[ormf-dev] Re: Eclipse open source

[Joel Rosi-Schwartz <Joel.Rosi-Schwartz@xxxxxxxxx>]

George,

Welcome :-)

That would be fabulous, we will aspire to putting your skills to good use.

I have copied this thread to the orm-dev mailling list so that the whole team can welcome you properly.

We very much appreciate your enthusiasm and your willingness to make a contribution. I personally am pleased to be working with you.

We will be having a team teleconference on Sunday and you are very welcome to join in if you are able. Barbara will send you all the details.

All the best,

Joel

On 10 Oct 2008, at 14:36, George Sebastian wrote:

Hi Joel,

I am sorry I confused you. I meant APL or  EPL either of one is ok. I will be able to commit only 40 hrs/month  in the beginning, may be later on I can invest more time.

Please let me know if are ok with the same.

I am looking forward to work you guys. 

Regards

George Sebastian

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Joel Rosi-Schwartz <Joel.Rosi-Schwartz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Welcome to ORMF :-)

That's great and it seems perfectly reasonable. One small question, when you say "distributed under APL and EPL at the same time" do you mean that BOTH licences have to apply or EITHER apply? I hope it is EITHER as ORMF is licensed under EPL only.

Btw, are you in a position to give us a rough estimate of how much time per month you will be able to contribute. That will help me with the project planning.

Here is the standard spiel that I give to new contributors, I know that some if does not apply to you as you have contributed to EF projects already:

There is a lot of information on the Etish website, the Useme website and the Eclipse Foundation ORMF project website.  Please spend some time going through the Useme and ORMF specific resources on these sites. There is a tremendous amount of background that you can gain though this.

I am not sure whether or not you are aware that we are now an official Eclipse Foundation project. We consider this a truly great honour to be  among such highly esteemed projects and to be able to participate fully in the Eclipse committer community. 

There are procedures to be followed before a new team member can become a Eclipse committer. Essentially this involves participating at the level of contributor for a time period. When the team is comfortable with the work that you are contributing someone on the team nominates you to become a committer and there is a vote  among the team to accept you. It is all really very pleasant and cordial, but the process does help make sure that new people are clear about what they committing to when the become full team members. Of course if you preferred you could simply continue as a contributor infinitum if you did not want to take on more responsibilities. Take a look here and here for more information.

There is an ormf-dev mailling list that you should probably get yourself signed up to. Please see this page for details on subscribing and to read the archives.

Btw, the first hurdle to joining the project is to have the stamina to  wade through and absorb the huge amount of background information :-) Believe me it is a test of your will!

If you have any questions please ask? The best place to enquire of course is either on the ormf-dev mailling list for development and team related questions, or the ORMF newsgroup for general questions that might be of interest to the entire ORMF community. 

On 10 Oct 2008, at 06:00, George Sebastian wrote:

Hi Joel,

I apologize for the delay in replying. I was waiting for the responses for concerned authorities.
The following restrictions are around.
I can contribute to open source projects distributed under APL and EPL at the same time I will not be a representative of the company in any of the meetings. Instead I can be part of the project as on personal interest. I can contribute to making code changes, participating in design discussions and help out in reviews.

Another concern is funding. Me or my company cannot fund towards the project by any means other than my time and contributions.

I am very happy to work with you guys within these limitations if are ok with these.

Regards
George Sebastian 

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, George Sebastian <jojy.sv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> I am the process of finding the exact restrictions which my company
> put forward in open source space. I got more excited to see that you
> are looking to rearchitect the Useme project. As per my understanding
> I can be part of any discussions and reviews. One stuff I need to
> confirm with the company is regarding code contribution. Once I get a
> green signal from my company I hope I can join you guys
>
> Again the happiest stuff for me is that you are thinking about OSGI
> server  infrasturcture. I recently started off with equinox bridge for
> my personal project of my dream company.
>
> I will get back at the earliest possible time.
>
> Best Regards
> George Sebastian
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Joel Rosi-Schwartz
> <Joel.Rosi-Schwartz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi George,
>> It is fabulous to hear your enthusiasm, many thanks :-)
>> We would very much welcome and appreciate your participation on ORMF. Could
>> you possibly outline what restrictions your employer imposes and what type
>> of effort you are comfortable with? You appear to have more than a few
>> valuable Eclipse skills, of these the ones that ORMF could use straight off
>> are PDE, EMF and GEF. We are in the process of reengineering Useme into ORMF
>> to begin realising the goal of a generic requirements framework. Part of
>> this process will be moving to EMF for our model and OSGI as our server
>> infrastructure.
>> Normally to be a committer on an EF project a person has to make initial
>> contributions to the project and then be voted onto the team by the existing
>> team. I do not know whether that would apply to you or not seeing as you are
>> already an Eclipse committer in good standing. I am assuming here, of
>> course, that you wish to be a committer in our little [ad]venture :-)
>> I am looking to hearing back.
>> All the best,
>> Joel
>> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Thank you.
>> http://www.etish.org
>>              http://www.eclipse.org/ormf
>>
>> On 19 Sep 2008, at 05:02, George Sebastian wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am George Sebastian working as a Senior Developer in India. I had
>> been working with eclipse foundation for sometime as  contributor to
>> on of the top level projects out there. I am overwhelmed to see
>> etish's contribution to the open source community. I have worked on
>> eclipse platform development (through plugins and enhancements) for
>> around 4 years. Out of which I had been been working for the
>> foundation for around 1.2 years and the rest with some proprietary
>> products for two companies. My current company allows me to work with
>> open source communities with certain restrictions. So I was wondering
>> whether I could complement to your initiatives towards eclipse and
>> open source.
>>
>> My areas of expertise includes:
>>
>> Eclipse platform, Team, PDE, JDT, EMF, GEF, Zest, ECF, TPTP, COSMOS in
>> eclipse
>> Jboss, WebLogic, ActiveMQ, XMI, RDF, OWL, Quartz, HP Quality Center, IBM
>> Jazz.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> George Sebastian
>>
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>>
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