The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Agenda May 18, 2005 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00 PST -0800 and was begun at 10:05 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held by teleconference, hosted by Jim Jagielski and Covalent. IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Ken Coar Dirk-Willem van Gulik Jim Jagielski Geir Magnusson Jr. Stefano Mazzocchi Sam Ruby Greg Stein Sander Striker Directors Absent: Brian Behlendorf Guests: Ted Husted 3. Minutes from previous meetings A. The meeting of April 27, 2005 SVN - foundation/board/board_minutes_2005_04_27.txt Minutes board/board_minutes_2005_04_27.txt approved by general consent. 4. Officer Reports A. Chairman [Greg] The Membership has been very active over the past few weeks, in preparation for the upcoming Members meeting. A lot of discussion has gone into what the Members would like to see from the people elected to the Board, particularly in terms of their views on hiring an Executive Director (and/or other staff positions at the ASF). This also led into a long discussion of an ED role, its impact on the ASF, and what Members would like to do about it. This involvement and discussion among the Members is refereshing, as the mailing list is usually quite idle. A lot of discussion also occurred around licensing for the new Apache Harmony project, particularly with respect to the GNU Classpath project. The topics varied, but a lot of it came down to a couple questions: what do we want from Harmony [in terms of licensing], and how does Classpath satisfy (or not) those needs? The Harmony team has moved those discussions to the development list to refine the answers before seeking further input on licensing from the Board and our legal team. B. President [Dirk] Mainly been tracing CCN/ECN etc numbers - turns out to be a much thornier issue than expected and one which we may need to address in earnest. Also preparing for the budget discussions - finding out about admin rates. There was discussion regarding determination of which s/w products may require some level of export control. Dirk noted that in most cases, it is sufficient that the interested gov't entities be informed of the location of the source code repositories in order to be compliant. C. Treasurer [Chuck] No report. Dirk has the Action Item to contact Chuck regarding the status of the ASF financial records as well as Chuck's involvement as Treasurer. D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] On the mailing list, we approved the scheduling of the annual ASF Members Meeting for May 24, 2005 16:00 UTC. Email was sent to the member's list announcing the meeting, reminding members about proxies and member/board nominations. A SVN directory was created for the event: svn:foundation/Meetings/20050524 The attendance list for all previous ASF member meetings on which we have records was updated and added to SVN (svn:foundation/Meetings/attendance.txt). From that list, I created a short-list of members with the following criteria: a: Did not attend the last 3 meetings - or - b: Of the last 4+ meetings, attended less than 50% - or - c: Has not attended a meeting since election to the ASF membership. All members on that list were contacted via Email alerting them to the fact, and asking whether they wished to request Emeritus status or if they wished to remain active members. Those who did not respond will be contacted via the phone to follow up. Jim agreed to look into whether we need some sort of official Emeritus policy, and whether it makes sense to add that to the member's meeting agenda. Jim has the Action Item to "come up" with an Emeritus Policy. 5. Committee Reports A. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill] See Attachment A Apache Ant Project report approved as submitted by general consent. B. Apache Cocoon Project [Sylvain Wallez] See Attachment B The Rhino Licensing issue was noted in the report. Stefano has the Action Item to oversee the Rhino licensing questions and to distribute his findings to the respective PMCs. Apache Cocoon Project report approved as submitted by general consent. C. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley] See Attachment C The Clarification Request regarding the Copyright line was noted in the report. Ken has the Action Item to obtain the definitive answer from our legal representatives, obtain closure on this issue, and report his results to the board and the Forest PMC. Apache Forrest Project report approved as submitted by general consent. D. Apache HTTP Server Project [Sander Striker] See Attachment D Apache HTTP Server Project report approved as submitted by general consent. E. Apache Lenya Project [Rolf Kulemann] See Attachment E Apache Lenya Project report approved as submitted by general consent. F. Apache Logging Project [Ceki Gülcü <] See Attachment F There was no report provided or submitted. G. Apache Perl Project [Geoffrey Young] See Attachment G Apache Perl Project report approved as submitted by general consent. H. Apache Xalan Project [Brian Minchau] See Attachment H The board noted that Xalan-J is holding monthly telecons. Although the board realizes that sometimes such telecons are requested, they should not become a prime mechanism for development, due to their exclusionary nature. Sam has the Action Item to contact the Xalan-J team relay the board's concern as well as ask why they feel the need to hold these calls. Apache Xalan Project report approved as submitted by general consent. I. Apache Xerces Project [Gareth Reakes] See Attachment I Apache Xerces Project report approved as submitted by general consent. J. Apache XML Project [Berin Lautenbach] See Attachment J Apache XML Project report approved as submitted by general consent. K. Apache XML Graphics Project [Jeremias Maerki] See Attachment K Apache XML Graphics Project report approved as submitted by general consent. L. Apache Directory Project [Alex Karasulu] See Attachment L Apache Directory Project report approved as submitted by general consent. M. Apache Public Relations [Brian W. Fitzpatrick] See Attachment M Apache Public Relations report approved as submitted by general consent. 6. Special Orders A. Establish the Apache Tomcat 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 related to the implementation of the Java Servlet and Java Server Pages specifications, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Tomcat PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Tomcat PMC be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the implementation of the Java Servlet and Java Server Pages specifications based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tomcat" 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 Tomcat PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Tomcat PMC; 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 Tomcat PMC: Jean-Francois Arcand (jfarcand@apache.org) Bill Barker (billbarker@apache.org) Kin-man Chung (kinman@apache.org) Jean-Frederic Clere (jfclere@apache.org) Ian Darwin (idarwin@apache.org) Tim Funk (funkman@apache.org) Henri Gomez (hgomez@apache.org) Filip Hanik (fhanik@apache.org) Larry Isaacs (larryi@apache.org) Jim Jagielski (jim@apache.org) Jan Luehe (luehe@apache.org) Costin Manolache (costin@apache.org) Remy Maucherat (remm@apache.org) Kurt Miller (truk@apache.org) Glenn Nielsen (glenn@apache.org) Amy Roh (amyroh@apache.org) Peter Rossbach (pero@apache.org) Yoav Shapira (yoavs@apache.org) Mark Thomas (markt@apache.org) Mladen Turk (mturk@apache.org) Keith Wannamaker (keith@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Remy Maucherat be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tomcat, 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 initial Apache Tomcat PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Tomcat Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Tomcat PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Jakarta PMC Tomcat subproject; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Jakarta Tomcat sub-project and encumbered upon the Apache Jakarta PMC are hereafter discharged. There was significant debate over the creation of the Tomcat Project, not so much regarding the project itself, but in the requested PMC Chair. By a vote of 5 YEA and 3 NAY, Special Order A, a Resolution to Establish the Apache Tomcat Project, was approved. Stefeno has the Action Item to create a list of expectations for the new Tomcat PMC Chair. B. Estalish the Apache iBATIS 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 related to moving data between objects and a database by mapping objects to SQL statements and stored procedures, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache iBATIS PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache iBATIS PMC be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the iBATIS DataMapper, based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache iBATIS" 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 iBATIS PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache iBATIS PMC; 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 iBATIS PMC: Clinton Begin (cbegin@apache.org) Gilles Bayon (gbayon@apache.org) Ted Husted (husted@apache.org) Brandon Goodin (bgoodin@apache.org) Larry Meadors (lmeadors@apache.org) Roberto Rabe (roberto@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ted Husted be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache iBATIS, 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 initial Apache iBATIS PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache iBATIS Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache iBATIS PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the incubating Apache iBATIS project; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the incubating Apache iBATIS project encumbered upon the incubator PMC be hereafter discharged. By unanimous vote, Special Order B, a Resolution to Establish the Apache iBATIS Project, was approved. C. Change of Logging Services PMC Chair As Ceki Gülcü < resigned from the Logging Services PMC Chair, the Logging Services PMC has voted to propose Mark Womack as the new Logging Services PMC Chair. We offer the following resolution for board approval: WHEREAS, the membership of the Apache Logging Services Project Management Committee (PMC) have recommended Mark Womack to serve as chairman of the Apache Logging Services PMC; and WHEREAS, the previously appointed chairman of the Apache Logging Services PMC, Ceki Gülcü <, has resigned his position as Vice President, Apache Logging Services, in favor of Mark Womack's appointment to that position. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Mark Womack be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Logging Services, 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. By unanimous vote, Special Order C, a Resolution to Change of Logging Services PMC Chair, was approved. D. Change of Lenya PMC Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Rolf Kulemann from the office of Vice President, Apache Lenya; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Rolf Kulemann is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Lenya, and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gregor J. Rothfuss be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Lenya, 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. By vote of 7 YEA and 1 ABSTAIN, Special Order B, a Resolution to Change of Lenya PMC Chair, was approved. 7. Discussion Items Geir asked the board if it had any concerns regarding his continued position as the ASF contact for the JCP. Geir's concern was mostly if his change in employment association would cause the ASF any undue concern. The board expressed its confidence that Geir could, and should, continue in his JCP role, assuming that he has sufficient time to adequately fulfill those duties. 8. Unfinished Business 9. New Business 10. Announcements 11. Adjournment Scheduled to adjourn by 11:30 PDT -0700. Adjourned at 12:09. ============ ATTACHMENTS: ============ ----------------------------------------- Attachment A: Status report for the Apache Ant Project Status Report for the Ant project o Ant 1.6.3 Ant 1.6.3 was released on April 28 2005 A large number of changes were included in the release although most are small in nature. Subsequent to release a few bugs have been found, one of which affects operation of javah. This will require a follow-up Ant 1.6.4 release. o Ant 1.7 Ant 1.7 development continues in the CVS head o Antlibs Subproject We have created an Antlibs subproject. The rationale is to separate groups of tasks, which are currently included with the main Ant core and release these separately. This approach will allow for task updates to have much shorter release cycles than the Ant core, whose release cycles have been fairly long to date. By reducing the core size, it would also have the advantage of reducing the core release cycle as well. o Subversion conversion An Ant subversion repository has been set up by infrastructure at our request. We have not yet converted the main Ant repository to subversion as we did not want to overlap that process with the 1.6.3 release. Ant 1.7 will be released from subversion and we expect the conversion to occur once the release issues of the current Ant 1.6.x releases settle down. The subversion repository will host code for the Antlibs subproject we have created. o Antidote Antidote was an Ant GUI project which has been in Ant's CVS for a long time now. It has never been able to attract sufficient critical mass to ensure its development was sustainable. As Ant support is provided in all main Java IDEs, we decided to retire the Antidote subproject. o Legal Issues None. o Committers We have made a number of inactive committers emeritus. we have recently added Alexey Solofnenko as a committer. Magesh Umasankar has retired from the PMC due to time constraints. o Community Community is healthy - no issues. ----------------------------------------- Attachment B: Status report for the Apache Cocoon Project Community: - Cocoon 2.1.7 was released in March. This is a maintainance release while development of version 2.2 is going on. - we have one new committer, Alfred Nathaniel - two committers joined the PMC, Leszek Gawron and Ralph Goers Legal: The XML graphics PMC raised our attention on Rhino which they also use, as its licence changed from MPL to NPL last october. We're wondering about potential problems of an NPL-licenced library in our svn repository, and asked legal-discuss for some advice about this, with no answer up to now. Misc: A new project is being set up at Eclipse to build an IDE for Cocoon [1], and a number of Cocoon devs have expressed their interest in participating. This will hopefully increase the user base by making Cocoon easier to use. [1] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-lepido/ ----------------------------------------- Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Forrest Project Issues needing board attention ------------------------------ Last quarter i asked that the board clarify the change to the copyright line in each source file (added "or its licensors, as applicable"). The board did discuss this, but there was no outcome, so mentioned here again. New committers and new PMC members ---------------------------------- Two new people were added to the PMC. They are also new committers. Johannes Schaefer josch@apache.org Ferdinand Soethe ferdinand@apache.org General status -------------- * Some of our older committers/PMC have gone quiet for a while. That is not a problem at this stage, we expect people to come and go. However with a small committer base in a new project, we need to pay attention. * Two of our committers are presenting a Tutorial at ApacheCon EU. This is the first ever for Forrest. We seek new developers and technical users. Issues still to be dealt with by the Forrest PMC ------------------------------------------------ * Move our Jira issue tracker to apache.org from cocoondev.org This had been stalled, but is starting to happen again. * Demonstration forrestbot on brutus needs to move to an appropriate home. Progress of the project ----------------------- * Steadily working on 0.7-dev and getting very close to its release. * Good work done on the new plugin system. * Started planning our use of the soon-to-be available server zone. General observations during last quarter ---------------------------------------- * A "Legal FAQ" is required at the top-level ASF website to assist all committers/PMCs. ----------------------------------------- Attachment D: Status report for the Apache HTTP Server Project Activity is picking up again. We are happy to say we have invited a number of new committers into apreq, docs, httpd and mod_python. There were a couple of releases: libapreq2-2.05-dev and httpd-2.0.54. There is increased interest in branching httpd 2.1 and working towards an initial 2.2 release. ----------------------------------------- Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Lenya Project Community: - Lenya 1.2.3 was released in May. Lenya has adopted a 2-monthly release cycle, which has worked well. - work has begun on a 1.4alpha1 release - we have one new committer, Jann Forrer - two committers joined the PMC, Torsten Schlabach and J. Wolfgang Kaltz. - a new PMC chair is currently being elected. Result should be available next week. Misc: Interest in Lenya is growing nicely, both on the user and developer lists [1], the number of submitted patches, and wiki activity. [1] http://people.apache.org/~coar/mlists.html#lenya.apache.org ----------------------------------------- Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Logging Project ----------------------------------------- Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Perl Project -- mod_perl 1.0 -- The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd 1.3.x. Nothing much happening on that track. No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report. mod_perl 1.0 is currently on CVS. --- mod_perl 2.0 -- The mod_perl 1.99 series is a development track designed to become mod_perl 2.0; it works with httpd 2.0.x and 2.1.x Recent releases: 1.999_22 - April 14, 2005 (RC5) 1.999_23 - May 4, 2005 (RC6) --- Apache-Test -- Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications. Recent releases: 1.21 - March 23, 2005 1.22 - April 14, 2005 1.23 - May 4, 2005 -- Development -- Development on mod_perl 2.0 and Apache-Test is moving at a healthy pace. Two mod_perl 2.0 release candidates (RC5 and RC6) were released during this quarter, bringing us ever closer to an official 2.0 designation. RC5 was an especially important milestone, as it included the implementation of namespace issues that were the subject of heated discussions last quarter. Due to outstanding development, documentation, and mailing list efforts the migration to the new namespace went off with very little user-land confusion or complaints - far less than I think any of the active developers anticipated. Development is, once again, moving forward, proving that mod_perl is an extremely healthy and uncommonly resilient community within the ASF. -- Users -- The mod_perl users list is, as always, thriving. As mentioned in the Development section, the major issue facing our userbase this quarter seems to have been met with little confusion or complaints. Most users who have adopted the namespace-changing release (RC5) have reported minimal development efforts required to upgrade, and have been very helpful to the rest of the user community. -- PMC -- no new pmc activity of note. ----------------------------------------- Attachment H: Status report for the Apache Xalan Project Xalan-C ======= XML 1.1 support has been implemented by Xalan-C. Redesign of XML serialization both for code simplification and for performance is underway. Support has been added for: - Linux/XLC compiler - gcc 3.4 Although this work is available in the latest development version in CVS, it is awaiting the next Xalan-C release. Xalan-J ======= A monthly tele-conference (first Tuesday of each month) has been started and has had a number of sessions. It is open to all active Xalan-J committers to discuss JIRA issues, and find volunteers to fix bugs. The JIRA issue database has been kept up to date with the group's decisions. A new Xalan-J 2.7 release, with a tentative release date in mid July 2005 was approved by the Xalan PMC. Due to the JAXP 1.3 donation from Sun, and because Xerces is heading towards a 2.7 release that includes support for JAXP 1.3, the Xalan PMC voted to have a new release a few weeks after Xerces tentative release date. This gives Xalan-J time to make any adjustments to changes in Xerces. The future Xalan-J 2.7 release will contain support for: - JAXP 1.3 - XML 1.1 (already committed to the development code base) Morris Kwan, a Xalan-J committer, has volunteered to do the bulk of the work needed for Xalan-J to support JAXP 1.3 (thanks Morris!). ----------------------------------------- Attachment I: Status report for the Apache Xerces Project Generally, we're adjusting well to life as a TLP. Mailing lists and Jira have been sorted out to point at the new xerces.apache.org domain. We still need to get the website sorted out, and could probably use some help/guidance on how to do this (I'm not certain whether Gareth has already inquired on infrastructure@). Reports for the three subprojects: Xerces-C: There has been a fair amount of discussion on what features the next Xerces-C release will have, and whether it should be called 3.0 or 2.7. At the moment, a lot of activity is underway in terms of fixing bugs, and we have volunteers for modernizing the Xerces-C build system (although this hasn't hit the repository yet). Other possible features are DOM level 3 updates and XInclude support, but development hasn't started publicly on these fronts yet. Much is waiting on the migration to SVN, for which we have a volunteer but which has been delayed as the volunteer tries to free up some time. We recently added two new committers: Vitaly Prapirny and David Bertoni. Xerces-J: In early April, Sun Microsystems completed their donation of the JAXP 1.3 APIs and RI to Apache. The Xerces-J committers have spent a fair amount of time evaluating the donation to determine what work needs to be done to integrate the Xerces portions back into the main development line. This evaluation was recently completed and a release date of June 24th was proposed for Xerces 2.7.0. Volunteers have come forward to take part in the integration effort which is already underway. An up to date version of the release plan is available here [*]. Following the release of Xerces 2.7.0 we plan to migrate Xerces-J from CVS to SVN. [*] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-xerces/java/Xerces2.7.0-REL_PLAN.html?content-type=text%2Fplain Xerces-P: The Xerces-P project has had very little activity since the 2.5 release. A very serious memory leak was discovered, in the entire 2.0 series, and it was determined that fixing the leak would require a major rewrite of how the Xerces-C library was wrapped by Perl. At this time, the discussion of how to include Xerces-P as a sub-project of Xerces-C had also begun, together with the discussion of making Xerces a TLP. Just recently, a commercial organization has agreed to fund the development of the Xerces-P-2.6 release to eliminate the memory leak, and the release is scheduled for end of May. Now that the Xerces TLP transition has been made it would be fruitful to begin discussing how to make Xerces-P a sub-project of Xerces-C. ----------------------------------------- Attachment J: Status report for the Apache XML Project Overview ======== As the project gets smaller, the quarters get quieter. Xerces is now a TLP in its own right. The only remaining sub projects that *may* look to TLP status are xml-security and AxKit. The PMC and general lists have been very quiet. Everyone has been too busy on other things to look at how to move the overall federation forward, however this needs to start happening, and will be a focus for the chair in the coming quarter. Commons ======= Main news from Commons is the JAXP 1.3 donation from Sun has gone ahead, and the code has been imported in the repository. Lots of good work from a number of parties to work through this. Axkit ===== AxKit has just taken a vote for its next release, and is planning to make this happen. Preparation for moving to SVN has also now commenced. Finally, AxKit is preparing to migrate its mailing lists back into a single list. The volumes are too low to warrant maintaining the current dev/user split. Xindice ======= Some activity on the user list, however no development activity. XML-Security ============ Version 1.2.1 for the Java library was released in this quarter. This included a number of bug fixes from 1.2. The C++ library is preparing for a 1.2 release (vote currently being undertaken) which will include the new XKMS message handling code. ----------------------------------------- Attachment K: Status report for the Apache XML Graphics Project General Comments ------------------ The project has voted to migrate to SVN after the Batik 1.6 release. We'll do this quite soon now. This will finally let us create the space for commonly used components between FOP and Batik. We've been talking to the Cocoon PMC about Mozilla's Rhino package (which Batik uses and distributes). There's some confusion concerning the licence(s). So far, this is still a pending issue. Batik ------- Batik released version 1.6. The main improvements, as indicated in the last report, are SVG 1.2 support and massive speed improvements on MacOSX. Besides that there were lots of bugfixes and improvements. FOP ----- No releases. We've rewritten the whole page-breaking mechanism which allows us to finally implement the long-missing keep properties among other things. It's a very difficult matter (especially around tables) but there's pretty good progress. ----------------------------------------- Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Directory Project Some very positive things to note otherwise all is well ... Website Revamped ------------------------- Because we were planning for our first release out of the incubator we really wanted all the peices of the server to meet some fundamental requirements on the new TLP's website. This is in respect to the documentation obviously but specifically we cleaned up several links, comments, old materials as well as the expected references to the incubator. ApacheDS 0.9 Released ------------------------------- Perhaps the most significant news is another release of ApacheDS (version 0.9). The 0.9 series of releases are experimental feature releases. This one includes the Kerberos plugin which can be enabled to make the server service Kerberos 5 requests with users backed in the directory. This is all in addition to the existing LDAP support. Other releases will come rapidly after this one to include an NTP, and DNS plugin. ----------------------------------------- Attachment M: Status report for the Public Relations Committee Cryptocard complied with our informal C&D regarding their use of the feather logo, removing it from their website and print collateral. Logo design and implementation still stalled pending development of logo guidelines. We've improved our response time to standard press requests, and Ted Husted has setup a prototype "online bookstore" with the intention of bringing in affilliate revenue from various booksellers, such as Amazon. We received a Google Grant for use towards Google Adwords advertising. We set this up and informed PMCs about its existence, but most PMCs haven't taken advantage of it. Ben Hyde and Jim Jagielski are talking with O'Reilly Media regarding a possible collaboration between the ASF and O'Reilly. Covalent indicated a desire to grant "scholarships" in the ASF's name, and there's been some discussion about it. In recent weeks, interest in formulating a preliminary budget has reawakened and we've seen some progress on that. The PRC continues to be short on resources as PRC members are generally pretty busy these days. ------------------------------------------------------ End of Minutes for the May 18, 2005 board meeting.