Hi All, I appreciate this action started.
My experience related to FOAF files: I didn't know about local mentors and FOAF until I visited community development web site. I've tried to add, but that time it didn't work, so I gave up. +1 for asking people at Apache Con and +1 for sending some announce to committers@ to remind people about existence. I definitely going to try one more time. In my local area (Russia, Saint-Petersburg, and Moscow) I guess we don't have too many committers, so I'm not absolutely sure that monthly meetups could be possible. FOAF for Saint-Petersburg shows 2 committers. Time to time I speak about How Open Source works and about The Apache Way in local meetups and conferences, for example here we have ~ 900 people: https://www.meetup.com/Moscow-Apache-Ignite-Meetup/ But usually, only 30-60 came in person to meet up (users+committers+PMC). I saw other meetups related to Apache Cassandra. I definitely would be happy to come to Apache related event and could help to organize some in Russia. Sincerely, Dmitriy Pavlov чт, 27 июн. 2019 г. в 17:16, Swapnil M Mane <swapnilmm...@gmail.com>: > Glad to hear from you Shane, thanks so much for your comments :) > > I also feel the same, we need some more publicity for this. > We can share these details on committ...@apache.org list (so in case if > any > committer is unaware of it, they will get to know). > > Apart from this, I also feel we can smooth the process of registering in > Committers map, here are some initial thoughts. I am not sure about the > feasibility of these items for us. > > -- At the time of onboarding new committer in ASF, we can ask do they want > to register themselves in committer map, if yes, we can get required > details (lat/long, etc) from them and generate and commit FOAF file by > ourselves. So no action will be required by the Committer. > > -- The current process involved two steps > 1. Create a FOAF file [1]. > 2. Commit the FOAF file to committers SVN repo. > Can we simplify this process, we can create a simple form with details like > the first name, last name, lat/long, etc (all the details we asked in the > form available here [1]). > As the Committer submit this form, automatically behind the scene FOAF file > will be created and committed to SVN repo. > We can make sure this form is accessible to only committers. > > [1] https://home.apache.org/foaf/foafamatic.html > > Best Regards, > Swapnil M Mane > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 6:20 PM Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> > wrote: > > > Great ideas all! > > > > Swapnil M Mane wrote on 2019-6-27 8:34AM EDT: > > ...snip... > > > The nearby Apache people can be found here [1], and Apache Committers > map > > > [2] can also help, but I think, it is not up to date. > > > > > > Hope these details will help you, I am excited to work together :) > > > > > > [1] http://community.zones.apache.org/ > > > [2] http://community.zones.apache.org/map.html > > > > The Committers map definitely works, however it relies on individual > > committers voluntarily listing a location for themselves - the ASF does > > not otherwise give out private data about committers. It also hasn't > > been well-publicised recently, so I think a lot of committers don't even > > know about it. Ideas on 1) how to improve it and 2) how to get other > > committers in your project(s) to think about listing themselves are > > appreciated. > > > > To list yourself on the map, put a location in a FOAF file and point to > > it from the committers SVN repo: > > > > https://home.apache.org/foaf/index.html > > > > If anyone has improvements to the ComDev website or the Phone > > Book/home.apache.org, you can see the website sources to patch: > > > > http://community.apache.org/about/#about-this-website > > > > -- > > > > - Shane > > ComDev PMC > > The Apache Software Foundation > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > >
