Good Evening Susan, Please see the GDoc below for the proposed blog post https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSVQayQwqEtovIl4A1McmEEm8Q-xt8h0AXpWZzlu_7o/edit?usp=sharing I've given you edit permissions so please either comment on it and I can fix or alternatively edit yourself. @dev, feedback would be very welcome. Thanks folks. Good night Lewis
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Susan Fendrock <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lewis! > > We've received the green light for you to provide us with your guest blog > entry. > > It will be some weeks before it makes its way into our publishing > schedule, so you have plenty of time to write it. > > We ask that the blog be no more than 500 words. > > Also, can you summarize what our GeoIP customers will learn from your > entry? > > We like our blog topics to be actionable for our readers. > > I do expect that we will provide some editing assistance from our end. > > Look forward to working with you and learning more about your topic, > > Susan > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you Susan. >> Have a great weekend., >> Lewis >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Susan Fendrock <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Lewis, >>> >>> Thanks for filling me in more on your project. >>> >>> I will review this with others here at MaxMind and get back to you, once >>> I've determined if we will be able to take you up on your kind offer. >>> >>> Susan >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Good Afternoon Susan, >>>> Thanks for your email. >>>> I am one of a number of developers on the Open Source Apache Nutch >>>> project [0]. As described on our website, Nutch is a well matured, >>>> production ready Web Crawler which powers search and discovery for a broad >>>> spectrum of organizations over a broad spectrum of use cases! >>>> I recently developed a piece of code e.g. Jira issue NUTCH-1660 [1] >>>> which leverages the Maxmind GeoIP2-java API [2] for reverse geocoding >>>> server information from which we fetch webpages. Right now the code is >>>> configured to use the GeoIP2 insights service. We can do this because we >>>> are able to obtain an IP address from the socket connection. The IP address >>>> is then used within the GeoIP2-java client API to locate and provide us >>>> with a bunch of geocoded data relating to the server. >>>> My idea here was basically to feature the open source development and >>>> open source projects which use the Maxmind technology. Something like a >>>> featured post which promotes both Maxmind product and the Apache Nutch >>>> project. >>>> if required I could provide you with some nice vizualizations for >>>> servers I visit during one of my crawls. The potentially overlay IP >>>> locations with a static map. >>>> Please let me know if this sounds interesting to you. I am mostly >>>> interested in promoting the open source technology we are engaged in >>>> writing. >>>> A point to mention here as well is the licensing which enables this >>>> work which is the Apache Software License v2.0. You will see that the >>>> Maxmind GeoIP2-java client driver is also licensed under this license [4]. >>>> Thanks for any feedback. >>>> lewis >>>> >>>> [0] http://nutch.apache.org >>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1660 >>>> [2] https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-java >>>> [3] http://maxmind.wpengine.com/2013/07/01/introducing-the-geoip2-beta/ >>>> [4] https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-java/blob/master/LICENSE >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Susan, >>>>> Just acknowledging this email. I will write this up during my lunch >>>>> hour today. >>>>> Thanks >>>>> lewis >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Susan Fendrock <[email protected] >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Lewis! >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for getting in touch with us about potentially providing a >>>>>> contribution to our blog. >>>>>> >>>>>> Could you provide a brief summary of the blog post you are >>>>>> envisioning? >>>>>> >>>>>> Look forward to learning more about your project, >>>>>> >>>>>> Susan >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Susan Fendrock >>>>>> Product Marketing >>>>>> MaxMind, Inc. >>>>>> >>>>>> 617-500-4493 ext. 820 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> *Lewis* >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Lewis* >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Susan Fendrock >>> Product Marketing >>> MaxMind, Inc. >>> >>> 617-500-4493 ext. 820 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Lewis* >> > > > > -- > Susan Fendrock > Product Marketing > MaxMind, Inc. > > 617-500-4493 ext. 820 > -- *Lewis*
