Following recent discussions about possibly creating a Community Development (or Community Outreach) group within Apache, some of us would like to meet at ApacheCon Oakland 2009 to discuss the project's goals and organization.
When
The meeting will probably take place on Monday afternoon November 2nd, details and place to be defined - watch this space.
What
Here's a suggested description of the groups's goals, subject to discussion.
The plan is to organize the group as a PMC, with a similar structure and governance as our coding projects.
Community Development Project
The mission of the Community Development Project is to help students and would-be open source developers in becoming involved with Apache projects.
To this end, the Community Development Project coordinates the ASF's participation in student programs like GSoC and GHOP, and other similar programs.
Participation in the Community Development Project is open to all volunteers, and decisions are made by the project's PMC members, via votes on the project's public or private mailing lists.
Who
Current volunteers include:
- Ross Gardler (rgardler at apache dot org)
- Luciano Resende (lresende at apache dot org)
- Santiago Gala (sgala at apache dot org)
- Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz at apache dot org)
Feel free to email us for questions about this, we don't have a mailing list for the group yet.
Add your name here if you're also interested in participating in the meeting, and maybe later as a member of the Community Development Project. Leave your email address if you want to receive details about the meeting's time and place.
- <your name here>