Hi all, The Apache Pivot community feels that it is ready to graduate into the "Apache Pivot" top-level project.
Please place your votes within the next 72 hours -- to serve as recommendations to the Board at the December Board meeting. [ ] +1, Graduate Apache Pivot [ ] 0, I don't care [ ] -1, Apache Pivot is not ready to graduate, because... The Board Resolution proposal is included below. Kind Regards, -T --- 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, to be known as "Apache Pivot", related to the creation and maintenance of a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC) is hereby established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Pivot PMC be and hereby is charged with the creation and maintenance of Apache Pivot; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Pivot" 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 Pivot, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Pivot 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 Pivot PMC: · Christopher Brind <brindy AT apache DOT org> · Greg Brown <gbrown AT apache DOT org> · Martijn Dashorst <dashorst AT apache DOT org> · Noel Grandin <noelgrandin AT apache DOT org> · Niclas Hedhman <niclas AT apache DOT org> · Sandro Martini <smartini AT apache DOT org> · Todd Volkert <tvolkert AT apache DOT org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Greg Brown be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, 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 Pivot be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Pivot podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Pivot podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. --- End Proposed Board Resolution ---
