Anyway we should talk a little about what we can do to improve
the situation.
Our website is still missing a "Getting Involved" section, that should be
fixed, so that interested potential contributes can see how they
can contribute.
It would be nice to add an overview section to the website so potential
interested users
can get a better feeling of what OpenNLP can provide, this page should
also include an online demo. I actually had a short discussion with that
off list with James.
Further we should create more jira issues to train OpenNLP on new
languages and
corpora, and point out that we are looking for contributions. Actually
that worked
quite well for the documentation where we received two patches. I often have
the feeling that people would like to contribute, but never really
figure out what they
can do. Maybe it is a good idea to make a "Contributions Wanted" section on
the website somewhere.
I believe quite a few people are interested to use the name finder but
are disappointed
by the performance of the models we provide, the only good fix I see for
this is to
get a community labeling project started. Then these people might start
to use OpenNLP
and some of them might start to contribute.
Any other suggestions?
Jörn
On 5/31/11 7:40 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:
I'm just providing a distant early warning.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Jörn Kottmann<[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/31/11 7:22 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:
This is not a recipe for a successful escape from the incubator.
Writing code is wonderful and all that, but if you want to be a TLP, I
would advise you to put some effort into marketing and attracting more
participants.
I believe we are on a good way compared to the sourceforge days, we worked
a lot on the website, made it much easier with the documentation to use
OpenNLP and it is
easier now to work on the code itself, sure we still have a long way to go,
but at least we are moving.
Jörn
