Perhaps GSOC is something to consider. I see UIMA didn't have anything in 2008: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Thilo Goetz <twgo...@gmx.de> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > > wrote: > > > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA > >> before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. > > > > That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do > > you have a healthy and diverse set of users? If so, have the UIMA team > > looked at "What is stopping these users from becoming contributors?" ? > > Yes, we do have a healthy and diverse user community. We have > racked our brains what we could do to attract more community > contribution. We've created a sandbox to facilitate the inclusion > of experimental technology. There's been some uptake, but not > enough. Some of us are working on scale out via JMS and are > hoping to attract contributions in that area. We've started > discussions and suggested things for people to work on. I don't > know, maybe we're going about this the wrong way. > > My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is > this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no > problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an > overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So > they like to publish their source code on their own web site, > where it's clear it's their work, rather than contribute to > some community effort. If you look around, you'll see all > manner of university efforts around UIMA, but very little of > that code finds its way back into the ASF repo. > > Enough whining. If you have any suggestions, we'll be happy > to hear them. > > --Thilo > > > I could imagine a whole range of reasons, and if that is 'fixed' the > > diversity comes with it... > > If there is not a user community, then I would be concerned to > > graduate the project with the large set of single-employer committers. > > > > > > Cheers > > Niclas > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
