is the current PMC Chair for
Apache Pig, and Dmitriy Ryaboy, Aniket Mokashi, and Jonathan Coveney are
also Apache Pig committers with contributions to several other Apache
projects. Todd Lipcon and Tom White are committers to Apache Hadoop and
multiple other related projects. Brock Noland is a Hive
It would be awfully nice of you not to stomp on another hadoop ecosystem
project's google-fu when your project becomes very successful and admired
across the hadoopverse :)
Ivory isn't a fly-by-night project someone threw up on github -- it's
generated over a dozen peer-reviewed papers, and has