2008-December Tashi Incubator Status Report Tashi has been incubating since September 2008. The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud computing on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored in a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on by remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner. Work has been progressing toward an initial test installation of Tashi via the OpenCirrus testbed (http://www.opencirrus.org/). This has consumed much of the developers' time. During this though, a few minor changes were made to the code to make it more amenable to deployment. Items to be resolved before graduation: * Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright * Check and make sure that all code included with the distribution is covered by one or more of the approved licenses * Migrate the project to Apache infrastructure (begin using Jira) * Community diversity (currently Intel and CMU committers) * Demonstrate ability to create Apache releases