I hope this is simply another case of misunderstanding. I do not mean to imply that there should be some relationship between Netflix as an organization and the Tinkerpop project, merely that there are a number of parties that are working on different sides of this problem and it would be beneficial to have a quick live discussion about whether Tinkerpop fits into this or not.
The word "call" may have implied a private meeting as well, which was not at all the intent. Can we host something on Apache Hipchat, Hangouts, or whatever other medium is available that would allow anybody to join? Perhaps recorded? Daniel - I hope you don't mean to imply that there can be no collaboration between ASF projects and open source projects that happen to be steered by private companies. That seems painfully limiting if true. Jon On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:04 PM Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/10/2015 07:43 PM, Marko Rodriguez wrote: > > Hello Jon, > > > >> Netflix has recently released a similar library called Falcor > >> <http://netflix.github.io/falcor/>. They are optimized for slightly > >> different uses, but are both angling at solving the over/under fetching > >> problem and are more or less equivalent. > > > > Gotcha. > > > >> Netflix has a need for a solid binding between Falcor/GraphQL and > Tinkerpop > >> immediately and I'm sure several of us could help. Could we set up an > >> introductory call with the Netflix UI Engineering, Platform, and > >> Engineering Tools teams that are all hacking at this from different > angles? > > > > Excellent. Yes, lets have a call. However, before I commit lets wait for > an answer to: > > > > MENTORS: Is it "okay" to have a phone call (thus "off list") with a > commercial entity to talk about their use of TinkerPop and about potential > collaborations? > > > > It's not okay for the Tinkerpop project, and it's not okay to discuss > this on the dev list. > If you, as an individual, want to make that phone call, fine, but as a > project, Tinkerpop must be completely vendor neutral. > > Companies cannot - I repeat cannot - collaborate with a project. They > can sponsor items (without their branding on), and they can pay devs to > program as *independent individuals* (provided they gain the merit for > this), but companies themselves cannot contribute to an ASF project and > likewise, the ASF cannot contribute to or collaborate with companies. > > With regards, > Daniel. >
