+1—I’ve been busy with medical school, but I still wish to help out as well as I can.
> On Feb 6, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > +1 > >> On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Benjamin Young <byo...@bigbluehat.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all! >> >> This email is primarily for the folks who "signed up" to be initial >> committers during the Apache Annotator Proposal process [1] (each of whom >> are BCC'd on this email). >> >> It's possible that some of you forgot you'd added your name to that list, or >> that now (given the life and work and time) you may no longer have an >> interest in participating, or you may have been eagerly awaiting this to >> happen and somehow missed the initial setup of the project. Regardless, we'd >> love to have you join the party! :) >> >> Here's a quick update, and also some links to get setup as one of the core >> contributors to Apache Annotator [2]. >> >> First, coding is coming along nicely mostly with thanks going to Randall and >> Gerben [3]. The primary focus has been on repository structure (monorepo), >> initial code structure/planning, and NPM publication planning/setup. If >> you're interested in any of this, please checkout the code repo. >> >> Second, there's a basic promo site (if you've not seen it) at >> http://annotator.apache.org/ <http://annotator.apache.org/> We'd like to get >> the demo integrated [4] and begin to provide documentation there as we're >> able to write it (and would love help writing it!). ^_^ >> >> Lastly (and this is where our BCC'd friends come in!), we need more initial >> committers active (at least!) on the mailing list. We have folks interested >> in contributing to the code who we can't (yet) add to the project because we >> lack voting members. If you are able and willing (or even just able ;) ), >> we'd greatly appreciate the help and input on the mailing list, even if you >> lack time to code or write docs (etc). >> >> If you're +1 on accepting the role you signed up for as an initial >> committer, please respond (on list!) to this email and begin >> reading/skimming this guide: >> http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html#guide-for-new-committers >> <http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html#guide-for-new-committers> >> >> It can be a lot to take in, but I (and our loverly mentors) will be happy to >> help you through the process. :) >> >> Thank you (all!) for reading this email! >> Benjamin >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/wiki/Proposal >> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/wiki/Proposal> >> [2] http://annotator.apache.org/ <http://annotator.apache.org/> >> [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator >> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator> >> [4] https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/issues/18 >> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/issues/18> >> >> >> -- >> http://bigbluehat.com/ <http://bigbluehat.com/> >> http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung <http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung>