+1 -- thank you very much Vincent for coordinating. I'm very excited to see Shindig "grow up", and feel bittersweet that I chose not to be on the PMC, given my small direct involvement with the code. Good practice for when my biological children graduate ...
- dG On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Vincent Siveton <vsive...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Shindig has been in incubation since December 2007. Apache Shindig is > an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting OpenSocial apps > quickly by providing the code to render gadgets, proxy requests, and > handle REST and RPC requests. During last two years, we have voted new > committers and performed 2 releases. We have also created a brand logo > with the community help and resolved licensing issues. > > I'd propose to graduate Shindig as an Apache TLP. I drafted a board > resolution, which we will have to provide to the Incubator PMC as the > basis for the graduation discussion on the Incubator general list. > > Please cast your vote. > > +1 graduate Shindig as TLP > +-0 don't care > -1 don't graduate because... > > Here is my +1. > > Vote open for 72 hours. > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > --- Begin Proposed Board Resolution --- > > 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 the implementation of an OpenSocial container and > OpenSocial API specifications, 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 Shindig PMC", is hereby established pursuant to > Bylaws > of the Foundation; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the Apache Shindig Project be and hereby is responsible for > the > creation and maintenance of software related to the OpenSocial API > specifications, based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it > further > > RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Shindig" be and hereby > is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the > Board of Directors as the chair of Apache Shindig, and to have primary > responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of > responsibility > of the Apache Shindig PMC; 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 Shindig PMC: > > * Ian Boston (ieb at apache dot org) > * Kevin Brown (etnu at apache dot org) > * Chris Chabot(chabotc at apache dot org) > * Chico Charlesworth (chico at apache dot org) > * Cassie Doll (doll at apache dot org) > * Evan Gilbert (evan at apache dot org) > * John Hjelmstad (johnh at apache dot org) > * Paul Lindner (lindner at apache dot org) > * Daniel Peterson (dpeterson at apache dot org) > * Louis Ryan (lryan at apache dot org) > * Henning Schmiedehausen (henning at apache dot org) > * Vincent Siveton (vsiveton at apache dot org) > * Upayavira (upayavira at apache dot org) > * Adam Winer (awiner at apache dot org) > > NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Paul Lindner be appointed to > the > office of Vice President, Apache Shindig, 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 Apache Shindig be and hereby is tasked with the migration > and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Shindig podling; and be it > further > > RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator > Shindig podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter > discharged. > > --- End Proposed Board Resolution --- >
