I've met Matt and other folks from the Hop project more than a year ago through Beam Summit Europe. I can say that they are genuinely passionate about open-source. Initially, they were not familiar with the Apache Way, but throughout the past year, everyone has ramped up their knowledge about the ASF. You will also see that reflected in the proposal. Hop is a great project in the sense that it adds GUI-based integration to many data processing projects at Apache.
