On 08/25/2014 01:16 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > ApacheCon is now less than three months away, and it's time to contact > our projects and tell them why they should attend the event. I need a > lot of help in making this happen. With 190 projects, it's a significant > task to send targeted messages, rather than just spamming all of our > lists with a generic announcement. > > What I need help with: > > * Identifying the projects that have relevant content at ApacheCon > * Contacting the dev@ and users@ list of that project with a targeted > message listing the talks/events that are of interest, including not > only technical content but also the community content, lightning talks, > evening events, and keynotes. I could use some help writing the > boilerplate text that we want to send out, which would then be filled in > with content specific to that project or projects. > * Keeping track of what projects have been contacted, so that we're not > spamming them. > * Getting individual speakers to blog about the presentations they will > be giving, and mentioning these blog posts on the relevant mailing lists. > > > If you're willing to pitch in, please let me know, and I'll add you to > the Google Doc where I'm tracking this stuff. This kind of message is > always better received when it comes from someone that the community > already knows.
Yeah, in fact I'd be happy to take lead on this to take some weight off your shoulders. Promoting ApacheCon is pretty essential - that's one of the things I took away from the CIO forum last week in Chicago. Do you prefer Google Docs/spreadsheets to track all this sort of stuff? Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
