To facilitate social gatherings wherever Apache contributors may be present.

This WG is just an IDEA at this point. If you'd like to participate, please come join the conversation.

Any Apache contributor may be a wg-social member. It's helpful if you either travel to in-person events, or live in a place where Apache contributors may gather, such as a large city, or a popular conference destination.

Arrange social gathering of Apache contributors. The exact parameters of this are left up to the members of this WG, but intial suggestions might be:

• Simply notifying attendees that other Apache contributors might be in the same location at the same time.
• Arranging a specific time/place for a gathering, whether for a meal, drinks, or informal gathering.
• Working with a sponsor to facilitate an actual sponsored event, and inviting Apache contributors to that event.
• Resurrect the party@apache.org mailing list to coordinate, and promote, these events. (Note that, for historical reasons, party@apache.org is a members-only private list. Do we need to create a new list for this that is more open?)

Building strong communities is easier in person. Facilitating informal non-technical gatherings of Apache contributors, especially across projects, builds strong bonds within the Foundation, and contributes to important conversations that affect all of us.

• You will never spam the membership, or the projects, with excessive communication about gatherings. There's probably a lot of leeway to interpret this, but everyone knows spam when they see it.
• This is not a mechanism for companies to circumvent our trademark policies. Work with trademarks@ to ensure that you're not stepping on toes here.
• This is an unfunded, volunteer effort. You don't have access to ComDev budget for this, except with regard to foundation swag (stickers, for example) that ComDev chooses to provide.
• Gatherings must account for different tastes and preferences. Specifically, this means ensuring that gatherings happen at places where the dietary needs of all participants can be addressed, and that alcohol is never presented as a required part of the gathering. Other axes if inclusivity may be considered and codified.