draft of board report

[Mike Beckerle <mb...@apache.org>]

Our quarterly board report is due wednesday.

Here's my draft. Comments welcome.
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## Description:
The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of software
related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms
such
as XML or JSON

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (10 months ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Brandon Sloane on 2021-02-16.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Daffodil VSCode Data Debugger - new repository, we brought in new code base
to
the project following process, first release of this new tool is in
preparation.

Daffodil primary library - Release v3.2.0 released on 2021-12-06. This is
our
second post-incubator release.

## Community Health:
A big increase in dev activity from new contributors working on the new
Daffodil VSCode Data Debugger.

Steady contribution on the main daffodil library as well.

RE: draft of board report

["Interrante, John A (GE Research, US)" <Jo...@ge.com>]

Report is terse, but covers the important points.

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Our quarterly board report is due wednesday.

Here's my draft. Comments welcome.
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## Description:
The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of software related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (10 months ago) There are currently 13 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Brandon Sloane on 2021-02-16.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
Daffodil VSCode Data Debugger - new repository, we brought in new code base to the project following process, first release of this new tool is in preparation.

Daffodil primary library - Release v3.2.0 released on 2021-12-06. This is our second post-incubator release.

## Community Health:
A big increase in dev activity from new contributors working on the new Daffodil VSCode Data Debugger.

Steady contribution on the main daffodil library as well.