[Incubator Wiki] Update of "July2017" by smarthi

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filed report for MxNet

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  MXNet
  
- A Flexible and Efficient Library for Deep Learning
+ MXNet is an open-source deep learning framework that allows you to define,
+ train, and deploy deep neural networks on a wide array of devices, from
+ cloud infrastructure to mobile devices. It is highly scalable, allowing for
+ fast model training, and supports a flexible programming model and multiple
+ languages. MXNet allows you to mix symbolic and imperative programming
+ flavors to maximize both efficiency and productivity. MXNet is built on a
+ dynamic dependency scheduler that automatically parallelizes both symbolic
+ and imperative operations on the fly. A graph optimization layer on top of
+ that makes symbolic execution fast and memory efficient. The MXNet library
+ is portable and lightweight, and it scales to multiple GPUs and multiple
+ machines.
+ 
  
  MXNet has been incubating since 2017-01-23.
  
  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
+   1. Migrate code (GitHub) and website to Apache Infra.
+   2. Grow the community
+   3. Establish a reliable Release process consistent with Apache Way.
  
  Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
  aware of?
+   
+    None
  
- 
- 
- How has the community developed since the last report?
- 
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+  5.1.  On 5/27 MXNet published a comprehensive edit and makeover of the
+        documentation including tutorials, how-to’s, APIs and architecture guides.
+        This was a broad effort that involved over 40 contributors.
  
+  5.2.  The PMC voted in a new contributor who has been helping with the code
+        migration and setup of the test infrastructure. We are making slow but
+        steady progress towards getting the GitHub code migrated. The target date
+        for migration is 7/17. Website migration will happen next.
+ 
+  5.3.  Slack and dev@ are being used more actively.
+ 
+  5.4.  Two presentations/workshops on Apache MXNet at the O’Reilly AI Conf
+        on 6/27 and 6/28
+ 
+  5.5.  A new blog post published on 6/23 showing users how to Build a
+        Real-time Object Classification System with ApacheMXNet on Raspberry Pi.
+        https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/build-a-real-time-object-classification-system-with-apache-mxnet-on-raspberry-pi/
+ 
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
+ 
+  6.1.  Since the last report 42 authors have pushed 326 commits to master.
+ 
+  6.2.  Documentation- Architecture guides, How To’s, Tutorials, and APIs
+        have been improved.
+ 
+  6.3.  More features (e.g. operators) requested by the user community has
+        been added.
+ 
+  6.4.   A new Perl language binding for MXNet was added.
+ 
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
+ How would you assess the podling's maturity? 
+   
+    Podling's still getting established in Apache - so maturity == Low.
+    
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.
  
-   [ ] Initial setup
+   [X] Initial setup
    [ ] Working towards first release
    [ ] Community building
    [ ] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
- Date of last release:
+ Date of last release: 
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   No Release yet, project is still getting established in Apache.
  
  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
- 
+   Ly Nguyen added as a committer and PPMC member in June 2017.
  
  Signed-off-by:
  
    [ ](mxnet) Sebastian Schelter
       Comments:
-   [ ](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
+   [X](mxnet) Suneel Marthi
       Comments:
    [ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
       Comments:

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