Hi Greg, It is ok to discuss separately the organization of events, they don't need to happen on the project mailing lists. If the event is open to the community with an open call for abstracts, then you might want to announce it on the user/dev lists. Some communities do not like it, though. If there is a company backing such an event, people could complain that it is not a neutral event and as such should not be advertised on the Apache lists.
As a sample point, I have never organized events using the Apache lists or any other channels, but we have announced project meetups to let people sign up to attend and present. -Flavio > On 18 Dec 2019, at 20:06, Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is a question for Justin or any other mentor. > > There are a couple of associated web sites that are dedicated for NuttX event > planning: nuttx2019.org and https://nuttx.events/. nuttx2019.org now just > re-directs to nuttx.events. They event planners used to use a private > channel in the NuttX Slack for communication. However, the NuttX project can > no longer host private conversations in the NuttX Slack; > > nuttx.events is managed by Dave Marples.. It is fairly open but they need to > have some private discussions related to events, event planning, sponsor > relationships, etc. For example, planning is (or at least was) underway for > the NuttX2020 event in Tokyo in May. I am not sure what they are doing now.. > I hope I didn't undermine them too badly. > > So the question is, after having booted event planning out into the cold, is > there some way to bring it back into the fold. There must be other projects > that host events and must have similar planning needs. Do you know what the > standard practice is for such things? I imagine that an independent group > like nuttx.events is necessary, but is there any way to coordinate. Slack > private channels worked very well for this. I don't know what the > replacement could be and would be open to suggestions. > > Greg > >
