October Board Report Draft

[Suresh Marru <sm...@iu.edu>]

Hi All,

Please provide feedback and add any items on the October board report:

Thanks,
Suresh

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Apache Airavata is a software framework providing API’s, sophisticated 
server-side tools, and graphical user interfaces to construct, execute, 
control and manage long running applications and workflows on 
distributed computing resources.

== Releases ==

The PMC has made the first TLP release 0.5.

== Activity ==

The release 0.5 has surged momentum and the community is quickly marching towards a 0.6 release. The current focus is to make it easy for clients to integrate.    

== Community ==

Chathuri Wimalasena was announced as the new Airavata Committer/PMC member. Other contributors have been very active and showing commitment towards the project.

== Press ==

Members of Airavata and OODT PMC (Marlon Pierce, Suresh Marru, Chris Mattmann) are leading a BOF Featuring ASF at Supercomputing 2012 in mid november - http://sc12.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=bof212. 

== Infrastructure ==

The project starting using the svnpubsub dist locations for release mirroring. Also is using the dev area (https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airavata/) for staging RC's for testing and voting. With this, the project has completely stopped directly using people:/www area.

== Infrastructure ==

There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.