Re: Resources for attracting a crowd

2018-10-25 Thread John Casey
Hi all, Sorry it's taken me awhile to respond, but this past couple of weeks has served as a good reminder that those of us working on Indy probably don't have the time to devote to building a real community yet. As Shane pointed out, we haven't really even exercised the features available on

Re: Resources for attracting a crowd

2018-10-11 Thread John Casey
Responses inline. Thanks, -j On Tue, Oct 9, 2018, at 3:13 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > I've been working on a project for 4-5 years now which I think would make a > > good Apache project, at least in terms of it being valuable, high-quality > > software. We're using it internally for

Re: Resources for attracting a crowd

2018-10-11 Thread John Casey
Thanks Kevin, I'd definitely say that Indy falls short of a truly welcoming project for new contributors, but that's mainly for the common failings of letting our user documentation fall out of date and failing to operate the entire development process out in the open. Initially we did pursue

Re: Resources for attracting a crowd

2018-10-09 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I've been working on a project for 4-5 years now which I think would make a > good Apache project, at least in terms of it being valuable, high-quality > software. We're using it internally for our production systems at work, but > the code is open (hosted on GitHub). Our process to date

Re: Resources for attracting a crowd

2018-10-09 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi John, our VP is on route to China at the moment but I would say this is not a strength of many developers but the concept of community over code is an important one that we would support you in building. -- Kevin A. McGrail VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Resources for attracting a crowd

2018-10-08 Thread John Casey
Hi all, I've been working on a project for 4-5 years now which I think would make a good Apache project, at least in terms of it being valuable, high-quality software. We're using it internally for our production systems at work, but the code is open (hosted on GitHub). Our process to date has