Re: FOSDEM summary

[Daniel Gruno]

On 02/04/2016 10:43 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote:
> On 02/04/2016 10:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Gruno  wrote:
>>> ..Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!..
>>
>> Thanks to all involved and thanks very much Daniel for your summary!
>>
>> After missing FOSDEM for so many years I should try to attend next
>> time, are the dates for next year set already?
> 
> Not yet, but I would imagine it's January 28th+29th 2017.

Scratch that, if they follow usual procedures, it will be Feb 4-5 2017.
My bad!

With regards,
Daniel.

> 
> With regards,
> Daniel.
> 
>>
>> -Bertrand
>>
> 

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Sergio Fernández]

I used to ignored off-topic (or not so focused) mails to this list. But in
the last months I've change to try to provide a pointer to what people are
actually looking for. Is that find, Rich? What else do you have in mind?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> Several times a month we get people either here, or contacting us
> individually, saying that they want to participate, and we don't do a
> great job of steering them to Good Things.
>
> I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is
> better) of ideas that people can work on. Things that take 10 minutes.
> Things that take 2 months. Everything in between. People willing to
> mentor and help, but who don't have the time to do it themselves.
>
> I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have
> recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them. But I want
> someone to do them.
>
> --
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
>



-- 
Sergio Fernández
Partner Technology Manager
Redlink GmbH
m: +43 6602747925
e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co
w: http://redlink.co

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

Hi Rich,

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:
> ...I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is
> better) of ideas that people can work on

Given our distributed and dynamic nature I think such a list can only
work in terms of a query on our issue trackers, where specific tickets
are flagged as low-hanging fruit.

We use this for GSoC where http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas returns a
list of such tickets.

>... I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have
> recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them

If those are foundation level ideas you might describe them in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV and include them in a
suitable query.

So IMO what's needed is to define a standard label or set of labels
for those jira tickets, create a URL like
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas that lists those tickets and inform
our projects of that.

-Bertrand

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Sharan Foga]

Hi Daniel

Thanks for the summary.  I had a great time and really enjoyed being on 
the booth (and hey I can keep talking all day if I need to :-)


Thanks
Sharan

Le 04/02/2016 10:33, Daniel Gruno a écrit :

Hi folks (cc press@),

Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!
This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation, but
even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive
interactions with people (never a dull moment!) and showed them what the
ASF was about.

This was also the first time we had the opportunity to showcase our new
visual identity, which was very well received and was quite the talking
point in many a conversation.

I'd like to extend my most sincere thanks to especially Alexander
Bezzubov, Andrus Adamchik, Michael & Mechtilde Stehmann and Sharan
"Super Trouper" Foga for their tireless efforts at the booth. I'd also
like to thank Roman, Claude, Greg and Rich for lending a helping hand
when needed. We totaled 18 hours at the booth (plus setup) during the
two days (10 + 8) and spoke with...well, a LOT of people about the
foundation and its projects. We also had many interactions with other
foundations and companies about our project and theirs (and how they
could work together).

While I was mostly sitting _behind_ the booth, I also got the
opportunity to take a few photos of it, which can be seen at
https://imgur.com/a/8beqB

As for swag, I am both pleased and surprised to say we managed to run
out completely _2 hours before FOSDEM ended!_. We gave away more than
800 powered-by stickers (760 or so), a few hundred project stickers, 40
t-shirts, 100 pens, 50 key chains, 200 fridge magnets, 50 beer coasters,
a few mugs and around 30 badges. We clearly need more swag for next
FOSDEM ;)

For the nicer items, we came up with a rule; "One conversation equals
one free item", which worked super well. Compared to other conferences,
even ApacheCon, we had a super busy booth, and only rarely had some free
time without anyone asking us a question about the foundation and/or
projects. We also had a nice cooperation going with the OpenOffice team,
who decided to stay for a bit longer (and thus fill some of the big
booth, so we didn't have to be 4 ASF people at it all the time, which
was nice).

As for the lessons learned, we definitely need to start organizing
earlier next time, and get more of the prominent projects to join us -
we especially had a lot of queries about Mesos and Spark at the
conference. We would also really appreciate it if the foundation could
send Melissa (or someone else) to be there in an official capacity.
Doing this strictly as volunteers made us a bit jumpy as to who will
watch over what if one has to go to a talk.

We also desperately need one or more brochures about the foundation and
its projects!!!

The giant ASF banner has been passed on to the Stehmanns and will be
used in other conferences in Europe.

With regards,
Daniel.

Guiding volunteers

[Rich Bowen]

Several times a month we get people either here, or contacting us
individually, saying that they want to participate, and we don't do a
great job of steering them to Good Things.

I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is
better) of ideas that people can work on. Things that take 10 minutes.
Things that take 2 months. Everything in between. People willing to
mentor and help, but who don't have the time to do it themselves.

I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have
recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them. But I want
someone to do them.

-- 
Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Lars Eilebrecht]

Daniel Gruno wrote on 2016-02-04 10:33:52:

> Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!
> This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation,
> but even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive
> interactions with people (never a dull moment!) and showed them what
> the ASF was about.
 
Big thanks to you Daniel for helping with organisation!
Hopefully we can have a bigger presence at next year's FOSDEM.


cheers
Lars

Making license adjustment tools publicly available

[Roman Shaposhnik]

Hi!

a podling recently asked me why:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/relicense/
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/tools/copy2license.pl
are only available to commiters. I see
no reason why, but of course I'm appreciative
of the warning here:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/README

Two questions:
   1. Is there any disagreement that making this tool publically
available would be a 'good thing' ?
2. Who should bless the svn mv if we all agree?

Thanks,
Roman.

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Patricia Shanahan]

An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according 
to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. 
Each PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply 
information about their needs. The result would be a public web page 
potential volunteers could search.


Ideally, it would be on a whimsey-like system, but a start could be made 
by just defining a format and keeping the master page in a PMC chair 
accessible SVN archive.


On 2/4/2016 3:17 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:

Hi Rich,

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen  wrote:

...I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is
better) of ideas that people can work on


Given our distributed and dynamic nature I think such a list can only
work in terms of a query on our issue trackers, where specific tickets
are flagged as low-hanging fruit.

We use this for GSoC where http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas returns a
list of such tickets.


... I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have
recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them


If those are foundation level ideas you might describe them in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV and include them in a
suitable query.

So IMO what's needed is to define a standard label or set of labels
for those jira tickets, create a URL like
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas that lists those tickets and inform
our projects of that.

-Bertrand

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Venkat Raman]

Hi -

It would be extremely helpful to have systems like savannah to newbies to
dive in based on their skill sets and area of interest.I would like to
contribute as well. But, struggling in the same way as others to get
started.

Regards,
Venkat

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:

>
>
> On 2/4/2016 10:35 AM, Greg Chase wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:
>>
>> An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according
>>> to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda.
>>> Each
>>> PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply
>>> information
>>> about their needs. The result would be a public web page potential
>>> volunteers could search.
>>>
>>> Ideally, it would be on a whimsey-like system, but a start could be made
>>> by just defining a format and keeping the master page in a PMC chair
>>> accessible SVN archive.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a wonderful idea.  I've been looking for a way to get the various
>> incubating communities I'm helping organize recruit new contributors.
>> This
>> would help solve this problem by making it easier for (p)PMC's to
>> articulate what they would like help with from new community members.
>>
>> Obviously it would be an adhoc system, and up to projects to fill out and
>> keep their want ad's up to date.  Perhaps a rule of the system would be
>> that want ads are automatically deleted after a month if they aren't
>> visited and renewed by project members to verify they are still current.
>>
>
> I like the idea of automatic disappearance, but maybe make it three months
> and tie it to the board report cycle - every time a PMC files a board
> report, it should also check and update its help wanted.
>
>
>> So basically, I'm volunteering to help here :)
>>
>
> I would also like to help, but don't know how to get something like this
> started.
>
> Patricia
>



-- 
Thanks & Regards,

Venkat Raman. R

Re: Google's Summer of Code

[Lionel Elle Romo]

Google summer of code what would i be doing dayly if i was to volinteer
On Feb 3, 2016 7:23 PM, "Roman Shaposhnik"  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> The window for mentor organizations to apply for Google's
> Summer of Code 2016 opens on Monday, February 8th.
> Is there anybody who's planning to take care of ASF as
> an org and follow up with the projects?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>

Re: Pistachio status?

[Sergio Fernández]

Harmon, Pistachio has put a proposal to join Apache Incubator
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PistachioProposal that is currently under
discussion at gene...@incubator.apache.org
http://markmail.org/message/pybt755phoje6yvy

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Harmon Nine <
harmon.n...@digitalreasoning.com> wrote:

> Hello --
>
> I'm very interested in using Pistachio, developed at Yahoo, for training
> word2vec models.
>
> The last piece of info I could find on the web indicates that it might
> become an incubator project at Apache.
>
> Does anyone know what the status of Pistachio is in regard to ASF?
>
> Thanks.
> -- Harmon
>
> --
> Dr. Harmon S. Nine
> Senior Software Developer |* Digital Reasoning*
> Office: 615.567.8845 <615.567.8633>
> 730 Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 110
> Franklin, TN 37067
> www.digitalreasoning.com
>



-- 
Sergio Fernández
Partner Technology Manager
Redlink GmbH
m: +43 6602747925
e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co
w: http://redlink.co

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Gruno  wrote:
> ..Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!..

Thanks to all involved and thanks very much Daniel for your summary!

After missing FOSDEM for so many years I should try to attend next
time, are the dates for next year set already?

-Bertrand

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Andrea Pescetti]

Daniel Gruno wrote:

Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!


Thank you for being there and for the report! I had to cancel my 
attendance just a few hours before my scheduled departure, but it's 
great to know that the ASF booth was successful as expected. This is 
probably the first time I've missed FOSDEM since 2009, so I hope I will 
manage to see the ASF booth in one of the future editions!


Regards,
  Andrea.

RE: Guiding volunteers

[Ross Gardler]

Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list 
together that *this* community would like to see. We can worry about other 
projects when we have or own house in order.

A simple list, in the form of replies in this thread would be good progress. In 
fact a first contribution from someone could then be to summarize this thread.

A brainstorming thread. No judgement of ideas, just a list.

If we get that list then we can think about collating it and making it 
accessible via tools as suggested in this thread already

Ross

Sent from my Windows Phone

From: Rich Bowen
Sent: ‎2/‎4/‎2016 3:07 AM
To: dev
Subject: Guiding volunteers

Several times a month we get people either here, or contacting us
individually, saying that they want to participate, and we don't do a
great job of steering them to Good Things.

I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is
better) of ideas that people can work on. Things that take 10 minutes.
Things that take 2 months. Everything in between. People willing to
mentor and help, but who don't have the time to do it themselves.

I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have
recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them. But I want
someone to do them.

--
Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fapachecon.com%2f=01%7c01%7cRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7cebe7dc03f0744e0ad6e708d32d535305%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1=stCwVmrVW6gFbKnOXYVMNMULnRcLQiZZnCkvxKJncdQ%3d
 - @apachecon

RE: Google's Summer of Code

[Ross Gardler]

http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html

Sent from my Windows Phone

From: Lionel Elle Romo
Sent: ‎2/‎4/‎2016 7:32 AM
To: dev@community.apache.org
Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code

Google summer of code what would i be doing dayly if i was to volinteer
On Feb 3, 2016 7:23 PM, "Roman Shaposhnik"  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> The window for mentor organizations to apply for Google's
> Summer of Code 2016 opens on Monday, February 8th.
> Is there anybody who's planning to take care of ASF as
> an org and follow up with the projects?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Mike Drob]

Howe about the next volunteer that comes by asking for project ideas, we
have them build a volunteer wrangling system? A bit tongue-in-cheek here,
but there's a need that can be filled there.

The difficulty, from my perspective, in guiding volunteers is that there is
So Much under the Apache umbrella. Volunteers often do not come advertising
their skills - do you want to do Java? Great, there's 100 projects for you.
Do you want to do web development? That could be 75 more. Coming to Apache
and saying you want to work on something is like showing up to work at
 but not having a team there that expects you. There are
hundreds of projects and some of them are likely to be a good fit, but the
process for finding them is very expensive.

The volunteers that show up and say "I want to work on Spark!" are the easy
ones, and we can immediately point them at the appropriate project mailing
lists. The volunteers that have no directions need a process.

Mike

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Ross Gardler 
wrote:

> Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list
> together that *this* community would like to see. We can worry about other
> projects when we have or own house in order.
>
> A simple list, in the form of replies in this thread would be good
> progress. In fact a first contribution from someone could then be to
> summarize this thread.
>
> A brainstorming thread. No judgement of ideas, just a list.
>
> If we get that list then we can think about collating it and making it
> accessible via tools as suggested in this thread already
>
> Ross
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> 
> From: Rich Bowen
> Sent: ‎2/‎4/‎2016 3:07 AM
> To: dev
> Subject: Guiding volunteers
>
> Several times a month we get people either here, or contacting us
> individually, saying that they want to participate, and we don't do a
> great job of steering them to Good Things.
>
> I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is
> better) of ideas that people can work on. Things that take 10 minutes.
> Things that take 2 months. Everything in between. People willing to
> mentor and help, but who don't have the time to do it themselves.
>
> I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have
> recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them. But I want
> someone to do them.
>
> --
> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
>
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fapachecon.com%2f=01%7c01%7cRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7cebe7dc03f0744e0ad6e708d32d535305%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1=stCwVmrVW6gFbKnOXYVMNMULnRcLQiZZnCkvxKJncdQ%3d
> - @apachecon
>

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Melissa Warnkin]

We know that's the truth, Sharan!! ;) LOL miss your smiling face, 
girlfriend!!
A great big thank you to all who pitched in to make it a success!
~Melissa


  From: Sharan Foga 
 To: dev@community.apache.org 
 Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 5:16 AM
 Subject: Re: FOSDEM summary
   
Hi Daniel

Thanks for the summary.  I had a great time and really enjoyed being on 
the booth (and hey I can keep talking all day if I need to :-)

Thanks
Sharan

Le 04/02/2016 10:33, Daniel Gruno a écrit :
> Hi folks (cc press@),
>
> Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!
> This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation, but
> even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive
> interactions with people (never a dull moment!) and showed them what the
> ASF was about.
>
> This was also the first time we had the opportunity to showcase our new
> visual identity, which was very well received and was quite the talking
> point in many a conversation.
>
> I'd like to extend my most sincere thanks to especially Alexander
> Bezzubov, Andrus Adamchik, Michael & Mechtilde Stehmann and Sharan
> "Super Trouper" Foga for their tireless efforts at the booth. I'd also
> like to thank Roman, Claude, Greg and Rich for lending a helping hand
> when needed. We totaled 18 hours at the booth (plus setup) during the
> two days (10 + 8) and spoke with...well, a LOT of people about the
> foundation and its projects. We also had many interactions with other
> foundations and companies about our project and theirs (and how they
> could work together).
>
> While I was mostly sitting _behind_ the booth, I also got the
> opportunity to take a few photos of it, which can be seen at
> https://imgur.com/a/8beqB
>
> As for swag, I am both pleased and surprised to say we managed to run
> out completely _2 hours before FOSDEM ended!_. We gave away more than
> 800 powered-by stickers (760 or so), a few hundred project stickers, 40
> t-shirts, 100 pens, 50 key chains, 200 fridge magnets, 50 beer coasters,
> a few mugs and around 30 badges. We clearly need more swag for next
> FOSDEM ;)
>
> For the nicer items, we came up with a rule; "One conversation equals
> one free item", which worked super well. Compared to other conferences,
> even ApacheCon, we had a super busy booth, and only rarely had some free
> time without anyone asking us a question about the foundation and/or
> projects. We also had a nice cooperation going with the OpenOffice team,
> who decided to stay for a bit longer (and thus fill some of the big
> booth, so we didn't have to be 4 ASF people at it all the time, which
> was nice).
>
> As for the lessons learned, we definitely need to start organizing
> earlier next time, and get more of the prominent projects to join us -
> we especially had a lot of queries about Mesos and Spark at the
> conference. We would also really appreciate it if the foundation could
> send Melissa (or someone else) to be there in an official capacity.
> Doing this strictly as volunteers made us a bit jumpy as to who will
> watch over what if one has to go to a talk.
>
> We also desperately need one or more brochures about the foundation and
> its projects!!!
>
> The giant ASF banner has been passed on to the Stehmanns and will be
> used in other conferences in Europe.
>
> With regards,
> Daniel.



  

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Roman Shaposhnik]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Daniel Gruno  wrote:
> Hi folks (cc press@),
>
> Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!
> This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation, but
> even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive
> interactions with people (never a dull moment!) and showed them what the
> ASF was about.
>
> This was also the first time we had the opportunity to showcase our new
> visual identity, which was very well received and was quite the talking
> point in many a conversation.
>
> I'd like to extend my most sincere thanks to especially Alexander
> Bezzubov, Andrus Adamchik, Michael & Mechtilde Stehmann and Sharan
> "Super Trouper" Foga for their tireless efforts at the booth. I'd also
> like to thank Roman, Claude, Greg and Rich for lending a helping hand
> when needed. We totaled 18 hours at the booth (plus setup) during the
> two days (10 + 8) and spoke with...well, a LOT of people about the
> foundation and its projects. We also had many interactions with other
> foundations and companies about our project and theirs (and how they
> could work together).
>
> While I was mostly sitting _behind_ the booth, I also got the
> opportunity to take a few photos of it, which can be seen at
> https://imgur.com/a/8beqB
>
> As for swag, I am both pleased and surprised to say we managed to run
> out completely _2 hours before FOSDEM ended!_. We gave away more than
> 800 powered-by stickers (760 or so), a few hundred project stickers, 40
> t-shirts, 100 pens, 50 key chains, 200 fridge magnets, 50 beer coasters,
> a few mugs and around 30 badges. We clearly need more swag for next
> FOSDEM ;)
>
> For the nicer items, we came up with a rule; "One conversation equals
> one free item", which worked super well. Compared to other conferences,
> even ApacheCon, we had a super busy booth, and only rarely had some free
> time without anyone asking us a question about the foundation and/or
> projects. We also had a nice cooperation going with the OpenOffice team,
> who decided to stay for a bit longer (and thus fill some of the big
> booth, so we didn't have to be 4 ASF people at it all the time, which
> was nice).
>
> As for the lessons learned, we definitely need to start organizing
> earlier next time, and get more of the prominent projects to join us -
> we especially had a lot of queries about Mesos and Spark at the
> conference. We would also really appreciate it if the foundation could
> send Melissa (or someone else) to be there in an official capacity.
> Doing this strictly as volunteers made us a bit jumpy as to who will
> watch over what if one has to go to a talk.
>
> We also desperately need one or more brochures about the foundation and
> its projects!!!
>
> The giant ASF banner has been passed on to the Stehmanns and will be
> used in other conferences in Europe.

Daniel thank you very much for a very nice summary and your tireless efforts
around FOSDEM. Here's to an even bigger ASF presence next year!

Thanks,
Roman.

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Ross Gardler  wrote:
> ...Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list 
> together
> that *this* community would like to see

Maybe I missed something but I haven't seen people looking at doing
comdev stuff, the requests I have seen are from people who want to be
involved in our projects at the code level.

So from this angle IMO what we can do at the comdev level is encourage
projects to advertise their help wanted tasks, and maybe suggest a way
of doing that that provides some foundation-wide consistency.

At the simplest we could just suggest that interested projects provide
a "help wanted" link on their website front page, as part of our
website guidelines.

-Bertrand

RE: Guiding volunteers

[Ross Gardler]

You are right. What I meant was people here are clearly interested in the act 
of community development. Therefore, we should each think about what we (as 
individuals in ComDev) can do to support people in the projects we represent in 
the broader ecosystem.

That's shouldn't be exclude listing issues in Jira as we do already for GSOC. 
But it can extend to making sure we actually point people to those lists of 
issues when someone turns up here.

Ross

-Original Message-
From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 9:23 AM
To: dev 
Subject: Re: Guiding volunteers

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Ross Gardler  wrote:
> ...Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a 
> list together that *this* community would like to see

Maybe I missed something but I haven't seen people looking at doing comdev 
stuff, the requests I have seen are from people who want to be involved in our 
projects at the code level.

So from this angle IMO what we can do at the comdev level is encourage projects 
to advertise their help wanted tasks, and maybe suggest a way of doing that 
that provides some foundation-wide consistency.

At the simplest we could just suggest that interested projects provide a "help 
wanted" link on their website front page, as part of our website guidelines.

-Bertrand

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Woonsan Ko]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Greg Chase  wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:
>
>> An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according
>> to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. Each
>> PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply information
>> about their needs. The result would be a public web page potential
>> volunteers could search.
>>
>> Ideally, it would be on a whimsey-like system, but a start could be made
>> by just defining a format and keeping the master page in a PMC chair
>> accessible SVN archive.
>>
>>
> This is a wonderful idea.  I've been looking for a way to get the various
> incubating communities I'm helping organize recruit new contributors.  This
> would help solve this problem by making it easier for (p)PMC's to
> articulate what they would like help with from new community members.
>
> Obviously it would be an adhoc system, and up to projects to fill out and
> keep their want ad's up to date.  Perhaps a rule of the system would be
> that want ads are automatically deleted after a month if they aren't
> visited and renewed by project members to verify they are still current.

I've seen a system like that: http://savannah.gnu.org/people/
Information there seems very useful to me.

Woonsan

>
> So basically, I'm volunteering to help here :)
>
> -Greg

Re: Guiding volunteers

[Greg Chase]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:

> An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according
> to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. Each
> PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply information
> about their needs. The result would be a public web page potential
> volunteers could search.
>
> Ideally, it would be on a whimsey-like system, but a start could be made
> by just defining a format and keeping the master page in a PMC chair
> accessible SVN archive.
>
>
This is a wonderful idea.  I've been looking for a way to get the various
incubating communities I'm helping organize recruit new contributors.  This
would help solve this problem by making it easier for (p)PMC's to
articulate what they would like help with from new community members.

Obviously it would be an adhoc system, and up to projects to fill out and
keep their want ad's up to date.  Perhaps a rule of the system would be
that want ads are automatically deleted after a month if they aren't
visited and renewed by project members to verify they are still current.

So basically, I'm volunteering to help here :)

-Greg

Re: FOSDEM summary

[Alexander Bezzubov]

It was great experience at the booth and meeting many of you guys
personaly, thank you Daniel for great followup!

Indeed it would be awesome to expand ASF presence at FOSDEM and alike next
year, as well as thave it a bit more structured in terms of
- schedulle at the booth,
- getting more projects envolved,
- and may be hosting a foundation-related talk

There were so many great software foundations at the same place, there must
be some room for healthy exchange of ideas and collaboration.

As mentioned before, and very surprising to me personaly, there were tonns
of grownup people not very fammiliar with ASF and also students, so there
is definitly a room for a talk, showcasing how cool ASF is and how easy it
is to get envolved, benefits it provides, etc.

Hope to see you all again next year!

--
Alex

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016, 18:20 Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Daniel Gruno  wrote:
> > Hi folks (cc press@),
> >
> > Thank you so much for an amazing FOSDEM last week!
> > This was the first time the ASF has had a presence as a foundation, but
> > even though this showed a bit, I think we had very productive
> > interactions with people (never a dull moment!) and showed them what the
> > ASF was about.
> >
> > This was also the first time we had the opportunity to showcase our new
> > visual identity, which was very well received and was quite the talking
> > point in many a conversation.
> >
> > I'd like to extend my most sincere thanks to especially Alexander
> > Bezzubov, Andrus Adamchik, Michael & Mechtilde Stehmann and Sharan
> > "Super Trouper" Foga for their tireless efforts at the booth. I'd also
> > like to thank Roman, Claude, Greg and Rich for lending a helping hand
> > when needed. We totaled 18 hours at the booth (plus setup) during the
> > two days (10 + 8) and spoke with...well, a LOT of people about the
> > foundation and its projects. We also had many interactions with other
> > foundations and companies about our project and theirs (and how they
> > could work together).
> >
> > While I was mostly sitting _behind_ the booth, I also got the
> > opportunity to take a few photos of it, which can be seen at
> > https://imgur.com/a/8beqB
> >
> > As for swag, I am both pleased and surprised to say we managed to run
> > out completely _2 hours before FOSDEM ended!_. We gave away more than
> > 800 powered-by stickers (760 or so), a few hundred project stickers, 40
> > t-shirts, 100 pens, 50 key chains, 200 fridge magnets, 50 beer coasters,
> > a few mugs and around 30 badges. We clearly need more swag for next
> > FOSDEM ;)
> >
> > For the nicer items, we came up with a rule; "One conversation equals
> > one free item", which worked super well. Compared to other conferences,
> > even ApacheCon, we had a super busy booth, and only rarely had some free
> > time without anyone asking us a question about the foundation and/or
> > projects. We also had a nice cooperation going with the OpenOffice team,
> > who decided to stay for a bit longer (and thus fill some of the big
> > booth, so we didn't have to be 4 ASF people at it all the time, which
> > was nice).
> >
> > As for the lessons learned, we definitely need to start organizing
> > earlier next time, and get more of the prominent projects to join us -
> > we especially had a lot of queries about Mesos and Spark at the
> > conference. We would also really appreciate it if the foundation could
> > send Melissa (or someone else) to be there in an official capacity.
> > Doing this strictly as volunteers made us a bit jumpy as to who will
> > watch over what if one has to go to a talk.
> >
> > We also desperately need one or more brochures about the foundation and
> > its projects!!!
> >
> > The giant ASF banner has been passed on to the Stehmanns and will be
> > used in other conferences in Europe.
>
> Daniel thank you very much for a very nice summary and your tireless
> efforts
> around FOSDEM. Here's to an even bigger ASF presence next year!
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>

Pistachio status?

[Harmon Nine]

Hello --

I'm very interested in using Pistachio, developed at Yahoo, for training
word2vec models.

The last piece of info I could find on the web indicates that it might
become an incubator project at Apache.

Does anyone know what the status of Pistachio is in regard to ASF?

Thanks.
-- Harmon

-- 
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