Thank you all for your constant support and guidance in the ALC [1] initiative.
Thank you so much Rich, Daniel, Issac, Shane, and David for spending time and energy to share your thoughts, we highly appreciate it. All the points you mentioned are very important. Dear team, I would like to discuss with you on three critical points (raised by Rich), here is the reference to mail threads ( https://s.apache.org/6hfel , https://s.apache.org/wr6ah ) 1. Process of forming ALC Chapter. 2. How we make sure that we are not having people use the Apache name to promote messages that are not *our* message. 3. Rules and regulations for ALC Chapter. I am having some proposals to address these issues and need your kind help in validating and improving it. All the below are just my thoughts and I need your kind inputs and approval on this. ## 1. Process of forming ALC Chapter. Currently, we have process to establish an ALC is, simply send mail on ComDev list as mentioned at https://s.apache.org/apply-to-setup-alc Should we add the following clauses to it? -- Instead of sending mail on dev@community.apache.org, the mail should be sent to ComDev PMC at priv...@community.apache.org -- To form an ALC, there should be at least 2 committers or 1 ASF member. -- The ComDev PMC will look into each request and then took the decision on forming the ALC Chapter. -- Also as Rich suggests above, we can also assign one mentor to guide ALC. (Thank you @Issac & @David for sharing your thoughts on this point). ## 2. How we make sure that we are not having people use the Apache name to promote messages that are not *our* message. *Very critical & important point!* The ALC Indore [2] team was fortunate that we have 4 Committers, 2 PMC members and the rest members are very active contributors to various Apache Projects, so we feel the Apache within us. But it may/will not be the case with the new ALC Chapter, so here are some solutions to address this issue. -- We worked on preparing some guidelines for ALC Chapter to execute the event, https://s.apache.org/alc-guidelines (I need your kind help in reviewing it.) This could help us in keeping track of actions taken by ALC and approving the event before executing it. @Daniel, this is exactly like you proposed, thoughts travel! :-) -- If we will have at least 2 committers of 1 ASF member than the chances of misuse of our name will be reduced. -- We can make a list of the FAQs by the audience, and document it so that every ALC chapter will have the answer to frequently asked questions by the audience. -- We are documenting various information at https://s.apache.org/ALC-Resources , this will also give the idea to ALC Chapter what types of events and content they can present to the audience. ## 3. Rule and regulation for ALC Chapter Although we should not have a hard list of rules and regulation but we should have some rules, that will help us in managing the ALC initiative because with time we will grow like currently there is 900+ Google Developer Group [3] and 120+ Facebook Developer Circle [4] present. So, to manage and scale the ALC initiative, we should have some rules/guidelines we prepared. Here are these rules/guidelines. -- There will be a single ALC chapter per town/city. -- The ALC members should follow the Apache code of conduct, https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html -- It’s strictly prohibited to use ALC Chapter for profit or promoting any company or personal agenda. -- If any ALC Chapter is inactive for 3 months, it will be dissolved after communication with members of that ALC chapter because we are having strictly one ALC chapter in a town/city. -- The ALC Chapter shares the status report (e.g. ALC Indore reports - https://s.apache.org/alc-indore-reports) to ComDev in every three months. The report includes details on the activities performed by ALC Chapter and it's impact. Here is the index page for reports from each ALC https://s.apache.org/alc-reports And the report prepared by ALC Indore for their August to October 2019 activities is https://s.apache.org/alc-indore-report-aug-oct-2019 -- Each Chapter should follow ALC Guideline (as mentioned, need your help in reviewing it) https://s.apache.org/alc-guidelines to execute any event. -- Also as @Shane mentioned, we can also use some of the concepts and rationale mentioned at https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events (Below is the statement from our Event Branding Policy we have already included as suggested by from Joan previously) ======= The use of Apache marks in any events run by third parties must be approved by VP, Brand Management or the VP of the relevant Apache project ======= Shane, this point was raised by Joan Touzet in September https://s.apache.org/95wu0 , so we had a discussion on this and followed this process and included it in https://s.apache.org/alc-guidelines As you said, if needed we can add more points from https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events I feel very proud to be the part of the Apache family and in the past 6 years every day, the ASF people inspired me to do better. And the great things we are doing together surprise me regularly. Thank you much for your love and support! Please feel free to share your comments and thoughts. [1] https://s.apache.org/alc [2] https://s.apache.org/alc-indore [3] https://developers.google.com/programs/community/gdg/ [4] https://developers.facebook.com/developercircles/ Best regards, Swapnil M Mane, www.apache.org On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 4:53 AM David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:15 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> 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. > > > > I haven't been involved with Fedora in a long while, but there were in > early days a real struggle for how to control messaging and who could > speak for Fedora, and how events could be handled, etc. Did the > community own it or did Red Hat? > > Fedora had (at least back then) a relatively scalable and > self-policing group called the "Ambassadors" that leveraged messaging > and collateral provided by the Fedora Marketing Project to talk about > Fedora in a unified fashion. There were requirements about prior > activity and some barrier to entry to become an Ambassador, but it > belonging to that group seems somewhat analogous to membership at the > ASF (you had to have been involved in some other aspect of Fedora, you > had to demonstrate some knowledge of Fedora's principles, etc) > > So perhaps being 'sponsored' or 'championed' by a member is the > threshold for running an event. Any problems that arise can be > policed from there because we know there's a member we can talk to. > > YMMV - I have no idea the current state of the Ambassador program at > Fedora and whether it's considered a success of failure. > > --David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
