Re: [rules-users] [rules-dev] Contributing to Drools?

Count with me for that.. I always willing to do this kind of hackatons and long coding nights.. Mark is it time to create a Drools User Group in London? a Drools Lab maybe? Cheers On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org&gt; wrote: > I've tried to organise these before, last time I had one person turn up :) > > I live in London and Michael Anstis is near by. Mauricio Salatino will be > moving near by in March too. If there are people who are genuinely > interested in learning to hack/improve Drools&jBPM&Guvnor, and not just > after free consultancy, we can arrange days and evenings in London. The Red > Hat office is on Baker Street and has a room suitable for about 8 people. > > I live in Chiswick and will gladly meet up with anyone at any time there, > night or day. I regularly work from nero's of starbucks :) > > Also remember the entire Drools&jBPM&Guvnor team is always available on irc. > http://www.jboss.org/drools/irc > > Mark > > On 03/02/2012 15:49, Stephen Masters wrote: > > Hi folks, > > As with Mark's response on OSGI this morning, there have been a number of > answers to questions on this list that mention that components are either > not currently being worked on, or which request that users contribute new > features or patches. > > It tends not to be that easy to get to grips with a large open source > project, so recently the London Java Community organised an OpenJDK hack > session (http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/49243872/) where > they were helping people to build the projects and working on some > 'low-hanging-fruit' issues. And apparently the session produced around 20 > patches, which seems pretty impressive to me given that it was just a 3-hour > evening session. > > There seems to be a reasonable number of Drools developers and users in or > near London, although I'm not sure about other locations. So I was wondering > how feasible it might be to organise something similar around Drools. > Obviously it would need a combination of some core developers prepared to > spend some of their time helping folks such as myself get to grips with > building and testing things, and enough developers interested in spending > their spare time learning their way around the internals of the various > Drools components. The London JBoss User Group set up a JBoss AS7 hackathon > last year, so perhaps there might be someone there who would be prepared to > help out? > > Any thoughts? > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > -- - CTO @ http://www.plugtree.com - MyJourney @ http://salaboy.wordpress.com - Co-Founder @ http://www.jugargentina.org - Co-Founder @ http://www.jbug.com.ar - Salatino "Salaboy" Mauricio - _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev