Thanks everyone for the invite and warm welcome, Excited to help out in any way possible and see how the group can push bigtop to the next level in 2015 so it continues to set the standard for big data testing, packaging and deployment. To understand where I am coming from, my background has been in the app (web, mobile) development space and product mgmt. Starting about 4 years ago I started developing interests in deployment and config mgmt. and have focused an unhealthy amount of time in how to make the user experience of configuring and deploying complex systems easier. Our org has been using bigtop deployment components in several projects for the past couple years, looking forward to our guys to contribute back some of our newer work, we recently got approval from couple customers to do so.
As Cos and Jay mentioned in near term will be focused generally in community building and UX of bigtop. UX in the general sense of what is the experience like currently, and how can we make it better for the following scenarios: -new operations folks getting started to download, build/test/deploy/monitor -application developers and data scientists getting started to download, deploy, use -adding/contributing new "core" components to the stack -adding/contributing new "additive" components to the stack -adding/contributing new tests -improving the CI process, and empowering people who want or need to be on bleeding edge of components versions to still use the solid foundation of bigtop I will be at Apachecon Monday thru the Spark event on Thursday. The goal is to get some meetup/hang time scheduled for the group memebers, or new folks, attending in Austin. We will plan more in the next couple weeks as the event approaches. Nate -----Original Message----- From: Konstantin Boudnik [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 4:36 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: New committer Nate D'Amico The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Bigtop has asked Nate D'Amico to become a committer and take on the role of the Bigtop Community Manager. We are pleased to announce that the invitation was accepted. Nate D'Amico has been actively helping the Bigtop project for a few months now and it's a pleasure to have him on board! In the short term, Nate will be focusing on the community development, helping with the project presence at the conferences and similar marketing efforts. Welcome and let the Dao be with you! Cos
