http://forums.pentaho.com/ Dedicated to discussion of community related issues, infrastructure, planning, processes etc. It includes the communities of all the Pentaho projects. en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:42:15 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.pentaho.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.pentaho.com/ http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?78109-Sept-1-2010-Pentaho-Reporting-and-BI-Server-3.7-preview-and-demo&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:58:50 GMT Kurtis Cruzada, Pentaho product manager, will talk about and demonstrate the new features of Pentaho Reporting and BI Platform 3.7. *Event login... Kurtis Cruzada, Pentaho product manager, will talk about and demonstrate the new features of Pentaho Reporting and BI Platform 3.7.

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The presentation will start Wednesday, Sept 1st 14:00:00 GMT

San Francisco (USA) . 7:00 AM PDT
Orlando (USA). . . . 10:00 AM EDT
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Lisbon (Portugal) . . 3:00 PM WEST
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Jakarta (Indonesia) . 9:00 PM WIB
Sydney (Australia). . 12:00 AM Thursday EST

To convert time for other timezones, Click Here ]]> Community Discussions dmoran http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?78109-Sept-1-2010-Pentaho-Reporting-and-BI-Server-3.7-preview-and-demo http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?78108-Community-Tech-WebEx-Wed-Aug-18th-2010-Roland-Bouman-Kettle-Cookbook&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:54:02 GMT Roland Bouman, Co-author of Pentaho Solutions, will present the Kettle Cookbook, an open source community project for auto generating Kettle... Roland Bouman, Co-author of Pentaho Solutions, will present the Kettle Cookbook, an open source community project for auto generating Kettle documentation.

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The presentation will start Wednesday, Aug 18th 14:00:00 GMT

San Francisco (USA) . 7:00 AM PDT
Orlando (USA). . . . 10:00 AM EDT
London (England). . . 3:00 PM BST
Lisbon (Portugal) . . 3:00 PM WEST
Berlin (Germany). . . 4:00 PM CEST
Jakarta (Indonesia) . 9:00 PM WIB
Sydney (Australia). . 12:00 AM Thursday EST

To convert time for other timezones, Click Here ]]> Community Discussions dmoran http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?78108-Community-Tech-WebEx-Wed-Aug-18th-2010-Roland-Bouman-Kettle-Cookbook http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?77828-Hey-Community-how-s-it-going&goto=newpost Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:52:31 GMT Hey Everybody,

I've been working on a blog post about the Pentaho community for a while and I need some help.

I am often asked questions like "how big is the community?", "how are the downloads looking?" or my favorite "how's the community doing?" The problem I have with these questions is that I can't give an answer without a lot of explanations and without understanding the real question. The "how big" question is especially hard since it usually follows a statement like "I just saw a post that says Jasper has 150,000 community members, how big is Pentaho's community?" or "How many Pentaho downloads are there?" It's like asking "How much CPU, memory and hard disk space does Pentaho require?" Well, it depends.

So... The blog post I'm writing should answer the underlying questions like what do you mean by community? Is it everybody who has ever said, written or heard the word Pentaho? Anyone who came to the web site? Filled out a form? Anyone who downloaded it? Did they have to get it working or use it in production? I can do this all the way down to - did they have to submit code? Do people stop being community members if they haven't interacted in a week, month, year? FYI - I Personally think community implies shared participation.

Another question I will answer is the downloads question which is similarly ambiguous. Does that count only product downloads or anything downloaded like Release Notes, white papers, libraries, patches, doc, samples, source, etc? What about other projects that include one or more of our libraries or multiple downloads of the same version by the same person. Does a single download with 5 applications count as 1 or 5? Again, I can do this all day.

Even with all the ambiguity, these two questions can be answered by applying definitions and metrics. Since I have of an awesome set of BI tools, it's pretty straight forward. The really hard one is, "how's the community doing?" I usually answer with a "well, they still say 'hi' to me on IRC and we haven't been forked." Which is a response that seems to make people uncomfortable (especially the board) and is usually followed up by "what do you do again?"

So, how is the community doing? I have my own opinion based on interactions with the most active and vocal community members as well as monitoring the social networks like IRC, Twitter, Forums etc. That's all well and good but what about feedback from the actual community?

Please take some time and give feedback on all the questions raised above and also tell us why you are part Pentaho community or why you think you're not. Tell us what brought you here, how long you've been here, what keeps you here and any other comments you think would add to the discussion. It is also an opportunity to tell us what's good, what needs improvement and what really sucks, you can assume we already know about the documentation.

I look forward to your answers, I think this could become long lived and very interesting thread.

Thanks,
Doug ]]> Community Discussions dmoran http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?77828-Hey-Community-how-s-it-going