Draft of ASF Board Report - Apache ShardingSphere

["zhangliang@apache.org" <zh...@apache.org>]

Hi community,

Please have a look on the board report draft of this quarter.


## Description:
Apache ShardingSphere set out on a mission to create
and maintain software for a database clustering system
providing data sharding, distributed transactions,
and distributed database management capabilities.

## Issues:
No.

## Membership Data:
Apache ShardingSphere was founded 2020-04-15 (a year ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Kimm King on 2020-06-26.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lu Qiu on 2021-01-02.

## Project Activity:
Software development activity:
  - Released Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0-beta and ElasticJob 3.0.0.

Meetups and Conferences:

Attended the following conferences to give talks on Apache ShardingSphere:
 - AWS Cloud Summit China 2021.
 - GOTC (The Global Open Source Technology Conference).
 - GIAC(Global Internet Architecture Conference).

Currently working on:
 - Preparing a presentation for ApacheCon Asia 2021
about Apache ShardingSphere,
as well as serving as two tracks’ chair (Middleware and Incubator)
at the conference.
 - Partner project of the Open Source Day hackathon
 (https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/).

## Community Health:
The overall community health is good, things are proceeding smoothly.

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Sincerely,
Liang Zhang (John)
Apache ShardingSphere