[PJUG Javamail] ORBlogs team seeking help

[John Metta]

Greetings,

I'm John Metta, one of the people working to try to bring ORBlogs back 
to life. For those who don't know, ORBlogs is an Oregon Blog Aggregator 
created by Paul Bausch (http://orblogs.com). Paul couldn't keep managing 
the site and a number of us bloggers on Twitter and elsewhere took up 
the cause to re-create it.

One issue we are having is not enough Java experience. There is an 
excellent Digg+aggregator called BigBark (http://bigbark.net) created 
entirely in Java by Patrick Lightbody <http://twitter.com/plightbo>. He 
can't take an active role right now, but has donated the code to the 
cause and is allowing us to open source it. We've created a project page 
for the code at http://code.google.com/p/orblogs/.

We're looking for some experienced Java developers who have some time to 
help us get this code up and running, and to help things along as we 
come up to speed. We think there are people and experience enough to 
maintain the codebase with one or two lead developers who are strong in 
Java taking an active role.

This is an #afterhours project for all of us, so we're looking for some 
other people who'd be willing to help out. Patrick doesn't think the 
code has too much work to be ready for prime time- then we need to hook 
up our database and merge parsers created by A.J 
<http://twitter.com/linuxaid>.

Anyone with some time who's interested in helping us out, give me a shout.

Thanks,
-John Metta
@Mettadore <http://twitter.com/Mettadore> on Twitter
http://positorio.us