Hi Guys, welcome and thanks for you interest. For the time being please get involved in the discussions and get a feel for what the opportunity is and the drawbacks are. Think about how you would attract others in your projects to start a lab, and ideas for labs of your own. If we aren't able to use labs ourselves we can't expect others to join us!
Danny On 8 March 2017 at 16:50, john pradeep <yehohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for some interesting project to contribute to, hope I can do > that through labs! > > > Thanks > > On Wed 8 Mar, 2017, 1:37 PM Ivan Barrera A., <br...@ivn.cl> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> :P >> >> >> On 03/07/2017 03:50 PM, Danny Angus wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm Danny. I'm the current PMC of Apache Labs http://labs.apache.org >> > >> > You may not know about Apache Labs, but it was founded a few years ago >> > to provide the ability for committers to spin up new projects at the >> > ASF. Our website says: >> > >> > "The aim is to provide the necessary resource to promote and maintain >> > the innovative power within the Apache community without the burden of >> > community building. >> > Research efforts are intrinsically associated with a higher mortality >> > rate and don't satisfy the established incubation and development >> > practices. Labs provides a place for the Apache committer community to >> > collaborate on such efforts - without discrimination of purpose, >> > medium or implementation technology." >> > >> > But labs needs a shot in the arm, we already know that the project >> > doesn't live up to the aspirations of the statements above, and that >> > the service provided needs to be modernised and made relevant. What we >> > don't know is whether *you* think that this is worth doing, we don't >> > know whether we should we revitalise Labs for your use, or retire it. >> > >> > So I am calling on all interested, or merely curious, parties from >> > across the ASF to subscribe to labs@labs.apache.org >> > <mailto:labs@labs.apache.org> and let me know if you are prepared to >> > help put Apache Labs on the map. >> > >> > If enough people offer a little of their time I will steer the group >> > to do some "market research" (we are the market) and create a >> > consensus proposal for a refurbished Labs offering, then we will >> > validate that with you, and see if it gets enough interest to make it >> > worth implementing. If there is not enough volunteer help to assist >> > with the awareness activity and the research the Labs project will be >> > retired. >> > >> > Personally I don't want to see Labs retired, I think that it would >> > enrich the ASF if we had a useful service for committers who want to >> > innovate from scratch, and a lively community of innovators and mentors. >> > >> > If you think that labs is worth saving and are prepared to devote some >> > of your time to helping me, please subscribe to the labs@labs list and >> > say "hi". >> > >> > Thanks for your time, and please remember not to spam commiters@ or >> > cross post, come to labs@labs if you want to engage in the discussion. >> > >> > Danny >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
