[Incubator Wiki] Update of "October2018" by SteffenRochel

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initial draft contribution to mxnet report.

  
  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
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-   2.
-   3.
+ 1. Establish a predictable release process consistent with Apache Way -- ESTABLISHED.
+ 2. Grow the community -- ONGOING.
+ 3. Identify remaining ICLAs or SGAs that need signing – NEAR COMPLETION.
  
  Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
  aware of?
  
  
  
- 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?
+ * We have active contributors from companies like Intel, Nvidia, Wolfram Design and more. The number of github contributors increased from 506 (3/31/2018) to currently 569 (7/31/2018, 2.9% MoM), 
+ * Active discussions on https://discuss.mxnet.io/ (English) and https://discuss.gluon.ai/ (Chinese)
+ * We developed an active blog and posted 25 blogs YTD (56% MoM) and have 766 (21.4% MoM)followers.
+ * We established a youtube channel, have 280 subscriber (+13.8% MoM) and 45 (9.7% MoM) videos published.
+ * 56 new public tutorials related and about MXNet have been published YTD.
+ * We established a global MXNet meetup group with 4 groups in 3 countries and 833 member: https://www.meetup.com/pro/deep-learning-with-apache-mxnet/ 
+ * Community members participated at ACNA18, total of 5 presentations related to MXNet.
  
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
+ 1) v1.3 release notes: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.3.0 
+ 2) Community updated MXNet backend for Keras to v2.2.2
+ 3) Github statistics for August 2018:
+ * Excluding merges, 62 authors have pushed 180 commits to master and 188 commits to all branches. On master, 614 files have changed and there have been 29,908 additions and 26,648 deletions.
+ * 273 issues got closed and 154 new issue created during the reporting period.
  
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
  
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+ How would you assess the podling's maturity?
+ Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+ Podling is still having difficulties to grow committer community. Maturity == Medium.
+ 
    [ ] Initial setup
    [ ] Working towards first release
-   [ ] Community building
+   [X] Community building
    [ ] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
  Date of last release:
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   2018-09-19 (v1.3) Apache MXNet-incubating 1.3.0 (major release) was published on September 19, 2018
+               https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.3.0
  
  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
+   2018-08-10 Carin Meier
  
  
  Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
  through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
  that need to be addressed.
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+   We thank the mentors for ongoing support and guidance.
  
  Signed-off-by:
  
@@ -774, +791 @@

    [ ](mxnet) Henri Yandell
       Comments:
    [ ](mxnet) Markus Weimer
+      Comments:
+   [ ](mxnet) Jim Jagielski
       Comments:
  
  IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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