Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-08 Thread John D. Ament
Hey Tim, Thanks for volunteering. In order to be a mentor you need to be on the IPMC. Since you're already a member, its simply a matter of sending an email to private @ i.a.o indicating you want to join. We'll process it from there. John On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:28 AM Tim Ellison

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Henry Saputra
HI Joe, Thanks for your reply. Technically, that is what ALL mentors suppose to do. Wear different hats when representing as Apache member. But we all know that is not how it happens in reality. Most people nowadays get paid to do open source by day employer so like it or not some influence of

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Julian Hyde
Some more diversity among mentors would be nice, even though the mentors are all impeccable Apache members. The proposal template[1] says it is “useful” if that initial committers state their affiliations. I think it would be helpful here. Julian [1]

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Joe Witt
Henry I totally understand the spirit of your statement but I want to be clear in speaking for my own involvement here. I am participating in this proposal and proposed podling as an apache member. That I happen to work for hortonworks has absolutely nothing to do with it and frankly I wish it

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Henry Saputra
One immediate concern is all mentors coming from Hortonworks. I would strongly suggest to find more balance mentors. I know we had this discussion about "fake" diversity stuff, but I strongly advise to do more effort to get mentors from different background than one company. - Henry On

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Ellison Anne Williams
Hi Nick, One of our driving goals in open sourcing Pirk is to build and foster a diverse community around scalable, robust PIR. Although the initial committers of Pirk come from a limited set of entities, we are absolutely committed to recruiting and growing a diverse committing community.

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Ellison Anne Williams
t seems too easy > to get wrong. > >> > >> Hope that helps! > >> Benjamin > >> > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Joe Witt [mailto:joe.w...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 11:15 AM > >> To: general@incubator.apache.org > &

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Shane Curcuru
st seems too easy to get wrong. >> >> Hope that helps! >> Benjamin >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Joe Witt [mailto:joe.w...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 11:15 AM >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS]

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Nick Kew
On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 09:01 -0400, Ellison Anne Williams wrote: > Hi All, > > > We would like to discuss the proposal of a new project to the incubator - > Pirk. I note you have a champion and mentors all from a single company. It's not clear whether initial committers are any more diverse. Is

RE: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Benjamin Young
: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal Benjamin, The correct way to refer to any Apache project is 'Apache Foo' I look forward to hearing people say 'Apache Pirk'. Now matter now many times I try to say that quickly it sounds good. Was there any other concern about the naming other than

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Joe Witt
ne 7, 2016 9:02 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal > > Hi All, > > > We would like to discuss the proposal of a new project to the incubator - > Pirk. > > > Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (P

RE: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Benjamin Young
: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal Hi All, We would like to discuss the proposal of a new project to the incubator - Pirk. Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). The proposal is contained below and can also be found on the wiki at https://wiki.apache.org

Re: [DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Extremely awesome to see this arrive! Cheers, Chris ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop:

[DISCUSS] Pirk Incubation Proposal

2016-06-07 Thread Ellison Anne Williams
Hi All, We would like to discuss the proposal of a new project to the incubator - Pirk. Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR). The proposal is contained below and can also be found on the wiki at https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PirkProposal Looking forward