Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Mentors needed for several projec

["Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

 

One general question : I’ve seen a couple of mentoring requests now for locationtech projects, but I’m not aware of any locationtech person on the AC.

Is it perhaps time for nominating somebody from the locationtech community to join the AC ?

 

I have no idea whom to potentially nominate, but having this separate (yet asking for mentors) community feels somewhat odd to me.

Does locationtech also have PMCs or similar, so maybe some PMC lead should be on the AC already ?

 

Thanks,

Martin

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From: eclipse.org-architecture-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipse.org-architecture-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Beaton
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 2:08 PM
To: eclipse.org-architecture-council@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Mentors needed for several projects; volunteers needed!

 

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

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