Santiago Gala wrote:
> 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
>
Obviously I made it wrong. This should be on the plus side.
>
> 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
>
I think I'm still affected by tre trip... The same.
>
> 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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