Attendees: Luc Boudreau, Ashutosh Chauhan, Julian Hyde, Jacques Nadeau, Steven Noels, Joe Posner, Vladimir Sitnikov.
We introduced ourselves and Ashutosh described Apache and the incubator process. Julian described the infrastructure that we have put in place (git, jira, email) and next tasks (nexus, web). Steven said a key task was to do “product marketing”, to make Optiq “more appealing”. A guide to the underlying design would be useful. The goal should be to add 1 or 2 extra committers. Julian agreed — we need to broaden the project so it’s not just me talking to myself. A small number of extra committers (and a few occasional contributors) would be a great start. The dev list needs more “chat”. For outreach, it would be great if people give talks about Optiq or related topics in their area. Publicize the talks in advance on the list, and post slides/videos to the list afterwards. Documentation/web page: * Joe said it would be useful to describe the difference between Optiq, Pig and Hive. * Jacques: Optiq is a library/framework, like Netty. As such, use cases are the best way of describing its capabilities. * Ashutosh suggested writing blog posts about Optiq’s architecture. He also suggested creating a “starter” tag for jira cases that were approachable by newbies. We discussed communication channels. Steven suggested that the meeting shouldn’t happen on a a regular schedule (e.g. every month), but should happen when there were topics to discuss, explicitly scheduled, with an agenda. We agreed that 9am Pacific on Tuesdays (an hour later than this meeting) was a time-slot that tended to work with people’s schedules. The meeting started and ended promptly, and google hangouts seemed to work smoothly for everyone. Action items: 1. Julian create “starter” jira cases. 2. Julian start email thread of use cases, 4-5 sentences for each. 3. Julian to set up infrastructure for apache blog posts. 4. Vladimir to write blog post.
