My edits inline. On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Sean Owen wrote:
> 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 and other technologies > . > It offers collaborative filtering, > clustering, classification feature reduction, data mining 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 became > an Apache > Top-Level Project in April > of 2010. More information can be found at http://mahout.apache.org. > > > ---------- 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.
