I agree with both points of view here. Relying on PMCs to plug a conference with 2-5 talks of interest to them has had little success. There is a reason for this.
Moving forwards the event will have more content for some audiences. It would be good to find better ways of reaching our dev/user communities. But we can't spam project lists for foundation activities. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Pierre Smits<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 4/20/2015 8:06 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Marketing of Apachecon ACEU15 within the ASF And how effective was that? Was that measured? Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:54 PM, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 April 2015 at 16:44, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Up to now, we have relied on a few contributors to communicate the > messages > > regarding ApacheCon and on the trickle-down approach via the private ML > of > > our projects. Shouldn't we be reaching out directly (and systematically) > to > > all our contributors by mailing directly to the user and dev MLs of our > > project? We thereby reach a greater audience with thus potentially > > achieving a bigger success. > > > We have actually also used committers@ which reached all committers in > apache. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > I am a bit reluctant to go directly from the apacheCON Team to dev@ and > user@ of our > projects, doing so will probably not be seen as a positive act by the PMCs. > > We write to private@ on each project, in the hope that at least one PMC > member will > resend the mail on the list where that project has traffic. > > That being said, I do agree that we need to explore ways of getting the > word out. > > rgds > jan I. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Pierre Smits > > > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > > Based Manufacturing, Professional > > Services and Retail & Trade > > http://www.orrtiz.com > > >
