UIMA Board Report (Q3 2021)

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

Sorry for being a bit late with the board report - actually beyond the deadline which was yesterday. Thus, I have not asked around for feedback on the report this time (usually there
is none anyway) and posted it. Here is a copy.

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## Description:
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. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators,
facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and
video.

## Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20.

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
- Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.11.0 released on 2021-07-02

## Community Health:
The community continues to be moderately active and provides bug reports and
PRs at times. Development of a new JSON-based data format for the UIMA CAS
data has started, community feedback is trickling in.