On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 12:55 AM Mo Sadoghi <mo.sado...@expolab.org> wrote: > > Dear Apache Members, > > Hope you are safe and well. > > Over the past 6 years, we have been developing a distributed blockchain > framework, called ResilientDB <https://resilientdb.com/>, which has been > open-sourced <https://github.com/resilientdb/resilientdb> since 2019. > ResilientDB is a lightweight and highly performant framework (written in > C++) that has been extensively evaluated and refined resulting in over 20 > publications and 2 books. It allows for easy integration with various > Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) and Crash Fault-Tolerant (CFT) consensus > protocols. ResilientDB has been a key educational tool, thus far, 1 > postdoc, 3 Ph.D., and 13 MSc students have graduated while working on it. > Furthermore, it has been used in the classroom for the past 5 years with > several hundred students utilizing it for their course projects. The > current core team of ResilientDB consists of 1 Postdoc, 2 PhD, 8 MSc, and 6 > BSc. In addition to academic success, it has been utilized by our industry > partners (e.g., Radix Ltd <https://www.radixdlt.com/> and Mysten Labs > <https://mystenlabs.com/>) for analysis and as an industrial-strength > framework to implement their consensus protocols. The broader team of > active contributors currently included UCB, UCI, UPenn, and McMaster U. > > Our ResilientDB platform has now reached a stable point in its product > life-cycle, and we believe it is now an excellent candidate to be > considered for the Apache Incubation program to further expand its reach > and development by building a larger community and ecosystem around it. > Furthermore, considering the thriving field of blockchain / distributed > ledger, Apache does not have any core blockchain software in its portfolio. > > We are looking for champions and mentors for our project. Your kind support > is greatly appreciated. We look forward to growing and expanding our > product as part of the Apache community. > > Here is the live / latest draft of the proposal. > https://docs.google.com/document/d/12WPvs1A7tqH8VjkMrgXTGQ_z4fiL6f6oi32e7bxSjXc/edit?usp=sharing > > Currently, we have *Anh Dinh*, Apache SINGA’s PMC, as our Apache mentor > (cc'ed).
It is extremely exciting to see a project like this seeking the ASF's governance! Somehow I find it particularly fitting that one of the innovations in your technology is PoC -- Proof Of Collaboration -- it seems to me that this is somehow very on-brand for the ASF ;-) Best of luck! Oh, and on the mentors side -- I always advise projects to have at least 3 mentors. If nothing else -- that tends to make voting on your releases a much smoother experience. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
