[REPORT] September 2014 Board report

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Here's what got posted:

Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2014.

Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.

Dates:
14 July 2014   last release
12 Mar 2013    last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013    last Committer addition
           
2 Releases:
  16 July 2014  UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout support for UIMA) 2.6.0 released
      http://uima.apache.org/news.html#16 July 2014
  12 June 2014  uimaFIT 2.1.0 released
      http://uima.apache.org/news.html#12 June 2014

Other Activity:

UIMA DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Controller) work is very active and
progressing toward a next release.

Core UIMA is close to being able to add JSON serialization, in support
of the trend toward Cloud deployments.

UIMA Ruta (Rule-based script language supported by Eclipse tooling) is
about to release the next version (vote underway).

The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal
bug finding/fixing work continues.

Community:

A workshop with a strong focus on UIMA was held in conjunction with COLING 2014,
the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, and UIMA Ruta
was demonstrated here as well.  http://uima.apache.org/coling14.html

Several new contributers have started contributing, especially to Ruta.
 
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.