+1 looking good to me Lewis. Maybe we should add that Julien's ACEU Nutch talk had a few key slides on Gora and mentioned it.
Cheers, Chris On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: > Hi All, > > Please see the proposed report as below. I have committed it to the > agenda however changes csn be made so please chip in if there is > anything you wish to add. > > Thanks for now > Lewis > > -------------------------------------------- > The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and > persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key > value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with > extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support. > > Project Releases > > The Apache Gora team was happy to announce the release of Gora 0.2.1 on > 7th August 2012. No releases have been made since. > > Overall Project Activity since last report > > The last report quoted that good progress was being made on the GSoC > project, these efforts have now come to fruition with the recent merge > of a goraamazon branch with the trunk code. The entire efforts which > went into GSoC project can now be leveraged and enjoyed by Gora users > and dev's. In all 17 of 77 issues have been addressed since we last > reported. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Our GSoC student (and now PMC member and Committer) Renato Marroquín > Mogrovejo recently presented on Gora @ACEU, continued exposure of this calibre > will most certainly aid in building out the community. We have also > witnessed Gora users from outside the typical community posting presentations > based on Gora use cases, this is also very encouraging. > > Changes to PMC & Committers > > The Gora PMC were very pleased to invite and have Renato Marroquín > Mogrovejo join as PMC and Committer. This was the result of a long > summers participation in the GSoC project as well as Renato's > interest in getting the Gora brand out there at this years ACEU. We look > forward to more contributions which build on the great work done over the > summer. > > PMC and Committer diversity > > We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects including, > Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr & Hadoop (this is not > an exhaustive > list). Within the scope of the 0.3 development drive is an extensive upgrade > of the Avro code, so we will be vigilant in attracting new members. > > Project Branding or Naming issues > > NONE > > Legal issues > > NONE > > -- > Lewis
