Sorry - assumed the promotion was moving faster than it is and guessed the wrong mailing list.
Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ASF Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Jakarta Newsletter > Hi, > > For those of you that don't know I'm behind the effort for a monthly(ish) > newsletter from the folks at jakarta. The original aim was to help > developers stay informed of whats going on in the rest of Jakarta without > them having to monitor every list, each subproject would send in tidbits > of the interesting stuff that had been going on. Its an opportunity to > let other developers know of changes / plans / decisions that aren't > necessarily worth going out to a project specific announcements list. To > get a feel for the contents you can browse previous newsletters here: > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/. > > But it doesn't have to be solely Jakarta related: > Last month we had an entry from db.apache.org letting us know that some > of our components were moving to that umbrella which seemed reasonable. > There also seems to be a general feeling that projects such as Ant, > Avalon, James should still be invited to contribute to the letter even > though they're not strictly jakarta projects any more. Thanks to all > this and a long running intention to invite the xml team to contribute I > thought it was time to invite one and all to contribute. > > If this all works out then I guess we can talk about breaking away from > the Jakarta name and format changes but for now I thought it would be > good to just test the water and plug the contributions into the next > issue of the Jakarta Newsletter (next week sometime). > > So what does it take to contribute? Pretty simple really - just email me > with a summary of what's been going on in your favorite project during > the last month and it will get included so long as I spot it flying past > (stick Newsletter somewhere in the subject line to get better odds). > Sending text inline has been quite successful so far although patches to > the xdoc (once I've started it) would make life easier. Alternatively we > could start up a Wiki page and have people add to it as they see fit. > Its a good plan to let the people at the project know so that effort is > not duplicated. > > I plan to pull together any contributions on monday and post the first > draft on [EMAIL PROTECTED], more drafts will appear as more > contributions come in and by the end of next week I hope to be ready to > post the finished copy on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you want to discuss the newsletter generally then I'm sub'd to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] which seem to be the > best places to aim. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
