Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 22882 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2000 00:42:07 -0000 Received: from 217-49-22-12.user.darwin.net (HELO relativity.yi.org) (root@12.22.49.217) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Feb 2000 00:42:07 -0000 Received: from relativity.yi.org (IDENT:root@relativity.yi.org [127.0.2.1]) by relativity.yi.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17045; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 16:42:06 -0800 Sender: root@relativity.yi.org Message-ID: <389E14DE.BC975BA5@relativity.yi.org> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 16:42:06 -0800 From: "Kevin A. Burton" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@xml.apache.org, tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org, java-apache@list.working-dogs.com Subject: PROPOSAL: Bay Area (Silicon Valley) Apache Developers Group Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Sorry for the cross post) I have been doing some creating thinking about how we could all be more productive. It seems that there are a lot of people here from the Bay Area (Silicon Valley California). It seems a shame that we are an almost 100% digital society. We need to become more analog. There is a lot of productivity that can be gained with actual "face time". So what I propose is that once a month we have a Bay Area Apache Developers Group. Specifically so that people who are active developers on Apache projects (and people who want to become active developers) can meet and discuss technical issues, plan project goals and general technology issues for Apache projects. I was thinking about how we should organize these: - BAADG should meet once a month for about 3 hours... maybe on a Wednesday or a Thursday. - A certain project could be chosen (Apache HTTPD, Jakarta, etc.) and a representative would speak shortly about its future direction and architecture decisions. Then the floor could be opened to talk about general issues. - Then we could break up into functional units (Core Apache, XML Apache, Java Apache, etc.) and talk about things we are interested in and future project developments. Since Apache has a lot of corporate interest I am sure the larger companies like SUN, IBM, Netscape, Microsoft (serious), Yahoo, Excite, Cisco, etc. wouldn't mind hosting us. Apache developers who work for these companies could use their leverage to get office space for a few hours. If everyone agrees ( and there are enough developers) I will take the initiative and plan the first BAADG meeting, finding a location, setting the time, etc. Thoughts? -- Kevin A Burton http://relativity.yi.org Message to SUN: Open Source Java! "For evil to win is for good men to do nothing."