I think you misunderstood me. For me it's not about growing the numbers of the community, but actually growing the quality of the existing community. We might be called a community on the paper, but it certainly doesn't feel that way (At least for me). For me it feels as if there's the "big boss" and 1 or two "seconds in command", a bunch of people contributing little parts, but it's not what I would call a real community.
Perhaps next time you should apply for Apache TAC ... after all that's exactly what this institution is for: "Money shouldn't be a reason not to come". Chris ________________________________________ Von: Alex Harui <[email protected]> Gesendet: Montag, 7. März 2016 08:46 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: AW: ApacheCon NA 2016 On 3/6/16, 2:50 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >But Alex. I thought you live in/near Seattle, that's just 100km away and >the registration fees are just $100 for comitters ... you being chair of >this project I would be a little disapointed, if you wouldn't come. It's >not that you have to take an intercontinental flight or anything. I'm not seeing any information about a $100 price. I see $275 on the ApacheCon website. Add in two nights of hotels at $200 each and for me, that's significant. I don't have much of a travel budget so I have consider whether there is some other place I should go that would benefit Apache Flex/FlexJS more. > >Apache is community over code and we really need some more community in >this project. Based on past ApacheCons, I don't think ApacheCon is a fruitful place for Apache Flex to recruit "more community". Apparently, the Linux Foundation doesn't think so either. For example, I will likely take a shot at getting a FlexJS talk accepted at the HTML5 conference again this year. Or maybe some other conference. My sense is that there are better places/ways for us to get the message out and create the kind of buzz that might get the LF folks to want to have us there. If anything, getting rejected is further proof that I'm not the right person to be doing marketing for FlexJS since I couldn't find the right keywords to put in my talk proposal to interest the other reviewers and the LF. >I think ApacheCon would be a great opportunity to get together, discuss >stuff, explain stuff and eventually work on tearing down some walls that >might have been built up in the past. > >Please try to reconsider comming. I was looking forward to it :-( Well, the only way I will be able to make it is if there really is a $100 price and the schedule is such that I can show up for only one day and spend an hour or two with you guys where you aren't committed to other things. It would have to be late morning or early afternoon so I can get up there and back without a hotel, and not conflict with important events in my family's schedule. > >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von >OmPrakash Muppirala >Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. März 2016 08:52 >An: [email protected] >Betreff: Re: ApacheCon NA 2016 > >Oh that sucks. Did they give a reason? Not really, just the standard "there were so many great talks we couldn't take them all". > On 3/5/16, 10:14 PM, "Justin Mclean" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can’t recall if I added anytime about being the lead dev on FlexJS or >not. Gee, I hope you didn't. In the "Apache Way" there aren't supposed to be any "lead developers". Someone on another project just got beat up by the board for using that title. Anyway, chances are slim that I'll get up there to Vancouver, but you never know... -Alex
