Re: [Apache Event LK] Re: Report - Apache MeetUp Kandy

[Sagara Gunathunga <sa...@gmail.com>]

I didn't know that Fedora provided financial support for the event and glad
to hear about Fedora support. Thanks Tharindu for reminder.

Thnaks !

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Tharindu Dassanayake <dtharindu88@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Sagara,
>
> There is a little correction on you proposal. We got finacial support from
> both ACES and Fedora. But you forgot to mentioned fedora. Can you please do
> the relevant changes.
>
> Thanks !!
> Tharindu
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Sagara Gunathunga <
> sagara.gunathunga@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ross for your comments. I was under impression that only me think
>> something wrong with ConCom process. I sent one mail to suggesting name for
>> our future events, after one week I sent another mail for event proposal
>> but non of them get any response from ConCom. In fact, we experienced same
>> thought during the Apache BarCamp Colombo planning stage too where only
>> Nick responded on small-events-discuss list other than that no response or
>> approval came out from ConCom.
>>
>> If I allowed to make a suggestion, I suggest to have some improvements on
>> event approval process so that we don't wait too much time on event
>> branding, approval etc.  I believe ConCom processes should encourage people
>> to come up with volunteer events.
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Ross Gardler <rgardler@opendirective.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your report on the MeetUp in Kandy - sounds great although
>>> I was a little surprised that it had gonoe ahead, I had only seen a
>>> proposal fly by with no approval from ConCom. I don't actually have a
>>> problem with you just getting on with it - you seem to have done it
>>> according to the guidelines set by ConCom. Thank you for taking the
>>> initiative.
>>>
>>> However, the fact that your proposal was never responded to does
>>> indicate a problem with the ConCom process.
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
>>> On 1 May 2012 06:05, Sagara Gunathunga <sa...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Apache MeetUp Kandy event held in Kandy, Sri Lanka on 28th of April
>>> made
>>> > great success, there were around 60 /70 people participated majority of
>>> > them are students of University of Peradeniya also there were quite a
>>> few
>>> > industrial people as well.  This event organized by a group of
>>> students who
>>> > participated to last Apache BarCamp event held in Colombo, this was a
>>> > community driven event and "Association of Computer Engendering
>>> Students"
>>> > provided financial support while Faculty of engineering provided venue
>>> and
>>> > equipments and Readme.lk provided media sponsorship for the event.
>>> >
>>> > Event start with "The Apache way" talk by Srinath Perera ( ASF Member)
>>> , he
>>> > covered history, organizational structure and roles of ASF, voting
>>> > process.  Generally he covered usual content of a Apache way talk and
>>> > manged to deliver a clear idea about what is Apache software
>>> foundation and
>>> > how it functional etc.  Srinath was followed by another ASF member
>>> Nandika
>>> > Jayawardana who talked about "Open-source and your carrier" It was not
>>> > limited to focus on ASF, he motivated audience with number of facts to
>>> show
>>> > how open source contributions help to build a successful carrier and
>>> > personal branding. In later part of his talk, he specifically discussed
>>> > about Apache contribution in open source context.
>>> >
>>> > As the 3rd session of the event I delivered "Find your way to Apache
>>> > contribution" session this showed number of practical approaches to
>>> > audience to start their Apache contribution also answered  general
>>> > questions that can be raised in a potential new contributor's mind.
>>> This
>>> > was the last session before the lunch break and number of people asked
>>> > questions and people tend to to speak.
>>> >
>>> > The evening dedicated for practical sessions. First, Anuradha
>>> Ratnaweera
>>> > from Taprobane Linux org. conducted a practical demonstration about
>>> > installing and configuring Apache web server on different Linux
>>> > distributions. Further he covered architectural aspects of Apache2
>>> server
>>> > and showed some steps to resolve most common configuration issues. As
>>> > usually he attracted whole audience for the session.
>>> >
>>> > Next session was about "Apache build tools - Apache Ant and Apache
>>> Maven"
>>> > which conducted by Suhothayan Sriskandarajah ( ASF commiter) and
>>> Prabath
>>> > Abeysekera to provide hand-on practicals on both tools. they covered
>>> basic
>>> > concepts about tools and demonstrated using number of sampls. As the
>>> final
>>> > event of the day Kathiravelu Pradeeban conducted a small session about
>>> > "Community Matters" basically this session is to make people speak.
>>> >
>>> > This event was a well organized small scale event and many thanks
>>> should go
>>> > to organizers from University of Peradeniya and volunteer speakers.
>>> >
>>> > You can find some pictures of this event from here
>>> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/78442276@N04/sets/72157629921545711/ and
>>> event
>>> > coverage from here http://lanyrd.com/2012/apache-meetup-kandy/ .
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks !
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Sagara Gunathunga
>>> >
>>> > Blog      - http://ssagara.blogspot.com
>>> > Web      - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/
>>> > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Sagara Gunathunga
>>> >
>>> > Blog      - http://ssagara.blogspot.com
>>> > Web      - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/
>>> > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
>>> Programme Leader (Open Development)
>>> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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