Sent from my mobile device. On 15 Feb 2011, at 20:08, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote:
> Apologies for the lateness of this And spoils for not submitting in the correct form. Will be more careful next time. Ross > (and thus there being no time for ComDev feedback). I'm currently off work > sick (nothing serious) and completely forgot as a result. > > Here's the ComDev board report for February 2010 > > Status report for the Apache Community Development Project > > Project Status > -------------- > > > The Community Development is progressing well, although a little more slowly > than some whould have hoped. > > No issues require board attention at this time. > > Community > > Google Summer of Code 2011 is in preparation stages. For the first time we > have more admin volunteers than we need - which is great. > > The EU project (OpenSE) that planned to bring students to our mentoring > programme is about to commence its second pilot run. In the first run we had > a number of interested enquiries but nobody actually started work as a > mentee. On the one hand this is a dissapointment, on the othe it is good to > know that our ASF volunteers are not wasting time on the initial phases of > engaging mentees that, ultimately, bring nothing to the project. The OpenSE > team believes the main barrier is the high expectations we have of students - > we make it clear that they must be self-motivated and results oriented. This > coupled with the reputaton of the ASF appears to be intimidating potential > mentees. In the next pilot the learning assitants are focussing on the career > advantages experience with ASF projects can bring and are introducing a > "community game" which will introduce students to the idea of engaging in > public. > > Apache-extras.org was launched. As agreed the committee is hands off on the > management of this site. There are currently 89 projects listed. > > Objectives for next period > > * Coordinate Google Summer of Code > * Analyse use of apache-extras.org
