On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:48 AM Mo Sadoghi <mo.sado...@expolab.org> wrote:
> Dear Roman > > Thank you for your kind support. > > Indeed our PoC is well fitting for the Apache foundation’s community. > > Would you be willing to kindly serve as one of our mentors? We currently > have 3 formal mentors plus 2 informal mentors. > I would be delighted to help -- please count me in! Thanks, Roman. > > Best > Mohamad Sadoghi > > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 2:04 AM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 12:55 AM Mo Sadoghi <mo.sado...@expolab.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > Dear Apache Members, > > > > > > Hope you are safe and well. > > > > > > Over the past 6 years, we have been developing a distributed blockchain > > > framework, called ResilientDB <https://resilientdb.com/>, which has > been > > > open-sourced <https://github.com/resilientdb/resilientdb> since 2019. > > > ResilientDB is a lightweight and highly performant framework (written > in > > > C++) that has been extensively evaluated and refined resulting in over > 20 > > > publications and 2 books. It allows for easy integration with various > > > Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) and Crash Fault-Tolerant (CFT) consensus > > > protocols. ResilientDB has been a key educational tool, thus far, 1 > > > postdoc, 3 Ph.D., and 13 MSc students have graduated while working on > it. > > > Furthermore, it has been used in the classroom for the past 5 years > with > > > several hundred students utilizing it for their course projects. The > > > current core team of ResilientDB consists of 1 Postdoc, 2 PhD, 8 MSc, > > and 6 > > > BSc. In addition to academic success, it has been utilized by our > > industry > > > partners (e.g., Radix Ltd <https://www.radixdlt.com/> and Mysten Labs > > > <https://mystenlabs.com/>) for analysis and as an industrial-strength > > > framework to implement their consensus protocols. The broader team of > > > active contributors currently included UCB, UCI, UPenn, and McMaster U. > > > > > > Our ResilientDB platform has now reached a stable point in its product > > > life-cycle, and we believe it is now an excellent candidate to be > > > considered for the Apache Incubation program to further expand its > reach > > > and development by building a larger community and ecosystem around it. > > > Furthermore, considering the thriving field of blockchain / distributed > > > ledger, Apache does not have any core blockchain software in its > > portfolio. > > > > > > We are looking for champions and mentors for our project. Your kind > > support > > > is greatly appreciated. We look forward to growing and expanding our > > > product as part of the Apache community. > > > > > > Here is the live / latest draft of the proposal. > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/12WPvs1A7tqH8VjkMrgXTGQ_z4fiL6f6oi32e7bxSjXc/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > Currently, we have *Anh Dinh*, Apache SINGA’s PMC, as our Apache mentor > > > (cc'ed). > > > > It is extremely exciting to see a project like this seeking the ASF's > > governance! Somehow I find it particularly fitting that one of the > > innovations in your technology is PoC -- Proof Of Collaboration -- it > > seems to me that this is somehow very on-brand for the ASF ;-) > > > > Best of luck! > > > > Oh, and on the mentors side -- I always advise projects to have at > > least 3 mentors. If nothing else -- that tends to make voting on your > > releases a much smoother experience. > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Mohammad Sadoghi, PhD > Associate Professor > Exploratory Systems Lab (ExpoLab) > Department of Computer Science > University of California, Davis >
