Congratulations team. This is all because of your hard work and focus on users.
Let's make this community bigger and more successful. Thanks, Vinay On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:56 AM, moon soo Lee <m...@apache.org> wrote: > Congratulations and thank you everyone who made it possible! > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> > Date: Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:04 AM > Subject: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Zeppelin™ as a > Top-Level Project > To: Apache Announce List <annou...@apache.org> > > > >> this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/YqqP > > Open Source Big Data analytics and visualization tool for distributed, > interactive, and collaborative systems using Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop, > Apache Spark, and more. > > Forest Hill, MD –25 May 2016– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open > Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache® Zeppelin™ has > graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), > signifying that the project's community and products have been > well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. > > Apache Zeppelin is a modern, web-based notebook that enables interactive > data analytics. Notebooks help developers, data scientists, and related > users to handle data efficiently without worrying about command lines and > cluster details. > > "The Zeppelin community is pleased to graduate from the Apache Incubator," > said Lee Moon Soo, Vice President of Apache Zeppelin. "With 118 worldwide > contributors and widespread adoption in numerous commercial products, we > are proud to officially be a part of the Apache Big Data ecosystem." > > Zeppelin's collaborative data analytics and visualization capabilities > makes data exploration, visualization, sharing, and collaboration easy over > distributed, general-purpose data processing systems that use Apache Flink, > Apache Hadoop, and Apache Spark, among other Big Data platforms. > > Apache Zeppelin is: > - Multi-purpose --features data ingestion, exploration, analysis, > visualization, and collaboration; > - Robust --supports 20+ more backend systems, including Apache Spark, > Apache Flink, Apache Hive, Python, R, and any JDBC (Java Database > Connectivity); > - Easy to deploy --built on top of modern Web technologies (provides > built-in Apache Spark integration, eliminating the need to build a separate > module, plugin, or library); > - Easy to use --with built-in visualizations and dynamic forms; > - Flexible --allows users to mix different languages, exchange data > between backends, adjust the layout; > - Extensible --with pluggable architecture for interpreters, notebook > storages, authentication, and visualizations (in progress); and > - Advanced --allows interaction between custom visualizations and cluster > resources > > "With Apache Zeppelin, a wide range of users can make beautiful > data-driven, interactive, and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala, and > more," added Soo. > > Apache Zeppelin is in use at an array of organizations and solutions, > including Amazon Web Services, Hortonworks, JuJu, and Twitter, among > others. > > "Congratulations to Apache Zeppelin community on graduation," said Tim > Hall, Vice President of Product Management at Hortonworks. "Several members > of our team have been working over the past year in the Zeppelin community > to make it enterprise ready. We are excited to be associated with this > community and look forward to helping our customers get the best insights > out of their data with Apache Zeppelin." > > "Apache Zeppelin is becoming an important tool at Twitter for creating and > sharing interactive data analytics and visualizations," said Prasad Wagle, > Technical Lead in the Data Platform team at Twitter. "Since it integrates > seamlessly with all the popular data analytics engines, it is very easy to > create and share reports and dashboards. With its extensible architecture > and a vibrant Open Source community, I am looking forward to Apache > Zeppelin advancing the state of the art in data analytics and > visualization." > > "Apache Zeppelin is the major user-facing piece of Memcore’s in-memory data > processing Cloud offering. Building a technology stack might be quite > exciting engineering challenge, however, if users can’t visualize and work > with the data conveniently, it is as good as not having the data at all. > Apache Zeppelin enables efficient user acquisition by anyone trying to > build new products or service offerings in the Big- and Fast- Data markets, > making innovations, collaboration, and development easier for anyone," said > Dr. Konstantin Boudnik, Founder and CEO of Memcore.io. "I am very excited > to see Apache Zeppelin graduating as an ASF Top Level Project. This shows > that more people are joining the community, bringing the project to a new > level, and adding more integration points with existing data analytics and > transactional software systems. This directly benefits the community > at-large." > > Apache Zeppelin originated in 2013 at NFLabs as Peloton, a commercial data > analytics product. Since entering the Apache Incubator in December 2014, > the project has had three releases, and twice participated in Google Summer > of Code under the Apache umbrella. > > "It was an honor to help with the incubation of Zeppelin," said Ted > Dunning, Vice President of the Apache Incubator. "I have been very > impressed with the Zeppelin community and the software they have built. I > see Apache Zeppelin being adopted all over the place where people need to > apply a notebook style to a wide variety of kinds of computing." > > Catch Apache Zeppelin in action during Berlin Buzzwords, 7 June 2016 > https://s.apache.org/mV8E > > Availability and Oversight > Apache Zeppelin software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is > overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A > Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day > operations, including community development and product releases. For > downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Zeppelin, > visit http://zeppelin.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheZeppelin > > About the Apache Incubator > The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing > to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code > donations from external organizations and existing external projects > wishing to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all > donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop > new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is > required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates > that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have > stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While > incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or > stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be > fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit > http://incubator.apache.org/ > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 > leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's > most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process > known as "The Apache Way," more than 550 individual Members and 5,300 > Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available > enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: > thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; > and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring > initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, > trainings, and expo. 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