Here's my suggested boilerplate -- see below and please suggest edits if desired. There's a 150 word limit.
Apache Mahout provides scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms on top of Apache Hadoop. It offers collaborative filtering, clustering, classification algorithms and more. Begun as a subproject of Lucene in 2008, Mahout's team of nearly a dozen contributors is now actively working towards release 0.4. It has become an Apache Top-Level Project in April 26. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sally Khudairi <s...@haloworldwide.com> Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:54 AM Subject: announcing new TLPs [was: ASF Board Meeting Summary - April 21, 2010 - new TLP reporting schedule?] To: "Chris A (388J)Mattmann" <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov>, sro...@apache.org, a...@apache.org, zw...@apache.org, mas...@apache.org, st...@apache.org Cc: Apache Board <bo...@apache.org>, ASF Marketing & Publicity <pr...@apache.org> Hello new TLPs! Welcome to the masterlist on apache.org ;-) The fact that we've got 6 projects graduating from the Incubator is A Big Thing in the world of ASF Marketing & Publicity. As such, I'd like to issue a press release announcing you to the world. Can you please send me "boilerplate" copy describing your Project? I'm including an example below that's amalgamated from the recent Apache Cassandra announcement. If I can get these from you by Tuesday at 5PM ET, we can issue the announcement on Wednesday. Otherwise, we'll go live the following Tuesday, 4 May. Thanks in advance for this. Feel free to ping us if you need anything! Warm regards, Sally (VP, Marketing & Publicity) About Apache Cassandra Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation "NoSQL" distributed data store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra decentralized model provides massive scalability, and is highly available with no single point of failure even under the worst scenarios. Originally developed at Facebook and submitted to the ASF Incubator in 2009, Cassandra graduated as a Top-Level Apache Project in February 2010, added more than a half-dozen new committers, and is deployed by dozens of high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter, among others.
