I would suggest adding some sort of required pre-approval of the overall
content at the ALC meetings, by active consent (not lazy consensus).
- Is it going to be about the Apache Way and Open Source?
- It is going to be solely "I wanna sell you this!"?
- Are there experienced people present from the Apache community?
- etc etc
The idea here being we get some sort of abridged layout of what's going
to happen and can help steer clear of the various usual pitfalls. I'd
also expect some sort of write-up afterwards on what happened.
On 04/12/2019 21.15, Rich Bowen wrote:
I've made two posts on this list in the past couple of days regarding
the rising ACL effort and my concerns about it.
I *desperately* want this kind of grass-roots enthusiast community
effort. I do NOT want to kill it. But I've learned from Fedora user
groups that allowing any random stranger to start up a group, using our
Trademarks, to promote whatever message comes into their head, is
*going* to bite us in the butt, sooner rather than later.
This is *NOT* about the Indore group and their recent event. Rather it's
about the future. The groups currently out there are full of experienced
Apache people. All well and good. The second wave will be full of people
wanting to promote their business, or their personal brand, using our
name, and spreading misinformation about Apache under our official banner.
We *cannot* allow this to happen. To do so would be a dereliction of our
duty as a PMC. We must plan for the bad actors, even while enabling the
good actors.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm proposing, but I think that requiring, at
this stage, at least one Member to be involved in the creation and
mentoring of a new group, is a reasonable path.
A brief discussion of these issues has occurred on the
priv...@community.apache.org mailing list, where I was rightfully called
out for having the conversation in private rather than in public. So,
moving the conversation here, as is appropriate.
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