[ANNOUNCE] Announcing Apache Local Community (ALC) as a ComDev Initiative

[sharanf <sh...@apache.org>]

Th ASF Community Development (“ComDev”) community is pleased to announce 
the new Apache Local Community (ALC) [1] initiative.

ALC comprises local groups of Apache (Open Source) enthusiasts, called 
an 'ALC Chapter'.

There will be a single ALC chapter per town/city.

ALC is similar to Google Developer Group [2], Facebook Developer Circles 
[3], and Mozilla Reps [4].


# ALC Roles and Responsibilities

-- Spread awareness on Apache in local communities.

-- Host various events for local open source enthusiasts that include 
students, developers, and the business community.

-- Share information about ASF, The Apache Way, and various Apache projects.

-- Bring together project users and developers.


# Benefits of ALC

-- will open the doors for having frequent and small events for the 
local Open Source community.

-- will provide a platform for different project committers from the 
same town/city to meet and exchange knowledge, thoughts, and ideas.-- 
will help build and expand communities, as the Apache maxim "Community 
Over Code".


ALC is not about holding a monthly committer meetup, but rather creating 
a local group of Apache enthusiasts. It is not mandatory to be or have 
Apache committers to form an ALC chapter, however if there are Apache 
committers available to participate and share their experience then it 
will be helpful for that ALC chapter.


More details can be found at https://s.apache.org/alc


We have launched the ALC initiative with one ALC Chapter: ALC Indore 
Chapter https://s.apache.org/alc-indore. Details of the events organized 
by this chapter can be found at https://s.apache.org/ALC-Indore-Events


Additional resources:

https://s.apache.org/alc

https://s.apache.org/ALC-Resources

https://s.apache.org/ALC-Chapters


If you are interested in setting up the ALC Chapter in your area 
(town/city), please send a message to dev@community.apache.org 
<ma...@community.apache.org>with "[ALC] Request to setup ALC in 
<name-of-your-town-or-city>" in the subject line.


We look forward to the establishment of more new ALC Chapters around the 
world and hope that the ALC initiative will provide local support for 
Apache and its projects as well as encourage the participation of new 
and existing contributors.

Regards

Sharan Foga

Apache Community Development


[1] https://s.apache.org/alc

[2] https://developers.google.com/programs/community/gdg/

[3] https://developers.facebook.com/developercircles/

[4] https://reps.mozilla.org/about/