Maybe we can mention the uima-as release :-) ? Tommaso and Joern - can you add something about the work you're doing on SolrCas, AlchemyAPI, etc. ?
Other possible Items: Joern got CI going on Hudson We worked with Sally K to do an Apache Press Release around UIMA use in "Watson", playing against Jeopardy Users are building on top of UIMA - example - release of DKPro Core 1.1.0 set of annotators and tooling. Please add more significant items ( I think I've missed some because it's about time to go to sleep...) -Marshall
