+1...binding. Cheers, Chris
On 11/12/10 9:01 AM, "Sander W G van der Waal" <sander.vanderw...@oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote: +1 (non-binding) Sander > From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] > Sent: 10 November 2010 15:11 > To: Incubator General > Subject: [VOTE] Accept Stanbol for incubation > > Hi, > > I think we're ready to vote on the > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StanbolProposal now, copy included > below. > > This is TPFKAF - The Project Formerly Known As FOO. > > Please cast your votes: > > [ ] +1 Accept Stanbol for incubation > [ ] +0 Don't care > [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason: > > The vote is open for at least 72 hours. > > Thanks! > -Bertrand > > > = Apache Stanbol incubation proposal = > > == Abstract == > Apache Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of > components for semantic content management. > > == Proposal == > Stanbol components are meant to be accessed over RESTful interfaces to > provide semantic services for content management. The current code is > written in Java and based on the OSGi modularization framework, but > other server-side languages might be used as well. > > Applications include extending existing content management systems > with (internal or external) semantic services, and creating new types > of content management systems with semantics at their core. > > The architecture of the current (alpha-level) code consists of four layers: > * Persistence: services that store (or cache) semantic information > and make it searchable > * Lifting: services that add semantic information to "non-semantic" > pieces of content > * Knowledge models and reasoning: services that enhance the semantic > information > * Interaction: intelligent user interface management and generation > > == Background == > Stanbol comes out of the IKS project (Interactive Knowledge Stack, > http://iks-project.eu/), a research project funded by the European > Community (EC) which aims to create a semantic content management > software stack. > > One of the goals of IKS is for its software to survive the 4-year > funding period of the EC, which ends in 2012. > > Developing its code in the open at the Apache Software Foundation, and > growing a community before IKS funding runs out, is the best way to > ensure the sustainability of the Stanbol software. > > For more background information, some articles and tutorials on FISE, > which was the first usable IKS module, can be found in the "FISE > links" section of http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/FISE > > == Rationale == > Content Management Systems (CMS) can benefit from semantic add-ons in > a number of ways, including more intelligent linking, automatic or > semi-automatic tagging of content, enhanced user interactions based on > intelligent and dynamically adaptable user scenario modeling, etc. > > However, many CMS vendors and developers are not aware of or skilled > enough in semantic technologies to make effective use of them. > Research in semantic technologies often happens in academic circles > which might not make their findings available in a way that's easily > consumable by today's CMS vendors and developers. > > Some big companies are using semantic technologies behind the scenes > to provide powerful services, but that technology is usually not > accessible to smaller vendors. > > Stanbol aims to bridge these gaps by providing CMS vendors and > developers with easy to integrate semantic components that add value > to their offerings. > > At the same time, more experimental advanced semantic applications > will be built on the Stanbol stack, with the medium-term goal of > enabling pure semantic-based content management and other > applications. > > == Initial Goals == > * Import the existing IKS code. > * Clean up as needed to take advantage of Apache infrastructure > (Hudson continuous builds, etc.) > * Replace up any dependencies that do not fulfill Apache licensing > criteria. > * Create the Stanbol website and migrate IKS website/wiki information > to it as needed. > * Make a first release and publicize it to start growing the community. > > == Current Status == > === Meritocracy === > As IKS is an EC research project with funding, it does not formally > operate as a meritocracy. > > However, due to the open source way of working adopted by the > consortium, an informal meritocracy has emerged within IKS. > > We estimate that adapting to the ASF's meritocratic way of working > will be easy for the initial set of Stanbol committers, as the > differences to the current way of working are not dramatic. > > === Community === > The IKS project plan includes an important effort to build a community > around the software that it produces. Several community workshops have > already taken place, attended by more than 40 European CMS developers > and vendors. > > See http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Workshops for more info. > > A community is emerging around IKS, and moving to the Apache project > governance model should help grow it - also by reassuring community > members that the software will continue to be available and > maintainable once the IKS EC funding runs out. > > === Core Developers === > The IKS consortium consists of seven academic research groups and six > "industrial partners", companies active in the CMS space. > > See http://iks-project.eu/team/team for the list. > > The current IKS software has been written by a group of about a dozen > developers from this consortium, with few external contributions until > now. Members of the Clerezza community have contributed some key > pieces, and ties between both communities are strong. > > === Alignment === > As many Apache projects have something to do with content management, > obvious synergies exist, which should allow us to grow the community > from inside the ASF as well as from the outside. > > == Known Risks == > > === Orphaned Products === > The IKS code as it stands now might be orphaned when the EC funding of > IKS runs out at the end of 2012. > > That's why we want to move to Apache now, to have a bit more than two > years to make Stanbol independent of its EC funding. > > === Inexperience with Open Source === > The IKS team includes a number of very experienced Open Source > developers, along with people doing their first open source > contributions. > > Since the IKS consortium started writing code early this year, we have > had ample opportunity to bring everybody up to speed as to how open > source works, and we're confident that the initial committers will > quickly adapt to the ASF's way of working. > > === Homogeneous Developers === > The current developers are spread amongst the IKS consortium partners, > with no dominant company or organization. > > === Reliance on Salaried Developers === > Until the end of 2012, the work of IKS consortium members is funded by > the consortium, so there is a "common boss" problem, and we can assume > that most or all of that work is salaried. > > Moving software development to the ASF, and especially growing a > community to include committers from outside the IKS consortium, > should help reduce or eliminate this risk. Even IKS partners using the > software in their products will help reduce the "common boss" problem, > as both the IKS and the partner company will have a need for Stanbol > software. > > === Relationships with Other Apache Products === > The IKS software is written as a set of OSGi components and runs on > Apache Felix, using the launcher from Apache Sling. > > It also uses several key components from the Apache Clerezza > incubating project, along with a number of other Apache libraries. > Several Clerezza committers have been contributing in IKS workshops, > without being part of the IKS consortium. > > Clerezza in turn uses Jena, which is also joining the Apache Incubator. > > Lucene/Solr will be used for indexing and search. > > We also expect to use software from or collaborate with Mahout, Tikka, > Jackrabbit, UIMA and Chemistry. > > === An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === > The brand is not what makes the difference for the IKS team, the > motivation is the opportunity to build and grow a community. > > == Documentation == > Existing components are documented at http://wiki.iks-project.eu/ and > http://code.google.com/p/iks-project/w/list but that information is > still incomplete due to the alpha status of most of that software. > > == Initial Source == > http://code.google.com/p/iks-project/ > > == External Dependencies == > Appendix A contains the list of Maven groupIds of dependencies of the > various Stanbol modules. > > Most of those are compatible with ASF requirements > (http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html) but an extensive check is > needed, to remove/change any non-compatible ones. > > == Required Resources == > > === Mailing Lists === > > * stanbol-private (moderated subscriptions) > * stanbol-dev > * stanbol-commits > > === Subversion Directory === > > * [[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/stanbol]] > > === Issue Tracking === > * JIRA (STANBOL) > > === Other Resources === > We will probably request a wiki once the podling is setup, and access > to a Hudson continuous build server. > > == Initial Committers and affiliations == > The following people are members of the IKS consortium, see > http://iks-project.eu/team/team for a description of their > organizations: > > * Aldo Gangemi (aldo DOT gangemi AT cnr DOT it) - CNR > * Andreas Filler (andreas DOT filler AT hs-furtwangen DOT de) - > Hochschule Furtwangen > * Andreas Gruber (andreas DOT gruber AT salzburgresearch DOT at) - > Salzburg Research > * Benjamin Nagel (bnagel AT hotmail DOT de) - University of Paderborn > * Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz AT apache DOT org) - Adobe > * Enrico Daga (enrico DOT daga AT cnr DOT it) - CNR > * Fabian Christ (christ DOT fabian AT googlemail DOT com) - > University of Paderborn (s-lab) > * Henri Bergius (henri DOT bergius AT iki DOT fi) - Nemein - original > co-author of Midgard > * Jean-Michel Pittet (jmp AT adobe DOT com) - Adobe > * Joerg Steffen (steffen AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI > * Massimo Romanelli (romanell AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI - W3C MMI > Working Group, USDL Incubator Group > * Olivier Grisel (ogrisel AT nuxeo DOT com) - Nuxeo - committer on > Nuxeo, contributor to Mahout, http://github.com/ogrisel and > http://bitbucket.org/ogrisel > * Ozgur Kilic (ozgur AT srdc DOT com DOT tr) - SRDC > * Rupert Westenthaler (rupert DOT westenthaler AT gmail DOT com) - > Salzburg Research > * Sebastian Germesin (sebastian DOT germesin AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI > * Stefane Fermigier (sf AT fermigier DOT com) - Nuxeo SA > * Szabolcs Grunwald (szaby DOT gruenwald AT salzburgresearch DOT at) > - Salzburg Research > * Tilman Becker (becker AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI > * Valentina Presutti (valentina DOT presutti AT cnr DOT it) - CNR > * Walter Kasper (kasper AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI - OpenLogos project > lead, http://openlogos-mt.sourceforge.net/ > * Wernher Behrendt (wernher DOT behrendt AT gmail DOT com) - Salzburg > Research > * Wolfgang Maass (wolfgang DOT maass AT unisg DOT de) - University of > St. Gallen > > > The following initial committers are not members of the IKS consortium: > * Andreas Kuckartz (a DOT kuckartz AT ping DOT de) > * Ard Schrijvers (ard AT apache DOT org) > * Tommaso Teofili (tommaso AT apache DOT org) > > == Sponsors == > > === Champion === > * Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz AT apache DOT org) > > === Nominated Mentors === > * Ted Dunning (tdunning AT apache DOT org) > * Ross Gardler (rgardler AT apache DOT org) > * Upayavira (upayavira AT apache DOT org) > * Isabel Drost (isabel AT apache DOT org) > > === Sponsoring Entity === > Apache Incubator. > > == Appendix A: list of dependencies == > Here's the list of Maven groupIds of the current Stanbol dependencies, > omitting org.apache.* and commons-* groupIds but including transitive > dependencies. > > {{{ > asm > com.aetrion.flickr > com.beetstra.jutf7 > com.drewnoakes > com.googlecode.json-simple > com.hp.hpl.jena > com.ibm.icu > com.sun.jersey > com.sun.xml.bind > dom4j > edu.smu.tspell > eu.iksproject > hermit > info.aduna.commons > it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.chars > javax.activation > javax.mail > javax.servlet > javax.ws.rs > javax.xml > javax.xml.bind > javax.xml.stream > jetty > jtidy > junit > local.jrdf > log4j > mysql > net.fortuna.ical4j > net.fortuna.mstor > net.sf.jacob-project > net.sf.kxml > net.sourceforge > net.sourceforge.juniversalchardet > org.antlr > org.bibsonomy > org.bouncycastle > org.clojars.thnetos > org.codehaus.castor > org.codehaus.jackson > org.codehaus.jettison > org.codehaus.woodstox > org.freemarker > org.hsqldb > org.htmlparser > org.jaudiotagger > org.jdom > org.json > org.mockito > org.mortbay.jetty > org.nsdl.mptstore > org.openrdf.sesame > org.ops4j.base > org.ops4j.pax.exam > org.ops4j.pax.runner > org.osgi > org.samba.jcifs > org.scala-lang > org.semanticdesktop.aperture > org.semanticdesktop.nepomuk > org.semanticweb.owlapi > org.semweb4j > org.slf4j > org.textmining > org.wymiwyg > owl-link > owlapi > ronaldhttpclient > stax > trove > xerces > xmlpull > }}} > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
