Hi all, Based on the previous discussion ( https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2b4ef7c394584988cf0c99920824afaa60ee4c648d5c0069b1bf55c0@%3Cdev.predictionio.apache.org%3E), I would like to start discussing a graduation resolution and reach a consent before starting a community vote on the following. Please read carefully the resolution, and voice any concerns you may have. If you are a current PMC member, please make sure your name is listed unless you have already asked to be excluded. We will start an official community vote when a consent is reached.
Regarding the PredictionIO trademark assignment, Salesforce has signed and executed an assignment agreement, and is only pending ASF to countersign. The graduation process we are following is described here: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html Thank you all! Let's graduate. Regards, Donald ----- X. Establish the Apache PredictionIO Project 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, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a machine learning server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning tasks. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache PredictionIO Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache PredictionIO Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a machine learning server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning tasks; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache PredictionIO" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache PredictionIO Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache PredictionIO Project; 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 PredictionIO Project: * Alex Merritt <[email protected]> * Andrew Kyle Purtell <[email protected]> * Chan Lee <[email protected]> * Donald Szeto <[email protected]> * Felipe Oliveira <[email protected]> * James Taylor <[email protected]> * Justin Yip <[email protected]> * Kenneth Chan <[email protected]> * Lars Hofhansl <[email protected]> * Lee Moon Soo <[email protected]> * Luciano Resende <[email protected]> * Marcin Ziemiński <[email protected]> * Marco Vivero <[email protected]> * Mars Hall <[email protected]> * Matthew Tovbin <[email protected]> * Naoki Takezoe <[email protected]> * Pat Ferrel <[email protected]> * Paul Li <[email protected]> * Shinsuke Sugaya <[email protected]> * Simon Chan <[email protected]> * Takahiro Hagino <[email protected]> * Takako Shimamoto <[email protected]> * Tamas Jambor <[email protected]> * Tom Chan <[email protected]> * Vitaly Gordon <[email protected]> * Xiangrui Meng <[email protected]> * Xusen Yin <[email protected]> * Yevgeny Khodorkovsky <[email protected]> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Donald Szeto be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache PredictionIO, 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 the initial Apache PredictionIO PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache PredictionIO Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache PredictionIO Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator PredictionIO podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator PredictionIO podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
