TheDeveloper
"abacus" Node package name
Good Evening @TheDeveloper,
I hope your week is going well Geoff! I am on the 📈 Data Experience team at Netflix 📺 , focused on enabling anyone from a recruiter to an executive, from a junior data analyst to a seasoned software engineer / data scientist to get game changing insights from large data sets quickly and creatively. A big part of the system's success is the foundational collection of combinatorial data access packages, visualization dashboard components, application templates & deployment pipeline configuration templates. They're designed in a principled, transparently OSS composition-heavy (we wrap our key dependencies with well thought out defaults but also allow full passthrough control of them for advanced cases) & fractal+holistic manner that allows them to leveraged in isolation or in concert, by fledgling engineers as well as 🗺 world-class engineers 🤓 . This collection of packages is called "abacus" internally and the main package that's leveraged in apps that fully buy into the Abacus philosophy is called just plain "abacus". It's been in heavy use via our internal NPM registry for two years now and we're preparing to open source it as interest from other data-driven organizations has been high. Just as it has in Netflix, this package is going to help give a leg up to a lot of folks and result in visualizations that provide greater insight to the public on any number of issues. Folks across the world will be able to start from day one with a data app foundation that's been honed at Netflix for years. While cool and useful, it appears to me that your abacus hasn't been publicly active for a few years. I am excited to see if you and I can come to an agreement you'd feel satisfied with to transfer the package name over to me. I promise to put the package name to good use—I've been publishing & maintaining Node packages for years now and am passionate about Abacus and maintaining packages & their community (https://www.npmjs.com/~jameswomack). I would be eternally grateful to you if you felt comfortable making that deal and would of course provide credit to you in the project READMEs & promo site along with a link to whatever you'd like. I look forward to hearing from you either way.
Best Regards,
James
