Hi all, I also would like to thank Marshall for having served as PMC chair as well as core developer for UIMA for so many years! I also support Richard in being the next PMC chair, thanks Richard for taking the nomination :-)
Regards, Tommaso On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 16:15, Peter Klügl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I can only agree with the others. > > > Thanks Marshall for your tremendous work. > > > Richard is a logical choice. Additionally to the already mentioned > arguments, he is an ASF member and knows the Apache Way as well as the > duties of a PPMC. And he is also involved in many UIMA-related projects > outside of ASF, e.g., dkpro-core, WebAnno, INCEpTION ... > > > Best, > > > Peter > > > Am 18.10.2020 um 16:19 schrieb Marshall Schor: > > Hi everyone, > > > > After a decade of serving as the UIMA Project's PMC Chairperson, I've > decided to > > step down as the UIMA PMC chair, as soon as we can reach a consensus on > a new > > chairperson. > > > > I have found being the chairperson of this project and working with the > > community on it, to be extremely personally rewarding, for which I am > very > > grateful. My own personal job role has shifted considerably over these > years, > > and I now find that I currently do not have time to focus on this role. > > > > It's a good policy to have new people with fresh energy step up into > this role > > from time to time. > > > > In terms of possible candidates, I see that Richard Eckart de Castilho > has > > recently become quite active, and has picked up the activity around the > core > > uimaj project as well, including working on many tricky internal > issues; if he > > were willing, I think he would be a very good candidate as the next PMC > chair. > > > > Please express your opinions, and let's form a consensus, which we can > then > > formalize with a [VOTE]. > > > > -Marshall > > > -- > Dr. Peter Klügl > Head of Text Mining/Machine Learning > > Averbis GmbH > Salzstr. 15 > 79098 Freiburg > Germany > > Fon: +49 761 708 394 0 > Fax: +49 761 708 394 10 > Email: [email protected] > Web: https://averbis.com > > Headquarters: Freiburg im Breisgau > Register Court: Amtsgericht Freiburg im Breisgau, HRB 701080 > Managing Directors: Dr. med. Philipp Daumke, Dr. Kornél Markó > >
