<snip> i'll try to spread the word a little. i'll be at ApacheConEU. the FastFeather track is a good way to attract interest within Apache - the crowds are small but influential. i think we could pull together a talk which either myself or Bertrand could give. </snip>
That would be great. If you need some material on ESME, we have enough from various sources. D. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Robert Burrell Donkin [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Montag, 09. März 2009 14:05 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: The current state of ESME On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Darren Hague <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > I think that this year will be slow, but will pick up a lot of momentum over > the summer. We have the conference season coming up, which will raise > awareness. I am sure that David will be mentioning ESME during his various > presentations, and there are bound to be people with extra time over the > summer who will be looking to learn Scala and Lift, and there is no better > way to do that than with involvement in an active project. We represent a > compelling proposition for those developers: we are an Apache-based project, > and the principal behind Lift is on board - what better place to learn the > ropes? +1 if this is the deal on offer, then i think it'd sell ;-) most lists have lots of developers who have to grudgingly break away from the code to help new contributors i have a general interested in messaging and a strong intersection with the analytics stuff that Emse may do one day (which links into Hama, James, Hadoop). i should have a little more time from next week. i'm not promising that i'll have a long term commitment and have a lot of other projects that are going to take my time but maybe just a little more development help would be useful to cover the slow period into the summer. i'll try to spread the word a little. i'll be at ApacheConEU. the FastFeather track is a good way to attract interest within Apache - the crowds are small but influential. i think we could pull together a talk which either myself or Bertrand could give. - robert
