Hi Aljoscha, thank you for your tip as well. I've started working on an issue on the examples, it can be a starting point to work on the examples some more. If I work on that, do you think I'd need a JIRA ticket to track that or it's enough to produce a PR with the examples?
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > one thing that is often overlooked are examples. So if you have experience > in some are and think you could benefit from implementing something in > Flink then we would also be happy to have that example as part of Flink or > in some other repository. This way users can learn by studying from more > and more complex examples. > > Cheers, > Aljoscha > > On 20 Jan 2016, at 15:12, Stefano Baghino <stefano.bagh...@radicalbit.io> > wrote: > > > > Thank you very much for the pointers, we'll look into it. > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> somebody recently asked on the ML for a Cassandra connector: > >> > >> > >> > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Sink-Cassandra-td4107.html > >> In that thread you'll also find this repository: > >> > >> > https://github.com/rzvoncek/flink/tree/2b281120f4206c4fd66bec22090e0b6d62ebb8ad/flink-staging/flink-cassandra > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Stefano Baghino < > >> stefano.bagh...@radicalbit.io> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Robert, > >>> > >>> thanks for the quick reply and for the tips. > >>> > >>> Most of my past experience has been on geographical information > systems, > >>> I'm currently evaluating the possibility of making some experiments at > >>> using Flink to process georeferenced data. > >>> > >>> Cassandra is a very interesting area and we'll surely look into it, do > >> you > >>> know of any active effort to bring a Cassandra connector to Flink? > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi Stefano, > >>>> > >>>> awesome news. New contributors are always very welcome. I saw recently > >>> that > >>>> you've recently looked into different starter issues, but you were a > >> bit > >>>> out of luck because others were already working on them. > >>>> > >>>> I saw your request on the "Rework examples" issue. I'll respond to it > >>> soon. > >>>> > >>>> I think an interesting field for new contributors are connectors to > >> other > >>>> systems. > >>>> For example the elastic search connector is lacking a source. There > >> were > >>>> also requests for a connector to Cassandra. > >>>> > >>>> But it also depends on what you are interested in. If you have a lot > of > >>>> experience with a certain field or system, you can maybe bring that > >>>> knowledge to the Flink community. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Robert > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Stefano Baghino < > >>>> stefano.bagh...@radicalbit.io> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hello everyone, > >>>>> > >>>>> I’m Stefano Baghino and I’m a Software Engineer at Radicalbit ( > >>>>> www.radicalbit.io). Our company is working on a brand new OSS > >>>> distribution > >>>>> focused on distributed, low-latency processing (“Fast Data”). Flink > >>> will > >>>>> play a pivotal role on our platform and we’re starting to work on > >>>>> integrating it with the other components. As part of this effort I > >> and > >>> a > >>>>> couple of colleagues are getting a deeper understanding of Flink; > >> we’re > >>>>> also looking forward to become active contributors. > >>>>> > >>>>> I and Andrea Sella would like to contribute on the whole platform, > >>>> starting > >>>>> from the APIs; Simone Robutti (that will join us in February) will > >>> focus > >>>> on > >>>>> FlinkML. > >>>>> > >>>>> We’re all actively looking for starter issues to work on, but would > >>> also > >>>>> appreciate some suggestions from the community; if you would like to > >>>> point > >>>>> out areas of interest on which we can work on or cooperate with you, > >>> feel > >>>>> free to give us your feedback. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thank you all in advance, we look forward to join the community as > >>> active > >>>>> contributors! > >>>>> > >>>>> Best, > >>>>> Stefano Baghino > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> BR, > >>>>> Stefano Baghino > >>>>> > >>>>> Software Engineer @ Radicalbit > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> BR, > >>> Stefano Baghino > >>> > >>> Software Engineer @ Radicalbit > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > BR, > > Stefano Baghino > > > > Software Engineer @ Radicalbit > > -- BR, Stefano Baghino Software Engineer @ Radicalbit
