Steven Noels wrote:
^Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:> Forth, the ASF just established a fund-raising commitee. I talked > with the ASF conference committee
part of
In fact, I was going to talk to Ken about that today but I didn't have time. Sorry for not having being more precise about this.
> and they say that it's entirelySally and I specifically discussed potential ways that the ASF could be involved in project-specific events, hopefully being able to delegate as much as possible to others project-specific volunteers.
> possible that Apache partecipates officially in the production of
> project-related real-life events. Whether this means *money* is yet
> to be estimated, also depending on the money raised by the
> fund-raising commitee. Anyway, FYI.
I remember asking about potential sponsorship of the ASF for the
GetTogether. It was just an <aside/> in a mail to Brian (attached) cc-ed on the reorg list.
Related to that, I sent a mail regarding EurApacheCon to Ken some time
ago (attached too, sorry about the tone of that message).
What I'm trying to say is that this is a good idea. OTOH, I'm assured that we should be very careful about mixed interests: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=103780260804583&w=2
Ken: please don't take the hyperlinked message above as critique. It is just one of the remarks I got from the GetTogether attendees: they really like it to be a GetTogether of users & developers, rather than a conference where sponsors automagically acquire the right for speaking slots. I think an exhibition, with enough time to visit that exhibition, is kind-of a nice balance between people being able to showcase their stuff, while not 'commercially polluting' the content exchange (and we made some errors against it during this first GetTogether ourselves).
But I'll quit ranting for now ;-)
How this could be accomplished and the role on the foundation (expecially on the economical side) is yet to be estimated.
Still, it was impressive how a cocoon-specific event auto-produced managed to gather around 100 people. I think it's worth considering as a different model for real-life events associated to the ASF.
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