Hi, Below is a Draft of the proposed Graduation Resolution, please feel free to review before we call a community VOTE: * denotes pending apache account creation.
--- X. Establish the Apache cTAKES Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to the processing of natural language text from the electronic medical record. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache cTAKES Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache cTAKES Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the processing of natural language text from the electronic medical record; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache cTAKES" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache cTAKES Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache cTAKES Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache cTAKES Project: *Andy McMurry <[email protected]> Britt Fitch <[email protected]> Chen Lin <[email protected]> Chris Mattmann <[email protected]> Ding Cheng Li <[email protected]> Dmitriy Dligach <[email protected]> Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> *Guergana K. Savova Hongfang Liu <[email protected]> James J Masanz <[email protected]> Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> *Kim Ebert Matt Coarr <[email protected]> Pei J Chen <[email protected]> *Sarma Karthik <[email protected]> Scott Russell Halgrim <[email protected]> Sean Finan <[email protected]> Sean Patrick Murphy <[email protected]> Siddhartha Jonnalagadda <[email protected]> Steven Bethard <[email protected]> Stephen Wu <[email protected]> Sunghwan Sohn <[email protected]> Tim Miller <[email protected]> Troy C. Bleeker <[email protected]> Vinod C Kaggal <[email protected]> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Pei J Chen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache cTAKES, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache cTAKES PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache cTAKES Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache cTAKES Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator cTAKES podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator cTAKES podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Mattmann, Chris A (388J) [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate cTAKES from Incubator > > +1, exactly Jörn. > > I'm not a huge fan of the bylaws. What I tend to do is to cruft up a > resolution > template, e.g,. here's a recent one for Airavata which passed > muster: > > WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the > Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a > Project Management Committee charged with the creation and > maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the > public, related to executing and managing computational jobs on distributed > computing resources including local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, > academic and commercial clouds. > > NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee > (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Airavata Project", be and hereby is > established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the Apache Airavata Project be and hereby is responsible > for the creation and maintenance of software related to executing and > managing computational jobs on distributed computing resources including > local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, academic and commercial > clouds; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Airavata" be and > hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction > of > the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Airavata Project, and to > have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope > of responsibility of the Apache Airavata Project; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are > appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Airavata Project: > > Aleksander Slominski <[email protected]> > Ate Douma <[email protected]> > Chathura Herath <[email protected]> > Chris Mattmann <[email protected]> > Eran Chinthaka <[email protected]> > Srinath Perera <[email protected]> > Heshan Suriyaarachchi <[email protected]> > Lahiru Gunathilake <[email protected]> > Marlon Pierce <[email protected]> > Patanachai Tangchaisin <[email protected]> > Raminderjeet Singh <[email protected]> > Saminda Wijeratne <[email protected]> > Shahani Weerawarana <[email protected]> > Suresh Marru <[email protected]> > Thilina Gunarathne <[email protected]> > > NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Suresh Marru be > appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Airavata, to serve in > accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and > the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal > or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Airavata PMC be and hereby is tasked > with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open > development and increased participation in the Apache Airavata Project; and > be it further > > RESOLVED, that the Apache Airavata Project be and hereby is tasked with > the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Airavata podling; > and be it further > > RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator > Airavata podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are > hereafter discharged. > > > Try revising this and getting to a resolution everyone is happy with. Then we > can: > > 1. Community [VOTE] here on ctakes-dev@incubator 2. Incubator PMC > [VOTE] on general@incubator 3. Add board resolution to board agenda - > target March 2013 board meeting > > Cheers, > Chris > > On 2/19/13 6:19 AM, "Jörn Kottmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 02/19/2013 02:11 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: > >> What is the general procedure? > >> Do we just copy and paste an example resolution and put it to vote at > >>dev, then general, and if it passes. Present it to the board? > > > >The process is explained here: > >http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#process > > > >It might be easier to use the resolution template (committer access only): > >https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates/podlin > g > >-tl > >p-resolution.txt > > > >Jörn
