Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-17 Thread Cole Ferrier
Conference dates where a factor for me. Summer vacations collided with trip. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > The 360|Stack conference was held in Denver from August 4-7, 2013. > Attendance was lower than last year, leaving many of wondering why. Was > it that the conferen

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-17 Thread Stephan Plath
Am 14.08.2013 23:24, schrieb Alex Harui: I suppose one feature of forums is inline graphics which the Apache text-only mailing lists don't handle, but as far as managing traffic so folks can follow the highlights better, it isn't obvious to me how forums would be better. http://stackoverflow.co

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-15 Thread Stephan Plath
Am 09.08.2013 20:30, schrieb Alex Harui: > Maybe we should blog/tweet certain things slightly more often, or maybe we should have our own announce@ list. Other ideas welcome. I find indeed the blog activity very poor in the past. It should definitely enhanced! Another idea could be to prov

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/14/13 2:15 PM, "Jeffry Houser" wrote: >On 8/14/2013 3:07 PM, Alex Harui wrote: >> >> Currently, Apache requires mailing lists. They are archived and >> searchable and seem to show up in google searches. >> >> I suppose we could have a discussion forum that echoes everything to the >> mail

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, As per the JIRA request it should be straight forward to implement. http://n4.nabble.com/archive-your-mailing-list.html Justin

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Jeffry Houser
On 8/14/2013 3:07 PM, Alex Harui wrote: Currently, Apache requires mailing lists. They are archived and searchable and seem to show up in google searches. I suppose we could have a discussion forum that echoes everything to the mailing list. I wonder how we create a "Web interface" to this

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/14/13 11:49 AM, "Stephan Plath" wrote: >Am 09.08.2013 20:30, schrieb Alex Harui: >> My biggest takeaway, though, was that folks are not able to keep up >>with what is going on with Apache Flex. Even many of our fellow >>committers and PMC members were essentially unaware that FlexJS had a

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Doug McCune
One note as somewhat of an outside observer - I thought the fact that you guys pushed the 4.10 release during the conference was a big plus. It was mentioned a few times (to applause) and it certainly made it clear that work is being done on the Apache project. I don't know if the timing of the 4.1

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Stephan Plath
Am 09.08.2013 20:30, schrieb Alex Harui: My biggest takeaway, though, was that folks are not able to keep up with what is going on with Apache Flex. Even many of our fellow committers and PMC members were essentially unaware that FlexJS had a prototype to play with. The complaint I heard ove

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-14 Thread Stephan Plath
Am 09.08.2013 20:30, schrieb Alex Harui: My biggest takeaway, though, was that folks are not able to keep up with what is going on with Apache Flex. Even many of our fellow committers and PMC members were essentially unaware that FlexJS had a prototype to play with. The complaint I heard over

Re: 360|Stack Trip Report

2013-08-12 Thread Russell Doi
Hey Alex. It was good to see you again at the conference. I have a few thoughts about the conference and thoughts on the lower attendance. Looking back to when I first attended Flex 360 when it was hosted in San Jose I think the sessions on Flex were much more advanced in topics and provided