[QUESTION] Incubate quantum computing project at Apache

[James Dailey <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hello

I'm seeking additional input and interest in this idea. AFAIK, there
are no existing projects of this type in the attic, active, or
incubating.

At ApacheCON North America (october 2022), we heard from the CEO of
Strangeworks, Whurley!.
He presented the idea of an open source project that could benefit the
emerging Quantum Computing industry. Of particular interest, he
outlined, is the vendor-neutrality that is the hallmark of ASF.

There are multiple public benefits to having the frameworks and
algorithms exist outside of closed source proprietary systems.
Further, quantum computing, as it advances, has a problem of being
entirely driven by narrow commercial interests, and given the enormous
resources required to design and create the hardware, risks becoming
only accessible to a small portion of the global community. An Apache
project in this space, one that is perhaps based on an existing
framework, contributed and following our vendor neutral approach,
would advance the agenda of a public benefit quantum computing
concept.

I'm on "Step One" of the Cookbook.
https://incubator.apache.org/cookbook

Thoughts?

Additional sources of information and "lite" reading.
https://strangeworks.com/
https://www.ibm.com/topics/quantum-computing
https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/quantum-computing/
https://quantumai.google/research
https://www.qosf.org/
https://gesda.global/solutions/open-quantum-institute/


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Re: [QUESTION] Incubate quantum computing project at Apache

[James Dailey <ja...@gmail.com>]

Thank you Gordon for the +1 , and Rich for the comment and opportunity to
clarify.

I want to ask for an ASF incubator mentor for this, to move it forward.

We are reaching out to key companies in the quantum computing industry with
this proposal - to have a vendor neutral project at Apache - and have
received very positive reactions.

There is also a strong potential to bring over an existing open source
licensed project.  We’d need to check if there the are disallowed licensed
components in that.



On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:41 PM Gordon <ga...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1 for this idea.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:58 AM James Dailey <ja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Rich.
>>
>> "The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project is an open-source project that
>> aims to support the development and prototyping of quantum-resistant
>> cryptography."
>>
>> So, their concept is very different - it's attempting to provide a
>> "counter" to quantum computing which may render existing encryption
>> implementations obsolete.
>> It is a good idea to have a solid team working on the new encryption
>> models... for sure.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM Salz, Rich <rs...@akamai.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Have you seen https://openquantumsafe.org/ ?  The team is impressive.
>> >
>> > Work is done on GitHub, MIT license, and has integrations with OpenSSL
>> and others.
>> >
>> >
>>
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Re: [QUESTION] Incubate quantum computing project at Apache

[Gordon <ga...@apache.org>]

+1 for this idea.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:58 AM James Dailey <ja...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Rich.
>
> "The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project is an open-source project that
> aims to support the development and prototyping of quantum-resistant
> cryptography."
>
> So, their concept is very different - it's attempting to provide a
> "counter" to quantum computing which may render existing encryption
> implementations obsolete.
> It is a good idea to have a solid team working on the new encryption
> models... for sure.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM Salz, Rich <rs...@akamai.com> wrote:
> >
> > Have you seen https://openquantumsafe.org/ ?  The team is impressive.
> >
> > Work is done on GitHub, MIT license, and has integrations with OpenSSL
> and others.
> >
> >
>
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Re: [QUESTION] Incubate quantum computing project at Apache

[James Dailey <ja...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Rich.

"The Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project is an open-source project that
aims to support the development and prototyping of quantum-resistant
cryptography."

So, their concept is very different - it's attempting to provide a
"counter" to quantum computing which may render existing encryption
implementations obsolete.
It is a good idea to have a solid team working on the new encryption
models... for sure.



On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM Salz, Rich <rs...@akamai.com> wrote:
>
> Have you seen https://openquantumsafe.org/ ?  The team is impressive.
>
> Work is done on GitHub, MIT license, and has integrations with OpenSSL and others.
>
>

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Re: [QUESTION] Incubate quantum computing project at Apache

["Salz, Rich" <rs...@akamai.com.INVALID>]

Have you seen https://openquantumsafe.org/ ?  The team is impressive.

Work is done on GitHub, MIT license, and has integrations with OpenSSL and others.