Hi all, currently the production industry is all about “industry 4.0” and this mainly covers topics like: Cloud, BigData, Machine Learning … while we know that Apache has a lot to offer in that regard. Still Siemens is doing a lot in promoting their MindSphere platform and are gaining some traction in the industry.
Especially in the IoT projects of Apache it would be great to be able to talk to that platform the same way we can with Azure, Google, AWS, … unfortunately an insanely expensive membership is needed. In all of my recent meetings with Siemens, I always underlined that I would love to support MindSphere, but I and I bet most others here at Apache are definitely not going to pay 10k€/year in order to develop software for Siemens in my free time. Now after a lot of constant nagging on different occasions, I was told that even if Apache is not a research or academic institiution, they would be willing to grant the ASF the same status. However someone with the formal capacity to do so would have to fill out the form. So my question is: Would there be an interest in this? And who should I involve in this? Chris
