Not to get toooo off-topic but we discussed a little while back on [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] we discussed holding an ApacheCon east. For all the east coasters who can't quite make it cross country or any Europeans who might be crazy enough to make the Atlantic a daytrip or so. This would be a smaller more informal even of course maybe a couple nights of slideshows and afterwards dinner, etc. Maybe doing it on a weekend so folks can make it.
Sally 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.
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.
Other lists that I'm on have been talking about "events for Xers" where X is the name of the project. To me it seems more sensible to combine them and have some cross polination.
I suggest trying to partner with local universities and JUGs. The goals should be to:
a. get greater involvement from outsiders through exposing them to insiders (one hopes the two are not inversely proportional ;-) )
b. give folks more opportunities to get facetime. Stronger relationships are formed by breaking bread together. I'm sure their are studies and crap on this, and I've even read one, but I forgot where they are ;-).
-Andy
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