Re: GSoC 2013: non-code projects on website, branding?

2013-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
-- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: Anyone able to give the Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers? talk in Portland?

2013-02-16 Thread Ross Gardler
. So I'd propose tuning this up over beer on site. --benson On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: I gave it in Vancouver and wherever

Re: FW: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-15 Thread Ross Gardler
-mentors-announce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.commailto: gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-mentors-announce?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler

Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-15 Thread Ross Gardler
an email to gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.commailto: gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-mentors-announce?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Ross

Re: Anyone able to give the Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers? talk in Portland?

2013-02-13 Thread Ross Gardler
Nick -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: Presentation and Projects without DOAP

2013-01-15 Thread Ross Gardler
the file or have it incomplete, create one for them and solicitate the project owner to complete it. Of course I would need some help to get started; does it make sense? Cheers, Davide -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

RE: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-10 Thread Ross Gardler
-Original Message- From: Jed Smith [mailto:j...@jedsmith.org] Sent: 10 January 2013 21:27 Subject: Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights ... The tool isn't the issue here, and I disagree with any attempt to reframe it that way. +1 Ross

Re: Proposal: Ask OpenOffice promotion

2012-11-15 Thread Ross Gardler
Google Moderator for any reason ? On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: What a great idea. I'm copying this to the ComDev list so others can consider it. Having said that this one reason this would work for AOO is that it has such a large non

Re: Proposal: Ask OpenOffice promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Ross Gardler
What a great idea. I'm copying this to the ComDev list so others can consider it. Having said that this one reason this would work for AOO is that it has such a large non-technical user community., something that's not really true of other Apache projects. If any projects adapt the idea please

RE: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Ross Gardler
Great idea... While at it if you can place any useful signposts on the ComDev site that would be good. The goal of the ComDev site is not to duplicate information held elsewhere but to provide very brief overviews with pointers to more details. The appropriate section is [1] The ComDev site

RE: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Ross Gardler
-Original Message- From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@apache.org] Sent: 08 November 2012 16:06 To: dev@community.apache.org Cc: ASF Site-Dev Subject: Re: Streamlining new committers info On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:28:57PM +0100, Sander van der Waal wrote: The amount of

RE: YouTube Nonprofit Program

2012-11-06 Thread Ross Gardler
-Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: 06 November 2012 15:36 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: YouTube Nonprofit Program It appears that we have an ASF channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation I see that there is also

RE: YouTube Nonprofit Program

2012-11-06 Thread Ross Gardler
@community.apache.org mailto:dev@community.apache.org Cc: pr...@apache.org mailto:pr...@apache.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 11:43 Subject: Re: YouTube Nonprofit Program On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com wrote

Re: Video recording at ApacheCon EU

2012-10-29 Thread Ross Gardler
: Thanks, Ross. Any chance we can post some or all or select highlights of talks on the WAR's YouTube account? [From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies] - Reply message - From: Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com To: con...@apache.org Cc: dev

Looking for London (UK) area mentors

2012-10-23 Thread Ross Gardler
you help? To: Barry Cranford b...@recworks.co.uk, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org Is this the best address to use? The last one bounced. B On 20 Oct 2012, at 03:25, Barry Cranford wrote: Hey Ross, I hope all is well. I'm not sure if you noticed my recent email out to the LJC (below

Re: Difference between this and community-discuss

2012-10-10 Thread Ross Gardler
similar (foundation wide) community development activities can happen. Ross On 10 October 2012 10:06, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: Hey, What's the difference between this mailing list and community-discuss@a.o? Is that mailing list a part of this project? Thanks! -- NS -- Ross

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Ross Gardler
of an ASF list to a LibreOffice list is nothing more than a communication link between two distinct entities. The proposal here is to not create a separate project with a separate management structure but to simply host incompatible code externally and manage it from within an ASF PMC. Ross -- Ross

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 September 2012 11:01, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: On Thu, September 27, 2012 11:24, Ross Gardler wrote: On 27 September 2012 10:17, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: So an additional binary package including e.g. your Hibernate integration and a separate location in SVN

RE: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my tablet On Sep 27, 2012 9:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: Luciano's account identifies a clean, bright line between Apache Extras and any Apache project. One point of clarification, however, since I see this statement repeatedly. It is clear that an Apache

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-26 Thread Ross Gardler
As I see it the end result of the proposed activity is an Apache community producing GPL code. Extras is not intended to be a way to route around ASF policies relating to licence choice. It is intended to be a place for apache related projects. Others may see it differently. Sent from my tablet

How was GSoC for you, and your students?

2012-08-22 Thread Ross Gardler
is not currently prominently linked as it is quite sparse right now (it is linked from the upcoming board reprot though). It is only semi-private so keep the information factual and constructive. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: How was GSoC for you, and your students?

2012-08-22 Thread Ross Gardler
Guess this will help: http://community.apache.org/mentoring/experiences.html On 22 August 2012 11:13, Lewis John Mcgibbney lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ross, Do you have the link please I don't see it in your mail. Thanks Lewis On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Ross Gardler rgard

Re: How was GSoC for you, and your students?

2012-08-22 Thread Ross Gardler
, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Guess this will help: http://community.apache.org/mentoring/experiences.html On 22 August 2012 11:13, Lewis John Mcgibbney lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ross, Do you have the link please I don't see it in your

Re: How was GSoC for you, and your students?

2012-08-22 Thread Ross Gardler
On 22 August 2012 13:33, Michael McCandless luc...@mikemccandless.com wrote: I installed the CMS bookmarklet, navigated to http://community.apache.org/mentoring/experiences.html, and then clicked it (the bookmarklet), but that redirects me to this URL:

Re: Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Ross Gardler
Further to Bertrand comment it's not the PMC that is important but the people doing stuff. I'd disagree with the assertion any other PMC, many of the PMCs I work with don't have such list (of course it's easily available via foundation pages if people want it). From a mobile device - forgive

Re: Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Ross Gardler
On 21 August 2012 17:02, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Further to Bertrand comment it's not the PMC that is important but the people doing stuff. I'd disagree with the assertion any other PMC

Re: Why no list of the comdev PMC itself on the comdev page?

2012-08-21 Thread Ross Gardler
On 21 August 2012 17:23, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 21 August 2012 17:02, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ross Gardler rgard

GSoC Update for Board Report

2012-08-03 Thread Ross Gardler
Can I please have a quick update on GSoC for the board report, stuff like: - students passed/failed - any issues we encountered - observations re how things worked/didn't work this year Thanks Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http

Re: Community Track at ApacheCon Europe?

2012-07-17 Thread Ross Gardler
. Is anyone able to volunteer to act as a track chair for the community track, so we can add it to the list? There's info on the apachecon-discuss list about what this role entails, but it isn't too much work. Any takers? Thanks Nick -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development

[DISCUSS] Participate in another GSoC like project

2012-06-25 Thread Ross Gardler
will succeed, but we can provide an environment in which any sufficiently able student will find our projects supportive and educational. We look forward to extending our Google Summer of Code efforts to support the OSKA trial. -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development

[VOTE] Participate in a GSoC like project

2012-06-25 Thread Ross Gardler
will not be voting). [ ] +1 Agree to sign a non-binding letter of intent to participate in a GSoC like pilot project as described in this votes DISCUSS thread [ ] -1 Do not participate in the OSKA pilot project due to limited time for appropriate consensus building [ ] -1 Do not sign because ... -- Ross

Re: Hello - any product testing work available

2012-06-25 Thread Ross Gardler
coding skills are not upto the mark as to contribute to any of the projects right now. may be in future. Regards, shashi shailaj -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

RE: Can the one proposing a vote cast his vote?

2012-06-04 Thread Ross Gardler
Message- From: Herbert Duerr [mailto:h...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 04:50 To: dev@community.apache.org Cc: Ross Gardler Subject: Re: Can the one proposing a vote cast his vote? Hi, I was wondering how other projects under the ASF umbrella handle the question, whether

Re: Website update ideas

2012-05-21 Thread Ross Gardler
On 21 May 2012 12:06, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: P.S. Huh.  Maybe the standard a.o footer Foundation section should have a Newcomers link or the like that points to community.a.o. Otherwise, as someone asked, how do people even find this site? +1 I've not worked to link it in

Re: Board report - GSOC stats

2012-05-08 Thread Ross Gardler
Thank you! On 8 May 2012 14:35, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: On 08.05.2012 11:51, Ross Gardler wrote: It seems in my eagerness to help Jukka in the incubator I completely forgot to the ComDev report is due this month. Can one of the GSoC admins please give me a few bullets about

Limited slots for GSoC

2012-04-16 Thread Ross Gardler
students and mentors, this year has been no different. I'm not going to comment on individual projects, that's the job of the mentors. Although I'm happy to mediate any disputes. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: GSoC Mentor vetting procedure

2012-03-19 Thread Ross Gardler
oversight for their projects not anyone else. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: Username already exists?

2012-03-19 Thread Ross Gardler
-register or if I'm already in the system as a mentor, somehow? Anyone else had similar experiences? Cheers, Tiago -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: mentor multiple gsoc projects

2012-03-19 Thread Ross Gardler
://community.apache.org/mentee-ranking-process.html Ross Do they have to solicit replacements within their PMC? or can they continue and mentor multiple projects until the end? Also, can a project have multiple mentors? Thanks, Suresh -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open

Re: Help

2012-03-19 Thread Ross Gardler
-- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: GSoC Mentor vetting procedure

2012-03-19 Thread Ross Gardler
+1for PPMC Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Mar 19, 2012 9:32 PM, Nóirín Pluincéid noi...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: And for Podlings? Do this in their own dev list, where mentors can be counted

Re: Board report for review

2012-02-14 Thread Ross Gardler
No feedback on the current status of items below so I'm submitting with then as outstanding actions. Ross On 6 February 2012 22:46, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I meant to get this done last week, but it got busy (subscribers to general@incubator will know what I mean

Board report for review

2012-02-06 Thread Ross Gardler
, if you are able to do so please do. Specifically: * Publish the GSoC Admin guidelines * Verify that new mentor selection process is documented for GSoC * Verify infra is OK with temporary accounts for GSoC -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http

Re: Fwd:[Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Gardler
, 2012 12:55 AM, Nóirín Plunkett noi...@apache.org wrote: I'd be delighted to admin again this year. Volunteers for backups warmly welcomed, or start thinking about your task proposals :-) Noirin On Feb 4, 2012 11:32 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: See below. First

Re: Fwd:[Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Gardler
and brevity. On Feb 5, 2012 12:55 AM, Nóirín Plunkett noi...@apache.org wrote: I'd be delighted to admin again this year. Volunteers for backups warmly welcomed, or start thinking about your task proposals :-) Noirin On Feb 4, 2012 11:32 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote

Re: [Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Gardler
to admin again this year. Volunteers for backups warmly welcomed, or start thinking about your task proposals :-) Noirin On Feb 4, 2012 11:32 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: See below. First order of business is volunteers for the admin role Hi Norin Ross, I am

Re: Fwd:[Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Gardler
Yay! I'll let Noirin and Uli decide how to run things and involve you. You all know I'm here to help out if needed. Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Feb 5, 2012 6:17 PM, Erwan de FERRIERES er...@apache.org wrote: Le 04/02/2012 20:32, Ross Gardler a écrit

RE: [Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Gardler
For those new to GSoC you might want to review the roles defined at http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html and the GSoC specific info at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html (yet to be updated for 2012) Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Feb 5, 2012

Fwd:[Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
See below. First order of business is volunteers for the admin role Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. -- Forwarded message -- From: Carol Smith car...@google.com Date: Feb 4, 2012 6:54 PM Subject: [Announce] Google Summer of Code 2012 To: Google

Re: Apache Extras Question

2012-01-16 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 December 2011 15:26, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I did try, before sending the below mail, with the the accounts I have: Ross DOT gardler AT gmail.com I don't see any admin options

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-31 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 31, 2011 3:07 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Nick Burch n...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Benson Margulies wrote: Second, I wonder about the proposed

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 29, 2011 7:16 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: Hey Mike, Thanks for your reply. I get the analogy. More comments below. On Dec 29, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
@ are comfortable with the .org.apacheextras namespace then I don't see why we can't allow all projects to use it regardless of where they come from. Other uses of Apache marks are already covered by the trademarks policy and managed by individual PMCs. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 29 December 2011 20:50, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: they include runtime dependencies (via Maven2) on LGPL code. Basically I like the apacheextras idea, but it _must_ be made clear

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 29 December 2011 20:23, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: ... Would it be possible to have it under the package org.apacheextras ? That's a good suggestion. We'd need to check with trademarks (cc'd) but personally I think this would be OK. CONTEXT for trademarks: a PMC wants to put

Re: Apache Extras Question

2011-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 29, 2011 6:33 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: (cc'ing dev@community and setting reply-to: header so that replies go there) Hi Mike, First off, thanks for replying. Comments inline below:

Re: Google Summer of Code invoice for the Apache Software Foundation

2011-12-07 Thread Ross Gardler
Foundation participation in GSoC this year. Sincere apologies for not getting it in earlier! Travel receipts are also attached. Many thanks for your continued support :-) Noirin Plunkett, Executive VP, ASF -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Ross Gardler
all over the place, often contradictory and always difficult to read (written by x different authors over x years). I think the goal of the ComDev site should be to have a reasonably consistent tone that signposts other materials spread around the apache.org domain. Ross -- Ross Gardler

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Ross Gardler
to point out to your other super power - Feathercast - and don't hesitate to use ComDev as a vehicle to attract contributions. Maybe we have some people willing to do interviews for you. Ross -- Rich Bowen rbo...@geek.net On Nov 25, 2011, at 8:43, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote

Re:Feathercast

2011-11-25 Thread Ross Gardler
Rich, I'd love to get involved, not sure when I'll have time of course. Editing audio is no problem for me (in a pay life I wad a sound engineer). would you be able to let me know where the audio files are. I'll try and pick one up now and again. I'd like to do some recordings to, but they are

Re: SEO

2011-11-13 Thread Ross Gardler
On 13 November 2011 11:22, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Could the comdev PMC provide some assistance with basic SEO for Apache projects? If you are willing to do this, then yes ;-) Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http

Fwd: ASF Board Report for Nov 2011 is now due

2011-11-11 Thread Ross Gardler
://community.apache.org/comdevboardreports.html -- Forwarded message -- From: ASF Board bo...@apache.org Date: 11 November 2011 13:11 Subject: ASF Board Report for Nov 2011 is now due To: Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org This email was sent by an automated system on behalf

Re: Apache Governance: PMCs - blog post

2011-11-09 Thread Ross Gardler
/comdevboardreports.html -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: Fwd:Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI

2011-10-19 Thread Ross Gardler
All this is good, but meaningless unless someone has the time to follow through. I'm going to leave it one more day. If there is no ASF level follow through I will notify PMCs that they should apply directly. Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Oct 19, 2011 6:28 AM,

Fwd:Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI

2011-10-17 Thread Ross Gardler
Anyone with the cycles to apply for the Google Coda In on behalf of the ASF? see below Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. -- Forwarded message -- From: Carol Smith car...@google.com Date: Oct 17, 2011 7:27 PM Subject: Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring

Re: Board report due

2011-10-12 Thread Ross Gardler
On 12 October 2011 08:37, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: On 12.10.2011 01:54, Ross Gardler wrote: ...Feel free to make any last edits [1] http://community.apache.org/comdevboardreports.html Done. We

Board report due

2011-10-11 Thread Ross Gardler
to the GSoC process. Feel free to make any last edits Ross [1] http://community.apache.org/comdevboardreports.html -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-06 Thread Ross Gardler
. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
? Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

DRAFT boad report

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
Below is my draft board report, can people please look it over and expand on any parts as appropriate. In particular we could do with some numbers on GSoC. GSoC GSoC went well overall, although there was one serious issue regarding a mentor who was approved but is not a committer. This

Re: DRAFT boad report

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
On 5 October 2011 10:48, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: Never mind, did it myself, will fill out GSoC stuff later: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/board-reports/board-report_2011_10.txt We don't do them in SVN, we do them in the CMS. I didn't include the link originally as there

Re: GSoC 2011 Mentor Summit attendees

2011-08-23 Thread Ross Gardler
admin next year (I'd be happy to do it again, but also thrilled to share the knowledge if someone else wants it.) Noirin -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: GSoC 2011 Mentor Summit attendees

2011-08-02 Thread Ross Gardler
some ;) Uli The stickers is something that they are trying to do this year for the first time. Also, as I'm local, I have added myself on the waiting list :) -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: GSoC Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Ross Gardler
. If a student is voted in as a committer in the meantime, their PMC chair would just remove them from the trainee group. +1 -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Re: GSoC Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Ross Gardler
On 21 July 2011 21:55, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I feel that GSoC students should earn commit access just like anyone else. I have a lot of sympathy for Greg's position. Treating 'committer' as a single monolithic category drives people away. (I'll ignore the

Welcome to our new PMC members

2011-07-13 Thread Ross Gardler
The Community Development PMC recently voted to add Norman Maurer and Ulrich Stark (primarily) in recognition of their work on Google Summer of Code this year. Thanks and welcome to Norman and Ulrich The ComDev PMC

Fwd: Teams and Leads - where leadership lives (sermonette warning)

2011-06-17 Thread Ross Gardler
against a decision in the translator workforce. On the other hand, every PMC working mainly on the translator list might veto against a technical decision. -- Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

Fwd: [TOS] Mentoring

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Some interesting observations on mentoring programs. Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) Begin forwarded message: From: Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org Date: 1 June 2011 09:14:44 GMT+01:00 To: t...@teachingopensource.org t...@teachingopensource.org Subject: [TOS] Mentoring

Re: Apache project guidelines docs += independence?

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 20/05/2011 15:07, Ross Gardler wrote: On 20/05/2011 14:35, Shane Curcuru wrote: Benson Margulies wrote: There are some minor English language issues, like agreement in number. Sean, do you want edits? I'm not sure if Sean wants edits, since I don't know which Sean you mean. [1] But I'm

Re: [Validator] 1.4 beta?

2011-05-27 Thread Ross Gardler
I think you got the wrong list Nick, that damned auto complete email thing... Ross On 27/05/2011 17:29, Nick Burch wrote: Hi All I think it's been quite a while since the last commons validator release (1.3.1 seems to date from 2006!). However, there have been quite a few bug fixes since

Re: Being a mentor page is in conflict on the CMS

2011-05-23 Thread Ross Gardler
copy for me and thus the conflict is probably in my checkout. Sorry, wasn't thinking straight. Ross Uli On 20.05.2011 16:02, Ross Gardler wrote: On 28/04/2011 22:46, Ross Gardler wrote: Whoever last edited the Guide to being a mentor on the website has left it in a state of conflict - can you

Re: Shared Calendars

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Gardler
On 20/05/2011 12:02, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Great idea. But why not having a Calendar for all projects. One might be able to filter for a specific project or event type, be it release, dinner or whatever. Other events would become a better visibility, like Apache CON or a retreat I think

Re: Shared Calendars

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Gardler
On 20/05/2011 14:26, Christian Grobmeier wrote: But why not having a Calendar for all projects. One might be able to filter for a specific project or event type, be it release, dinner or whatever. Other events would become a better visibility, like Apache CON or a retreat I think this would be

Re: Being a mentor page is in conflict on the CMS

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Gardler
On 28/04/2011 22:46, Ross Gardler wrote: Whoever last edited the Guide to being a mentor on the website has left it in a state of conflict - can you please resolve this. These pages are still in conflict, can whoever put it in this state please fix it, it's hard to use the web based CMS while

Re: Apache project guidelines docs += independence?

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Gardler
On 20/05/2011 14:35, Shane Curcuru wrote: Benson Margulies wrote: There are some minor English language issues, like agreement in number. Sean, do you want edits? I'm not sure if Sean wants edits, since I don't know which Sean you mean. [1] But I'm happy if people want to copy or adapt this

Re: Shared Calendars

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Gardler
On 20/05/2011 15:34, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Yes, sounds better. Finally we simply would need an iCAL feed aggregator maybe similar to planet.apache.org Is the code for planet somehow extensible for this task? Might be a start The python code behind PlanetApache is open source:

Re: Apache project guidelines docs += independence?

2011-05-18 Thread Ross Gardler
. I see Bertrand has already fixed it for us. I'm new to Apache community and liked the new structure of the site :) Again, thanks for the feedback. Any further input, suggestions, patches etc. are very welcome. Ross Cheers, Bruno --- Em ter, 17/5/11, Ross Gardler rgard

Re: Past the First Post!!

2011-05-16 Thread Ross Gardler
of people, who would in turn help drive the ASF - if they only new about and understood it. I have discussed with Ross Gardler and Nick Burch, the idea of creating teaching packs for various different levels of academia and, My own interest is for these packs to be less about teaching and more

Capturing mail (was Re: Stackoverflow)

2011-05-14 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 13 May 2011, at 02:31, David Blevins david.blev...@gmail.com wrote: For me tagging and voting and (i forgot) the marking the question answered (thanks, Benson) are the parts I would love. I write some really good responses sometimes

Re: Stackoverflow

2011-05-12 Thread Ross Gardler
On 12/05/2011 22:46, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Do you really think you will adobe the SO community into the ASF community? No, of course not. I'm referring to the few people who are clearly knowledgeable about ASF products. Helping others on SO but are not, for whatever reason, engaging with

Re: Regarding Community Bonding

2011-04-28 Thread Ross Gardler
On 28/04/2011 19:38, siddharth srivastava wrote: Hi I am a GSoC 2011 student for Derby. Welcome to the ASF This email addresses a topic a bit different from the usual gsoc recommended community bonding. I was just wondering that is there a channel/group for gsoc students or apache

Re: Newbie

2011-04-28 Thread Ross Gardler
if I like to work on existing bug ?. I'm waiting for reply from great community. Thanks Nuwan Arambage -- rgard...@apache.org @rgardler -- Fail again. Fail better With Regards , Nuwan Arambage -- Ross Gardler ross.gard...@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Being a mentor page is in conflict on the CMS

2011-04-28 Thread Ross Gardler
Whoever last edited the Guide to being a mentor on the website has left it in a state of conflict - can you please resolve this. Ross

Re: Newbie

2011-04-26 Thread Ross Gardler
On 26/04/2011 10:56, Nuwan Arambage wrote: Hi Ross, This is really helpful for me to proceed and getting touch with community. I should have mentioned that not all projects have issues tagged in this way. If this is the case for your chosen projects let us know and we'll help you approach

Re: Iput forOpen Source article on

2011-04-18 Thread Ross Gardler
On 18/04/2011 15:34, Helen Beckett wrote: Hi , Am writing a short feature Open Source for a IT career channel about the skills needed to work in this area and the sort of careers available. Would someone be available to answer a few quick questions by email about the mentoring programme? On the

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-15 Thread Ross Gardler
On 15/04/2011 18:57, Kathey Marsden wrote: On 4/6/2011 7:01 AM, Kathey Marsden wrote: On 4/6/2011 1:40 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote: May be gathering such small factors will help to reach high popularity in next time. Thanks Ulrich to bring this topic for a discussion. One thing that

Re: Inviting local students to the Retreat

2011-04-13 Thread Ross Gardler
On 13/04/2011 12:33, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: +1 - I believe it is a good idea. +1 In fact I think we should be doing this for all official ASF events. Ross On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Noirin Shirleynoi...@apache.org wrote: BCC ComDev - please keep discussion on the concom@

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-07 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device. On 7 Apr 2011, at 10:15, Xun Long Gui ustbco...@gmail.com wrote: How many mentors do we have this year ? I think once students submit their proposals in mail list, if mentors can leave some comments or give some advises, supply more feedbacks, it will bring more

Re: Scoring student proposals

2011-03-30 Thread Ross Gardler
For what it's worth I've also made it clear that making these changes at this point is totally unreasonable. This is creating work for our admins - like they need more work. I'm not sure how much impact this will have. Certainly if there is no way to know who voted what our system will break

Re: melange ETA?

2011-03-28 Thread Ross Gardler
+1 to PMCs with a note to code-awards that PMC members should ensure they communicate it to their projects. Sent from my mobile device. On 28 Mar 2011, at 17:53, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: IMO it should go to pmcs@. It is then the responsibility of the PMCs to get the word out.

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