Indeed! That was my thought as well. I would like to remind any people interested in attending and presenting SAMOA, that there are also opportunities for travel grants from Apache Foundation: Check it out here: http://www.apache.org/travel/
Cheers, Nicolas On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion Alan. > Most of us are based in Europe, so we targeted ApacheCon EU. > If somebody based in US would like to give a talk on SAMOA, even if not > part of the PPMC, it would be great. > > Cheers, > > -- > Gianmarco > > On 2 December 2015 at 19:18, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1. >> >> As a side note, on growing the community, has anyone considered >> submitting to ApacheCon NA? That's another way to raise awareness of the >> project. >> >> Alan. >> >> Nicolas Kourtellis <[email protected]> >> December 1, 2015 at 4:57 >> Hi all, >> >> Here is a draft of our December 2015 report. Please send me any comments >> by >> tomorrow. >> >> Also, we will need a volunteer to prepare the report for March 2016. >> It only takes 10-20 mins to collect all needed numbers and write down the >> main updates of the project, so you could do it very easily! >> >> Sign up here for the next slots! >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SM4HRPXI7XONBIH_KDkWrsKDLBy_WRPXavjSDEy37bc/edit >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nicolas >> >> >> ============================ >> >> SAMOA >> >> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the >> most >> >> common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification, >> >> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop >> new >> >> algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines >> (DSPEs). >> >> It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several >> DSPEs >> >> such as Apache Flink, Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza. >> >> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Grow the community >> >> 2. Elect new PMC members >> >> 3. Following up our first release with further releases >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PPMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware of? >> >> None. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> Mailing list activity (September-October-November 2015): >> >> * @dev: 120 messages >> >> Jira issues backlog (September-October-November 2015): >> >> * Created: 8 >> >> * Resolved: 6 >> >> Our main goal is to grow the community, which is still pretty small. >> >> We are doing a large amount of dissemination work in conferences and >> events >> >> to promote SAMOA. For example, we had two talks at technical conferences: >> >> 1) A talk at the Apache Conference BigData, in Budapest, Hungary, during >> >> the week of September 28-30, 2015. >> >> 2) A talk at the Flink Forward, a conference for the Apache Flink DSPE, in >> Berlin, >> >> Germany, October 12-13, 2015 >> >> We have had contributions from outside the PPMC. In particular, we have >> had >> contributions for: >> >> 1) integrating Apache Avro input with Apache Samoa, >> >> 2) a proposal for integrating Apache APEX as a new DSPE, >> >> 3) continued the collaboration with the Apache Flink community. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Main developments: >> >> * Performed development and testing of the VHT module. >> >> * Fixed various bugs and improved ensemble and bagging methods. >> >> * Worked on the integration of new data sources like Apache Avro. >> >> * Improved the website to include more material for new contributors. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2015-07-21 >> >> When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? >> >> None >> ============================ >> >> > -- Nicolas Kourtellis
