[RESULT][VOTE] Accept Horn into the ASF incubator

["Edward J. Yoon" <ed...@apache.org>]

Sorry but again,

Thank you for everyone for participating and warm welcome for the Horn
project proposal. The vote has passed with the following result (✓
means IPMC):

+1s:

Edward J. Yoon ✓
Behroz Sikander
Minho Kim
Chris Aniszczyk
John D. Ament ✓
JongYoon Lim
Tommaso Teofili ✓
Atri Sharma
Moonsoo Lee
Jan Iversen ✓
Chia-Hung Lin
Bertrand Delacretaz ✓
Amareshwari Sriramadasu ✓
Alex Karasulu ✓
Jake Farrell ✓
Luciano Resende ✓
Hitesh Shah ✓
Seetharam Venkatesh ✓

0s:
None

-1s:
None

I will continue with the bootstrap process to bring Horn into Apache
incubator next week. Thank you again for those participated in the
VOTE.

Thanks.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Edward J. Yoon <ed...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for everyone for participating and warm welcome for the Horn
> project proposal. The vote has passed with the following result (✓
> means IPMC):
>
> +1s:
>
> Edward J. Yoon ✓
> Behroz Sikander
> Minho Kim
> Chris Aniszczyk
> John D. Ament ✓
> JongYoon Lim
> Tommaso Teofili ✓
> Atri Sharma
> Moonsoo Lee
> Jan Iversen ✓
> Chia-Hung Lin
> Bertrand Delacretaz ✓
> Amareshwari Sriramadasu ✓
> Alex Karasulu ✓
> Jake Farrell ✓
> Luciano Resende ✓
> Hitesh Shah ✓
> Seetharam Venkatesh ✓
>
> 0s:
> None
>
> -1s:
> None
>
> I will continue with the bootstrap process to bring Horn into Apache
> incubator next week. Thank you again for those participated in the
> VOTE.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Seetharam Venkatesh
> <ve...@innerzeal.com> wrote:
>> +1
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:20 AM Hitesh Shah <hi...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> — Hitesh
>>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Edward J. Yoon <ed...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi folks,
>>> >
>>> > I would like to call a vote to accept Horn, as a new Apache Incubator
>>> > project. The full proposal is available at the end of this mail and as
>>> > a https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HornProposal (the changes from
>>> > initial discussion draft are addition of 2 committers from cldi-kaist
>>> > team and Rich as a mentor).
>>> >
>>> > The VOTE is open for at least the next 72 hours:
>>> >
>>> > [ ] +1 Accept Horn into the Apache Incubator
>>> > [ ] 0
>>> > [ ] -1 Do not accept Horn into the Apache Incubator bc ..
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to get the voting started w/ my own +1
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > == Abstract ==
>>> >
>>> > Horn [hɔ:n] (korean meaning of Horn is a "Spirit") is a neuron-centric
>>> > programming APIs and execution framework for large-scale deep
>>> > learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
>>> >
>>> > == Proposal ==
>>> >
>>> > It is a goal of the Horn to provide a neuron-centric programming APIs
>>> > which allows user to easily define the characteristic of artificial
>>> > neural network model and its structure, and its execution framework
>>> > that leverages the heterogeneous resources on Hama and Hadoop YARN
>>> > cluster.
>>> >
>>> > == Background ==
>>> >
>>> > The initial ANN code was developed at Apache Hama project by a
>>> > committer, Yexi Jiang (Facebook) in 2013. The motivation behind this
>>> > work is to build a framework that provides more intuitive programming
>>> > APIs like Google's MapReduce or Pregel and supports applications
>>> > needing large model with huge memory consumptions in distributed way.
>>> >
>>> > == Rationale ==
>>> >
>>> > While many of deep learning open source softwares such as Caffe,
>>> > DeepDist, DL4j, and NeuralGiraph are still data or model parallel
>>> > only, we aim to support both data and model parallelism and also
>>> > fault-tolerant system design. The basic idea of data and model
>>> > parallelism is use of the remote parameter server to parallelize model
>>> > creation and distribute training across machines, and the BSP
>>> > framework of Apache Hama for performing asynchronous mini-batches.
>>> > Within single BSP job, each task group works asynchronously using
>>> > region barrier synchronization instead of global barrier
>>> > synchronization, and trains large-scale neural network model using
>>> > assigned data sets in BSP paradigm. Thus, we achieve data and model
>>> > parallelism. This architecture is inspired by Google's !DistBelief
>>> > (Jeff Dean et al, 2012).
>>> >
>>> > == Initial Goals ==
>>> >
>>> > Some current goals include:
>>> >
>>> > * builds new community
>>> > * provides more intuitive programming APIs
>>> > * needs both data and model parallelism support
>>> > * must run natively on both Hama and Hadoop2
>>> > * needs also GPUs and InfiniBand support (FPGAs if possible)
>>> >
>>> > == Current Status ==
>>> >
>>> > === Meritocracy ===
>>> >
>>> > The core developers understand what it means to have a process based
>>> > on meritocracy. We will provide continuous efforts to build an
>>> > environment that supports this, encouraging community members to
>>> > contribute.
>>> >
>>> > === Community ===
>>> >
>>> > A small community has formed within the Apache Hama project community,
>>> > universities, and companies such as deep learning startup, instant
>>> > messenger service company, and mobile manufacturing company. And many
>>> > people are interested in the large-scale deep learning platform
>>> > itself. By bringing Horn into Apache, we believe that the community
>>> > will grow even bigger.
>>> >
>>> > === Core Developers ===
>>> >
>>> > Edward J. Yoon, Thomas Jungblut, Jungin Lee, and Minho Kim
>>> >
>>> > == Known Risks ==
>>> >
>>> > === Orphaned Products ===
>>> >
>>> > Apache Hama is already a core open source component at Samsung
>>> > Electronics, and Horn also will be used by Samsung Electronics and
>>> > Cldi Inc., and so there is no direct risk for this project to be
>>> > orphaned.
>>> >
>>> > === Inexperience with Open Source ===
>>> >
>>> > Some are very new and the others have experience using and/or working
>>> > on Apache open source projects.
>>> >
>>> > === Homogeneous Developers ===
>>> >
>>> > The initial committers are from different organizations such as,
>>> > Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, Seoul National University, Technical
>>> > University of Munich, KAIST, LINE plus, and Cldi Inc.
>>> >
>>> > === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
>>> >
>>> > Few will be worked as a full-time open source developer. Other
>>> > developers will also start working on the project in their spare time.
>>> >
>>> > === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
>>> >
>>> > * Horn is based on Apache Hama
>>> > * Apache Zookeeper is used for distributed locking service
>>> > * Natively run on Apache Hadoop and Mesos
>>> > * Horn can be somewhat overlapped with Singa podling (If possible,
>>> > we'd also like to use Singa or Caffe to do the heavy lifting part).
>>> >
>>> > === An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
>>> >
>>> > Horn itself will hopefully have benefits from Apache, in terms of
>>> > attracting a community and establishing a solid group of developers,
>>> > but also the relation with Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Hama. These
>>> > are the main reasons for us to send this proposal.
>>> >
>>> > == Documentation ==
>>> >
>>> > Initial plan about Horn can be found at
>>> > http://blog.udanax.org/2015/06/googles-distbelief-clone-project-on.html
>>> >
>>> > == Initial Source ==
>>> >
>>> > The initial source code has been release as part of Apache Hama
>>> > project developed under Apache Software Foundation. The source code is
>>> > currently hosted at
>>> >
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hama/trunk/ml/src/main/java/org/apache/hama/ml/ann/
>>> >
>>> > == Cryptography ==
>>> >
>>> > Not applicable.
>>> >
>>> > == Required Resources ==
>>> >
>>> > === Mailing Lists ===
>>> >
>>> > * horn-private
>>> > * horn-dev
>>> >
>>> > === Subversion Directory ===
>>> >
>>> > * Git is the preferred source control system: git://git.apache.org/horn
>>> >
>>> > === Issue Tracking ===
>>> >
>>> > * a JIRA issue tracker, HORN
>>> >
>>> > == Initial Committers ==
>>> >
>>> > * Thomas Jungblut (tjungblut AT apache DOT org)
>>> > * Edward J. Yoon (edwardyoon AT apache DOT org)
>>> > * Dongjin Lee (dongjin.lee.kr AT gmail DOT com)
>>> > * Minho Kim (minwise.kim AT samsung DOT com)
>>> > * Jungin Lee (jilee AT clid DOT io)
>>> > * Kyunghyun Paeng (khpaeng AT kaist DOT ac DOT kr)
>>> > * Chia-Hung Lin (chl501 AT apache DOT org)
>>> > * Behroz Sikander (behroz.sikander AT tum DOT de)
>>> > * Kisuk Lee (ks881115 AT gmail DOT com)
>>> >
>>> > == Affiliations ==
>>> >
>>> > * Thomas Jungblut (Microsoft)
>>> > * Edward J. Yoon (Samsung Electronics)
>>> > * Donjin Lee (LINE Plus)
>>> > * Minho Kim (Samsung Electronics)
>>> > * Jungin Lee (Cldi Inc.)
>>> > * Kyunghyun Paeng (KAIST)
>>> > * Chia-Hung Lin (Self)
>>> > * Behroz Sikander (Technical University of Munich)
>>> > * Kisuk Lee (Seoul National University)
>>> >
>>> > == Sponsors ==
>>> >
>>> > === Champion ===
>>> >
>>> > * Edward J. Yoon <ASF member, Samsung Electronics>
>>> >
>>> > === Nominated Mentors ===
>>> >
>>> > * Luciano Resende <ASF member, IBM>
>>> > * Robin Anil <ASF member, Tock>
>>> > * Edward J. Yoon <ASF member, Samsung Electronics>
>>> > * Rich Bowen <ASF member, Red Hat>
>>> >
>>> > === Sponsoring Entity ===
>>> >
>>> > The Apache Incubator
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon
>>> >
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