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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Nitin,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>There is indeed a community, and we communicate through this board. I’m sorry that you didn’t get responses to some of your questions. Sometimes no one quite knows what to say and hopes that someone else will respond… </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>K</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I will look up your queries and see what to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Olympus-developers [mailto:olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nitin Dhawan<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 14, 2014 11:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> olympus-developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Olympus developers 453]: is this platform/community active ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have been evaluating this platform for over a year. We were beginning to get comfortable with it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But since this is open source and we were not in the development team, we obviously look forward to community support. Of the last few posts that I have made, I only received response from one person twice in the four posts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is this community active? More importantly is this platform alive? I had arrived at this platform after a lot of research in the open source world. But with lack of any support and dearth of documentation we are having to re-evaluate this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Or is it that this is a close community, where only CMU initiatives get support?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nitin<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>