Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

This is exactly the observation I have from the Mahout students. I would rather not have a project re-invent something that we already have, but I am thrilled to have a student who is self-directed and horrified at the thought of having a student who needs to be micro-managed. Even if the

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

When mentoring, I also try to provide some gentle help on this by answering any privately sent code questions in public by redirecting to the mailing list. I also send a gentle nudge pointing out that my answer is on the mailing list and that they would get a faster answer on average if they

Re: Working on CouchDB or Hadoop

Sean, Take a look at Cassandra, Hbase and Voldemort as well. All provide interesting variants on NOSQL capability. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Isabel Drost isa...@apache.org wrote: On 19.05.2010 Sean Bartell wrote: I was looking for something to do over the summer, and the mentoring

Re: Forward planning

Is that URL correctly spelled? (trasnfer?) Mahout has a strong record of welcoming mentorees. Keep us in mind as you go forward. On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: I've been quite busy recently and as a result my activities here have taken a back sear.

Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

I'll take some if you are offering. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: No argument with that. Though there are some days on members@ where I feel like someone needs to hand out juice and cookies.

Re: Recognizing non-{code,docs,bits} contributors

Put them in the list of contributors at least. And frankly, I was asked to be a committer on Mahout largely based on similar contributions (with some code). I have subsequently contributed quite a bit of code, but the original offer was made somewhat speculatively. If these contributors of

Re: Stackoverflow

There is another factor that comes into play. QA sites like SO also blend in wiki and trust mechanisms. Thus, highly rated users can and do rewrite questions to be more answerable/understandable. They can also rewrite answers if necessary. Without automated karma, the moderation function has

Re: Capturing mail (was Re: Stackoverflow)

can introduce new tags would be fine for me. It could be a file in svn or something else equally lame but functional. -David On May 12, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: There is another factor that comes into play. QA sites like SO also blend in wiki and trust mechanisms. Thus

Re: GSoC Temporary commit access accounts

I completely agree with this. Mahout has worked on just this basis quite well. Where it is deemed important for students to be allowed to commit changes, we have used github as a temporary work area, but all changes committed to the project code have been committed by actual committers with the

Re: Seoul Tajo Meetup

Talking in Korean will definitely decrease the demand from outside of Korea. As long as you summarize on-list and decide there, I don't think it is all that different from simply being in an inconvenient time-zone. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote:

Re: Setup development software for Macs?

I tested disk I/O before and after enabling FileVault and couldn't really tell the difference. I also turned it on after I had quite a bit of stuff on the disk and it didn't take all that long to convert (considerably less than all night). Leave the firewall on. It is very easy to poke and then

Re: Setup development software for Macs?

via the App Store. Although the XCode editor is very nice as well. And I've used UltraEdit on a PC, and they now have a Mac version (cost is minimal) ( http://www.ultraedit.com/products/mac-text-editor.html). ~Roger Whitcomb On 6/26/13 8:47 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: I tested disk I/O

Re: Pilot Mentoring Programme with India ICFOSS - Mentor Request Mail.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Dan Filimon dangeorge.fili...@gmail.comwrote: This is Dan (from Mahout). I'm writing here because for whatever reason your e-mail hasn't reached dev@mahout and I saw it here first. I haven't seen that email on the Mahout list either.

Re: Content Committee, ApacheCon 2014

I can help for Mahout, Drill and Zookeeper. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.orgwrote: I can help for Lucene and Mahout. -Grant On Dec 13, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: I can help with content selection from Kafka PMC.

Re: Question Related to Mahout

In addition to the web site link that the other respondent gave you, you can send email to u...@mahout.apache.org instead of here. On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Pramod Gaur pramodgau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am Research student who want to start working Mahout. Can you please

Re: ApacheCon content committee

Rich, Many projects have only a single person listed per project. In some cases, it is a person with a strong point of view that is strongly influenced by their non-Apache life. Other important projects have nobody listed. Are submissions going to be curated by the group as a whole? Or only

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

I confirm this impression. There is a similar glut of Cordova talks. In the Cordova talks, however, many of the submissions are from the same few people and the talks are very, very similar. A smaller set of near duplicates occurs in Solr where a number of speakers have volunteered a State of

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

We still have to strike a balance at the conference level. I think that the questions to the PMC's will have to be of the form: We have N submissions in your area, please pick m of these. That will let the PMC's pick within their area while the conference as a whole can find the balance between,

Re: Edit the ApacheCon Banner on Website

I see Denver. Probably you have some browser caching issues and aren't really seeing the current state of the page. It is also possible that there is caching in the network somewhere and a significant number of people are seeing the old content. Can you force a complete reload of the page? If

Re: ApacheBookStore.com

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 13 October 2014 16:30, Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com wrote: Rich, How about drop shipments directly from the publishing party, if they can handle that? That way no inventory would be required. With OFBiz The ASF

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/01/2015

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 Jan 2015, at 18:09, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has

Re: GitHub pages for git based Apache projects (Was: Re: Managing zyz.apache.org (was RE: WELCOME to dev@community.apache.org))

Apache Drill has been doing something like this for some time. They use Jekyll from Github to render markdown as HTML and then commit the HTML to SVN to that pubsub carries it to the right places. By doing this in the gh-pages branch of their git repo, the get the side effect that they can use

Re: GitHub pages for git based Apache projects (Was: Re: Managing zyz.apache.org (was RE: WELCOME to dev@community.apache.org))

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: ...Apache Drill has been doing something like this for some time. They use Jekyll from Github to render markdown as HTML

Re: Veto! Veto?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com wrote: It is sometimes the case that the individual, with power in the community, can't work with another 'in his eyes difficult' person. If his contributions are beneficial to the project, if others in the project can

Re: GitHub Pages

I think those other comments about Jekyll had to do with keeping all of the site storage on apache servers. There have been objections in this thread about using github.io based sites even with site name masquerading. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2015, at 14:36, Christopher

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

question here. Ross -Original Message- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 10:53 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow? Ideally and aspirationally

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: We don't have to accept that projects often fail to recognize some kinds of merit. I like that!

Re: GitHub Pages

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: Is it really necessary for our web pages to be served from Apache hardware? If so, why? I understand why we want to control the canonical source, but do we really need to own web server? I am

Re: GitHub Pages

Chris, The easy summary is that Apache would like to keep apache sites being served by apache controlled hardware. Github serving pages fails that test. On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Christopher ctubb...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com

Re: GitHub Pages

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:55 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: SSL Specifically - apache.org sites are in https-everywhere. Those sites can't provide SSL. Very good point. None of the current TLP web sites are being served from Apache hardware though - it's all VMs in 2-3 different

Re: GitHub Pages

-Original Message- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 9:40 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: GitHub Pages Chris, The easy summary is that Apache would like to keep apache sites being served by apache controlled hardware

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

Ideally and aspirationally, that is true. Practically speaking, definitely not true. On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: Once again, the ASF makes no distinction between code and other contributions. Sent from Windows Mail From:

Re: What's the ideal job title for somebody who is payed to help ASF communities grow?

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: The example of I gave with Brett -- clearly the ASF community was the one bestowing that title. Now, quite contrary to the semantics game that Ross was playing with 'what is an official title anyway?' -- I'd say that

Re: Integrating JavaX

Stefan, Here is the email that I sent to general@ a few days ago. Didn't realize that you weren't subscribed. Note that I have bcc'ed the community development list and added gene...@incubator.apache.org We should continue the discussion there. You might like to subscribe so that replies made

Re: Google Code shutting down Jan 2016

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Branko Čibej br...@apache.org wrote: Do please consider that all the world cannot use Maven just as all the world is not written in Java. Lately, it appears that the fraction of the world that can use maven or a cache of maven is pretty large. Even our very

Re: GitHub Pages

? On 3 August 2015 at 15:58, Owen O'Malley omal...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Several projects are using Jekyll to emulate the github style site processing. As an example: http://drill.apache.org/ THis is still a bit

Re: Storm / Heron

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Andy Flosdorf aflosd...@ahinstitute.com wrote: In the past 18 months, our organization has undertaken a project utilizing Apache Storm. However, we’ve recently learned that Twitter has replaced Storm with Heron. Are there any resources that discuss this

Re: slack

I use slack for work. The Apache Mahout project has been using it as well. There is a huge danger of off-list discussions that go unreported (as with IRC, but seemingly more so because of a better interface and easier access to one-on-one conversations). The problem is not the tool itself or the

Re: Fw: Is https://projects-new.apache.org/ ready for prime time?

The label on the second pie graph is broken. It refers to language (cut and paste from the first caption, I think). On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Sally Khudairi s...@apache.org wrote: So ...we've had a tweet from Roman last month, and now JimJag (bcc'd) has done so as well

Re: [reporter] Confusing PMC/Committeer/Committee/LDAP report format

Yay to that! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2015, at 5:27, Sam Ruby wrote: > > I'm working slowly on making the roster tool read/write so that it can > be used instead of the Perl scripts and editing committee-info.txt > directly. The idea is that adding an existing

Re: My VIP application

The Apache software foundation builds open source software that is used by many companies in the world. This Apache software is not the application that is causing you problems. The company you are dealing with has additional software to handle payments. That software has nothing to do with

Re: My VIP application

ming. http://leo.tinybrain.de > > Am 07.10.2015 16:29 schrieb "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>: > Branko, He seems harmless enough. The occasional non-sequitur. No flame bait.

Re: Passion and vigilance in open source

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? On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Some of you may know that I've started a Vlog series on Youtube > around some topics

Re: Request for a mentor

Check out the following projects: Singa (this would be very good because it is pretty cutting edge and is in incubation) Mahout (especially the Samsara portion) Spark (especially the MLLib

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

Ted, My further comments are in-line. Your explanation is helping understand what your goals are. On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Ted Liu wrote: > Hi Ted, Yes, we want to establish a bridge or a group (if the idea of > "China Community" seemed to be intimidating or

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Ted Liu wrote: > p.s. The reason why a Wechat public account is a big plus because it is > used by 500M Wechat chatters on daily basis to acquire/learn information. > This is a very effective China-specific scenario. > Note that you can use

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Ted Liu wrote: > My apologies if misunderstood from Ted Dunning's earlier comment: " I was > a mentor on kylin and worried about English being a problem for > contribution. The real problem is that apache is partially defined by the > use of

Re: Forming a community of Apache fans in China - Apache China Community

Ross, How do you square opposition to a separate china org with the irreconcilable needs to maintain English as the language of apache with the need to allow non-English speaking Chinese speakers to participate? I can't. To the extent that it is possible, I encourage English capable people

Re: Encouraging Diversity - Update 1

Sharan, One possible explanation of an under-representation problem (assuming we have one ... you point out rightly that we should measure first) is that *other* factors have given the impression that open source communities are unfriendly. For instance, I could imagine that the recent Gamergate

Re: Want to find more contributors for your Apache project?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > For newcomers, might it be better to point them at ponymail? It's a bit > more "modern" and "user friendly" than the venerable mod-mbox... > > https://pony-poc.apache.org/list.html?dev@community.apache.org > Is it

Re: Distributing ASF Material

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Alan Gates wrote: > I would like to add some context to Ted’s complaint. If he is talking > about the incident that I think he is, it happened years before Hortonworks > was founded. (I wasn’t there, but I have heard the story from those

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

Yeah... I twitched when I saw that. My suspicion is that this is being used in the ancient, pre-nazi sense. It is hard to believe that somebody is ignorant of the impact it must have on some readers. On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Christopher wrote: > Hi all, > > It

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

> > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone > > > ---- Original message > From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > Date: 01/31/2017 3:50 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Profile photos and ASF values &g

Re: Profile photos and ASF values

involved. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Niclas > > > > > >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Andrew Palumbo <ap@outlook.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> I am pretty new around here and don't know if this is a more private > >

Re: Hello

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Palumbo wrote: > So yeah I'm not sure what is available, but a little swag goes a long way. > I may have some Mahout stickers. Let me look about. I definitely have Drill and Myriad stickers. Let me know if you want some. I personally

Re: Use of MD5 and SHA1 for download verification

SHA1 and MD5 have been individually compromised, but a combined hash has not been. Regardless, Sebb's comment that hashes are worthless for authentication and tamper-detection is spot-on. You have to look to trusted signatures for that. On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Mike Lissner <

Re: Hello

t; Andy > -- > *From:* Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, January 23, 2017 2:08:49 AM > *To:* dev@community.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Hello > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Palumbo <ap@outlook.com> >

Re: Hello

Andrew, I would be happy to help with this directly. What do you need/want? On Jan 21, 2017 4:28 PM, "Andrew Palumbo" wrote: > Hello, > > > I sent an email yesterday regarding swag for Meetups, etc to this list, > thinking that it was an Apache list that was devoted

Re: Healthcare Open Source Technology Request

Kate, To add a bit to what Bertrand says, it is likely that there is a bit of a gulf between what Apache expects new communities to be and do and what you might come up with from first principles or raw expectations. That said, your suggested projects could be really valuable and they might very

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Peter West wrote: > The ASF has free software, freely produced by anyone who wants to put his > or her hand up. Talk about “diversity” is deeply divisive, and all of the > BS that accompanies it is the antithesis of freedom. It is the impulse of

Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Peter West wrote: > Why does the ASF give a tinker’s damn about diversity? Why are scarce > resources being devoted to it? Seriously. > These are volunteer resources. They are not your resources. They aren't the ASF's resources. Why does ASF

Re: Using Solr/Lucene to provide our own site search?

Sounds like a roadmap more than a focus, but otherwise good. On Mar 29, 2017 6:46 AM, "Shane Curcuru" wrote: > Wow, so there are folks interested! Great discussion, and good point: > projects that span projects or are working on broader community aspects > need clear

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

I hear it as the voice of (occasionally bitter) experience. It could easily be my own voice as well. I have found in my own limited experience that communities who pay attention to minority voices to be far better at producing real consensus. I have also found that people with a majority-rules

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

eventing active contributors from getting a say in a > project. > > The raised problem of community disharmony is not served with vetoes, > AFAICT. > > > > On Apr 4, 2017 14:06, "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I hear it as the voice of (occasio

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > The challenge that is unique to OpenOffice as you are well aware is >> the fact that >> it is both a product and a project. >> > > It's a bit provocative. What would happened if we drop the product, but > don't

Re: Contribute as a company

Well, articles like that and the related FUD are one of the major reasons why Apache takes the "individuals do the work" tack. Quite frankly, if you really intend to share, then moaning when others take you at your word is pretty sad. Better to share with open hands. Or don't. Make up your mind

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

Raphael, Why don't you get some folks together and start a company that solicits donations to support OO development and QA work? On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > Not sure why you aren't trying this conversation on the OpenOffice >

Re: Signing contracts?

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 3:34 PM, sebb wrote: > ... > > Let me just point out that the reason that you are a VP is *exactly* to > be > > signing for the ASF. > > > > Every time you as a PMC chair sign off on a release, you are signing for > > the entire ASF. > > > > It is a *big*

Re: Signing contracts?

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Myrle Krantz wrote: > > Depending on what the contract binds the ASF to, I'd expect either VP, > > Conferences or VP, ComDev to sign. > > Thank you for the details Shane. > > In addition to the legal/technical aspects, I don't really feel I have

Re: Introducing code owners

I think that it is great for projects to use multiple mechanisms to ensure quick review. This is a fine mechanism. On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Phil Sorber wrote: > Aside from the strong "owner" language, do you think this is a bad idea? > Seems like picking some default

Re: Does anyone actively maintain PMC RDF files?

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > > !-- This should be taken from the PMC board resolution --> > > It seems simple for Whimsy to store a single JSON of all TLPs and their > charters by directly sucking it out of passed board resolutions as part > of

Re: Apache Community Card Volunteers Needed

I just confirmed that uploading the standard PDF card design works on MOO. You have to shift the design a little for Euro sized cards. On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi Lefty > > Thanks for offering to help test. The link is in my other thread

Re: Apache Community Business Cards

Sharan, I can fix that for you, if you like. Send me the PSD file off-list. On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: > Thanks Isabel! > > Sally has sent me the psd template but I'm having problems opening it in > the Gimp (it's giving an unsupported colour mode

Re: Apache Community Business Cards

I just took Sally's template and reworked it slightly and stored it back into 6 different formats so that people might be able to edit it more easily. The changes I made were to use the vector format of the logo and change the type face slightly to be a more commonly available one (which looks

Re: Feedback on the booth at Apache EU Roadshow + FOSS Backstage last week

I was only there for buzzwords, not the foss backstage event. The lounge format was congenial, but I feel like it put Apache off in a corner. It seemed like Apache folk were comfortable to stay there rather than wander the event and connect outside of our small corner. One thing that I have done

Re: Beam's recent community development work

M > To: dev > Cc: memb...@apache.org; dev@community.apache.org; Griselda Cuevas < > g...@apache.org> > Subject: Re: Beam's recent community development work > > > > Thanks for the guidance Ted, > > > > All of your points are well taken. I/we will defi

Re: Beam's recent community development work

Ken, This is really good. I would like to emphasize one nuance, however. That is that when you get to the committer consideration step, there is a strong Apache tradition that the actual decision about committer-ship is not communicated to the candidate to avoid disappointment or campaigning

Re: I wish to contribute.

Thomas, That would be fantastic. I lived a long time in New Mexico and the Chiricahua mountains and the Mogollon rim are some of the most special places in the world for me as well. The path with ASF typically starts with contributions to a project of special interest to you. That project

Re: Update on logo hunt

Daniel, What about cases where there are multiple versions? Some projects have wide and square versions. Some have monochrome. Some have powered by versions. What you have done so far is awesome. What do you think about next steps? On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 07:39 Daniel Gruno wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: Update on logo hunt

Daniel, Cool about the multiple versions. What are the instructions to the projects for how to drop in multiple versions. Is it $project-$version.$ext ? On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 5:39 AM Daniel Gruno wrote: > Hi all, > > Logos are slowly ticking in and being processed. > I have a mockup of a

Re: Update on logo hunt

This is very cool. On Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 07:31 Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 08/26/2018 03:49 PM, Daniel Gruno wrote: > > An important update: > > ALL TLPs are now covered, yay! > > > > There's a handful of podlings missing, hopefully we can get those in > time. > > > > All in all, 205 projects

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setting up an official ASF swag store

I think a default swag source would be grand if you can avoid minimums and setup fees. My guess from the high price of the stickers compared to other sources such as Stickermule that charge a setup is that redbubble is eating the difference. On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Mark Thomas

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setting up an official ASF swag store

Speaking as somebody who has caused to be printed and given away bunches of Apache project logo stickers, I don't see much market that we are taking away. When I give away logo stickers, I tend to buy at least hundreds of them so the Apache store wouldn't affect that. But there are lots of times

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setting up an official ASF swag store

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 4:04 PM, David Nalley wrote: > > The folks with high quality stuff have historically (~10 years ago) > required huge minimum orders. > Not so much any more. I have gotten very nice stickers from Stickermule. Their minimum quantity is 50 and for small

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

Ironically, they *didn't* send me the apology mass email. Maybe I had to opt out to get the last of the spam. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:10 AM Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Yeah, I'm disappointed how they are handling this and would like to see the > email they sent you after unsubscribing. > -- >

Re: [DISCUSSION] Running another ASF Committer Diversity Survey

Great idea. On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 20:58 Myrle Krantz wrote: > Would it make sense to add a question about the form of a > participant's contribution? (ie, code, marketing, QA, UX, tech docs, > logo, organizational, and I know I'm forgetting something important > please forgive me) I'd be

Re: Apache Local Community (ALC) Next Steps

This ALC stuff looks like a way to have local meetups. Why is all this organizational hierarchy needed? Why not just have meetups? On 2019/08/01 13:29:41, Swapnil M Mane wrote: > Dear all, > > Hope you are doing good. > Thanks, everyone who shared their kind thoughts on ALC proposal [1]. >

Re: Effective ways of getting individuals funded to work on ASF projects

I was in the peanut gallery when Tidelift approached the logging project. To me, it looked like Tidelift wanted fairly significant service level guarantees for a very low cost and then wanted to monetize their position of having such guarantees. Aside from whether or not the details were