Thanks, Arvind. Did some editing and formatting. References:
Home: http://systemml.apache.org/ Vote by project: <link to vote thread on project list> Vote by incubator: <link to vote thread on general list> Resolution draft: 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 related to declarative, large-scale machine learning, for distribution at no charge to the public NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache SystemML Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache SystemML Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to declarative, large-scale machine learning; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache SystemML" 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 SystemML Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache SystemML 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 SystemML Project: * Alexandre V Evfimievski <ae2...@apache.org> * Arvind Surve <ac...@apache.org> * Berthold Reinwald <reinw...@apache.org> * DB Tsai <dbt...@apache.org> * Deron Eriksson <de...@apache.org> * Faraz Makari <fmak...@apache.org> * Fred Reiss <fre...@apache.org> * Glenn Weidner <gweid...@apache.org> * Henry Saputra <hsapu...@apache.org> * Holden Karau <hol...@apache.org> * Joseph Bradley <jkbrad...@apache.org> * Luciano Resende <lrese...@apache.org> * Matthias Boehm <mboe...@apache.org> * Mike Dusenberry <dusenberr...@apache.org> * Niketan Pansare <niketanpans...@apache.org> * Patrick Wendell <pwend...@apache.org> * Prithviraj Sen <prit...@apache.org> * Reynold Xin <r...@apache.org> * Rich Bowen <rbo...@apache.org> * Shirish Tatikonda <shiri...@apache.org> * Xiangrui Meng <m...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that XXX be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache SystemML, 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 SystemML 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 SystemML Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache SystemML Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator SystemML podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator SystemML podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Regards, Berthold Reinwald IBM Almaden Research Center office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208 e-mail: reinw...@us.ibm.com From: Arvind Surve <ac...@yahoo.com.INVALID> To: Dev <dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org> Date: 03/07/2017 09:42 PM Subject: [DISCUSS] Board resolution for SystemML as a TLP project Hi, I have drafted a Board resolution for SystemML as a TLP project.Please provide the feedback. I have put XXX for Chair of the project which will be replaced with person name.Please volunteer anyone interested for the position. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 a declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to distributed computations on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache SystemML Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED,that the Apache SystemML Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to distributed computations on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark. RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache SystemML" 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 SystemML Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache SystemML 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 SystemML Project: * Alexandre V Evfimievski <ae2...@apache.org> * Arvind Surve <ac...@apache.org> * Berthold Reinwald <reinw...@apache.org> * DB Tsai <dbt...@apache.org> * Deron Eriksson <de...@apache.org> * Faraz Makari <fmak...@apache.org> * Fred Reiss <fre...@apache.org> * Glenn Weidner <gweid...@apache.org> * Henry Saputra <hsapu...@apache.org> * Holden Karau <hol...@apache.org> * Joseph Bradley <jkbrad...@apache.org> * Luciano Resende <lrese...@apache.org> * Matthias Boehm <mboe...@apache.org> * Mike Dusenberry <dusenberr...@apache.org> * Niketan Pansare <niketanpans...@apache.org> * Patrick Wendell <pwend...@apache.org> * Prithviraj Sen <prit...@apache.org> * Reynold Xin <r...@apache.org> * Rich Bowen <rbo...@apache.org> * Shirish Tatikonda <shiri...@apache.org> * Xiangrui Meng <m...@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that XXX be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache SystemML, 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 SystemML 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 SystemML Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache SystemML Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator SystemML podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator SystemML podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Arvind Surve | Spark Technology Center | http://www.spark.tc/