+1. I think it would be a good idea to setup a website (with a
discussion forum) which would archive all the notes as well as outline
the future meetings.
Kevin
"Anil K. Vijendran" wrote:
>
> This is a really good idea considering there is a significant population
> of folks here that are in the bay area.
>
> I'm all for it. In terms of process, I'd like to add a small note that
> someone volunteers to take notes for eah BAADG meeting and post it to this
> list for the benefit of those that can't make it to the meeting.
>
> I'd be more than happy to arrange a venue at Sun -- Cupertino, Mtn View,
> Menlo Park whichever is convienient for people.
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
>
> > (Sorry for the cross post)
> >
> > I have been doing some creating thinking about how we could all be more
> > productive. It seems that there are a lot of people here from the Bay
> > Area (Silicon Valley California). It seems a shame that we are an
> > almost 100% digital society. We need to become more analog. There is a
> > lot of productivity that can be gained with actual "face time".
> >
> > So what I propose is that once a month we have a Bay Area Apache
> > Developers Group. Specifically so that people who are active developers
> > on Apache projects (and people who want to become active developers) can
> > meet and discuss technical issues, plan project goals and general
> > technology issues for Apache projects.
> >
> > I was thinking about how we should organize these:
> >
> > - BAADG should meet once a month for about 3 hours... maybe on a
> > Wednesday or a Thursday.
> >
> > - A certain project could be chosen (Apache HTTPD, Jakarta, etc.) and a
> > representative would speak shortly about its future direction and
> > architecture decisions. Then the floor could be opened to talk about
> > general issues.
> >
> > - Then we could break up into functional units (Core Apache, XML Apache,
> > Java Apache, etc.) and talk about things we are interested in and future
> > project developments.
> >
> > Since Apache has a lot of corporate interest I am sure the larger
> > companies like SUN, IBM, Netscape, Microsoft (serious), Yahoo, Excite,
> > Cisco, etc. wouldn't mind hosting us. Apache developers who work for
> > these companies could use their leverage to get office space for a few
> > hours.
> >
> > If everyone agrees ( and there are enough developers) I will take the
> > initiative and plan the first BAADG meeting, finding a location, setting
> > the time, etc.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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Kevin A Burton
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