The Goldfish Chronicles

I’m doing pretty well so far on hitting my targets for ApacheCon. It’s a working trip of course (Apache work), so I’ve managed to hassle the remaining people about their SVN migrations (OJB, what’s the plan??); I’ve dropped the Commons CSV fax into Jim’s hand; I’ve waved a CCLA in front of Byron (CEO of SourceLab) and got him to sign it; promptly following by dropping it into Jim’s hand. If I can find a printer I might print a code grant for OsJava Norbert and get that to Jim as well.

Then there’s making sure I said hi to Ted Leung and Cliff Schmidt; my future neighbours in the lovely overcast city of Seattle. Lots of talking with Cliff, I seem to have become a focal point for quite a few legal issues and I just love to add them to his very ’short’ list of todo’s. Plus I can irritate him further by asking for what we all want, a Yes/No license matrix on a web page He’s working on it, I think he needs more beer.

Talking lots about Jakarta has been very high on the list. I’ve talked to Martin Cooper, Niall Pemberton, Will Glass Hussain, Henning Schmeidehausen, Brian McCallister, Torsten Curdt and probably many others. Slowly increasing my mad schemes until I start to believe myself. We need to tighten Jakarta by continuing the TLP migrations and then fold Jakarta and Commons into the same concept. Bit odd as we then have two very strong brands and (possibly) only one brand space. I won’t say that I’m getting huge grins and +1s across the board, but responses are generally positive enough to make me push forward a little.

There’s a change in the attitude too. We’re increasingly evolving to inactivity, because activity is rewarded with TLP-migration; so someone needs to compensate and its the chairs role to fill a job when a job is not being done The buck really does stop here, it’s what we’re about. So I expect to have lots of interesting times.

We had the member’s meeting of course. Lots of good things. Lots of learning too, you can see the apache way in action at these things. Oscillating chaos and organization, ending with a result amidst a fun atmosphere.

Probably other things, but I’ve got emails to send

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