Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-17 Thread Phillip Rhodes 
+1


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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Seetharam Venkatesh <
venkat...@innerzeal.com> wrote:

> +1, the proposal looks very interesting. We have a metadata and governance
> solution built in Apache Atlas (http://atlas.incubator.apache.org) and use
> an array of technologies to store the relationships using Titan and HBase.
> This will be of interest to Atlas community.
>
> If you are still looking for mentoring, I can volunteer and help.
>
> Thanks,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM Sean Busbey  wrote:
>
> > My apologies, I was on vacation and missed the start of this thread.
> >
> > late +1 (binding)
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Adina Crainiceanu 
> wrote:
> >
> > > +1 of course :) I'm very excited at the prospect of joining the Apache
> > > community!
> > >
> > >
> > > --Adina Crainiceanu
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Adam Fuchs 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would
> like
> > > to
> > > > call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
> > > >
> > > > The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
> > > > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
> > > >
> > > > The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> > > >
> > > > The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
> > > >
> > > > [ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
> > > > [ ] ±0
> > > > [ ] -1 because...
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Adam
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > = Rya Proposal =
> > > > == Abstract ==
> > > > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store
> that
> > > > supports SPARQL queries.
> > > >
> > > > == Proposal ==
> > > > Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of
> Accumulo.
> > > Rya
> > > > uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
> > > > techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes.
> Rya
> > > > provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a
> > conventional
> > > > query mechanism for RDF data.
> > > >
> > > > == Background ==
> > > > RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
> > > > resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting
> of
> > > > subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy
> > to
> > > > describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want
> > to
> > > > say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF
> triple
> > > like
> > > > (Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world
> > framework
> > > > that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which
> > makes
> > > it
> > > >  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
> > > >
> > > > RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL
> > is a
> > > > framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines
> > > concepts,
> > > > relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be
> > > used
> > > > to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain.
> For
> > > > example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
> > > > (Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice,
> > rdf:type,
> > > > Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
> > > >
> > > > SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT
> > and
> > > > WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF
> > > triples.
> > > >
> > > > Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and
> querying
> > > RDF
> > > > data, started in 2010.
> > > >
> > > > == Rationale ==
> > > > With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems
> > for
> > > > storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe
> that
> > > Rya
> > > > can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government,
> > > health
> > > > care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will
> > be
> > > > most interested in this project.
> > > >
> > > > From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style
> license,
> > > but
> > > > it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe
> > > that
> > > > having the project and the development open for all will benefit both
> > the
> > > > project and the interested communities.
> > > >
> > > > == Current Status ==
> > > > The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a
> > > private
> > > > repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon
> > request.
> > > >
> > > > === Meritocracy ===
> > > > Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to
> >

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-17 Thread Sean Busbey 
My apologies, I was on vacation and missed the start of this thread.

late +1 (binding)

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Adina Crainiceanu  wrote:

> +1 of course :) I'm very excited at the prospect of joining the Apache
> community!
>
>
> --Adina Crainiceanu
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Adam Fuchs  wrote:
>
> > Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like
> to
> > call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
> >
> > The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
> >
> > The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
> >
> >
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> >
> > The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
> >
> > [ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
> > [ ] ±0
> > [ ] -1 because...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
> >
> >
> > = Rya Proposal =
> > == Abstract ==
> > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> > supports SPARQL queries.
> >
> > == Proposal ==
> > Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo.
> Rya
> > uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
> > techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
> > provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
> > query mechanism for RDF data.
> >
> > == Background ==
> > RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
> > resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
> > subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
> > describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
> > say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple
> like
> > (Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
> > that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes
> it
> >  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
> >
> > RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
> > framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines
> concepts,
> > relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be
> used
> > to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
> > example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
> > (Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
> > Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
> >
> > SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
> > WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF
> triples.
> >
> > Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying
> RDF
> > data, started in 2010.
> >
> > == Rationale ==
> > With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
> > storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that
> Rya
> > can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government,
> health
> > care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
> > most interested in this project.
> >
> > From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license,
> but
> > it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe
> that
> > having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
> > project and the interested communities.
> >
> > == Current Status ==
> > The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a
> private
> > repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.
> >
> > === Meritocracy ===
> > Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
> > larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache
> project.
> >
> > === Community ===
> > Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
> > years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and
> the
> > number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
> >
> > === Core Developers ===
> > The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either
> government
> > employees or former / current government contractors from different
> > companies.
> >
> > === Alignment ===
> > Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.
> >
> > == Known Risks ==
> > === Orphaned Products ===
> > There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
> > are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
> > developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
> > the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
> > communities.
> >
> > === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> > The initial committers have various

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-17 Thread Seetharam Venkatesh 
+1, the proposal looks very interesting. We have a metadata and governance
solution built in Apache Atlas (http://atlas.incubator.apache.org) and use
an array of technologies to store the relationships using Titan and HBase.
This will be of interest to Atlas community.

If you are still looking for mentoring, I can volunteer and help.

Thanks,
Venkatesh

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM Sean Busbey  wrote:

> My apologies, I was on vacation and missed the start of this thread.
>
> late +1 (binding)
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Adina Crainiceanu  wrote:
>
> > +1 of course :) I'm very excited at the prospect of joining the Apache
> > community!
> >
> >
> > --Adina Crainiceanu
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Adam Fuchs  wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like
> > to
> > > call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
> > >
> > > The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
> > > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
> > >
> > > The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> > >
> > > The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
> > >
> > > [ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
> > > [ ] ±0
> > > [ ] -1 because...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Adam
> > >
> > >
> > > = Rya Proposal =
> > > == Abstract ==
> > > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> > > supports SPARQL queries.
> > >
> > > == Proposal ==
> > > Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo.
> > Rya
> > > uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
> > > techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
> > > provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a
> conventional
> > > query mechanism for RDF data.
> > >
> > > == Background ==
> > > RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
> > > resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
> > > subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy
> to
> > > describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want
> to
> > > say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple
> > like
> > > (Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world
> framework
> > > that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which
> makes
> > it
> > >  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
> > >
> > > RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL
> is a
> > > framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines
> > concepts,
> > > relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be
> > used
> > > to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
> > > example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
> > > (Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice,
> rdf:type,
> > > Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
> > >
> > > SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT
> and
> > > WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF
> > triples.
> > >
> > > Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying
> > RDF
> > > data, started in 2010.
> > >
> > > == Rationale ==
> > > With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems
> for
> > > storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that
> > Rya
> > > can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government,
> > health
> > > care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will
> be
> > > most interested in this project.
> > >
> > > From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license,
> > but
> > > it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe
> > that
> > > having the project and the development open for all will benefit both
> the
> > > project and the interested communities.
> > >
> > > == Current Status ==
> > > The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a
> > private
> > > repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon
> request.
> > >
> > > === Meritocracy ===
> > > Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to
> build a
> > > larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache
> > project.
> > >
> > > === Community ===
> > > Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the
> past 3
> > > years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and
> > the
> > > number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
> > >
> > > === Core Developers ===
> > > The core developers are a

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-16 Thread Adina Crainiceanu 
+1 of course :) I'm very excited at the prospect of joining the Apache
community!


--Adina Crainiceanu

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Adam Fuchs  wrote:

> Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
> call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
>
> The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
>
> [ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> = Rya Proposal =
> == Abstract ==
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> supports SPARQL queries.
>
> == Proposal ==
> Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
> uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
> techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
> provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
> query mechanism for RDF data.
>
> == Background ==
> RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
> resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
> subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
> describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
> say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple like
> (Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
> that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes it
>  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
>
> RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
> framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines concepts,
> relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
> to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
> example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
> (Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
> Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
>
> SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
> WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF triples.
>
> Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying RDF
> data, started in 2010.
>
> == Rationale ==
> With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
> storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
> can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government, health
> care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
> most interested in this project.
>
> From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
> it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
> having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
> project and the interested communities.
>
> == Current Status ==
> The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a private
> repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.
>
> === Meritocracy ===
> Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
> larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.
>
> === Community ===
> Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
> years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and the
> number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either government
> employees or former / current government contractors from different
> companies.
>
> === Alignment ===
> Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned Products ===
> There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
> are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
> developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
> the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
> communities.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
> projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
> within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
> different and more difficult functioning in a real open source environment.
> We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
> successful in operating under Apache's development process.
>
> === Homogenous

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-15 Thread Josh Elser 

+1

Adam Fuchs wrote:

Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.

The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal

The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E

The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.

[ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
[ ] ±0
[ ] -1 because...

Thanks,
Adam


= Rya Proposal =
== Abstract ==
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries.

== Proposal ==
Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
query mechanism for RDF data.

== Background ==
RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple like
(Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes it
  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.

RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines concepts,
relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
(Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).

SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF triples.

Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying RDF
data, started in 2010.

== Rationale ==
With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government, health
care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
most interested in this project.

 From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
project and the interested communities.

== Current Status ==
The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a private
repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.

=== Meritocracy ===
Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.

=== Community ===
Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and the
number of participants in the meeting is increasing.

=== Core Developers ===
The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either government
employees or former / current government contractors from different
companies.

=== Alignment ===
Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.

== Known Risks ==
=== Orphaned Products ===
There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
communities.

=== Inexperience with Open Source ===
The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
different and more difficult functioning in a real open source environment.
We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
successful in operating under Apache's development process.

=== Homogenous Developers ===
The current list of developers form a heterogeneous group, with people for
academia, government, and industry, collaborating from distributed
geographic locations. We aim to expand the list of contributors with the
help of the Apache incubation process.

=== Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
Many but not all of the

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-15 Thread Chris Nauroth 
+1 (binding)

--Chris Nauroth




On 9/14/15, 8:17 AM, "Adam Fuchs"  wrote:

>Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
>call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
>
>The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
>
>The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3C
>CALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3
>E
>
>The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
>
>[ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
>[ ] ±0
>[ ] -1 because...
>
>Thanks,
>Adam
>
>
>= Rya Proposal =
>== Abstract ==
>Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
>supports SPARQL queries.
>
>== Proposal ==
>Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
>uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
>techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
>provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
>query mechanism for RDF data.
>
>== Background ==
>RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
>resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
>subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
>describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
>say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple
>like
>(Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
>that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes
>it
> a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
>
>RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
>framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines
>concepts,
>relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
>to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
>example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
>(Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
>Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
>
>SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
>WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF
>triples.
>
>Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying
>RDF
>data, started in 2010.
>
>== Rationale ==
>With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
>storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
>can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government,
>health
>care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
>most interested in this project.
>
>From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
>it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
>having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
>project and the interested communities.
>
>== Current Status ==
>The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a
>private
>repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.
>
>=== Meritocracy ===
>Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
>larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.
>
>=== Community ===
>Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
>years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and
>the
>number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
>
>=== Core Developers ===
>The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either
>government
>employees or former / current government contractors from different
>companies.
>
>=== Alignment ===
>Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.
>
>== Known Risks ==
>=== Orphaned Products ===
>There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
>are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
>developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
>the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
>communities.
>
>=== Inexperience with Open Source ===
>The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
>projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
>within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
>different and more difficult functioning in a real open source
>environment.
>We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
>successful in operating under Apache's development process.
>
>=== Homogenous Developers ===
>The current list of developers form a heterogeneous group, with people for
>academia, government, and industry, collaborating from

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-14 Thread Atri Sharma 
+1
On 14 Sep 2015 20:47, "Adam Fuchs"  wrote:

> Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
> call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
>
> The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
>
> [ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> = Rya Proposal =
> == Abstract ==
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> supports SPARQL queries.
>
> == Proposal ==
> Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
> uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
> techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
> provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
> query mechanism for RDF data.
>
> == Background ==
> RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
> resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
> subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
> describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
> say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple like
> (Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
> that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes it
>  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
>
> RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
> framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines concepts,
> relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
> to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
> example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
> (Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
> Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
>
> SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
> WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF triples.
>
> Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying RDF
> data, started in 2010.
>
> == Rationale ==
> With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
> storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
> can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government, health
> care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
> most interested in this project.
>
> From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
> it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
> having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
> project and the interested communities.
>
> == Current Status ==
> The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a private
> repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.
>
> === Meritocracy ===
> Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
> larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.
>
> === Community ===
> Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
> years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and the
> number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either government
> employees or former / current government contractors from different
> companies.
>
> === Alignment ===
> Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned Products ===
> There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
> are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
> developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
> the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
> communities.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
> projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
> within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
> different and more difficult functioning in a real open source environment.
> We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
> successful in operating under Apache's development process.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current list of developers form a heterogeneous group, with people for
> academia,

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-14 Thread Rob Vesse 
+1

On 14/09/2015 16:17, "Adam Fuchs"  wrote:

>Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
>call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
>
>The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
>
>The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3C
>CALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3
>E
>
>The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
>
>[ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
>[ ] ±0
>[ ] -1 because...
>
>Thanks,
>Adam
>
>
>= Rya Proposal =
>== Abstract ==
>Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
>supports SPARQL queries.
>
>== Proposal ==
>Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
>uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
>techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
>provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
>query mechanism for RDF data.
>
>== Background ==
>RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
>resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
>subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
>describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
>say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple
>like
>(Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
>that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes
>it
> a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
>
>RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
>framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines
>concepts,
>relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
>to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
>example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
>(Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
>Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
>
>SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
>WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF
>triples.
>
>Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying
>RDF
>data, started in 2010.
>
>== Rationale ==
>With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
>storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
>can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government,
>health
>care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
>most interested in this project.
>
>From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
>it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
>having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
>project and the interested communities.
>
>== Current Status ==
>The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a
>private
>repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.
>
>=== Meritocracy ===
>Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
>larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.
>
>=== Community ===
>Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
>years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and
>the
>number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
>
>=== Core Developers ===
>The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either
>government
>employees or former / current government contractors from different
>companies.
>
>=== Alignment ===
>Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.
>
>== Known Risks ==
>=== Orphaned Products ===
>There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
>are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
>developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
>the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
>communities.
>
>=== Inexperience with Open Source ===
>The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
>projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
>within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
>different and more difficult functioning in a real open source
>environment.
>We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
>successful in operating under Apache's development process.
>
>=== Homogenous Developers ===
>The current list of developers form a heterogeneous group, with people for
>academia, government, and industry, collaborating from distributed
>geographic locations.

Re: [VOTE] Accept Rya into the Apache Incubator

2015-09-14 Thread Andy Seaborne 

+1 (binding)

On 14/09/15 16:17, Adam Fuchs wrote:

Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.

The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal

The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E

The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.

[ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
[ ] ±0
[ ] -1 because...

Thanks,
Adam


= Rya Proposal =
== Abstract ==
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries.

== Proposal ==
Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
query mechanism for RDF data.

== Background ==
RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple like
(Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes it
  a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.

RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines concepts,
relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
(Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).

SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF triples.

Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying RDF
data, started in 2010.

== Rationale ==
With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government, health
care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
most interested in this project.

 From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
project and the interested communities.

== Current Status ==
The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a private
repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.

=== Meritocracy ===
Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.

=== Community ===
Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and the
number of participants in the meeting is increasing.

=== Core Developers ===
The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either government
employees or former / current government contractors from different
companies.

=== Alignment ===
Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.

== Known Risks ==
=== Orphaned Products ===
There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
communities.

=== Inexperience with Open Source ===
The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
different and more difficult functioning in a real open source environment.
We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
successful in operating under Apache's development process.

=== Homogenous Developers ===
The current list of developers form a heterogeneous group, with people for
academia, government, and industry, collaborating from distributed
geographic locations. We aim to expand the list of contributors with the
help of the Apache incubation process.

=== Reliance on Salaried Developers ===