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Posted to user@uima.apache.org by Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com> on 2009/07/29 10:42:29 UTC

(micro)blogging UIMA

Hi all,
having a quick look to some open source projects, I noticed that many of
them, besides an official website and mailing list, have a blog and a
twitter account.
That way mantainers and committers can communicate the community new
releases, features, events (such as conferences) much more quickly but also
something more personal about the software, with the possibility to have
comments and feedback.
I know there is already a section for each of the mentioned but it looks
like it's something static, not fresh (also if it's not true), more similar
to documentation.
People like to have comments and thoughts from the authors themselves on
software they develop, I think.
In my opinion, if there is someone with time and will to do it, adding that
blogging stuff can really increase the community, feedback and interest
around UIMA.
What do you think about it?
Regards,
Tommaso

Re: (micro)blogging UIMA

Posted by Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>.
+1

2009/7/29 Thilo Goetz <tw...@gmx.de>

> Tommaso Teofili wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wonder if Apache has some infrastucture
> >> for this.
> >>
> >
> > I've asked and googled a bit.
> >>From http://www.apache.org/dev/blogs.html I read:
> >
> > "Project blogs
> >> An installation of Roller exists at blogs.apache.org for the use of ASF
> >> Projects. Any project that wants a blog should have a PMC member email
> infra
> >> or create ajira issue."
> >>
>
> I checked blogs.apache.org, there are several incubating
> projects blogging there (Clicks, OpenWebBeans, Log4PHP...).
> So if this is the way we want to go, we should just ask
> for a space to be set up for us.
>
> --Thilo
>
> >
> > but I don't know if UIMA should graduated out of the incubator first to
> go
> > on the Roller installation; if so committers could always use their
> personal
> > space on the planet aggregator:
> >
> > Personal blogs:
> > Committers with personal blogs are encouraged to add their feed to
> >> planet.apache.org for aggregation
> >>
> >
> > Otherwise (but personally I'd prefer the above solution) I guess a
> Blogger
> > (i.e. uima.blogspot.com or committername.blogspot.com ) web blog could
> make
> > the job done cheap and fast.
> >
> >
> > I'm just wondering how many people would be interested in seeing such
> blog /
> >> website, we can may be make a poll through uima-mailing list people to
> see
> >> what they think about this project.
> >
> >
> > I agree such a poll would be interesting to test if we've hit the point
> > (perhaps a PMC should open it), nevertheless such blogging stuff could
> help
> > reach many people have never heard about UIMA and could be interested in.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tommaso
> >
>

Re: (micro)blogging UIMA

Posted by Thilo Goetz <tw...@gmx.de>.
Tommaso Teofili wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if Apache has some infrastucture
>> for this.
>>
> 
> I've asked and googled a bit.
>>>From http://www.apache.org/dev/blogs.html I read:
> 
> "Project blogs
>> An installation of Roller exists at blogs.apache.org for the use of ASF
>> Projects. Any project that wants a blog should have a PMC member email infra
>> or create ajira issue."
>>

I checked blogs.apache.org, there are several incubating
projects blogging there (Clicks, OpenWebBeans, Log4PHP...).
So if this is the way we want to go, we should just ask
for a space to be set up for us.

--Thilo

> 
> but I don't know if UIMA should graduated out of the incubator first to go
> on the Roller installation; if so committers could always use their personal
> space on the planet aggregator:
> 
> Personal blogs:
> Committers with personal blogs are encouraged to add their feed to
>> planet.apache.org for aggregation
>>
> 
> Otherwise (but personally I'd prefer the above solution) I guess a Blogger
> (i.e. uima.blogspot.com or committername.blogspot.com ) web blog could make
> the job done cheap and fast.
> 
> 
> I'm just wondering how many people would be interested in seeing such blog /
>> website, we can may be make a poll through uima-mailing list people to see
>> what they think about this project.
> 
> 
> I agree such a poll would be interesting to test if we've hit the point
> (perhaps a PMC should open it), nevertheless such blogging stuff could help
> reach many people have never heard about UIMA and could be interested in.
> 
> Regards,
> Tommaso
>

Re: (micro)blogging UIMA

Posted by Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>.
Hi,

I wonder if Apache has some infrastucture
> for this.
>

I've asked and googled a bit.
>From http://www.apache.org/dev/blogs.html I read:

"Project blogs
> An installation of Roller exists at blogs.apache.org for the use of ASF
> Projects. Any project that wants a blog should have a PMC member email infra
> or create ajira issue."
>

but I don't know if UIMA should graduated out of the incubator first to go
on the Roller installation; if so committers could always use their personal
space on the planet aggregator:

Personal blogs:
>
Committers with personal blogs are encouraged to add their feed to
> planet.apache.org for aggregation
>

Otherwise (but personally I'd prefer the above solution) I guess a Blogger
(i.e. uima.blogspot.com or committername.blogspot.com ) web blog could make
the job done cheap and fast.


I'm just wondering how many people would be interested in seeing such blog /
> website, we can may be make a poll through uima-mailing list people to see
> what they think about this project.


I agree such a poll would be interesting to test if we've hit the point
(perhaps a PMC should open it), nevertheless such blogging stuff could help
reach many people have never heard about UIMA and could be interested in.

Regards,
Tommaso

Re: (micro)blogging UIMA

Posted by Radwen ANIBA <ar...@gmail.com>.
Hi Thilo and Tommasso,

I think also it is an excellent idea, I was thinking about developping and
maintaining a UIMA blog and community website under my already existing
website bioinformaticsworldwide.com, I can create a dedicated domain such as
uima.bioinformaticsworldwide.com only dedicated to people working on UIMA to
store, distribute, share all theur components with other people.

I'm just wondering how many people would be interested in seeing such blog /
website, we can may be make a poll through uima-mailing list people to see
what they think about this project. I am totally motivated to create such
website.

Regards

Radwen

2009/7/29 Thilo Goetz <tw...@gmx.de>

> Tommaso Teofili wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > having a quick look to some open source projects, I noticed that many of
> > them, besides an official website and mailing list, have a blog and a
> > twitter account.
> > That way mantainers and committers can communicate the community new
> > releases, features, events (such as conferences) much more quickly but
> also
> > something more personal about the software, with the possibility to have
> > comments and feedback.
> > I know there is already a section for each of the mentioned but it looks
> > like it's something static, not fresh (also if it's not true), more
> similar
> > to documentation.
> > People like to have comments and thoughts from the authors themselves on
> > software they develop, I think.
> > In my opinion, if there is someone with time and will to do it, adding
> that
> > blogging stuff can really increase the community, feedback and interest
> > around UIMA.
> > What do you think about it?
> > Regards,
> > Tommaso
> >
>
> Excellent idea.  I wonder if Apache has some infrastucture
> for this.  Or do you have any recommendations?
>
> --Thilo
>

Re: (micro)blogging UIMA

Posted by Thilo Goetz <tw...@gmx.de>.
Tommaso Teofili wrote:
> Hi all,
> having a quick look to some open source projects, I noticed that many of
> them, besides an official website and mailing list, have a blog and a
> twitter account.
> That way mantainers and committers can communicate the community new
> releases, features, events (such as conferences) much more quickly but also
> something more personal about the software, with the possibility to have
> comments and feedback.
> I know there is already a section for each of the mentioned but it looks
> like it's something static, not fresh (also if it's not true), more similar
> to documentation.
> People like to have comments and thoughts from the authors themselves on
> software they develop, I think.
> In my opinion, if there is someone with time and will to do it, adding that
> blogging stuff can really increase the community, feedback and interest
> around UIMA.
> What do you think about it?
> Regards,
> Tommaso
> 

Excellent idea.  I wonder if Apache has some infrastucture
for this.  Or do you have any recommendations?

--Thilo