Also Kasper had reached out to Apache Gora community to possible integration work.
This is all good work to build out the community On Saturday, September 20, 2014, Kasper Sørensen < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] <javascript:;> > >: > > > 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 > > >
