Neighborhoods and ecosystems
Stefano Mazzocchi is working on ways to visualize the Apache community and we talked at length about how to capture the raw data. To me, the problem seems fundamentally equivalent to the one that we have been exploring in blogspace, whereby people are identified as Experts, Mavens, and Connectors. I demonstrated Mark's newdoor effort, and it became clear that all we needed to bootstrap the data that Stephano wanted was to start encouraging Apache committers to start posting personal web sites with links to people that they are interested in.