Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-cocoon-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 74292 invoked by uid 500); 22 Nov 2002 10:59:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 74272 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2002 10:59:18 -0000 Message-ID: <3DDE0E5A.40304@apache.org> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:00:42 -0800 From: Stefano Mazzocchi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org CC: Brian Behlendorf , Rodent of Unusual Size Subject: Re: Cocoon Real-Life Events References: <3DDDED8C.6070104@apache.org> <3DDE0360.4070802@outerthought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Steven Noels wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > > Forth, the ASF just established a fund-raising commitee. I talked > > with the ASF conference committee ^ part of In fact, I was going to talk to Ken about that today but I didn't have time. Sorry for not having being more precise about this. > > and they say that it's entirely > > possible that Apache partecipates officially in the production of > > project-related real-life events. Whether this means *money* is yet > > to be estimated, also depending on the money raised by the > > fund-raising commitee. Anyway, FYI. > > I remember asking about potential sponsorship of the ASF for the > GetTogether. It was just an

in a mail to Brian (attached) cc-ed > on the reorg list. > > Related to that, I sent a mail regarding EurApacheCon to Ken some time > ago (attached too, sorry about the tone of that message). > > What I'm trying to say is that this is a good idea. OTOH, I'm assured > that we should be very careful about mixed interests: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=103780260804583&w=2 > > Ken: please don't take the hyperlinked message above as critique. It is > just one of the remarks I got from the GetTogether attendees: they > really like it to be a GetTogether of users & developers, rather than a > conference where sponsors automagically acquire the right for speaking > slots. I think an exhibition, with enough time to visit that exhibition, > is kind-of a nice balance between people being able to showcase their > stuff, while not 'commercially polluting' the content exchange (and we > made some errors against it during this first GetTogether ourselves). > > But I'll quit ranting for now ;-) Sally and I specifically discussed potential ways that the ASF could be involved in project-specific events, hopefully being able to delegate as much as possible to others project-specific volunteers. How this could be accomplished and the role on the foundation (expecially on the economical side) is yet to be estimated. Still, it was impressive how a cocoon-specific event auto-produced managed to gather around 100 people. I think it's worth considering as a different model for real-life events associated to the ASF. -- Stefano Mazzocchi -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cocoon-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org For additional commands, email: cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org