I have updated the status report on the wiki at https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2016. If anyone sees any errors or needed updates, please let me know. I marked Kathey Marsden and Justin Mclean as approvers, based on this email chain, but please let me know if that is not the correct procedure.
Kathy On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Kathy Saunders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Justin Mclean <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Looks good to me. >> >> >>> 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and >> committers >> >>> around Edgent project >> >> Any ideas on how to do this? Or any actions that could be taken to >> encourage community growth? >> >> Thanks, >> Justin > > > I think we need to continue to be welcoming, but probably not enough. My > feeling is that we need to get the word out further about Edgent. > > I'm taking any opportunities I can find to tell people about Edgent, or > speak at events, if possible. I've volunteered to speak at a Women in Big > Data event in October about participating at Apache. I intend to encourage > people in attendance to look at the incubator projects as a great way to > get involved, and will use Edgent as an example. > > I know we've had some Google meetups and I'd like to plan a meetup in San > Francisco soon. There is a large data science group that meets at the > Galvanize facility, so I'm working to see if we can get on their agenda. > > Does anyone else have ideas on how to get the word out for Edgent? > > Kathy > >
