Hi everyone, here's the proposed board report. Please correct / augment as needed. It may be a bit long, so I may shorten it slightly...
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2011. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: Since last report, the Addons package for UIMA was released (http://uima.apache.org/news.html#29 August 2011). The addons package contains 2 new annotators: Solrcas (for storing CAS objects into an Apache Solr instance), and AlchemyAPIAnnotator (wraps alchemyapi.com services). Development: A new contributor, Peter Klügl contributed a UIMA tool to the sandbox, called TextMarker. A user has set up a French language portal to all things UIMA, and contributed a French language models for the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Tagger annotator, and generally improved that annotator. The French language models are awaiting getting some additional permissions before they are put into SVN. Some attempts to package UIMA Annotators as OSGi bundles led to renewed investigations toward this, and some progress was made in identifying approaches and tools, including Maven integration / support. There continue to be lots of incremental Cas Editor fixes, mostly driven by user feedback and the development of a new Cas Editor based plugins at the Apache Incubator OpenNLP project. UIMA-AS had a few bug fixes, and some new features, including exposing per-component statistics (for tuning) from UIMA aggregates for each CAS. Community: No changes. Issues: No Board level issues at this time Trademarks/Branding: Previous work to add TM started (at some point in time) to fail to display. With infra's help, traced this to the fact that Apache Web sites are now being displayed using UTF-8. Our website, generated by Anakia, was in ISO-8859-1, indicated on the charset= attribute of the META tag for the html page. This was being dynamically changed by the Apache website to UTF-8. We fixed this by inserting a replace character step in our site generation ant script that replaces the TM in iso-8859 with the one for UTF-8. Branding checklist: no change from previous report: Project Website Basics - done Website Navigation Links - done Trademark Attributions - done Logos and Graphics - not done Project Metadata - done Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - partially done. Need to get confirmation that all PMC members have read this. -Marshall On 8/31/2011 9:28 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > Where did the summer go? It's time for the next quarterly board report. > > Please reply to this message with items for the report. > > I will insert a bit about the addons release. > > -Marshall >
