Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-15 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-15 Thread Julien Aymé
/snip FYI: INFRA has resolved INFRA-6500 [1]. All proper components are new mirrored to git.apache.org and github :) Benedikt [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6500 Nice !! Thanks a lot Benedikt ! Julien

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-12 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/8 Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com On 07/04/2013 10:20 PM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-12 Thread Julien Aymé
Hello, it would also be nice to see in once glance what is the current latest version of each component. For example, in the current listing of proper components, a column 'Latest version' would be very nice, as well as a short summary of latest released components in the commons home page. My 2

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-12 Thread Jonas Sprenger
1. I'd like to make it easier for users to identify which components may be of interest for them. One way to accomplish this would be to introduce categories like they did in the wikipedia article about commons [1] +1 Would be way easier to find tickets to start with. [1]

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-09 Thread Phil Steitz
On 7/8/13 2:51 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: Otoh, the single most important factor to attract users and/or contributors is simply to actively maintain the project and try to be better than competing libs, imho. There are several examples of components that were probably great a few years ago,

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Neidhart
On 07/04/2013 10:20 PM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-07 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-07 Thread Olivier Lamy
2013/7/7 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org: 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-07 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-07 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
Developers List dev@commons.apache.org Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread sebb
On 6 July 2013 13:52, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/6 sebb seb...@gmail.com On 6 July 2013 13:52, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread sebb
On 6 July 2013 14:48, Benedikt Ritter benerit...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/7/6 sebb seb...@gmail.com On 6 July 2013 13:52, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Anshul Zunke
Hi Benedikt, I will add 1 more imp point. We should public relations more with the student circles. No doubt Apache is very very popular in java programming group. But ppl especially students dont know how to contribute in it. Thanks On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Gary Gregory

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/5 Anshul Zunke anshulzu...@gmail.com Hi Benedikt, I will add 1 more imp point. We should public relations more with the student circles. No doubt Apache is very very popular in java programming group. But ppl especially students dont know how to contribute in it. But how do we do

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Anshul Zunke
I think this can be done through social medias like Facebook etc. If we create an official page of this community and some of us could give some time in helping members of the page through their java code etc they will get attracted towards contributing. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Benedikt

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Olivier Lamy
Huge +1 2013/7/5 Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org: Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Gary Gregory
Instead of mirroring to git why not switch to git? Gary On Jul 4, 2013, at 16:20, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Benedikt Ritter
I'd really like to see that, but as far as I can remember there were arguments against this kind of change, when we discussed this the last time. Maybe you can just create a [PROPOSAL] or even a [VOTE] and we'll see what happens? ;-) Benedikt 2013/7/5 Gary Gregory garydgreg...@gmail.com

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-05 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/5 Anshul Zunke anshulzu...@gmail.com I think this can be done through social medias like Facebook etc. If we create an official page of this community and some of us could give some time in helping members of the page through their java code etc they will get attracted towards

[ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-04 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to improve our public relations. Here is a list of

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-04 Thread Gilles
Hello. we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are several things we could do to improve our public relations. Here is a list

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-04 Thread Gary Gregory
All good ideas. Gary On Jul 4, 2013, at 16:20, Benedikt Ritter brit...@apache.org wrote: Hi, we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion