Regarding this item, "An online course on Edgent was developed on DeveloperWorks, providing further material for new users to familiarize themselves with Edgent", I don't believe a course was ever created. I know one was in the works earlier this year, but it was never completed. Am I off base?
The rest looks great, thanks! -- Queenie On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:13 AM, William Marshall <wcmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > The following is the initial draft of the podling report. If you have any > comments, please make them by 12:00 PM PST tomorrow to leave sufficient > time for the mentors to sign off on the wiki. > > > Edgent > > Apache Edgent is a programming SDK and micro-kernel style runtime > that can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling > local, real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming > from equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of > all kinds (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in > conjunction with centralized analytic systems, Apache Edgent provides > efficient and timely analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the > center to the edge. > > Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers > around the Edgent project. > 2. Attracting at least another independent committer/ppmc member. > 3. Finding further real world users of Edgent > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > No > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > * Total, we have 70 subscribers to our mailing list, an improvement > of 5 since the last report. > * We have had a noticeable increase in the number of > information-seeking > emails on the mailing list from new Edgent developers. > * An online course on Edgent was developed on DeveloperWorks, providing > further material for new users to familiarize themselves with Edgent > * A San Francisco meetup has been scheduled for the 20th of September > to demonstrate an Edgent video analytics application which was > initially presented at ApacheCon 2017 (Video Analytics at the Edge: > Fun with Apache Edgent, OpenCV and a Raspberry Pi). > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > * With the contributions of Christoper Dutz and Dale LaBossiere, the > Edgent build system is undergoing an overhaul to Maven from Groovy. > Maven provides benefits over Groovy, including a more rigid build > structure, and the Maven package system. > * According to JIRA, 13 new issues were added to the project and 6 > issues have been resolved or closed between May 2017 and August 2017. > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > Edgent is making slow but consistent progress towards graduation. While we > don't yet meet the diversity requirements, we put emphasis on community > growth through outreach which will ultimately pave the way for additional > committers and contributors. > > Additionally, before we graduate it is important that we find users > outside of IBM. As most Edgent committers are employed by IBM, external > stakeholders help ensure long term contribution to the project. > > [ ] Initial setup > [ ] Working towards first release > [X] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > [ ] Other: > > Date of last release: > > 2017-03-17 > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > In May 2016, we added two new committers and PPMC members, > Kathy Saunders and Queenie Ma. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner > Comments: > [ ](edgent) Luciano Resende > Comments: > [ ](edgent) John Ament > Comments: > [ ](edgent) Justin Mclean > Comments: > > IPMC/Shepherd notes: >
