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On Aug 16, 2017, 08:54, at 08:54, "Ismaël Mejía" <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello and welcome Griselda, Umang, Justin > >Apart of the links provided by Ahmet you might read Beam-related >material on the website (See Documentation > Programming Guide and >Documentation > Additional Resources among others). > >But probably as important as improving your Beam related knowledge is >to understand the principles of an open source project and more >concretely the way the Apache projects work (in case this is your >first Apache project), concepts like How projects are structured >(PMCs, committers, votes, etc) and the most important ones Community >over Code and Meritocracy. > >https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html >https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/asf_15_community_over_code > >Welcome all and don't hesitate to ask questions, we are all here to >make this project better so for sure we can help. >Ismaël > > >On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Justin T <fjetum...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello Beam community, >> >> I am also a new member, and I feel a little better knowing that there >> others on the same boat:) >> >> My name is Justin and I work as a full stack engineer for Neustar, a >> marketing analytics company in San Diego. Over the past few weeks I >have >> been getting more familiar with Beam via documentation, papers, >videos, and >> the old email archives and I am very excited to start making >contributions. >> Thank you Altay for the useful links! >> >> -Justin Tumale >> >> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Ahmet Altay ><al...@google.com.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> Welcome both of you! >>> >>> Some helpful starting points: >>> - Contribution guide [1] >>> - Unassigned starter issues in JIRA [2] >>> >>> Ahmet >>> >>> [1] https://beam.apache.org/contribute/contribution-guide/ >>> [2] >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2632?jql= >>> >project%20%3D%20BEAM%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20Reopened)%20AND% >>> >20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20starter%20AND% >>> 20assignee%20in%20(EMPTY)%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC% >>> 2C%20priority%20DESC >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Umang Sharma <umang....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi Gris, >>> > Nice to meet you. >>> > >>> > I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce me to you and >everyone >>> else >>> > in the dev team. >>> > >>> > I’m m Umang Sharma. I'm an associate in Data Science and >Applications at >>> > Accenture Digital. >>> > >>> > >>> > I write in python, Java and a number of other languages. >>> > I'd love to contribute to Beam. It'd br great if someone guides me >to get >>> > started with contributing :) >>> > >>> > Among the other things i like are polo golf, giving talks and >talking >>> about >>> > mu work . >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Umang >>> > >>> > >>> > On Aug 15, 2017 22:40, "Griselda Cuevas" <g...@google.com.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi Beam community, >>> > >>> > I’m Griselda (Gris) Cuevas and I’m very excited to join the >community, >>> I’m >>> > looking forward to learning awesome things from you and to getting >the >>> > chance to collaborate on great initiatives. >>> > >>> > I’m currently working at Google and I’m studying a masters in >operations >>> > research and data science at UC Berkeley. I’m interested in >Natural >>> > Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Online Communities. >Some >>> > other fun topics I love are juggling, camping and -just getting >into it- >>> > listening to podcasts, so if you ever want to discuss and talk >about any >>> > of these topics, here I am! >>> > >>> > Another reason why I’m here is because I want to help this project >grow >>> and >>> > thrive. This means that you’ll see me contributing to the project, >>> reaching >>> > out to ask questions as I get familiar with our community, and I >also >>> > helping evangelize Apache Beam by organizing meetups, hangouts, >etc. >>> > >>> > I say bye for now, I’ll see you around, >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > >>> > G >>> > >>>