Possibly a dumb question, but where do the office hours take place? Andrew Wetmore Assistant VP, Marketing and Publicity, The ASF <https://apache.org> Editor-Writer, Infra team, The ASF
Editor, moosehousepress.com On Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 11:55 AM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > We held (very last-minute) inaugural office hours today. > > Main topic of discussion was university outreach, and what that looks > like. We’re really not sure what University outreach would look like, but > it sounds to me like we should participate in existing programs, rather > than trying to create our own, since they’re the experts and we’re not. > What we could/should do (based on this discussion) is: > > 1) Document where we are already participating in existing programs, so as > to increase awareness, share best practice, and identify opportunities for > projects to hook into existing efforts. > 2) Have discussions on the mailing list (perhaps using a [University] > Subject tag) where people can collaborate/commiserate about their existing > efforts, so that people don’t feel alone in their efforts, and where they > can share tips and experiences. We could, of course, split this to a > separate list if it gets too loud for this one, but my inclination is not > to proactively create Yet Another Mailing List to go be invisible and go > stale, but rather to increase visibility here first and split if/when it > becomes necessary. > > So … if you’re already doing some kind of University outreach, please do > start a thread, using [University] the subject, to tell us about it. > > I also learned a new phrase — “Desperate Learner” — which I really like. > This describes people who are learning something because they see it as > their ticket to self improvement, and more specifically to income > generation. Open source has always been about “scratching your own itch” > and open source participation as a ticket out of poverty is a huge > motivator, particularly in University settings where people are looking to > create their career and life. > > I mentioned https://boxofclue.com/comdev-metrics/ which I’ve been running > for about a month now, and suggested moving it to one of the ComDev VMs. > I’ve mentioned this before, and didn’t hear much feedback other than that > it seems like a useful resource. I’m going to try to go ahead and stick it > on projects.apache.org <http://projects.apache.org/> at some point, > maybe? I don’t expect to have time to get that done this week, but would be > delighted to work with anyone else who does have time for that. But I’ll > get to it eventually if nobody else does. > > I’d like to make this a regular thing and have put this on my calendar, > weekly, at 10am Eastern US time. If you can drop in a few times a month, > that would be fantastic. And I’ll try to post a proposed topics list here a > day or two before the meeting. > > —Rich > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
