All,
Congrats to on your move to TLP! Well and truly deserved :>.
Cheers, Berin
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ASF Board Summary for June 23, 2004 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:23:06 -0700 From: Greg Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Each month, the ASF Board has its regular meeting for conducting ASF business. Since there is usually quite a delay between that meeting and when the official minutes are approved/published, I like to send this summary of activity so that people remain informed of what is going on. Especially in terms of how it may affect your activities here at the ASF.
* The Board approved the formation of the Public Relations Committee (PRC). This new committee replaces the Fundraising Committee and also rolls in the responsibility and management of our press activities, public relations, and management of our web sites. The intent is to present a coherent message to the press, our sponsors, and all interested parties. This new committee is chaired by Brian Fitzpatrick.
* Updated Contribute License Agreements (CLAs) were approved for both individuals and corporations. These should be posted to the licensing section of our website shortly (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
* The Jakarta PMC Chair is now held by Henri Yandell, as Geir has moved over to chair the new Geronimo PMC.
* The Cocoon PMC Chair also switched over to Sylvain Wallez, after Steven decided to step down. Steven and Geir are both part of the new PRC, too.
* SpamAssassin has graduated out of the Incubator into its own, new top-level project (TLP), chaired by Daniel Quinlan. This was finally made possible now that Network Associates officially transferred ownership of the SA trademarks to the ASF. We had been worried that we might have to change the name of the project (oof!), but that is no longer the case. The ASF is now the proud owner of the fantastic SpamAssassin brand and the codebase. The SA team is on the verge of releasing a long overdue 3.0 release.
* XMLBeans has also graduated out the Incubator into a TLP. XMLBeans provides a simplified model for interacting with XML documents. The project originated with a contribution from BEA, but after its time within the Incubator, it is now a full-fledged Apache community and codebase. Cliff Schmidt is the Chair of the new Apache XMLBeans PMC.
That is it for this month. As always, please feel free to discuss this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also send myself or any other ASF officer an email with your questions, comments, or concerns.
Cheers, -g
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