| Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Mentors needed for several projects; volunteers needed! |
Hi Wayne, you can count me in for RDF4J! Cheers, Maximilian Am 20.03.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Wayne Beaton: > Greetings folks. We need mentors for some new projects. > > Identifying mentors for a new project is one of the two primary > bottlenecks that slows the project creation process down and contributes > to the impression that our process is heavyweight and slow. I am keen to > sort out ways in which we can change the process, but I feel that > removing the mentor requirement is not the right answer (perhaps we can > change the EDP to require only a single mentor). But that's a discussion > for later. > > When it comes to mentoring, we have a bit of a "usual suspects" problem. > There is a small group of AC members who are doing a lot of the work. > Not that there is all that much work involved in mentoring. All you > really need to do is sign up for the project's mailing list (after it is > created, of course) and just make sure they're actually using it to > communicate, and step in if you think that they're having problems. > > It'd be great to see some of the less active mentors step up and get > some experience. As has been my practice for the last year or so, I will > try and match up less experienced mentors with more experienced ones. > > Having said that, I'd really like to get the /SFCurve/ project moving > forward and would be eternally grateful to any mentor--including the > usual suspects--who will step up to help. > > The *SFCurve* project [1] (LocationTech) is basically ready for > creation. I need mentors to move this project forward. > >> SFCurve solely deals with space-filling curves, and their application >> to indexing N-dimensional data, with a focus on 2- and 3-dimensional >> spaces. This includes functionality to perform bidirectional >> transformations between the 1-dimensional space of the index and the >> N-dimensional space of the data, for a single index or a range of indices. > Frankly, it looks pretty cool. All of the mapping stuff done by the > LocationTech projects is darned awesome and this is a chance to get in > on the ground floor of a hot new project. > > There are other projects that need mentors as well. > > The full list is here: http://eclip.se/3i > > *RDF4J* [2] > >> RDF4J is an RDF (Resource Description Framework) Java toolkit that >> provides functionality for efficient and scalable storage, querying, >> and reasoning with RDF data, and a vendor-neutral access API for RDF >> databases (a.k.a. "triplestores"). > > *Web Modeling Framework* [3] > >> The scope of this project is to provide a framework to easily develop >> any online model and diagram editor based on an EMF meta-model. The >> framework support both model and diagram edition. > > *GeoWave* [4] > >> GeoWave leverages the scalability of a distributed key-value store for >> effective storage, retrieval, and analysis of massive geospatial >> datasets. > > I have a few more projects that are almost ready for community review, > so please watch for them! > > Thanks in advance, > > Wayne > > [1] http://www.locationtech.org/proposals/sfcurve > [2] https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/rdf4j > [3] https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/web-modeling-framework > [4] https://www.locationtech.org/proposals/geowave > > -- > Wayne Beaton > @waynebeaton > The Eclipse Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > eclipse.org-architecture-council mailing list > eclipse.org-architecture-council@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse.org-architecture-council > > IMPORTANT: Membership in this list is generated by processes internal to the Eclipse Foundation. To be permanently removed from this list, you must contact emo@xxxxxxxxxxx to request removal. > -- Dr. Maximilian Koegel Software Engineer / Consultant / General Manager EclipseSource Munich Email: mkoegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://eclipsesource.com/munich Mobil: +49 176 223 619 18 Phone: +49 89 21 555 30 - 10 Fax: +49 89 21 555 30 - 19 Skype: maximilian.koegel EclipseSource Muenchen GmbH Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1 80992 München General Managers: Dr. Jonas Helming, Dr. Maximilian Koegel Registered Office: Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1, 80992 Muenchen, Commercial Register München, HRB 191789
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