Hi there, Optiq developers and users, Entering the Apache Foundation, via the Incubation process, is a huge vote of confidence in Optiq. It also gives you — us — Optiq’s developers and community — chance to re-shape Optiq into the meritocratic organization that we want it to be.
I propose that we have an online meeting to introduce ourselves, using Google hangouts. I want to point out — because it’s really important — that this meeting is not just for “core developers”. I’d like to hear from people across the community, users as well as developers, people who have contributed a two-line patch six months ago as well as people who check-in daily. I’d especially like to meet people who would like to get involved by writing documentation, blog posts, and testing. I will also try to get the champion or mentors to join the meeting, to answer questions. If you’d like to join, reply to this email with a ‘+1’, and indicate your timezone (or what times of day would work for you). We’ll schedule a time that works for as many of you as possible. And if it works out, we might decide to make the online meeting a regular occurrence. (Get used to the ‘+1’. An Apache project works best when its users chime in, early and often, via email. And they tend to vote on everything!) Julian
