First: Thanks for everyone who helped to make Apache Retreat 2011 Knockree happen. (And apologies to everyone whose feathers I ruffled there.)
Quite a number of lengthy discussions were had at the Retreat about future directions for events and about reaching out to a wider ecology. AIUI a number of new more public mailing lists (but not - sadly - [email protected] or [email protected] ;-). I was wondering about pushing out some publicity about these new more public lists but AFACT they aren't archived at mail-archives.apache.org [1] or really covered on the dev subsite [2]. I'm also a little fuzzy about which were created and what their intended role and audience is for each. I would also like to take the opportunity of a Berlin Buzzwords thread over in Hadoopland to try to gently push a few people with links to Germany and experience of organizing events over in this direction. This would probably mean suggesting that some sort of conference thingy might one day happen in Germany-ish if enough volunteers stepped up... But I'm wary about dipping my toe into the concom waters without sounding out comfort levels first... Opinions? Advice? Robert [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ [2] www.apache.org/dev
