############################################################################## ############################################################################## ## ## ## THIS IS THE FINAL VERSION ## ## ## ## The content of the resolution has been approved by the ## ## Marmotta Community [1] and general@incubator.a.o [2]. ## ## ## ## Submitted to the ASF Board on 2013-11-08. ## ## ## ## [1] ## ## [2] ## ## ## ############################################################################## ############################################################################## X. Establish the Apache Marmotta Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to an open platform for Linked Data. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Marmotta Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Marmotta Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an open platform for Linked Data; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Marmotta" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Marmotta Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Marmotta Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Marmotta Project: * Peter Ansell * Fabian Christ * Sergio Fernández * Jakob Frank * Dietmar Glachs * Thomas Kurz * Nandana Mihindukulasooriya * Raffaele Palmieri * Sebastian Schaffert * Rupert Westenthaler NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jakob Frank be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Marmotta, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Marmotta Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Marmotta podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Marmotta podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.