Congrats all 2007/6/21, Ate Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
8-) \~/ \~/ \~/ Ate Martijn Dashorst wrote: > We have Graduation! Apache Wicket is established as a top level > project within the Apache Software Foundation. > >> From Greg Stein: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Apache Board Meeting, June 20, 2007 (new officers!) > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:06 -0700 > From: Greg Stein > Reply-To: members@ > To: members@ > > Hi all, > > Today, the newly-elected Board met for the first time. After we got > done with our regular series of project reviews and other reports, we > elected a new slate of executive officers. I'm happy to present that > list: > > Jim Jagielski, Chairman > Justin Erenkrantz, President > J Aaron Farr, Treasurer > Sam Ruby, Exec VP and Secretary > > Welcome guys to your new offices! > > We also established new three projects: > > * Apache Quetzalcoatl: this springs mod_python and related bits out of > the HTTPD project into its own TLP. Gregory Trubetskoy is its Chair. > > * Apache Wicket: this is a light webapp framework for Java, graduating > from the Incubator into its own TLP. Martijn Dashorst is the new > Chair. > > * Apache Commons: this is the venerable Apache Jakarta Commons, now > spun out into its own TLP, with Torsten Curdt as its Chair. > > Finally, we swapped a couple PMC Chairs: > > * Will Glass-Hussin replaces Henning Schmiedehausen as the Velocity > Chair > * David Sean Taylor replaces Santiago Gala as the Portals Chair > > That's it for this month. Please feel free to forward this to any > public/private forum as you see fit. If you have any questions, then > please don't hesitate to ask myself or any other Director or officer. > > Cheers, > -g > > We would like to congratulate all Wicket community members with this > remarkable feat, we couldn't have done this without you! > > Furthermore, I like to thank the Board of the Apache Software > Foundation for the trust they invested in us. We will not disappoint! > > We would like to thank Wicket's mentors: > > * Alex Karasulu (whose birthday coincidentally is today… what a better > gift could you receive). Thanks for bringing us on board, and a Happy > Birthday!!! > > * Upayavira, who made the transition even run smoother than thought > possible. Thanks for guiding us and I hope you'll stay for a long time > with our project! > > * Bertrand Delacretaz, thank you for your help, votes and advise. We > will miss your involvement, but will certainly see you in the future! > > * Sylvain Wallez, also big thanks for helping and guiding us. I hope > Wicket is still working within Joost > > Finally, congratulations to the new officers, PMC Chairs and the other > two new projects: Apache Quetzalcoatl and Apache Commons! Welcome to > the club! > > !!! Champagne !!! >
