On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Adam Gibson <aegib...@mtu.edu> wrote:
> Hello James Developers,

Hello Adam

> First, I would like to say I love the work you guys have done with this mail 
> server. It's one of the most customizable ones I've seen. I have been messing 
> with james since around 3.0-M2 now and want to start contributing back a 
> little bit.

cool :-)

> I was wondering where the best place would be to get started is. The only 
> thing I have done with mailet so far is make a mailet that forwards mail
> to a mailing list. I am aware of the basic mailet/matcher api and have looked 
> through the site. A few components I'm interested in include the AI
> mailets as well as the spam filters. One of my primary areas of research is 
> AI and I noticed that the project hasn't been doing much with those. I
> noticed a project was attempted from GSOC, but it never took off.

We were all excited and ready to go when the student needed to drop
out to complete her studies. Smart management of semi-structured data
is (I think) a great space to start exploring, and I think the timing
is really good. But there never seems to be enough time...

> I was hoping to jump in somewhere.  Suggestions as to where to start with 
> this, as well as other resources, as well as other possible projects
> would be amazing.

There's plenty of developer interest in the AI space here at James.
Since this matches some of your interests, I think that would be a
great place to start. Does this sound like an itch you'd like to
scratch?

Apache is passionate about open development. So when you get the
chance, browse some of the foundation level stuff [1].

Robert

[1] http://www.apache.org/dev/
http://www.apache.org/foundation/
http://planet.apache.org/committers/

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