L.S., Being a member of both the ServiceMix and the Camel community, I'd be more than willing to spend a few odd hours now and then to help you get started with your contributions to these projects. Personally, I would recommend you to start looking at the Camel or JBI components you use most during your paid job activities. The components are usually a better place to start than the core container services. Feel free to send me a list of your commonly used components as well and I'll try to find a few issues for those that are suitable to get started with.
Regards, Gert Vanthienen ------------------------ Open Source SOA: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/ 2010/1/15 Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org>: > On 14/01/2010 18:33, Guillermo Castro wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I saw the article posted on Dzone and I thought I should join to see what >> it >> was about. Although the article seems to imply that the Apache community >> is >> mostly geared towards students, I think there are other opportunities >> here. > > The article does give that impression, largely as it focusses on GSoC. This > is to be our primary focus intially as we have been running GSoC since 2005 > and so it is working pretty well for us. > > However, we are not focussing on students exclusively, in fact our first > mentee is not a student. We're still working on exactly how a mentoring > programme will work with non-students, obviously demands and motivations are > different there. > >> A little bit about myself. I have been a Java developer for over 13 years, >> and in that time I have used some of the Apache projects. I've been >> seriously considering getting my hands dirty on actually improving, >> fixing, >> etc. on some of them (give something back to the community), but some of >> them evolve so fast that I don't even know where to begin. When I read >> about >> the community, I thought it might be a good idea to have someone help me >> focus on a specific couple of tasks. > > Excellent. If you are prepared to work with us as we iron out the bumps > we'll do our best to help you. > >> Right now I'm working heavily with Camel, Servicemix, etc for a client. > > Being at such an early stage we have not yet gone out to all projects to get > a list of potential mentors. At present I don't think we have a mentor on > those projects. So we'll need to see if there is anyone available. > > For more general assistance, this list is the place to be. > > The first thing to do is to have a look over our mentoring programme > documentation: > > http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html > > It really helps us find a mentor if you can identify a some specific areas > that are important to you. Looking over the issues in JIRA for your projects > is a good idea. Are there any that are potentially relevant to your paid day > job activities? > > Once you have had a look around please complete and outline application (see > http://community.apache.org/mentorprogrammeapplication.html) and we'll try > and find you a mentor. > > Ross >
