Re: [CROWDSOURCING] Apache Arrow Board Report - April 12, 2023

2023-03-29 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
We are abandoning this project: United States DARPA/NSF/Pentagon and its humanitarian arms are blacklisting this project due to security issues with it's application programming interfaces where it is copying a part of the data and sharing that with foreign intelligence. We already have our own d

Re: A Message from the Board to PMC members

2023-03-29 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
DARPA left this project in the dust 2-3 years ago FYI On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 7:50 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > Dear Apache Project Management Committee (PMC) members, > > The Board wants to take just a moment of your time to communicate a few > things that seem to have been forgotten by a number of P

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Arrow PMC member: Will Jones

2023-03-15 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
official shuttered sunset - arpa/darpa On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 8:37 AM Ian Joiner wrote: > Congrats Will! Well deserved! > > Ian > > On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, Nic Crane wrote: > > > Congratulations Will! :) > > > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 03:09, Jin Shang wrote: > > > > > Congrats Will! > >

Re: [proposal] Arrow Intermediate Representation to facilitate the transformation of row-oriented data sources into Arrow columnar representation

2022-07-28 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
He was trying to nicely say he knows way more than you, and your ideas will result in a low performance scheme no one will use in production ai/machine learning. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 28, 2022, at 12:14 PM, Benjamin Blodgett > wrote: > > I think Jorge’s opinion has i

Re: [proposal] Arrow Intermediate Representation to facilitate the transformation of row-oriented data sources into Arrow columnar representation

2022-07-28 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
I think Jorge’s opinion has is that of an expert and him being humble is just being tactful. Probably listen to Jorge on performance and architecture, even over Wes as he’s contributed more than anyone else and know the bleeding edge of low level performance stuff more than anyone. Sent from

Re: [RUST][DataFusion][Arrow] Switching DataFusion to use arrow2 implementation and the future of arrow

2022-01-16 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
Why don’t we gift the whole arrow project to Jorge if he’s the one pushing the tech forward? I’d say the governance would be better Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 16, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Wes McKinney wrote: > > Is there a possibility of donating arrow2 to the Arrow project (at > some point)? The

Re: [RUST][DataFusion][Arrow] Switching DataFusion to use arrow2 implementation and the future of arrow

2022-01-16 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
Jorge did such a great job making THE new and better columnar in mem format. Arrow 2 is just better and the future, but it should stay under Jorge’s clearly more capable hands. We should all be thanking him. I had a such a a good belly laugh at ‘is there a possibility of donating’. Pleaser do

Re: [Discuss] [Rust] Arrow2/parquet2 going foward

2021-08-03 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
great idea! On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 8:49 AM Andy Grove wrote: > I also like the idea of moving arrow2/parquet2 into the official repos. > This is effectively what we did with Ballista, which is still experimental. > Ballista was simpler because it depends on DataFusion rather than the other > way

Re: [RUST] parquet2 experiment

2021-04-17 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
That sounds like a great way to frame that and solve that issue! Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 17, 2021, at 3:01 PM, Wes McKinney wrote: > > In principle, I don't see an issue with having a network of > apache/arrow-* git repositories for Rust projects, so if the desire is > to have a new GitHu

Re: Rust sync meeting

2021-04-08 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
Wes, I think we understand your administrative prerogative. I think in both Julia and Rust cases, you just have engineers that want to go fast and do very needed, deep changes for security and performance. I think, and this is just my wild guess, that to go through the Apahce process (because it

Re: [VOTE] Accept donation of Rust Ballista project

2021-03-21 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
+1 (binding) - super excited about this! On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 4:08 PM paddy horan wrote: > +1 (non-binding) > > > > From: Sutou Kouhei > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2021 4:34:43 PM > To: dev@arrow.apache.org > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Accept donation of Rust Ballista

Re: Arrow Rust sync call February 10 at 12:00 US/Eastern, 17:00 UTC

2021-02-12 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
Hi Andy, Is Ballista or the Rust meeting still looking for sponsors? Please send me some details as I'm still in the trying to get C level buy in, but I think it's moving along :) I'd like to do something similar to TwoSigmas BeakerX or Flint at my work, while especially focusing on low level op

Re: [RUST] Arrow guide

2021-01-31 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
This is great, thanks for this! On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 9:25 AM Fernando Herrera < fernando.j.herr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > During the past months I have been trying to read and understand the code > base for the Rust implementation of Arrow. At the beginning I was just > reading the co

Re: Arrow Rust Sync Call 1/27/2021

2021-01-27 Thread Benjamin Blodgett
Looks like I put this on my calendar wrong, but really glad this is happening, will be there next call! We are doing a lot in rust and arrow this year and super excited you got this started Andy! On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:58 AM Rémi Dettai wrote: > thanks Andy!! > > Le mer. 27 janv. 2021 à 18:4