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Posted to dev@community.apache.org by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> on 2014/07/24 19:09:15 UTC
more prominence for ASF activities?
Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's
activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this!
However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/,
events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent
"Events" tab might be in order.
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MzK
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
-- George MacDonald
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by Ross Gardler <rg...@opendirective.com>.
We do have an events calendar but it us underused. It would be wonderful if
you could help improve things.
On 24 Jul 2014 18:09, "Kay Schenk" <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's
> activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this!
>
> However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/,
> events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent
> "Events" tab might be in order.
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MzK
>
> "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
> -- George MacDonald
>
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by jan i <ja...@apache.org>.
On 25 July 2014 10:30, Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that
> comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes
> to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events
> themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming events
> (including conferences).
>
> I agree, having read some earlier discussions I had the feeling that the
event calendar was a bit "sacred" and that is required effort to get an
entry there.
It would be real super, if the calendar was both updated and available on a
prominent place.
> And I would say that the first upcoming (and rated as most important) event
> should have a nice image on the front page to click directly to that event.
>
I do agree with you, but it might be too much work to keep that updated
(considering how slow we oftern are with other information).
rgds
jan I.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
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> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
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>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's
> > activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this!
> >
> > However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/,
> > events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent
> > "Events" tab might be in order.
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > MzK
> >
> > "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
> > -- George MacDonald
> >
>
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us>.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Pierre Smits wrote:
>>
>> I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that
>> comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes
>> to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events
>> themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming events
>> (including conferences).
>
>
> We currently have a shared calendar for events, which various pages then
> pull in and display as lists or calendars, eg
> http://community.apache.org/calendars/index.html
> http://events.apache.org/event/calendar.html
>
> If you haven't got karma for the calendar but want it, just let us know your
> google id and someone'll grant you it
>
>
>
>> And I would say that the first upcoming (and rated as most important)
>> event
>> should have a nice image on the front page to click directly to that
>> event.
>
>
> I shouldn't be too much work to tweak the JS from one of those to also
> display a logo if there is one in the event details
>
> (These pages are all driven by a shared calendar, because the biggest
> problem found in the past was getting people to update it, so the easier it
> is to update the more likely it is to stay updated! That could be changed,
> but the new plan would need to be equally as simple...)
>
> Nick
>
Are we talking about events at which any Apache project shows up; or
are we talking about where the Foundation shows up? The former is
likely to be very significant. One of the projects I work on has
multiple events a month (meetup groups, exhibiting at events, etc).
There are a few similar projects. Meanwhile the Foundation has very
few events that it has an official presence at.
--David
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Pierre Smits wrote:
> I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that
> comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this
> goes to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the
> events themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming
> events (including conferences).
We currently have a shared calendar for events, which various pages then
pull in and display as lists or calendars, eg
http://community.apache.org/calendars/index.html
http://events.apache.org/event/calendar.html
If you haven't got karma for the calendar but want it, just let us know
your google id and someone'll grant you it
> And I would say that the first upcoming (and rated as most important) event
> should have a nice image on the front page to click directly to that event.
I shouldn't be too much work to tweak the JS from one of those to also
display a logo if there is one in the event details
(These pages are all driven by a shared calendar, because the biggest
problem found in the past was getting people to update it, so the easier
it is to update the more likely it is to stay updated! That could be
changed, but the new plan would need to be equally as simple...)
Nick
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On 07/25/2014 03:36 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.smits@gmail.com
> <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org
> <http://apache.org> that
> comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And
> this goes
> to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events
> themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming events
> (including conferences).
>
> And I would say that the first upcoming (and rated as most
> important) event
> should have a nice image on the front page to click directly to that
> event.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://ORRTIZ.COM> <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com
>
>
> I will happily submit a patch to add an "Events" tab after "Get
> Involved" at the top and for time being link it to the ApacheCon site.
> Whoever has karma will need to make it so. I don't know how many
> "events" ASF participates in aside from ApacheCon but if any of them are
> well known, for example OSCON, I would think they deserve a mention. I,
> personally, do not keep up with this, but I'm sure someone does. So, I
> would propose an "Events" page to keep tract of some of these.
> "ApacheCon" would, of course, be one very important event.
OK, it looks like I can do this change myself to the main web site. Or,
not, if I just submit a patch -- let me know on this.
However, I *thought* there was an event link once upon a time, and it
turns out there is in fact http://events.apache.org/ but it hasn't been
maintained in a while. Any further thoughts on--
* putting Events back in the top navigation
* linking to this older Events page with the hope that it can be updated?
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk@gmail.com
> <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the
> ASF's
> > activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this!
> >
> > However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/,
> > events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent
> > "Events" tab might be in order.
> >
> > --
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > MzK
> >
> > "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
> > -- George MacDonald
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MzK
>
> "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
> -- George MacDonald
>
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
MzK
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
-- George MacDonald
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that
> comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes
> to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events
> themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming events
> (including conferences).
>
> And I would say that the first upcoming (and rated as most important) event
> should have a nice image on the front page to click directly to that event.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com
>
I will happily submit a patch to add an "Events" tab after "Get Involved"
at the top and for time being link it to the ApacheCon site. Whoever has
karma will need to make it so. I don't know how many "events" ASF
participates in aside from ApacheCon but if any of them are well known, for
example OSCON, I would think they deserve a mention. I, personally, do not
keep up with this, but I'm sure someone does. So, I would propose an
"Events" page to keep tract of some of these. "ApacheCon" would, of
course, be one very important event.
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's
> > activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this!
> >
> > However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/,
> > events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent
> > "Events" tab might be in order.
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > MzK
> >
> > "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
> > -- George MacDonald
> >
>
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MzK
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
-- George MacDonald
Re: more prominence for ASF activities?
Posted by Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com>.
I agree. The only link on the front page (homepage) of apache.org that
comes in the neighbourhood of events is the conferences link. And this goes
to a page that is shows a lot of information links, but not the events
themselves. This page should be showing an overview of upcoming events
(including conferences).
And I would say that the first upcoming (and rated as most important) event
should have a nice image on the front page to click directly to that event.
Regards,
Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of us just received a nice little summary from Melissa on the ASF's
> activities at OSCON -- kudos to everyone on all this!
>
> However, on looking at the ASF main home page, http://www.apache.org/,
> events of any kind are not easily found. I'm wondering if a prominent
> "Events" tab might be in order.
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MzK
>
> "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
> -- George MacDonald
>