news: origin/master Feburary 5th 2022

Author: John Andersen

news/origin_master_February_5_2022.md

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+[![dffml-logo-lightmode.svg](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/dffml/8db01b0c59e6b70f36d3a16ea4428d803e272d06/docs/images/logo-lightmode.svg)](
+https://github.com/intel/dffml/commit/8db01b0c59e6b70f36d3a16ea4428d803e272d06)
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+The guy who designed the logo for Git (https://jasonlong.me/) designed DFFML
+a logo!!! We merged his contribution of the logo files yesterday.
+
+One of the students from GSoC last year on the project reached out to him
+and asked him if he would do it, and well, he did it!
+
+For some reason the project getting a logo feels like some kind of milestone
+in it's journey. I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on the project's
+history, and update you all on what we hope is its future.
+
+The project started on December 26th of 2017 when Diego Heath outlined the
+original architecture. Building on John Whiteman's work and integrating with
+Rodigo's web app, we set out on a mission to make a robot (George as Tibbs
+named him) do our most dreaded of tasks, looking at open source projects!
+We enabled auto review on the Allowlist Tool somewhere around June of 2018,
+and the project open sourced on March 7th of 2019. We then presented the
+work at [BSides PDX in October of 2019](https://gist.github.com/pdxjohnny/07b8c7b4a9e05579921aa3cc8aed4866#file-rolling_alice_progress_report_0003_down_the_dependency_rabbit_hole_bsides_portland_2019-md),
+along with revamped data flow architecture which was inspired by the name
+Jessica gave us, and with advice from Arjan. Just wanted to share with you
+all since you all were a huge part of making the project happen. We couldn't
+have done it without everyone's feedback and guidance thought the years.
+
+![initial-scetch-of-arch-by-diego-heath](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec8f973b-1458-4ce7-8872-5b273c660c8b)
+
+Things have gone great the past few years being in Google Summer of Code
+(GSoC). Big thanks to Terri who leads the Python Software Foundation (PSF)
+GSoC org and helped us navigate that process and hosting us as a sub-org.
+We've mentored 8 students, with several of those students having been mentors
+themselves after their time as students. Most of the students have gone on
+to have full time jobs, we're lucky that they still make time to be a part
+of the community and mentor others. The project has been a space for students
+to learn about software development and machine learning. The project has
+also been a place for me to learn about running an open source project,
+CI/CD, documentation, and most importantly building a community. I'm grateful
+to all who have been involved as I know my learning curve was at times rocky.
+
+Saying I'm a bit too busy lately is an understatement. The students who'd
+mentored during GSoC the past few years are likely / hopefully soon going to
+take over maintenance of the project going forward soon. Terri and I meet
+with them and they have been working on their governance documentation
+(thank you again Jessica) for their org: https://github.com/builtree.
+Under their leadership, the project will hopefully reach it's beta milestone
+within the next two years. I'm excited to see what the future holds. I know
+they will continue the spirt of the community and build amazing things.
+
+Thanks again for all the advice along the way.
+
+- John