Hi Noah, I didn't really keep a record of which initiatives where launched specifically to build community or just as general steps forward. But I think we've had a few good things happen since last we talked on the subject at least.
Specifically to build community we made the twitter account. Not a very busy account still, but it's a small step. I did make the CONTRIBUTE.md file and mark a bunch of JIRA tickets as "starter" tickets. I can't really say if this have had any impact. BUT I do see a couple of very nice developments during the last month or two: 1) We added our first non-initial committer to the project, Tomasz Guzialek. Tomasz was doing his masters thesis at Human Inference, so his involvement can be traced back to that though. 2) Someone external to the community (Niels H. Christensen) actually contributed with a very nice blog post [1] and that sparked a lot of ideas in my head at least. The story behind this is that I met Niels through a friend and had a conversation with him about MetaModel. He found the project interesting and relevant to his research project, so decided to expand his research a little in this direction. 3) Just today we merged the quite big contribution by Alberto Rodriguez, the ElasticSearch module. 4) Also I am very excited to see the talk and work being made on new operator types by Francisco Javier Cano Bailen. All 4 contributions are great IMO, but I would point out that Alberto and Francisco are both cases of people joining the community without any "real life" interaction prior to the involvement. I guess this kind of community activity is a very positive sign and tells that we're able to attract people to the project online too. I hope this gives some insight. What's your impression of the progress? Do you have more ideas or wishes? Best regards, Kasper [1] https://semanticwebrecipes.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/offering-semantic-web-data-in-apache-metamodel/ 2014-09-20 17:00 GMT+02:00 Noah Slater <[email protected]>: > Hi folks, > > What's the status of the community building efforts we previously > discussed? Which initiatives have been put into practice, and how did > they turn out? Are we planning to expand our efforts in this area? > > Thanks, > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater >
