apache projects. Hmm - one question that came to my mind reading the list: Who is the intended reader of that blo

Re: Forward planning

2010-07-09 Thread Isabel Drost
On Sat Ted Dunning wrote: > Mahout has a strong record of welcoming mentorees. Keep us in mind > as you go forward. To add one more piece of information: Mahout does not only have GSoC students. We have also a few ties to university projects. Ross, you probably already know, I have started an "e

Re: Presentations

2010-08-02 Thread Isabel Drost
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Tim Williams > wrote: > > ... I'm > > willing to help pull something together if nothing exists already... > > Once you have something, I suggest storing/maintaining it under > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-08 Thread Isabel Drost
On Thu, 03 Mar 11 Ulrich Stärk wrote: > We are doing something like this in Berlin already: every month or so > we meet for an Apache Dinner. Just adding to that: Judging from a few threads on o.a.community similar "events" have been organised along-side conferences that were attended by Apache pe

Re: [Fwd: [Announce] ACTION REQUIRED]

2011-03-31 Thread Isabel Drost
On Wed, 30 Mar 11 Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Do we have a logo, max 65x65 px somewhere? Would that be ok: http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/ ? Isabel

Re: gsoc-2011

2011-04-04 Thread Isabel Drost
On 03.04.2011 ejaj on resurgence wrote: > Hence i would like to seek assistance in knowing > which project would suit me the most. I think the easiest way for you to find out is to have a closer look at our project list http://projects.apache.org/ and look for a project that interests you most.

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:42:11AM -0800, Ted Dunning wrote: > I have to say one of the most fun conferences I have ever attended was the > third ALife conference. They had a lego play area for children attending. > Happily, very few children were there which allowed the rest of us to > spend man

Re: On wearing multiple hats

2016-10-26 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:58:17AM -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:50 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > > - Given the influx of projects into the incubator (and the number of > > projects > > making it through) people seem to trust the ASF as a home for th

Re: Focused effort on Apache Way education

2019-07-20 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 16. Juli 2019 23:43:19 MESZ schrieb Dmitriy Pavlov : >I know about the excellent slides done by Shane >http://shaneslides.com/apachecon/TheApacheWay-ApacheConNA2018.html#2 That's one nice source. Also there's several good slide decks out there. I've given a related talk before I headed off

Re: Breaking my silance

2019-07-24 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 24. Juli 2019 23:35:12 MESZ schrieb Raphael Bircher : > Even the swiss social >assurance (IV (Invaliden Versicherung) accepted a pilot project with >us. Congratulations. >I will be also at the ApacheCon EU. I'm really happy to be there, and >can't wait to meet you guys there! Looking fo

Re: Event-in-a-Box

2013-10-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thursday, October 03, 2013 04:17:33 PM Melissa Warnkin wrote: > Physical > Content List: > [...] > * Extension cords….how many and what length Keep in mind that depending on where the event takes place it might be easier to buy the local ones locally. > Please keep in mind that thi

Re: Functions in OpenOffice

2013-10-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:59:35 AM Bob McElmurry wrote: > Currently I am using Microsoft Office 2010 and am working in a small school. > I would like to use OpenOffice or LibreOffice but I have not found some of > the functions that I like such as countifs, sumifs, and averageifs. > Becaus

Re: Event-in-a-Box

2013-10-30 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Melissa, these lists look awesome. In particular I loved seeing support for video/audio taping in the list. On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:38:44 AM Ross Gardler wrote: > I would suggest the larger minimalist list is better. My justification is > that, while sourcing these items is not hard it

Re: Event-in-a-Box

2013-10-30 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 09:02:36 PM Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > 2) This may sound like a wildly crazy idea but looking over the mid-sized > box - if we add a few flyers to that and (in case we want to) Apache shirts > to sell to happy users to me this looks like a pretty good mo

Re: Event-in-a-Box

2013-11-02 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 04:39:32 PM Ulrich Stärk wrote: > One Box in the EU might be OK for several countries to avoid taxes and > customs but for most countries this is not the case. So unless you increase > the number to one box per country, you should plan how to deal with taxes > and cust

Call for Booths at Chemnitzer Linuxtage open

2013-11-20 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, just saw it on the debian.events.eu list - the Chemnitzer Linuxtage call for exhibitors is open: http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/live/hinweise In past years the Open Office project usually had a booth there (organisers of that on CC). If there are any plans to have another Open Offic

On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Maybe for this year's ApacheCon this idea is a bit too late - but I thought it makes sense to get the discussion started anyway (maybe it even benefits myself at a later event ;) ): I don't know about the US tech conferences, the trend I've observed in past years here in Europe is that mor

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:32:10PM +0100, jan i wrote: > Apachecon will be in europe later this year, so the european perspective is > equally important. Great. > I think the idea is good. Thanks - it's just that in recent years I've observed more and more conferences become family friendly.

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:51:57PM +, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > A number of software / ASF people I know, by virtue of working remotely, are > also > defacto “child handlers” while their partner works in a normal face-to-face > job. It would be nice to facilitate conference attendees/speakers

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:16AM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > Last week I attended SCaLE[...] I knew this couldn't only be some EU trend - great to hear. > I'll ask Angela what our options are for Europe. Awesome - Thanks. Looking forward to her input. Isabel

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 11:52:26AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Has anybody ever tried open gaming/hacking area at these types of > conferences? Do these two mix well? http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/ ... is where I learnt the rules to play Go - OMG is that really going to be 10 years ago

ApacheCon w/ infant - logistics

2014-08-12 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, I don't know any Hungarians that I could ask and during my last visit this topic wasn't exactly on the agenda to explore so trying here in case someone knows: I'm planning to travel to ApacheCon EU together with my husband and our little one. From a friend of mine I know that there are Europe

On wearing multiple hats

2016-10-25 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Pre-text: This conversation started among several members of the ASF, you are seeing this message here, as it was suggested to have the discussion on a public mailing list so everyone can participate. Hi, tl;dr: I'm tired of hearing Apache is "where large firms dump code (to break the market for

Re: On wearing multiple hats

2016-10-26 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 02:19:06PM +, Ross Gardler wrote: > First, I'm tired of hearing it too but let's not be fooled, most of the time > it comes from people ill informed about how the ASF works. I have no doubt about that. Maybe we can do a better job telling people how we work then? > We

Stickers idea

2017-02-28 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, I'm actually not sure this is the right place to drop this random idea of mine, so feel free to forward/ redirect/ ignore. I remember the poster with our project logos being very helpful at FOSDEM. After receiving stickers with short messages on team leadership principles recently I starte

Re: Committer Diversity Survey - Infra Related Feedback

2017-03-01 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Thank you Luciano for surfacing this discussion here! On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:26:39PM -0800, Luciano Resende wrote: > I believe that The ASF (we) should seriously start discussing and come up > with a plan to make Apache a self-service organization (something similar > to https://whimsy.apache

Re: Request for sharing ASF's "Way of Working"

2017-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi Guido, Great to see you here after our discussion at the achnee Meetup earlier this week in Berlin. One link I think is missing from the wealth of resources shared already is Shane's page on the Apache way: http://theapacheway.com/ Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobilt

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-01 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
First of all, I love the idea and content of this newsletter. However if the goal is to reach committers that are less and less engaging, I wonder how many ppl we will actually reach by sending it to a list nobody can unsubscribe from. My reaction by being put on such lists is to simply filter t

Board report helper

2017-05-09 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, I'm pretty sure we have a board report (stub) generation tool somewhere. I should have bet it's somewhere on the comdev site, but I don't find it. Giving up after an hour Google search and clicking through pages: help? Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9

Re: Board report helper

2017-05-09 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 9. Mai 2017 19:21:26 MESZ schrieb Shane Curcuru : >Comdev points to reporter, but only because they technically own it: > https://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html#comdevweb I'd never have looked for the link there. >The PMC guide at the top points vaguely (i.e. in a bunch of text with a

Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-10 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
CAREFUL: This mail was posted to lists with different visibility levels. I would love to see any discussion following it happen in public. While I'm subscribed to a few of our events lists, I would assume many people at Apache aren't which is why IMHO dev@c.a.o might be a good place to take thi

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 06:58:18AM -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Sounds like a great idea and perhaps this could be our apachecon EU? Yes - but not under the name ApacheCon EU. ApacheCon as a conference name is burnt in that everyone has a model on their mind when hearing the name, except all o

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:51:08PM +0200, Santiago Gala wrote: > I'm spending substantial time working in Usedom, so I could attend from > there or in my way there from Madrid or back... if I know the timing well > in advance. Please define well in advance - this means different things to differen

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:23:58PM +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Replying to the public list + Stefan only. Thanks for keeping him in the loop :) > An excuse to travel to Berlin? you bet ;-) \ | / - :-) - / | \ > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:51:50AM +, Myrle Krantz wrote: > Depending on timing, I'd like to help out too. Berlin's close enough for an > extended weekend trip for me. :) Lovely to hear. > If there's less than 40 participants, I'll bake something and bring it. Looking forward to that. :)

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:38:04AM +0200, Sharan Foga wrote: > What a brilliant idea! I'd like to participate and also help out where I > can. We'll see if a couple months from now I still think that was such a brilliant idea. Thank you for your offer to help out. Will you be at FrOSCon this ye

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 08:34:02AM +0200, Pierre Smits wrote: > Great initiative! Happy to provide some support. Thanks for the offer. Would be lovely to see you in person here in Berlin, Isabel -- Sorry for any typos: Mail was typed in vim, written in mutt, via ssh (most likely involving so

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 09:03:31PM -0700, Ted Dunning wrote: > Since this suggestion is to mixed open/closed lists, I have moved all > emails except dev@comm.a.o to bcc. Thank you! > I think that this is a very cool idea and would be happy to raise some > funds for it, perhaps for snacks or Mate

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:50:03AM -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 5/11/2017 9:30 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: >>> With some funding and backing and minimal costs to attendees? >> This was the idea :) Guess what triggered me writing this mail (in addition >> to &g

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 04:23:41PM +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:51:50AM +, Myrle Krantz wrote: > >> If there's less than 40 participants, I'll bake something and brin

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:27:41PM -0400, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: > I'll try to make it too, depending on the date. > > I'll be in Europe this summer for some 6 weeks, out of which one week in > DE (Munich) mid July. A bit later in the year would work better for me. Thanks for that feedback. Can

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 07:58:01AM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > Isabel, thanks for taking this on, and for the copious detail. I guess this is a case of once bitten, shy twice - I don't want to promise more than I can deliver so including that detail was my way of managing expectations. Glad it was

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-25 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, thanks @all for participating in the poll, getting back to me on-list and off-list. From the feedback I received there's clearly at least some people interested in traveling to Berlin ;) While I don't have a detailed plan yet I thought it would make sense to give an update on the current

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-05-25 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Background to the school date thingy: so far bbuzz always missed holidays by a few days, this year is the first we but them. What happened is that I got feedback from people that finally they were able to bring all of their family. -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9

Re: Adding roster of community-focused talks

2017-06-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
+1 to this idea If you feel like it could be worthwhile, I gave a keynote at Scala days Copenhagen on non code aspects of oss earlier this week. Feel free to include it: http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-cph-2017#!#schedulePopupExtras-8158 Video: https://youtu.be/pWOxB2mcCSY Similar video

Re: Fwd: Speak at Open Source Summit Europe, CFP Closes July 8th

2017-06-07 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 7. Juni 2017 18:01:01 MESZ schrieb Rich Bowen : >I will be at this event, as will Sharan. If any of the rest of you >expect to be there, please speak up, and let's see what we can work >out. Not exactly expecting to be there, but I was planning to submit my open source beyond code talk. Isa

Forwarded: GitHub vs. FreeYourGadget Full Story

2017-07-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, I thought it would make sense to share the following story with the wider Apache community (those who shared it with me are on CC and can potentially provide more background should that be needed). I believe this is one of those stories that are a datapoint in favour of keeping all vital his

Re: Forwarded: GitHub vs. FreeYourGadget Full Story

2017-07-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:02:50AM +0200, Myrle Krantz wrote: > This story sounds like a very good argument for distributed source > control such as git or mercury. Even if GitHub had purposely "lost" > their entire repository, they would still at least have had the > complete check-in history of

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-07-17 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, just a quick heads up: On 2017-05-25 14:37 (+0200), Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > We think that running some smaller (70 to 200 ppl) event in autumn this > year as a dry run would make sense. Current time frame is to have that early November 2017. Dates and CfP to be announced late

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

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: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-07-30 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, finally we have a name: FOSS Backstage We have a date for the micro summit event in autumn: Nov 20th 2017 CfP for the micro summit: https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/call-papers-mikro-summit-november-foss-backstage-2018-open Official URL: http://FOSS-backstage.de More information availab

Re: ComDev Blog - July 2017 Update

2017-08-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Same thank you for the mention from me. Flattered. Isabel Am 4. August 2017 15:17:02 MESZ schrieb Piergiorgio Lucidi : >WOW! > >Thank you so much for mentioning me in this post! >I'm very proud and honored, very appreciated. > >Thanks, >PJ > >2017-08-04 14:25 GMT+02:00 Sharan Foga : > >> Hi Eve

Re: Acceptance Notifications for Open Source Summit in Prague

2017-08-19 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Sharan Thanks for bringing that news here, didn't manage to write a coherent mail yesterday (been in a train to FrOSCon). The talk I submitted titled "open source is just about the source, isn't it?" If anyone has cycles, I'm happy to share the slides for feedback, got very helpful notes f

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-08-22 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Do we have any stickers or the like close to Berlin that I could help get to people in November? Happy to get them printed locally if that helps avoid customs hassle/shipping costs - but maybe there's already something located close to or in Berlin which could be distributed that I'm not aware

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-08-23 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi Sharan, On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 09:57:09PM +0200, Sharan Foga wrote: > I am also keeping some for MesosCon too and am not that far from Berlin so > if you let me know what you need I will check my stock or get an estimate > cost. We won't be having more than 100 attendees, so maybe a pile of 5

Re: Invitation to travel to Berlin

2017-08-23 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Europace AG z.H. Isabel Drost-Fromm Klosterstrasse 71 10179 Berlin would be the snail mail address. :) -- Sorry for any typos: Mail was typed in vim, written in mutt, via ssh (most likely involving some kind of mobile connection only

Committer map

2017-09-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, 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. Does anyone know who I need to get in touch wit

Re: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
That sounds like a lovely idea. What topics would you focus on? Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

Re: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-04 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 12:33:47PM +0200, Sharan F wrote: > I didn't have anything fixed in mind but off the top of my head – the > Apache Way, licensing and trademarks (as that has been in the news > lately) and perhaps something related to incubator. We could also do > something collaborati

Re: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 06/09/2017 Sharan Foga wrote: >> It sounds like the general feeling is to do it, so I will put something >> together for the Developer room request. > > Note that I submitted a request on behalf of the OpenOffice PMC to have >

Re: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-14 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, In light of this discussion I reached out to the organisers of the FOSDEM main tracks asking if they were interested in how things are being run at the ASF. They asked me to "Please encourage any potential speakers you can think of to respond to our call for papers with proposals:   https:/

Re: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-14 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 12. September 2017 23:27:42 MESZ schrieb Andrea Pescetti : >That is what I am required to obey each year when selecting talks for >the devroom I co-organize. Who is asking you to obey that? This information is important as Dev rooms are entirely self organised and independent from each ot

Re: Draft Proposal for FOSDEM Devroom

2017-09-14 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
I'd strongly advise against food in dev rooms that. Please take a look at pictures from previous editions to understand why. FOSDEM is a volunteer run, 10k event in a university using lecture and seminar rooms for talks, not a high profile event in an expensive hotel. If you want to talk over

Re: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-15 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:44:38AM +0200, Sharan F wrote: > I'm still thinking about the devroom name. The Apache brand is a strong > one so I'd going to incorporate our name in there somehow My suggestion would be to incorporate "Software Foundation" as well, to lower the chance of ppl th

Re: FOSS Backstage Micro Sunmit Schedule Published

2017-10-12 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, On 2017-10-10 12:58, Sharan Foga wrote: > I'm speaking at the event and also see quite a few names I recognise > from the schedule :-) so am looking forward to meeting up. Sharan, thanks for sharing this. I was planning to do so myself, but wanted to wait for registration to come online*

Re: FOSS Backstage Micro Sunmit Schedule Published

2017-10-18 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, On 2017-10-16 12:37, "Sharan Foga" wrote: > Great! Please feel free to update this thread with any more details. https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/registration-foss-backstage-micro-summit is where people can register. Sharing here *before* it gets linked to officially. Caveat 1: We are offeri

Re: FOSS Backstage Micro Sunmit Schedule Published

2017-10-20 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:26:13PM +0200, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Am .10.2017, 13:16 Uhr, schrieb Isabel Drost-Fromm : > Thanks, I'm registered. Do you have any Hotel advise? There should be plenty of hotels close by. My general recommendation is to go for some B&B in Berlin.

Re: ComDev mission

2017-10-29 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On 2017-10-27 10:43, Rich Bowen wrote: > Months ago, we discussed a refocusing of the ComDev mission, which we've > made some progress on here: http://community.apache.org/about/ > > I had an inspiration this morning, and wrote the following, which I would > like to propose as our new mission

Re: Apache Community Business Cards

2017-10-30 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
You should talk to Sally, I believe she already has templates that can be used. Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

Re: Video at the Mikro Summit in Berlin

2017-11-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:18:18AM +0100, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Does anyone make Videos at the Mikro Summit in Berlin? Stefan (CC'ed, co-organising the event) volunteered to capture some of the talks with his private equipment. We can use newthinking's youtube account to get the videos publish

Re: Micro summit in Berlin

2017-11-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:11:09AM +, Christofer Dutz wrote: > I was planning on going there too, and I did pre-register. However, > I never got contacted for doing the real registration. As the event > is already next Monday, I would need some more information and the > registration soo

Re: Micro summit in Berlin

2017-11-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:41:08PM +, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > In general: These mails should have gone out about a week ago. However as > there > are some 20 seats left - as long as you are on the pre-registration list you > are > good to go. Update: Confirmation mails s

FOSS Backstage it's a wrap

2017-11-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Yesterday we had several (according to the feedback I got) awesome talks on mentoring, the Apache Way, open source licensing, async communication, community shenanigans, working in distributed teams, corporate influence on oss here in Berlin. Unanimous consensus at the end of the event wa

Doing open source while maintaining your sanity

2017-11-28 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Last week at FOSS Backstage one of the topics Sharan discussed in her talk was IIRC the responsibility that comes with running an and participating in an open source project. One of the topics related to keeping an eye on your own well being as well as on your peers. At Apache we have a co

Re: [DISCUSSION] Translating Some ASF Pages into Chinese

2017-11-30 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:22:12AM +0100, Piergiorgio Lucidi wrote: > But considering the technology problem, I'm wondering if CrafterCMS [1] can > help us for this because it is a Git-based CMS and it is also Open Source :) What kind of tooling or process was used to get the httpd docs as well as

CfP for FOSS Backstage 2018 open

2017-12-18 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Just a quick heads up: the CfP for FOSS Backstage next year in summer in Berlin is open: https://foss-backstage.de/news/call-papers-now-open Looking forward to meeting you in Berlin, Isabel -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

Re: Looking for someone to give an Apache talk at Dataworks Summit EU 2018

2017-12-19 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Just a quick heads up, I'm based out of Berlin and should be here that week. So happy to do that talk unless you find someone else. Topic could be either some Apache way thingy or the "open source is just about the source, isn't it" which I gave (among other conferences) as a keynote at Sc

Re: Doing open source while maintaining your sanity

2017-12-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Myrle Krantz wrote: > > ...2.) It should come "early" in the intro to open source development. > > So maybe here: https://community.apache.org/newcomers/ ? ... > > How about creating a more gene

Re: Doing open source while maintaining your sanity

2017-12-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 04:26:27PM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > So I read this email in November and my snarky response was it was like > asking the patients at the hospital to write their own protocol. IMHO nearly correct, but not quite so: A lot of our volunteers spend a lot of time here a

Re: Doing open source while maintaining your sanity

2017-12-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 02:49:56PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > The vast majority of volunteers at ASF projects are not members and > cannot even see the archives of those lists. Which is one of the reasons why I started this discussion here on a public list instead of somewhere with restricted a

Re: Doing open source while maintaining your sanity

2017-12-21 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
others, we can >make a big difference. > >Thanks for raising this, Sharan, Isabel and Myrle. > >Phil >> >> But I'm still fairly new to comdev. Who else has an opinion about >> where this belongs? >> >> Best Regards, >> Myrle >> >>

Old JIRA issues - close?

2018-01-23 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, within the COMDEV Jira there are a couple JIRA issues that haven't received any comments in the past few years, in addition there are a couple issues that based on their description or labels were created for GSoC in previous years. Would it make sense to close the ones that haven't received a

Re: Old JIRA issues - close?

2018-01-24 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 02:41:12PM +0100, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > > ...Would it > > make sense to close the ones that haven't received any activity since > > 2016?... > > +1, if needed they can

Re: Apache Booth at FOSDEM

2018-01-30 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 08:39:15AM -, Sharan Foga wrote: > The greater project coverage the better as we often have people wanting to > talk about specific projects. I'll be at FOSDEM as well, looking at the schedule, I cannot decide where to go first - so likely I'll pop by the booth and ha

Re: Documenting project self-assessments for maturity model

2018-02-08 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 01:56:27PM -0500, Shane Curcuru wrote: > * How can we improve the documentation around the model to help PMCs > that may want to use it for self-evaluation on a periodic basis? If making the model itself more widely known: Would it help to add a link to it to the board rep

Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

2018-02-08 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 12:20:57PM -, Sharan Foga wrote: > Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the booth > or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM because > it's a place where you can finally meet in person the people that you have > be

Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

2018-02-08 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 8. Februar 2018 16:06:52 MEZ schrieb "Kevin A. McGrail" : >On 2/8/2018 5:56 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: >> As for stickers: Would it help to have a few more general ASF ones as >well? I >> saw us having lots of project specific ones, but little "plain &g

Inner Source Summit Spring 2018 Stuttgart/ Germany - CfP open

2018-02-09 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, just a FYI as I thought people on this list might find it interesting: innersourcecommons.org will have a summit on all things "open source collaboration processes inside the enterprise" in Spring in Stuttgart. CfP is open here: http://paypal.github.io/InnerSourceCommons/events/isc-spring-201

Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

2018-02-11 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Am 11. Februar 2018 13:28:26 MEZ schrieb Roman Shaposhnik : >Huge +1 to the above! My only suggestion would be to perhaps plan for >having >a directory of all the ASF project talks at FOSDEM -- perhaps >something the community >can do next time and folks at the boot can just display it there. T

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