I love your enthusiasm Lloyd. How about starting with a slack channel and take it from there...
Things that would kinda need to happen for Riak to grow beyond where it is now: - complete rebranding. Basho is dead. The term "Riak" may be encumbered. - new everything. name. domain. github repo. bla bla bla. Instead of a framework, how can the Riak codebase actually become an Apache project? On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:06 PM, <ll...@writersglen.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > If there is enough interest, I'd be happy to do the legwork in Boston and > put up a very modest contribution toward up-front cost with hope of recovery > through registrations. > > > > Boston has conference spaces of all sizes. I would imagine a conference on > the future of open-source Riak would be a fairly intimate group. I'm also > imagining a fairly bare-bones event to minimize cost of registration. > Registration cost should be just enough to cover the venue and nibbles. > > > > Just to kick off brain-storming: > > > > 1. Say two days--- Friday and Saturday > > 2. Friday: Invite short (20 minute) proposals on key topics > > a. Clarifying legal issues > > b. Technical road map > > c. Organizational framework; e.g. ala Apache Foundation or some such > > d. Marketing; e.g. expanding the open-source community > > 3. Saturday (or Saturday morning) > > Discussion sessions with goal of recommendations for moving forward > > > > How to get from here to there: > > > > 1. Is there enough interest on the mailing list? > > 2. How can we pin down an agenda? > > 3. Can we get corporate sponsorships to minimize registration? > > 4. How can we most widely promote the event? > > 5. What else? > > > > All the best, > > > > Lloyd > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Russell Brown" <russell.br...@mac.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 4:00pm > To: ll...@writersglen.com > Cc: "riak-users" <riak-users@lists.basho.com>, "Senthilkumar Peelikkampatti" > <sendto...@gmail.com>, "Russell Brown" <russell.br...@icloud.com> > Subject: Re: Is Riak dead? > > We have talked about it. Let's do it! > > On Jul 13, 2017 7:56 PM, ll...@writersglen.com wrote: > > Hmmm--- I wonder if anyone has given thought to a conference focused on the > future of open-source Riak? > > > > I'm sure there are many good ideas out there re: roadmap and governance. > > > > It's just too great not to be worth deep thought and prudent action. > > > > All the best, > > > > LRP > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Russell Brown" <russell.br...@icloud.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:40pm > To: "Senthilkumar Peelikkampatti" <sendto...@gmail.com> > Cc: "riak-users" <riak-users@lists.basho.com> > Subject: Re: Is Riak dead? > > Hi Senthilkumar, > No Riak is not dead. It’s parent company, Basho is dead. And they kept the > keys. There are numerous forks that are being worked on. Hopefully something > that is a canonical, community backed fork will emerge. Past mailing list > posts show strong support from large commercial and govt. organisations. > Riak is open source and will continue to be critical infrastructure for > numerous organisation in its niche for some time. > > There are also a few support organisations springing up, as well as the > existing partners (Erlang Solutions, Trifork etc.) If you’re asking me, this > could be a very good thing for Riak in the medium to long term. It and it’s > users and community were served very badly by Basho these last couple of > years. It’s a little trodden under, but no way dead. Give it a little time > to bounce back. > > Cheers > > Russell > > > On 11 Jul 2017, at 08:15, Senthilkumar Peelikkampatti <sendto...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Is Riak dead? No new activities on Riak GitHub repo. >> >> https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/pulse/monthly >> https://github.com/basho/riak/pulse/monthly >> >> Thanks, >> Senthil >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
