Comments on: Picture of Apache?

By: Shane Curcuru

Shane Curcuru — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:29:59 +0000

Yup, I would stick in an Officers blob too; while some may see it as a minor distinction from other PMC members, they’re the people with the actual corporate power.

Although I like the simplicity of this, I would suggest one of two graphical changes:

- Either: shrink the right-hand side, since it has fewer elements (and since hopefully the corporate/shareholder aspect should be less important in most cases)
- Or: make it partly like a mathematics set diagram, showing that members and board often intersect with PMCs, committers, etc.; also showing that officers are sometimes not members.

Overall, I think the split between the left and the right is appropriate, even if it may feel like a wall to some. The membership - primarily through electing the board, but to a significant degree by direct participation in projects and just general members@ traffic - set strategic direction of the foundation and lay the ground rules for how we should work. The PMCs and committers do everything else - namely, all the actual work of producing software for the public good.

Oh how I wish I had even the slightest bit of graphics-fu myself. Sigh.

By: Torsten Curdt

Torsten Curdt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:41:02 +0000

…maybe worth also outlining ‘officers’?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:01:31 +0000

Kinda similar to my slide from my State Of The Feather talk… I didn’t have board “leak” over to the development side, and I had “Officers” as another element on the right hand side.

By: Jukka Zitting

Jukka Zitting — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:31:33 +0000

The vertical line in the middle looks quite solid… My first impression was that there are two _non-overlapping_ parts to the foundation.

The basic idea of the diagram is good though, but I wonder if it would read better if the two parts were vertically stacked; something like “the foundation supports the community”.