Re: Apache Community building event in Colombo

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Sagara Gunathunga wrote:
> With few local committers I'm planning to have a Apache community 
> building event in Colombo (Sri Lanka) somewhere around next month. Still 
> I'm not sure whether we could brand this event as a Bar Camp because 
> this event mainly not targeting existing members of Apache projects 
> instead new people ( can be developers, students etc) who have desire on 
> contributing on Apache projects.

Do you have a mailing list set up yet for organising? If you do, we can 
hopefully get a few people who've organised previous small events to join, 
to offer advice and mentoring from their experiences.

Nick

Re: Apache Community building event in Colombo

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

I have created a google group and added initial members. Please feel free
join yourself here http://groups.google.com/group/apache-event-lk?hl=en

Thanks !

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Sagara Gunathunga wrote:
>
>> We used to discuss these events on foss-event-lk list and send summery to
>> Apache lists. But main drawback is we drop lot of ideas and send only
>> results/conclusions as the summery also whole discussion is not visible. I
>> think it's better to have these discussions on Apache lists in a Apache way.
>>
>
> For the nitty gritty of organising small events, it's normally to have
> your own list elsewhere with just those taking part or offering advice.
> People here won't be interested in 5 emails on who's buying the tea bags!
> But there certainly is interest on the general process and advice
>
>
>  So far we use IRC a lot to organize this particular event I will inform
>> others to join small-events-discuss@ so that we can discuss relevant
>> matters on this list.
>>
>
> The only downside with IRC is that people who aren't there at that moment
> miss out, which is especially an issue for potential mentors as I don't
> think there are any in your timezone. For the last few small events I've
> helped with, we've used externally hosted mailing lists with everyone
> interested subscribed, and that has worked well.
>
> (For large Apache events, we'll normally create an Apache hosted list for
> it, but for smaller ones a google group or similar seems to work better, is
> quicker to set up etc)
>
> Nick
>



-- 
Sagara Gunathunga

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Re: Apache Community building event in Colombo

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Sagara Gunathunga wrote:
> We used to discuss these events on foss-event-lk list and send summery 
> to Apache lists. But main drawback is we drop lot of ideas and send only 
> results/conclusions as the summery also whole discussion is not visible. 
> I think it's better to have these discussions on Apache lists in a 
> Apache way.

For the nitty gritty of organising small events, it's normally to have 
your own list elsewhere with just those taking part or offering advice. 
People here won't be interested in 5 emails on who's buying the tea bags! 
But there certainly is interest on the general process and advice

> So far we use IRC a lot to organize this particular event I will inform 
> others to join small-events-discuss@ so that we can discuss relevant 
> matters on this list.

The only downside with IRC is that people who aren't there at that moment 
miss out, which is especially an issue for potential mentors as I don't 
think there are any in your timezone. For the last few small events I've 
helped with, we've used externally hosted mailing lists with everyone 
interested subscribed, and that has worked well.

(For large Apache events, we'll normally create an Apache hosted list for 
it, but for smaller ones a google group or similar seems to work better, 
is quicker to set up etc)

Nick

Re: Apache Community building event in Colombo

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

We used to discuss these events on foss-event-lk list and send summery to
Apache lists. But main drawback is we drop lot of ideas and send only
results/conclusions as the summery also whole discussion is not visible. I
think it's better to have these discussions on Apache lists in a Apache
way.

So far we use IRC a lot to organize this particular event I will inform
others to join small-events-discuss@ so that we can discuss relevant
matters on this list.

Thanks !

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Sagara Gunathunga wrote:
>
>> With few local committers I'm planning to have a Apache community
>> building event in Colombo (Sri Lanka) somewhere around next month. Still
>> I'm not sure whether we could brand this event as a Bar Camp because this
>> event mainly not targeting existing members of Apache projects instead new
>> people ( can be developers, students etc) who have desire on contributing
>> on Apache projects.
>>
>
> Do you have a mailing list set up yet for organising? If you do, we can
> hopefully get a few people who've organised previous small events to join,
> to offer advice and mentoring from their experiences.
>
> Nick
>



-- 
Sagara Gunathunga

Blog      - http://ssagara.blogspot.com
Web      - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara