[Incubator Wiki] Update of "July2018" by StefanBodewig

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add plc4x report

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  PLC4X
  
+ PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
- PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable
- logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
  
  PLC4X has been incubating since 2017-12-18.
  
- Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
+ Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
+ Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
+ 
+   1. Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
+   2. Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
+   3. Make our first release
  
  Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
  aware of?
  
+ Not at the moment.
  
- 
- How has the community developed since the last report?
- 
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+ Christofer has invested most of his time in May and June spreading the word about PLC4X.
  
+ There have been several conference talks on PLC4X:
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
  
+   * Building IoT 2018 in Cologne: Christofer Dutz – Industrial IoT und Edge Computing mit Apache PLC4X und Apache Edgent
+   * @Vanced Network Meetup in Solingen: Christofer Dutz – Open-Source in der Industrie mit Apache PLC4X
+   * Apache Roadshow EU in Berlin: Christofer Dutz - Revolutionizing the Production Industry with Apache PLC4X
+ 
+ A blog post in a major corporate tech-blog has been published with the
+ content of the JavaSPEKTRUM article on Apache Edgent and Apache PLC4X:
+ https://blog.codecentric.de/2018/06/edge-computing-industrial-iot-apache-edgent-apache-plc4x/
+ 
+ As a direct result on a talk in Berlin about mentoring new committers,
+ we have started creating “low-hanging-fruit” tagged issues and have
+ started promoting them.  As a result we have 2 potential contributors
+ interested in tackling these. Hopefully this will result in continued
+ activity from their side.
+ 
+ We have reached out to a developer offering Modbus, EthernetIP and
+ OPC-UA drivers on his Github page to get him to join our efforts.
+ 
+ The dev-list subscriptions has gone up by 7 (now 29) from the last
+ report.
+ 
+ We now have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ApachePlc4x as
+ another channel of communicating interesting PLC4X facts.  After
+ tweeting a lot about our project, the number of followers to that has
+ drastically increased to 41
+ 
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
+ 
+ We have setup a VPN for the CI server and other committers to be able
+ to communicate with real PLCs, however this feature has not proven to
+ improve the involvement of other committers so far.
+ 
+ We have recently found a set of git repos with Apache licensed code
+ for accessing Modbus, Ethernet/IP and UPC-UA devices. We have reached
+ out to the original developer to maybe get him on board with our team.
+ 
+ How would you assess the podling's maturity?
+ 
+ We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people
+ involved.  So far, the new participants have shown great willingness
+ and success in adopting the Apache Way.  However, we still need to
+ continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team Also,
+ will we need to decide and establish all the processes involved in
+ releasing software at Apache
+ 
+ Please feel free to add your own commentary.
+ 
    [ ] Initial setup
-   [ ] Working towards first release
+   [X] Working towards first release
    [ ] Community building
    [ ] Nearing graduation
    [ ] Other:
  
  Date of last release:
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+   N/A
  
  When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
- 
+   N/A
  
  Signed-off-by:
  
@@ -1127, +1170 @@

       Comments:
    [ ](plc4x) Justin Mclean
       Comments:
-   [ ](plc4x) Luciano Resende
-      Comments:
-   [ ](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
+   [X](plc4x) Stefan Bodewig
       Comments:
  
  IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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