On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Annie Burgess wrote:
I also live in a sort-of removed location - Anchorage, AK. If anyone
knows of any developers up north, I'd love to try to connect with the AK
Apache community.
There are two main public places where Apache committers announce their
locations:
* http://community.zones.apache.org/
* http://people.apache.org/map.html
Sadly though, those seem to show your nearest public-location Apache
person is in Canada. Well, either there or Russia, google maps isn't that
great at giving a visual indication of relative distances at your
latitude...
The best option in such as case is to go to ApacheCon. It's roughly every
year, so it might be a bit of a wait, but there you'll find loads of new
committers to share your experiences with, and plenty of old hands to
learn from!
Otherwise, your next best bet is to find any open source group near you,
and join them. Some things can differ between open source communities
(licenses, languages, getting started), but some parts will be general.
So, if all you can find near you is a LUG or a PerlMongers group or some
Django-istas, it's better than nothing! Head along, learn from them, share
with them, and get what you can.
Oh, and one other thing - the pa...@apache.org list. If you're heading
somewhere more populous for any reason, drop a note to the party@ list,
and see if there's anyone where you're off to. You can often arrange to
meet up with some interesting people for a chat / drink / meal, where you
can learn both about Apache and where you're visiting. Last time I was in
central Europe, I ended up having Sunday lunch with a local tomcat
committer and all his extended family! Good chat about Apache, good chat
about the place I was visiting, so double win :)
Nick
