Now that this is public... please join me in welcoming three newly elected members of the Apache Software Foundation with ties to this community, who were elected during the most recent Members' Meeting.
* Ismaël Mejía (Beam PMC) * Josh Wills (Crunch Chair; Beam, DataFu PMC) * Holden Karau (Spark, SystemML PMC; Mahout, Subversion committer; Beam contributor) These individuals demonstrated merit in Foundation's growth, evolution, and progress. They were recognized, nominated, and elected by existing membership for their significant impact to the Foundation as a whole, such as the roots of project-related and cross-project activities. As members, they now become legal owners and shareholders of the Foundation. They can vote for the Board, incubate new projects, nominate new members, participate in any PMC-private discussions, and contribute to any project. (For the Beam community, this election nearly doubles the number of Foundation members. The new members are joining Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Stephan Ewen, Romain Manni-Bucau and myself in this role.) I'm happy to be able to call all three of you my fellow members. Congratulations! Davor
