June 2017 Report

[Nicolas Kourtellis <nk...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
Please check the last report and make any comments before I append it to
the wiki.
Needs to be done in the next couple of days, so please provide any feedback
today-tomorrow.
Thanks!

Nicolas

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


SAMOA

SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the
most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
(DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture
that allows it to run on several DSPEs such as Apache Flink, Apache Storm,
Apache Apex and Apache Samza.

SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Grow the developer base
  2. Grow the user base
  3. Add some more ML techniques

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?

Mailing list activity (March 2017 - May 2017):
  * @dev: 38 messages

  Jira issues backlog (March 2017 - May 2017):
  * Created:  6
  * Resolved: 1

  - We organized a 2-day internal workshop on SAMOA at Telefonica I+D with
researchers of Orange Labs, Telecom Paris and QCRI. Various have been
discussed to improve SAMOA's ML and other interfaces with systems like
Kafka, etc.

  - We submitted a proposal for funding which will help the development of
new features on Samoa.

  - We started working on a new release 0.5.0. This release will have
support for Kafka, a more well-rounded support for Avro and Json formats,
as well as support to store predictions outputted from the model.

  - There was also significant work done to integrate correctly the
instances between MOA and SAMOA, as there was a deviation of how they were
defined and hindered the portability of new methods from MOA to SAMOA.

  - Early discussions to increase the committers / developers team by
inviting new contributors to the panel.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - We are looking into new ML techniques for development.

  - Worked on the integration of Samoa-MOA instances

  - Engaging interactions with new parties (Orange Labs) and potential
collaborations

How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  [ ] Initial setup
  [ ] Working towards first release
  [X] Community building
  [ ] Nearing graduation
  [ ] Other:

Date of last release:

  2016-09-30

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

  None

Signed-off-by:

  [ ](samoa) Alan Gates
     Comments:
  [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
     Comments:
  [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
     Comments:
  [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
     Comments:

Re: June 2017 Report

[Alan Gates <al...@gmail.com>]

+1.

Alan.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Nicolas Kourtellis <nk...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> Please check the last report and make any comments before I append it to
> the wiki.
> Needs to be done in the next couple of days, so please provide any feedback
> today-tomorrow.
> Thanks!
>
> Nicolas
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> SAMOA
>
> SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the
> most common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
> clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
> new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
> (DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture
> that allows it to run on several DSPEs such as Apache Flink, Apache Storm,
> Apache Apex and Apache Samza.
>
> SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
>   1. Grow the developer base
>   2. Grow the user base
>   3. Add some more ML techniques
>
> 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?
>
> Mailing list activity (March 2017 - May 2017):
>   * @dev: 38 messages
>
>   Jira issues backlog (March 2017 - May 2017):
>   * Created:  6
>   * Resolved: 1
>
>   - We organized a 2-day internal workshop on SAMOA at Telefonica I+D with
> researchers of Orange Labs, Telecom Paris and QCRI. Various have been
> discussed to improve SAMOA's ML and other interfaces with systems like
> Kafka, etc.
>
>   - We submitted a proposal for funding which will help the development of
> new features on Samoa.
>
>   - We started working on a new release 0.5.0. This release will have
> support for Kafka, a more well-rounded support for Avro and Json formats,
> as well as support to store predictions outputted from the model.
>
>   - There was also significant work done to integrate correctly the
> instances between MOA and SAMOA, as there was a deviation of how they were
> defined and hindered the portability of new methods from MOA to SAMOA.
>
>   - Early discussions to increase the committers / developers team by
> inviting new contributors to the panel.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
>   - We are looking into new ML techniques for development.
>
>   - Worked on the integration of Samoa-MOA instances
>
>   - Engaging interactions with new parties (Orange Labs) and potential
> collaborations
>
> How would you assess the podling's maturity?
> Please feel free to add your own commentary.
>
>   [ ] Initial setup
>   [ ] Working towards first release
>   [X] Community building
>   [ ] Nearing graduation
>   [ ] Other:
>
> Date of last release:
>
>   2016-09-30
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>   None
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
>   [ ](samoa) Alan Gates
>      Comments:
>   [ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
>      Comments:
>   [ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
>      Comments:
>   [ ](samoa) Ted Dunning
>      Comments:
>