Re: Blog topic: Maxmind's GeoIP2 API being used in Apache Nutch 1.10

[Lewis John Mcgibbney <le...@gmail.com>]

Hi Susan,
Fantastic. I will get to work and hopefully have something to you by the
end of the week.
Thanks
Lewis

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Susan Fendrock <sf...@maxmind.com>
wrote:

> Hi Lewis!
>
> We've received the green light for you to provide us with your guest blog
> entry.
>
> It will be some weeks before it makes its way into our publishing
> schedule, so you have plenty of time to write it.
>
> We ask that the blog be no more than 500 words.
>
> Also, can you summarize what our GeoIP customers will learn from your
> entry?
>
> We like our blog topics to be actionable for our readers.
>
> I do expect that we will provide some editing assistance from our end.
>
> Look forward to working with you and learning more about your topic,
>
> Susan
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <
> lewis.mcgibbney@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Susan.
>> Have a great weekend.,
>> Lewis
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Susan Fendrock <sf...@maxmind.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lewis,
>>>
>>> Thanks for filling me in more on your project.
>>>
>>> I will review this with others here at MaxMind and get back to you, once
>>> I've determined if we will be able to take you up on your kind offer.
>>>
>>> Susan
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <
>>> lewis.mcgibbney@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good Afternoon Susan,
>>>> Thanks for your email.
>>>> I am one of a number of developers on the Open Source Apache Nutch
>>>> project [0]. As described on our website, Nutch is a well matured,
>>>> production ready Web Crawler which powers search and discovery for a broad
>>>> spectrum of organizations over a broad spectrum of use cases!
>>>> I recently developed a piece of code e.g. Jira issue NUTCH-1660 [1]
>>>> which leverages the Maxmind GeoIP2-java API [2] for reverse geocoding
>>>> server information from which we fetch webpages. Right now the code is
>>>> configured to use the GeoIP2 insights service. We can do this because we
>>>> are able to obtain an IP address from the socket connection. The IP address
>>>> is then used within the GeoIP2-java client API to locate and provide us
>>>> with a bunch of geocoded data relating to the server.
>>>> My idea here was basically to feature the open source development and
>>>> open source projects which use the Maxmind technology. Something like a
>>>> featured post which promotes both Maxmind product and the Apache Nutch
>>>> project.
>>>> if required I could provide you with some nice vizualizations for
>>>> servers I visit during one of my crawls. The potentially overlay IP
>>>> locations with a static map.
>>>> Please let me know if this sounds interesting to you. I am mostly
>>>> interested in promoting the open source technology we are engaged in
>>>> writing.
>>>> A point to mention here as well is the licensing which enables this
>>>> work which is the Apache Software License v2.0. You will see that the
>>>> Maxmind GeoIP2-java client driver is also licensed under this license [4].
>>>> Thanks for any feedback.
>>>> lewis
>>>>
>>>> [0] http://nutch.apache.org
>>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1660
>>>> [2] https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-java
>>>> [3] http://maxmind.wpengine.com/2013/07/01/introducing-the-geoip2-beta/
>>>> [4] https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-java/blob/master/LICENSE
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <
>>>> lewis.mcgibbney@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Susan,
>>>>> Just acknowledging this email. I will write this up during my lunch
>>>>> hour today.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> lewis
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Susan Fendrock <sfendrock@maxmind.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Lewis!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for getting in touch with us about potentially providing a
>>>>>> contribution to our blog.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you provide a brief summary of the blog post you are
>>>>>> envisioning?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Look forward to learning more about your project,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Susan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Susan Fendrock
>>>>>> Product Marketing
>>>>>> MaxMind, Inc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 617-500-4493 ext. 820
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Lewis*
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Lewis*
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Susan Fendrock
>>> Product Marketing
>>> MaxMind, Inc.
>>>
>>> 617-500-4493 ext. 820
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Lewis*
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Susan Fendrock
> Product Marketing
> MaxMind, Inc.
>
> 617-500-4493 ext. 820
>



-- 
*Lewis*