Hi Marlon, Both of these are great suggestions and yes we can immediately cite a synergy with OODT as well and some pilot projects. Getting the conversation on list will be great for the other direct contacts, but it's something we struggled with originally in OODT and something that can be worked through.
Great suggestions. Cheers, Chris On Jan 31, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Marlon Pierce wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > We've been recruiting several groups to participate, and I expect an increase > in communications on the list from java cyberinfrastructure developers from > Iowa State and University of Minnesota. We also have met with Chris Mattman > and others from Apache OODT, which is doing complementary things. We have > discussed pilot projects with OODT, so I think this is something we can do > immediately to broaden the community. > > Two issues I have seen: 1) we tend to get contacted directly by collaborators > instead of through the dev list, so we need to encourage (or insist) that > more traffic goes on airavata-dev; and 2) we have many collaborators who are > not java developers but who have valuable requirements, usage scenarios, > feedback, complaints, etc that also need to go on the list. We need to make > it clear to the second group that there are many ways to contribute besides > submitting code patches. > > > Marlon > > > On 1/31/12 8:55 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> First off, I've been a little remiss in my duties as a mentor here. >> Appologies for that and thanks to Chris for keeping things moving. I >> hope to find more time to spend on this project in the near future. >> >> I would like to see the project members discussing how we can go about >> building community diversity in the project. >> >> What simple actions can we take to raise awareness (over and above the >> lower barriers and make releases items in the board report)? >> >> I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who are lurking >> here but not yet contributing. What is stopping you from de-lurking? >> How can we help you take those first initial steps? >> >> For those active in the project how do we communicate the value of >> Airavata to the rest of the world? Are there any often requested items >> that people can work on as a first step into the project community? >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> My goal is for us to come up with 3-5 concrete actions that we can >> include in our next board report. >> >> Ross >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPJ/gqAAoJEEfVXEODPFIDHZAH/i6Zna9sHcis0GLEfTfotrzO > l2feAQMbG2I6IO/BOxM8lXtVPbjJGE7DhiFuskbjaommDl+v5Y83UP1lPUTkUIZy > 1qVCSlIY/7R0ey9ogYA4Yq4rOM7vC+udGlXM5c3Hob/uboctT5io573jx7nGBlqw > V857RAgbbJdXBVecr25FdEh0jU+It7oJGksERBJnH01EJEvQFof9/1GeuGmnJou4 > rd+LZJZNIhjXa1ZL/uR9BP7kPkMpk4dKVW6xq5d1pg2gJzU9/RE75DYY8r+fsRum > fUc37om165goIqSHjgq5kRfQdIAHliMwyH/cpp5yjd7a68hASkg5evHo2WxX+l8= > =6TAH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
