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From: Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org>
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:12:00 +0000
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On 15 Feb 2011, at 20:08, Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org> wrote:

> Apologies for the lateness of this

And spoils for not submitting in the correct form. Will be more careful next=
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Ross


> (and thus there being no time for ComDev feedback). I'm currently off work=
 sick (nothing serious) and completely forgot as a result.
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> Here's the ComDev board report for February 2010
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> Status report for the Apache Community Development Project
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> Project Status
> --------------
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> The Community Development is progressing well, although a little more slow=
ly than some whould have hoped.
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> No issues require board attention at this time.
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> Community
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> Google Summer of Code 2011 is in preparation stages. For the first time we=
 have more admin volunteers than we need - which is great.
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> The EU project (OpenSE) that planned to bring students to our mentoring pr=
ogramme is about to commence its second pilot run. In the first run we had a=
 number of interested enquiries but nobody actually started work as a mentee=
. On the one hand this is a dissapointment, on the othe it is good to know t=
hat our ASF volunteers are not wasting time on the initial phases of engagin=
g mentees that, ultimately, bring nothing to the project. The OpenSE team be=
lieves the main barrier is the high expectations we have of students - we ma=
ke it clear that they must be self-motivated and results oriented. This coup=
led with the reputaton of the ASF appears to be intimidating potential mente=
es. In the next pilot the learning assitants are focussing on the career adv=
antages experience with ASF projects can bring and are introducing a "commun=
ity game" which will introduce students to the idea of engaging in public.
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> Apache-extras.org was launched. As agreed the committee is hands off on th=
e management of this site. There are currently 89 projects listed.
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> Objectives for next period
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>    * Coordinate Google Summer of Code
>    * Analyse use of apache-extras.org