+1 looks good!
> On Jul 11, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Good point. I added an additional bullet below.
>
>
> ## Description:
>
> Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big
> data.
> It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and
> hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure
> manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
>
> ## Issues:
>
> - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
>
> ## Activity:
> - Awareness continues to increase with the community having done
> presentations
> at various meetups as well as the following conferences: Pydata Paris,
> Hadoop
> Summit Ireland, Hadoop Summit San Jose and Berlin Buzzwords.
> - The CPP work has made good progress.
> - The cross-project work with Parquet has seen substantial work (both in
> the
> Parquet project and the Arrow project). This should be a great first
> example
> proof-of-concept integration showing the benefits of in-memory columnar
> layer.
> - There has been substantial progress on development of for the IPC /
> memory sharing.
> - Java development has slowed some but appears to be picking up again.
> - A new independent project called Feather is using Arrow as a format for
> writing
> to disk. This has also increased engagement with Arrow itself and we have
> a number
> excited communities including R & Python (and the Julia community
> experimenting).
>
> ## Health report:
> - We've seen good discussion and development activity since the last
> report.
> - We need to get to a first release.
> - Prior to doing so, the community is working on rudimentary integration
> tests between
> Java and C++ and more formal format specification.
> - More work can be done to make the project approachable to newly
> interested parties by
> creating additional documentation and quickstart. A sample application
> will also help.
>
> ## PMC changes:
>
> - Currently 17 PMC members.
> - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
> - Last PMC addition was Abdel Hakim Deneche on Tue Jan 20 2016
>
> ## Committer base changes:
>
> - Currently 20 committers.
> - No new committers added in the last 3 months
> - Last committer addition was Ippokratis Pandis at Thu Feb 18 2016
>
> ## Releases:
>
> - No releases yet.
>
> ## JIRA activity:
>
> - 71 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
> - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
