[DRAFT] [REPORT] Apache cTAKES Sep 2015

[Pei Chen <ch...@apache.org>]

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Report from the Apache cTAKES committee [Pei Chen]

## Description:
   Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
   an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
   from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Activity:
 - There is interest from new contributor(s) in integrating cTAKES
with Spark (CTAKES-374)
 - There is interest from new contributor(s) in integrating Gene
Mappings to cTAKES (CTAKES-375)
 - There is interest from new contributors(s) on using cTAKES for
deidentification
 - The committee is planning a local meetup (Boston) in the near future to
integrate cTAKES with Docker for easier deployments.

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

## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
 - Currently 31 committers and 30 PMC members in the project.
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen at Fri Jan 23 2015
 - Last committer addition was Jim Gregoric at Sat Feb 28 2015

## Releases:
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 179 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
    - 181 emails sent to list (228 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 155 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
    - 94 emails sent to list (95 in previous quarter)

 - notifications@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 21 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 77 emails sent to list (103 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months