Re: [WG: Welcome] Proposal, a Welcome Working Group

[Slawomir Jaranowski]

Hi,

I'll be glad to offer my help on such an idea.

I've been a commiter on the Maven project since about 2 years and I
remember my fistrs contributions and first challenges with it.
So I'll be happy to help others with similar journeys.

I think that not only the first wellcome is important but also the usual
collaboration with contributors.


śr., 7 lut 2024 o 17:53 Rich Bowen  napisał(a):

> Proposed: A formal working group around how we welcome new folks in a
> consistent and helpful manner.
>
> We get people on this list (and on every dev@ and user@ list at the
> foundation) asking how to get engaged. We almost always give them unhelpful
> answers, and send them off to go figure it out on their own.
>
> The Welcome WG would write documentation, and process, around welcoming
> these new folks, and shepherding them towards engagement. This would
> include, but not be limited to:
>
> * Guiding projects towards the incubator. This includes the “why would you
> want to be at Apache? Why would you *NOT* fit at Apache?” documentation
> that we really don’t have yet.
> * Guiding brand-new contributors towards how, and where, to contribute.
> This may include working with some of our more welcoming projects to figure
> out best practice, and our less-welcoming projects to figure out why they
> are and help them fix that.
> * Working with second-time contributors to encourage best practice. (See
> https://mikemcquaid.com/stop-mentoring-first-time-contributors/ for
> thoughts on first- vs second-time contributors)
> * Crafting boilerplate answers to send to folks who show up asking for
> help getting involved, so that we don’t continue this practice of unhelpful
> “go figure it out on your own” responses.
> * Maybe work on some kind of a badging program (See
> https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ if you don’t know what I mean by that)
> to incentivize and gamify community engagement, for reasons that I would
> love to talk much more about, but are beyond the scope of this proposal.
>
> What do y’all think?
>
> —
> Rich Bowen
> rbo...@rcbowen.com
>
>
>
>
>

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Sławomir Jaranowski

Re: [WG: Social Media] Proposed - Social Media working group

[Slawomir Jaranowski]

Hi,

Thanks for the idea ...

Some time ago we discuss on Maven slack channel who can publish message
behalf of ASF like announcements about new releases

Clear rules for ASF wide and for project accounts will be appreciated.

pt., 9 lut 2024 o 14:55 Rich Bowen  napisał(a):

> This one’s pretty simple. We need folks who will figure out how to
> maintain our social media presence, and that of our projects, more
> effectively. We are currently not doing awesome at this - at best, we’re
> inconsistent. At our worst, we are sending out messaging that is not
> aligned with the Foundation’s messaging, and that can be harmful, longer
> term.
>
> I’ve included the proposed charter below, and at
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/community/wg-social-media/README.md
> 
>
> I don’t think this one is controversial, but I think that putting some
> more structure around this, and having a group that sets direction,
> process, membership criteria, and so on, would greatly improve our outreach.
>
> Note that this group MUST defer to MarkPub on all things, so we can’t just
> blaze ahead until they have had their input here.
>
>
>
> # Social Media Working Group (Proposed)
>
> Use social media to promote Apache communities
>
> ## What
>
> Use the @apachecommunity Twitter account, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other
> social media outlets to promote Apache communities.
>
> Work with projects to better facilitate their own social media outlets,
> and to share Foundation-wide messaging, where appropriate.
>
> Work with MarkPub to ensure that all of the above is done correctly, and
> on-message with the rest of the community.
>
> ## Who
>
> The WG shall create membership criteria that ensure that you're enabling
> people who can responsibly, consistently, positively and coherently be
> spokespeople for the ASF. Possibly work with MarkPub to establish some
> kind of guidelines or certification?
>
>
> —
> Rich Bowen
> rbo...@rcbowen.com
>
>
>
>
>

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Sławomir Jaranowski

Re: charges from Apache Maven

[Slawomir Jaranowski]

Hi,

As an Apache Maven team member I confirm what Rich wrote.
Apache Maven team don't charge users especially in monthly payout.

You should only use software from oficial Apache distribution, like for
Maven:
https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

 So now you can try to complain about payments in your bank.

You can report the matter of pretending - impersonating the Apache Software
Foundation by other organizations - to the Apache legal department
https://www.apache.org/legal/
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/




czw., 8 lut 2024 o 16:45 Rich Bowen  napisał(a):

> Apache Maven is free software, and, as such, we have no record of who has
> downloaded it, or where they are running it, or for what purpose.
>
> The Apache Software Foundation does not operate an Apache Maven hosted
> service (or any other for-pay hosted services), and these charges could not
> originate either with the Apache Maven project itself, or the Foundation as
> a whole. These transactions are not from us. I’m not personally aware of
> any org that hosts for-pay Maven services, so I’m not sure who to point you
> to. It’s possible that someone on the Maven mailing list (
> https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@maven.apache.org I think) might
> know?
>
> —
> Rich Bowen
> rbo...@rcbowen.com
>
>
>
>
> > On Feb 8, 2024, at 9:44 AM, Daniela Botterbusch Cole 
> wrote:
> >
> > hi-
> >
> > Since mid-2023 I've been receiving monthly charges to my Amex card for
> $13.
> > Those charges are linked to Apache Maven Software and the bill request
> > comes from Salford GB.
> >
> > I have no records in any of my email (or in any of my subscription
> > services) of having downloaded or subscribed to anything from Apache or
> > Maven, etc. I've looked everywhere.
> >
> > I've placed a merchant block on my CC for all future transactions from
> your
> > side.
> >
> > However, I would like to get to the bottom of this and understand where
> the
> > charges are coming from and what they are for. If it's for a
> > legitimate service I unknowingly use, then I'd need to remove the
> merchant
> > block, etc.
> >
> > The account would be linked to either this email address or to
> > das...@ailuminate.ai
> >
> > Please let me know if you can assist with this. If not, please point me
> in
> > the right direction.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Daniela
> >
> > --
> > Daniela Botterbusch Cole
> > (c) 917.531.6345
> > das...@gmail.com
>
>

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Sławomir Jaranowski