Marmotta Board Report for August 2015
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Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.

Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the
Incubator in November 2013.

The last quarter was again relatively quiet. The frequency on the mailing
lists increased with questions and queries answered by the core development
team, but and only small changes to the codebase have been made.

We are still struggling to grow the community. More than two years passed
since we welcomed a new committer. The PMC is actively looking for candidates
to grow the community.

For the 2015 GSoC we started with two student projects:
* For "RDF HDT implementation for Sesame RIO" (MARMOTTA-593), the student did
not pass the midterm review. This was mainly because of the code quality and
lack of communication.
* For "Proposal to Implement GeoSPARQL in Marmotta" (MARMOTTA-584), the
student successfully achieved the milestones for the midterm review, and now
he is moving towards refining and adding the pending features. If the project
development continues as expected, by end of summer Marmotta could add
GeoSPARQL support to the next release.

Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
    dev@marmotta.a.o: 86 subscribers (+3 since last report, 2015-05)
  users@marmotta.a.o: 99 subscribers (+6 since last report, 2015-05)

Releases
  2014-12-05 (3.3.0)
  2014-05-20 (3.2.1)

Committers & PMC
  Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
  Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)

Issues for the Board
  There are no Board-level issues at this time.