Re: Code of Conduct - links to why they are needed etc

2014-12-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:50, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: This is great and, as noted, long overdue. Although the code itself simply codifies what had been the tribal knowledge of the ASF, and how we'd expected people to behave, NOT having it written down was pretty sad. Thx to

Re: Code of Conduct - links to why they are needed etc

2014-12-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi this is a whimsical post. (also a top post) But here’s a cute code of conduct video. http://goo.gl/UZF7CW On 20 Dec 2014, at 15:14, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 20 December 2014 at 20:55, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:50, Jim Jagielski j

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 14 Jan 2015, at 06:48, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: I have been working on a proposal that follows these ideas, which is available for preview at http://projects.apache.pw/ for those interested. Only the first two tabs in the menu currently work (and the extensive

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:48, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad practice. If you as a project had a

Re: Apache Way talks

2015-02-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 14-02-2015, at 14:03, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: Louis, for independent data see http://openlife.cc/blogs/2010/november/how-grow-your-open-source-project-10x-and-revenues-5x This isn't about the ASF but about foundations in general. Sent from my

Re: http://vps2.semesterofcode.com/ (something like GSoC)

2015-02-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Jan, On 09-02-2015, at 03:36, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Hi. For info I have registred ASF at vps2, so we can create projects. The principle is much the same as GSoC, the biggest difference is that students get academic points instead of money. If anybody wants to register a

Re: Standards for mail archive statistics gathering?

2015-05-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 05 May 2015, at 07:33, Boris Baldassari castalia.laborat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, Sorry for the late answer on this thread. Don't know what has been done since then, but I've some experience to share on this, so here are my 2c.. * Parsing dates and time zones: If you are to

slack

2015-08-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, I’m curious who here also uses Slack. Besides me, that is. One thing I’m interested in is, How global is its reach? -louis

Re: slack

2015-08-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
HI, On 10 Aug 15, at 14:10, Ajoy Bhatia ajoy.bha...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to make a comment on the mail from Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com, in which he related his conversation with James H., a Slack engineer. Comments are inline below. Highlighting is mine: So, I pinged

Re: slack

2015-08-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
community, is the ticket. louis On 07 Aug 15, at 06:13, Ulrich Stärk u...@spielviel.de wrote: We use it to communicate with people in all parts of the world. US, South America, Several European countries, Asia. So I'd say it's pretty global. Uli On 06.08.15 19:24, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote

Re: slack

2015-08-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
is important slack will be of major benefit. That’s partly it. I use IRC, too—and have since college. But mention IRC to most people, even devs who’ve been in the business a while, and you are likely now to get blank stares. C’est la vie. louis On Aug 8, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui

Software Freedom Day

2015-09-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hey Everyone, Software Freedom Day is 25 September. See: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ There’s been a seeming lack of excitement about it. In other years, for instance, many geolocal AOO communities would work with the SFD locals. This year… not so much. Why is that? Have your communities

Re: Passion and vigilance in open source

2015-09-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 22 Sep 15, at 16:35, Ted Dunning wrote: > > Jim, > > Is that really happening? Is the fun leaving? Or is it we are all just > getting old and are forgetting the child-like wonder? I think that the fun is not leaving—rather the opposite, in fact--and that age, or

Re: ApacheCon CFP, review committee needed

2016-02-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
CFP system, so we won't be mucking > about with Google Docs this time, for which I'm sure we're all grateful. > We will, however, need to learn and work with their new system. > > Thanks to anybody that can help in this effort. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > h

Re: Looking for speakers at Linuxwochen Vienna

2016-02-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 18 Feb 16, at 05:53, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > > Hi ComDev, > > So any ideas on participation in Linuxwochen? IIRC some folks here have done > general Apache-centric presentations. Would it make sense to do something > similar here? It depends if we have

Re: Apache community in Addis Ababa

2016-04-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
We had a more or less vibrant community doing Swahilii, too—but it has, as far as I know, also declined. It’s positive cline depended upon a few. Gone, gravity took over. I am still in touch with some in the region. Might be feasible to re-ignite the spark, but my guess is that it would only

Re: Base for presentation

2016-05-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 21 05 2016, at 11:19, Shane Curcuru wrote: > > Patricia Shanahan wrote on 5/21/16 9:41 AM: >> In connection with the "Encouraging More Women into Participate in >> Apache Projects?" I am going to try to talk to some student groups, >> especially a WIC chapter, about

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2017-04-04, at 02:44, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> ...As a small way to address this, my desire is to send a newsletter to >> committers every two months.. > > I like the idea (especially