Dear Atri, Junping, Calvin, Kevin, Roman, Anh, David, Hope everyone is safe and well.
We would like to know what is our next step, and what the would be the expected timeline to be officially accepted into the Apache Incubation program. We are very excited about this opportunity, and we are fully committed to expediting this process as much as possible on our end, especially if we can complete our tasks before the start of the Fall quarter by September 30. Needless to say, we will be fully committed thereafter as well. *Roman*, Thank you so much. Wonderful to have you as a mentor. Proposal: here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12WPvs1A7tqH8VjkMrgXTGQ_z4fiL6f6oi32e7bxSjXc/edit?usp=sharing> . --- Best Regards, Mohammad Sadoghi, PhD Associate Professor Exploratory Systems Lab (ExpoLab) Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis ExpoLab: https://expolab.org/ ResilientDB: https://resilientdb.com/ Phone: 914-319-7937 On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 6:00 AM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:48 AM Mo Sadoghi <mo.sado...@expolab.org> > wrote: > >> Dear Roman >> >> Thank you for your kind support. >> >> Indeed our PoC is well fitting for the Apache foundation’s community. >> >> Would you be willing to kindly serve as one of our mentors? We currently >> have 3 formal mentors plus 2 informal mentors. >> > > I would be delighted to help -- please count me in! > > Thanks, > Roman. > > >> >> Best >> Mohamad Sadoghi >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 2:04 AM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> >> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 12:55 AM Mo Sadoghi <mo.sado...@expolab.org> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > Dear Apache Members, >> > > >> > > Hope you are safe and well. >> > > >> > > Over the past 6 years, we have been developing a distributed >> blockchain >> > > framework, called ResilientDB <https://resilientdb.com/>, which has >> been >> > > open-sourced <https://github.com/resilientdb/resilientdb> since 2019. >> > > ResilientDB is a lightweight and highly performant framework (written >> in >> > > C++) that has been extensively evaluated and refined resulting in >> over 20 >> > > publications and 2 books. It allows for easy integration with various >> > > Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) and Crash Fault-Tolerant (CFT) >> consensus >> > > protocols. ResilientDB has been a key educational tool, thus far, 1 >> > > postdoc, 3 Ph.D., and 13 MSc students have graduated while working on >> it. >> > > Furthermore, it has been used in the classroom for the past 5 years >> with >> > > several hundred students utilizing it for their course projects. The >> > > current core team of ResilientDB consists of 1 Postdoc, 2 PhD, 8 MSc, >> > and 6 >> > > BSc. In addition to academic success, it has been utilized by our >> > industry >> > > partners (e.g., Radix Ltd <https://www.radixdlt.com/> and Mysten Labs >> > > <https://mystenlabs.com/>) for analysis and as an industrial-strength >> > > framework to implement their consensus protocols. The broader team of >> > > active contributors currently included UCB, UCI, UPenn, and McMaster >> U. >> > > >> > > Our ResilientDB platform has now reached a stable point in its product >> > > life-cycle, and we believe it is now an excellent candidate to be >> > > considered for the Apache Incubation program to further expand its >> reach >> > > and development by building a larger community and ecosystem around >> it. >> > > Furthermore, considering the thriving field of blockchain / >> distributed >> > > ledger, Apache does not have any core blockchain software in its >> > portfolio. >> > > >> > > We are looking for champions and mentors for our project. Your kind >> > support >> > > is greatly appreciated. We look forward to growing and expanding our >> > > product as part of the Apache community. >> > > >> > > Here is the live / latest draft of the proposal. >> > > >> > >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/12WPvs1A7tqH8VjkMrgXTGQ_z4fiL6f6oi32e7bxSjXc/edit?usp=sharing >> > > >> > > Currently, we have *Anh Dinh*, Apache SINGA’s PMC, as our Apache >> mentor >> > > (cc'ed). >> > >> > It is extremely exciting to see a project like this seeking the ASF's >> > governance! Somehow I find it particularly fitting that one of the >> > innovations in your technology is PoC -- Proof Of Collaboration -- it >> > seems to me that this is somehow very on-brand for the ASF ;-) >> > >> > Best of luck! >> > >> > Oh, and on the mentors side -- I always advise projects to have at >> > least 3 mentors. If nothing else -- that tends to make voting on your >> > releases a much smoother experience. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Roman. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > >> > -- >> Best Regards, >> Mohammad Sadoghi, PhD >> Associate Professor >> Exploratory Systems Lab (ExpoLab) >> Department of Computer Science >> University of California, Davis >> >
