Hi, Kevin
It's nice to see that you are less overwhelmed with work.
I was appointed to give your class at the ApacheCON. The thing was not
so bad.
It was clear that I had not prepared it very well, and I had not the
proper infrastructure (the laptop was not mine). Nevertheless, I will
focus on positive issues:
1. The attendance (and the expectations) was good and a sign that people
want tools in this work line.
2. We showed other people that the "black out" that we were experienced
was not the death of the project, and we are willing to keep on working,
developing and making community to make things happen.
3. At least four groups are trying to actively push Jetspeed, both in
the short term (to have a version that is production-ready and usable)
and in the long term (to go for further work on the global design,
separate concerns, refactor code and study seriously our role in the
Apache java roadmap).
4. There is a strong need both for a tool that will resolve issues such
as content syndication and aggregation (on the back end), and for a tool
that will enable the building of portals made by the aggregation in the
client device of different information sources, webapps, etc. (Front
end)
5. We (meaning Raphael, Thomas and IBM team, Juan Carlos and the
Soluziona team, Serge, myself...) had a meeting with Stefano Mazzocchi
and Jon Stevens that clarified a lot of the pending issues regarding
Jetspeed role and integration with the Cocoon and the Turbine projects.
6. I got a nice jacket that will show my small daughter that I'm at
least considered a small piece of the Apache tribe (she refused to
believed that I was fighting with the Apache people ;-)
In the "not so good" side:
1. It would have been great to have Kevin showing the thing, and discuss
and clarify with him.
2. My talk was a mess. I was not really prepared and felt anxious about
it.
3. We were not able to get any feedback about the iCalendar project
4. XO3.com people is commited to pushing Jetspeed with resources both in
the short and the long term
5. The Soluziona team is commited to pushing Jetspeed with resources
both in the short (they will have small demo sites going into production
real soon now) and the long term
6. The coffee was terrible for people used to espresso :-)
We had an agreement that Raphael would summarize the meeting, and rising
comments on how we feel about Jetspeed, what needs to be done in the
short term, what would be our goal and wish list for a "perfect"
Jetspeed, etc.
I'm only anxious to start merging your proposal with the running cvs
branch (pre-proposal-0003-no-psml)
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