[Incubator Wiki] Update of "January2017" by fmcquillan

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Add MADlib report

  
  
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  MADlib
  
  Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
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  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
+   1. Need guidance from Incubator PMC on how to resolve the BSD licensing switch over to Apache License.  What should be the content of the license headers for files that were previously BSD licensed and then granted to ASF?  Related legal-discuss threads:
+ http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201609.mbox/%3CCALGG8z03zHhbFegXoi4fH+vXtF+9m7x6hak9RjKQjapuzi67gQ@mail.gmail.com%3E
+ http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201603.mbox/%3C9D1AF43C-370B-4E58-B0EF-2E29D242F50B%40jaguNET.com%3E
+   2. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
+   3. Continue to execute and manage the project according to governance model of the "Apache Way”.
  
- Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
+ Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
- aware of?
  
+  1. Yes-please see #1 above and provide guidance.
+  2. The next release v1.10 will be the 4th as an incubating project.  After that, the community would ideally like to move towards top level status.
  
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- How has the community developed since the last report?
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- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+   1. Some related events in Q4 2016 and upcoming: 
+         * Feb 4, 2017 - Presentation accepted at FOSDEM’17 Graph devroom.  Topic:  Graph Analytics on Massively Parallel Processing Databases (Frank McQuillan)
+ 	* Dec 1, 2016 - MADLib community call.  Topic:  New features in R interface and MADlib user survey results (hosted by Greg Chase, Orhan Kislal, Frank McQuillan)
+ 	* Nov 16, 2016 - Presentation at PGConf Silicon Valley.  Topic:  Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib (incubating) (Frank McQuillan)
+ 	* Nov 14, 2016 - Presentation at Apache Big Data Europe.  Topic:  Distributed In-Database Machine Learning with Apache MADlib (incubating) (Roman Shaposhnik)
+   2. Material technical conversations on user/dev mailing lists and in the appropriate JIRAs and pull requests.
+   3. New contributors to the project have been working on KNN module and Python interface.
  
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
  
- Date of last release:
+   1. Active work in progress for 4th ASF release MADlib v10 scheduled for Jan 2017.  Features include: single source shortest path graph algorithm, completely new module for encoding categorical variables, R interface update, grouping support in elastic net and PCA, cross validation in elastic net, verbose output option for decision tree visualization.
+   2. Mailing list activity in Q4:  227 postings to dev, 66 postings to user.
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+ Date of last release:
  
+   MADlib v1.9.1 on 9/19/16.
+ 
- When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
+ When were the last committers or PMC members elected:
  
+   Orhan Kislal on 9/7/16 and Nandish Jayaram on 9/7/16.
  
  
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