Hey Folks,

Back in 2007, when I was part of the Hadoop team at Yahoo, and Hadoop usage had not yet exploded, I had created hadoop.wordpress.com. Also, the subdomain blog.hadoop.com points to hadoop.wordpress.com.

Despite initial enthusiasm of the small hadoop community (i.e. 8-9 cubicles around my cubicle :-) then, there were no posts on that blog.

Does anyone want to take it over and create something useful ?

Please let me know. If you have an account on wordpress.com, I can transfer it to you easily.

Or does one need permission from Apache legal folks to do this ?

- milind
P.S. Whois indicates that some one called "Cutting, Doug  [EMAIL PROTECTED]" owns hadoop.com, and so blog.hadoop.com pointing to hadoop.wordpress.com is Doug's doing. You will have to negotiate with him whether after the admin change, the cname still remains :-)

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Milind Bhandarkar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Yes, I'd be interested assuming the legal stuff doesn't bite me. :)

On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Milind Bhandarkar wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> Back in 2007, when I was part of the Hadoop team at Yahoo, and  
> Hadoop usage had not yet exploded, I had created  
> hadoop.wordpress.com. Also, the subdomain blog.hadoop.com points to  
> hadoop.wordpress.com.
>
> Despite initial enthusiasm of the small hadoop community (i.e. 8-9  
> cubicles around my cubicle :-) then, there were no posts on that blog.
>
> Does anyone want to take it over and create something useful ?
>
> Please let me know. If you have an account on wordpress.com, I can  
> transfer it to you easily.
>
> Or does one need permission from Apache legal folks to do this ?
>
> - milind
>
>
> P.S. Whois indicates that some one called "Cutting, Doug  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> " owns hadoop.com, and so blog.hadoop.com pointing to  
> hadoop.wordpress.com is Doug's doing. You will have to negotiate  
> with him whether after the admin change, the cname still remains :-)
>
> ---
> Milind Bhandarkar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>

Arun

I can help you with proof reading and other stuff if you want.
secondary help to who ever takes on to the blog.

Gaurav

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Arun C Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I'd be interested assuming the legal stuff doesn't bite me. :)
>
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Milind Bhandarkar wrote:
>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Back in 2007, when I was part of the Hadoop team at Yahoo, and Hadoop
>> usage had not yet exploded, I had created hadoop.wordpress.com. Also, the
>> subdomain blog.hadoop.com points to hadoop.wordpress.com.
>>
>> Despite initial enthusiasm of the small hadoop community (i.e. 8-9
>> cubicles around my cubicle :-) then, there were no posts on that blog.
>>
>> Does anyone want to take it over and create something useful ?
>>
>> Please let me know. If you have an account on wordpress.com, I can
>> transfer it to you easily.
>>
>> Or does one need permission from Apache legal folks to do this ?
>>
>> - milind
>>
>>
>> P.S. Whois indicates that some one called "Cutting, Doug  [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>> owns hadoop.com, and so blog.hadoop.com pointing to hadoop.wordpress.com is
>> Doug's doing. You will have to negotiate with him whether after the admin
>> change, the cname still remains :-)
>>
>> ---
>> Milind Bhandarkar
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Should we instead just blog things at http://blogs.apache.org/?  Lots of
projects have a blog there.  It should be easy to get one that permits,
e.g., any PMC member to blog on behalf of the project.

Doug

On 02/04/2011 07:06 PM, Arun C Murthy wrote:
> Yes, I'd be interested assuming the legal stuff doesn't bite me. :)
>
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Milind Bhandarkar wrote:
>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Back in 2007, when I was part of the Hadoop team at Yahoo, and Hadoop
>> usage had not yet exploded, I had created hadoop.wordpress.com. Also,
>> the subdomain blog.hadoop.com points to hadoop.wordpress.com.
>>
>> Despite initial enthusiasm of the small hadoop community (i.e. 8-9
>> cubicles around my cubicle :-) then, there were no posts on that blog.
>>
>> Does anyone want to take it over and create something useful ?
>>
>> Please let me know. If you have an account on wordpress.com, I can
>> transfer it to you easily.
>>
>> Or does one need permission from Apache legal folks to do this ?
>>
>> - milind
>>
>>
>> P.S. Whois indicates that some one called "Cutting, Doug
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" owns hadoop.com, and so blog.hadoop.com pointing to
>> hadoop.wordpress.com is Doug's doing. You will have to negotiate with
>> him whether after the admin change, the cname still remains :-)
>>
>> ---
>> Milind Bhandarkar
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should we instead just blog things at http://blogs.apache.org/?  Lots of
> projects have a blog there.  It should be easy to get one that permits,
> e.g., any PMC member to blog on behalf of the project.

+1 for adding a project blog at Apache.

Is the implication that blog.hadoop.com would point there? -C

On 02/07/2011 12:37 PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
> Is the implication that blog.hadoop.com would point there? -C

Sure, I'd be happy to redirect that CNAME.  The other redirects for
hadoop.com already point to hadoop.apache.org.  I grabbed the domain
long ago so that squatters wouldn't abuse it as happened with nutch.com.

Doug

On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:

> Should we instead just blog things at http://blogs.apache.org/?  
> Lots of
> projects have a blog there.  It should be easy to get one that  
> permits,
> e.g., any PMC member to blog on behalf of the project.
>

+1

Arun

On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Doug Cutting wrote:

> On 02/07/2011 12:37 PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
>> Is the implication that blog.hadoop.com would point there? -C
>
> Sure, I'd be happy to redirect that CNAME.  The other redirects for hadoop.com already point to hadoop.apache.org.  I grabbed the domain long ago so that squatters wouldn't abuse it as happened with nutch.com.
Too bad about mapreduce.org.

;)