Cassandra Summit SF

2014-09-10 Thread lewis john mcgibbney
Hi Folks, If anyone is in San Francisco this week for Cassandra Summit then shoot me on Twitter. Would be nice to meet some folks when I have the chance. Thanks Lewis -- ` : : , : #+`. ,,`, ` ;##` .`,. ;;':;` `` ##@.;.;: ,;+;;;';;';;';'` ```,##

Donate Domain Name to TheASF

2014-09-08 Thread lewis john mcgibbney
Hi Folks, Last week on #asfinfra I asked how I could go about accepting a donation of a domain name (or two) into the ASF. I got no response. Does anyone have an idea of how we can do this? A member of the Apache Any23 project wishes to donate any23.org and any23.com to the ASF The former domain cu

Pasadena-Big-Data-Users-Group Meetup

2014-09-08 Thread lewis john mcgibbney
Hi Community@, CC'd Felix Chern For anyone in the Los Angeles (Pasadena) area, feel free to come along to a new meetup we have been organizing. See the meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Pasadena-Big-Data-Users-Group/ There is also a collaborative document to collect ideas for the user group: ht

Re: Time to propose a CS Capstone Project!

2014-08-13 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
WOW Steve, thank you for posting. This looks termendous. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:44 PM, wrote: > > community Digest 13 Aug 2014 20:44:12 - Issue 695 > > Topics (messages 5219 through 5219) > > Time to propose a CS Capstone Project! > 5219 by: shathawa.e-z.net > >

Low level community

2014-06-28 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Folks, community@ is the orrect place for this question. What do we* do when we have low level activity, low level community, generally speaking low level anything on a project? I am NOT talking about the attic. I am committed to ensuring the project is NOT going to the attic. Lewis * in the c

[ANNOUNCE] Dublin NoSQL Meetup – Apache Gora and the Oracle NoSQL database

2013-12-11 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Folks, A quick post here to promote an event Apostolos Giannakidis (Apache Gora's GSoC student this year) and myself with be speaking at in Dublin this coming Monday. Event info and registration can be found below http://tcubedublin.com/events/dublin-nosql-meetup-apache-gora-and-the-oracle-nosql

Re: Request for backup mentor(s) for two projects

2013-05-20 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi John, On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:44 PM, wrote: > > community Digest 21 May 2013 04:44:51 - Issue 657 > > Re: Request for backup mentor(s) for two projects >5124 by: John Vines > > > I'm slightly familiar with Gora, but not so much with Cascading and the > specifics of Oracl

Request for backup mentor(s) for two projects

2013-05-18 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi All, We need two backup mentors for this years GSoC projects over at Apache Gora. One project concerns implementing Cascading within Apache Gora [0] The other proposes an Oracle NoSQL datastore implementation for Apache Gora [1] I've asked over on Gora and Nutch lists and so far I am still look

Any23 Community Discussion

2013-05-10 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi All, Recently over at Apache Any23 we've been working towards a release, however we discovered that apart from around 3 or so project committers there is an apparent lack of enthusiasm from within the community to VOTE and for us to obtain quorum to release/make decisions. For clarity I've rolle

Re: community Digest 8 May 2013 02:05:17 -0000 Issue 652

2013-05-08 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Justin, On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:05 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > I recently got a request from a PMC member for formal recognition that > they are an Apache Committer. > > I assume that being listed here is not official enough? > http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html > For me, yes (sayi

Committer Acknowledgement from Apache Community

2013-05-07 Thread lewis john mcgibbney
Hi, I recently got a request from a PMC member for formal recognition that they are an Apache Committer. The individual is not a member of the foundation. Apparently the request came from the individuals employer as they would like to know for sure that the individual is actually a project committe

Re: Animated series publicising Isis

2013-04-22 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi, On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > > community Digest 22 Apr 2013 22:24:42 - Issue 650 > > Topics (messages 5096 through 5096) > > Re: Animated series publicising Isis > 5096 by: Dan Haywood > Hi folks, > To the question: > > Is having this branding from a commercial compa

Re: Review of ACEU Planning

2012-08-31 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Bertrand, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > I doubt you meant to send this to community@apache.org? > No I pretty much did mean to send it to a community based list. I didn't want to sent this over to apachecon-discuss@, planners@ or concom@ or anything else... h

Review of ACEU Planning

2012-08-31 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi, I was going to wait until after ACEU had actually taken place, however by November I might have hung myself with a short length of piano wire so I thought I'd briefly suggest one possible action post event. We need to have some kind of investigation into the planning aspect of this community

Re: Gora community size (was Re: WELCOME to community@apache.org)

2012-04-23 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Ross, On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > Ferdy is not listed on the graduation resolution [1] so unless he's > recently been voted in he is a community member, and a valuable one at > that since he clearly evaluated the release candidate. His concerns > should be properly

Re: Gora community size (was Re: WELCOME to community@apache.org)

2012-04-23 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Ross, Thanks also for your comments. It's given me something to work to. Best Lewis On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > You are correct. All releases must carry three +1 votes. It's one of > the few fixed points in the Apache Way. > > I note from the Gora archives that

Re: WELCOME to community@apache.org

2012-04-23 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
satisfied with > the outcome, > so long as *at least* 72 hours have passed, you are welcome to call the > VOTE > closed, and then move forward. > > Great job pushing this forward. > > My 2c. > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Apr 23, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Lewis John Mcg

Re: WELCOME to community@apache.org

2012-04-23 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi Everyone, We recently held a VOTE [0] over on user@ and d...@gora.apache.org and only two official VOTE's were actually passed. For the record both were weighted in favour of a +1. Based on the nature of the VOTE and its conformance to the 'minimum quorum of three +1 votes' rule I am pretty mu