Attached below is a draft of this month's board report. I plan to submit it on Jan 13 (Sorry for the late email). Please let me know if you have any additions or corrections.
## Description: Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite and provides a framework for building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica has an independent release schedule and its own repository. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: There are currently 51 committers and 23 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. No new committers or PMC members were added in the last 3 months. ## Project Activity: Calcite 1.26.0 was released on 2020-10-06, with important features such as supporting SEARCH operator and Sarg literal, adding PIVOT operator in SQL, adding support for JDK 15 and Guava version 29.0-jre. On Jan 20th, there will be online meetup for Calcite community with presentations covering Calcite concepts, recent work on streams, spatial query implementation. ## Community Health: The overall activity in the community has slightly decreased in the past few months without this being worrisome. 153 JIRA tickets created and 94 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months, 20% decrease comparing with last quarter. The fewer number of design discussions and JIRA activities can be explained by the holiday season and low number of active committers.
