Hi Suresh, I hope you are well. For the record I have worked with NIST on a number of projects in the past so i thought I'd just get that out of the way.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:32 AM, <dev-digest-h...@community.apache.org>wrote: > > I have solicited an abstract from Prof. Geoffrey Fox [1] at Indiana > University for keynote ideas at ACNA 14. Here is an idea: > > ----- > Topic: Implications of the NIST Big Data Working Group Apache Big Data > Software Stack > > Over the last six months,... ...snip > We propose building these patterns on FutureGrid and discuss this with > some very early results. > ------- > This sounds hellishly like one persons (or a small group of peoples) academically oriented work as oppose to a motivational, community relevant topic which will grab the audience by the neck and shake some open source massage oil into them. This is merely my opinion. It sounds too much like it belongs in the CFP. Lewis