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title: Board Report 2012-03-21
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h2. March 21st, 2012

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Project Status
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While we continue to have an active community with good participation from users on mailing lists, IRC, and issue reporting in Jira,
we also have lost some of our momentum now that major parts of the functionality are being maintained in related projects
like Apache Karaf and Apache Camel.

With the community objectives mentioned below, we want to ensure a new and better focus for the Apache ServiceMix project.

Community
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No changes since last report.

Community Objectives
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Our current objective is to work on a ServiceMix 4.5.0 release.
We keep on working on the documentation and website to ensure both new and existing users are finding their way around the project more easily.

Branding Status
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- Project Naming And Descriptions : Compliant
- Website Navigation Links : Compliant
- Trademark Attributions : Non-compliant, will be compliant in new web site.
- Logos and Graphics : Current logo is not compliant, new logo will be compliant
- Project Metadata : Compliant

Releases
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- ServiceMix 4.4.1 in February
- A set of 23 OSGi bundles in February
- A set of 154 OSGi bundles in January to provide associated sources in the maven repository for ease of debugging
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A. Change the Apache ServiceMix Project Chair

   WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Guillaume Nodet
   to the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and

   WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
   of Guillaume Nodet from the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix,
   and

   WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ServiceMix
   project has chosen by vote to recommend Gert Vanthienen as the successor
   to the post;

   NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Guillaume Nodet is relieved and
   discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
   of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and

   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gert Vanthienen be and hereby is
   appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, 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.
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