Thanks to everyone for the encouraging comments. I will report back to OpenAz and begin drafting a proposal.
I suspect we will want Paul to act as our Champion, since WSO2 is already active in the project. I think the group will be glad to have Emmanuel and Colm help us as Mentors. Hal > -----Original Message----- > From: Colm O hEigeartaigh [mailto:cohei...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 5:03 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Finding a Champion > > I'm also willing to help out (as a mentor). Apache CXF has a PEP that > uses a interface to convert a service request to a XACML request, and > ships with an implementation that uses OpenSAML to create the request. > I was planning to dedicate some time to switching to use OpenAZ > instead. > > Colm. > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Paul Fremantle <pzf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm also willing to champion this. > > > > Paul > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny > > <elecha...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Le 3/18/14 7:47 PM, Rich Bowen a écrit : > > > > > > > > On 03/18/2014 02:40 PM, Hal Lockhart wrote: > > > >> I am a newbie here. I am involved in an open source project > > > >> called OpenAz. It is focus is to provide tools and components > for > > > >> developing authorization and access control systems. Our web > page > > > >> (and wiki) is > > > >> here: > > > >> > > > >> http://www.openliberty.org/wiki/index.php/OpenAz_Main_Page > > > >> > > > >> We are using SourceForge for the code. We use the Apache license > > > >> throughout. The project was started in 2009 and was very small > > > >> initially. More recently we have been gaining more momentum and > > > >> participants. We intend to propose to become an Incubator > project. > > > >> > > > >> I have looked at the documents and lists and I believe I > > > >> understand how to write the first draft of a Proposal. However, > > > >> how does one go about recruiting a Champion. Does it make sense > > > >> to draft a proposal and then try to attract a Champion to it or > > > >> is there a better way to proceed? > > > >> > > > >> > > > > This email was a good start. > > > > > > > > Also, finding an existing Apache member who's either active in > > > > your community, or is a user of your stuff, would be a good thing > > > > to investigate. I see from your website that WSO2 is somehow > involved. > > > > There's several ASF members there. > > > > > > > > Failing that, tell us why your project is awesome and why we'd > > > > want to be involved. > > > > > > > If you don't find a more suitable champion, I'd be please to offer > > > my support. > > > > > > There is defintively a need for some XACML related project at the > ASF. > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Cordialement, > > > Emmanuel Lécharny > > > www.iktek.com > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Paul Fremantle > > Co-Founder and CTO, WSO2 > > Member of the Apache Software Foundation OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair > > > > blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org > > twitter: @pzfreo > > > > > > -- > Colm O hEigeartaigh > > Talend Community Coder > http://coders.talend.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
