The first meetup of Apache Local Community Warsaw. Due to the present situation, the meetup will be hosted in the online form on 7th of April 2020.
The communication will be in Polish language.

Agenda

  1. Apache Local Community (ALC)  (Tomek Urbaszek)
    1. What is the ALC?
    2. What is our goal?

  2. The Apache Way - a reliable strategy for Open Source projects and communities (Andrzej Białecki)

    1. A quarter century look at Open Source landscape
      1. Personal perspective: FreeBSD, a non-Apache community
    2. Early 00's
      1. Apache HTTPD and XML processing tools at Apache
      2. Reluctant and limited acceptance by business users
      3. Personal perspective: Apache Lucene/Solr (2004-), Nutch and Hadoop
    3. Early 10's
      1. Wide acceptance of Open Source tools by business users
      2. Incubation and mentorship at Apache (personal perspective: Apache Gora, Apache Tika)
    4. Now
      1. Benefits of The Apache Way for the projects' stability and longevity
      2. Active involvement of business users (personal examples)
      3. Navigating between community and commercial interests
    5. Summary & QA
  3. Welcoming Community: half-talk/half-discussion 30 mins. (Jarek Potiuk)
    1.  Joining community - on-boarding and initial experiences
    2. Development environment - make it easy to start
    3. Communication and why it is important
    4. Diversity and inclusion

Post-event report:

The first ALC Warsaw Meetup has been executed successfully. Participants were able to learn about the ALC initiative, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Apache Way. We also had an interesting lecture on making open source communities more welcoming. The meetup was attended by 14 people (including 3 speakers). We encouraged attendees to join #alc-warsaw channel on ASF Slack. Presentations from the event can be found below.

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