On 20 April 2015 at 17:04, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote:
> And how effective was that? Was that measured? > you can measure effective in many ways. I looked at a number of dev@ to see if the PMC forwarded the mail about CFP, and that result was not good. I draw the conclusion that some projects care little about apacheCON in its current form, and happened to get it confirmed from one of our big projects. 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 > > 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 > > > > > >
