DRAFT report for the November board meeting. Edits/comments welcome. I am to submit the report (at least) a week before the Board meeting, which will be on 2026/11/18
—Rich > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Rich Bowen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Community Development Board Report due by 2026-11-11 - Initial > Reminder > Date: October 28, 2026 at 9:44:32 AM EDT > To: [email protected] > > DRAFT. Edits/comments welcome. > > ## Description: > > The mission of Community Development is the creation and maintenance of > resources, tools, and advice to help ASF Projects grow and retain their > project communities. > > ## Project Status: > > Current project status: Ongoing with high activity > Issues for the board: None > > ## Membership Data: > > Apache Community Development was founded 2009-10-31 (17 years ago) > > There are currently 56 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. > > Community changes, past quarter: > > - Gavin McDonald was added to the PMC on 2026-09-17 > - Kanchana Pradeepika Welagedara was added to the PMC on 2026-09-30 > > ## Project Activity: > > ### Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 > > ComDev assisted with the community-driven parts of Community Over Code Glasgow > on events.apache.org: a cross-project hackathon, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) > sessions, and various attendee and speaker supplemental information at > https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/. > After the event, the hackathon and BoF pages were turned into retrospectives, > and BoF follow-up actions were posted. > > ### Apache Local Communities (ALC) > > - A new /alc/ section of the website was added with a map and chapter details > - New chapters were proposed in Ghana and Pakistan. > > ### Tooling > > - **MCP servers (comdev repo):** Work continued on the PonyMail and > apache-projects MCP servers. Changes include logging in through > the browser and with session tokens, a stricter 2FA login, downloading > email attachments, proxy support, and various other changes. > - **Project metrics (comdev-metrics):** The project health metrics now run > as scheduled batch jobs on projects.apache.org. Projects can now get > high-level > metrics about the activity of their project. > - **ComDev calendar (comdev-calendar):** Daniel Gruno started a new community > events calendar application. It can import ICS files, handles timezones, > can be embedded in other pages, and has an OpenAPI interface. Sebb set up > the project configuration and CI. This is intended to eventually replace the > Google > Calendar events tracking on events.apache.org > - **projects.apache.org:** Various enhancements and tweaks. > > ### FOSDEM 2027 > > Coordination of the ASF devroom applications for FOSDEM 2027 has started on > dev@. > > ### Office Hours > > We are holding weekly office hours on Slack. Attendance is growing, but still > modest. > > ## Releases: > > Community Development is a non-releasing project. Its output is services, > tools, and documentation rather than versioned software releases.
