[board] Welcome to the Horde Advisory Board (beta)

[Kevin Konowalec]

> Quoting Ben Klang <ben at alkaloid.net>:
>
> > On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> >> The idea for the advisory board is to create a smaller community  
> where
> >> Horde developers and users can communicate and to try to make sure
> >> that the community is getting what it needs from Horde, and that  
> we as
> >> developers are getting what we can from the community.
> >
> > In my opinion perhaps the best way to achieve this goal is to give
> > the Horde Board a bit more structure.  While this mailing list can  
> be
> > a very effective tool, without some kind of mandate I believe this
> > will turn into something that overlaps with horde-dev.
>
> I was actually thinking the exact same thing. "Should this
> question/suggestion go to dev@ or board@ or both?" was what I could
> envision being asked.  I think that either quarterly telephone or
> monthly IRC meetings that have a very loosely structured agenda would
> be perfect although I acknowledge that this does add slightly more
> complexity as far as logistics go (board members' availability and
> time pressures etc...)
>
> Thanks,
> mike
>
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Hi everyone,

Chuck just asked me to join this group and I'm thrilled at the  
opportunity to help guide this project.  I'm sure you've all seen one  
or two questions being posted by me in the horde and imp lists ;) .   
I'm running an installation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,  
Alberta, Canada which serves about 75000 or so users.  My role here is  
more from the user and admistrator perspective as I have limited horde  
development experience (hacking aside).

I agree with Mike that some loose structure would be a good idea, but  
I also think it would be in our best interests to keep a casual  
communication line open between scheduled "meetings".

I've also been chatting with Chuck about the possibility of setting up  
a Horde conference and was wondering what everyone else thought of  
that?  What I had in mind was something along the lines of the JA-SIG  
conference - it had a lot of high-level discussion and tutorials but  
also offered nitty-gritty tutorials for new users interested in  
setting up their uPortal system.  But I haven't a clue how many people  
would come initially so it might work out better to just schedule a  
meeting somewhere (preferably in the summer) and go from there.  I  
think it would be great to meet up and talk face to face for a few  
days.  Alternatively we could do something like piggyback on an  
existing conference like USENIX's LISA conference - that way we can  
take advantage of the existing conference infrastructure keeping costs  
way down.

Anyway... just food for thought.

Kevin

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