2004 Board meeting minutes

15 Dec 2004
14 Nov 2004
- Establish guidelines for handling copyright notices
- Affirm Intent to Own Copyright to all ASF Distributions (tabled)
- Approve new version of Corporate CLA (tabled)
- Termination of the Avalon PMC
20 Oct 2004
- Establish the Apache XML Graphics Project
- Establish the Apache Xalan Project
- Establish the Date and Time for the ASF Member's Meeting
- Affirm Intent to Own Copyright to all ASF Distributions
- Appoint Brian W. Fitzpatrick as a Vice President of the PRC
22 Sep 2004
- Establish the Apache Lenya Project
- Establish the Apache Metro Project (rejected)
- Establish the Apache XML Graphics Project (tabled)
- Establish the Apache Xalan Project (tabled)
18 Aug 2004
- Termination of the Apache Commons Project
- Establish the Apache Metro Project (tabled)
- Appoint Brian Fitzpatrick as a Vice President (tabled)
21 Jul 2004
- Policy on Passing through of Restrictions to licensees
- Returning the J2EE TCK due to NOTICE issues
- Establish the Apache XML Graphics Project (tabled)
23 Jun 2004
- Established a Public Relations Committee
- Individual Contributor License Agreement
- Corporate Contributor License Agreement
- Change of Jakarta PMC Chair
- Establish the SpamAssassin PMC
- Change of Cocoon PMC Chair
- Establish the Apache XMLBeans PMC
26 May 2004
- Appoint officers for the 2004-2005 term
- Public Relations Committee (tabled)
- Establish the Apache Excalibur Project
- Establish the Apache Geronimo Project
- Establish the Apache Forrest Project
21 Apr 2004
- Change the Chair of the Incubator PMC
17 Mar 2004
- Establish Apache Struts PMC
18 Feb 2004
- Appoint a new Jakarta PMC Chair
- Establish Gump PMC
- Establish Portals PMC
- Discussion: copyright ownership
- Discussion: confirm March 1 deadline for CLAs
- Discussion: what to do about old SA releases (under the GPL/PAL)
- Resolution to separate PHP from the Apache Software Foundation
21 Jan 2004
- Appoint a new Director to fill Roy's vacated position
- Appoint a new Jakarta PMC Chair
- Appoint a new Avalon PMC Chair
- Approve the new Apache License 2.0
- Approve a Response regarding the alleged JBoss IP infringment in

2003 Board meeting minutes

17 Dec 2003
- Establishment of the Apache Logging Services Project
- Discussion: code imports directly into projects vs incubation
- Appoint a new Director to fill Roy's vacated position (tabled)
- Appoint a new Jakarta PMC Chair (tabled)
16 Nov 2003
- Alter the Chair of the Apache Maven Project
- Rename Perl-Apache Project to the Apache Perl Project (tabled)
- Alter the Chair of the Apache Perl Project (tabled)
- Roy T. Fielding resignation from Board of Directors
- Appoint a new Director to fill Roy's vacated position
22 Oct 2003
- Resolution to adopt a new version of the Apache License (tabled)
- Resolution to Appoint new Chair of the Apache Incubator Project
- Resolution to Set Date/Time and Location for Special ASF
17 Sep 2003
- Alter the Chair of the Apache DB Project
- Alter the Chair of the Apache Maven Project
- Alter the Chair of the Apache Commons Project
20 Aug 2003
16 Jul 2003
- Discussion: PHP licensing
- Discussion: Spam Assassin (SA) group as an ASF project,
25 Jun 2003
- Appointment of ASF Officers for the next term
- Change the Apache XML Project Chair
- Change the Apache HTTP Project Chair
- Discussion: voting and election of the Board
- Discussion: low voter turnout
- Discussion: publishing [to ASF Members] of the vote counts
- Discussion: what does it mean to be an ASF Member? [Jim]
21 May 2003
- Set date for annual members meeting and board elections
- New Vice President for the Apache Cocoon PMC
- Slightly modify the contributor agreement
- Granting Peter Donald fulls rights / copyright to the “Naming”
- HP's use of “The Secure Apache Web Server for Linux” (posted to
- JavaWorld awards
16 Apr 2003
19 Mar 2003
- Resolution to change the Chair of the Apache Avalon Project
26 Feb 2003
- Resolution to create the Maven PMC
19 Feb 2003
- The infrastructure committee seeks permission to procure SSL certs
- Resolution to create the Maven PMC (tabled)
22 Jan 2003
- Established the Apache Cocoon Project
- Established the Apache James Project
- Established the Web Services Project

2002 Board meeting minutes

18 Dec 2002
18 Nov 2002
- Appoint Chuck Murcko as the Treasurer of the ASF
- Empower PMC chairs to change the membership of their PMCs without resolution
- Established the Avalon PMC
- Established the Ant PMC
30 Oct 2002
- ASF Bylaws Change: clarified new member nomination process
- Discussed (did not pass) establishing an infrastructure board committee
16 Oct 2002
- Jason Hunter has requested the appointment of a new JCP representative
- It was reported the the ASF Members Meeting would be held on November 18th
- Reestablish Apache Portable Runtime Project
- Establishment of an Apache Incubator Project
09 Oct 2002
- Appoint a Director to fill the position vacated by Randy
- Appoint an Assistant Treasurer
- Vote on ApacheCon hardship cases
- Establish the Apache Security Team
- Appoint a replacement chair for Fund Raising Committee
18 Sep 2002 (additional reports)
- Apache Commons Project
21 Aug 2002
- Request for use of feather mark from Bradford Learning / Covalent
17 Jul 2002
- Election of Officers
- Establishment of an Apache DB project
- Establishment of an Apache Fund-raising Committee
20 Mar 2002
- Java Community Process resolution, ensuring that Apache projects will only implement specifications that can be implemented as open source software
- Request from SAP for License Amendment Permission
27 Feb 2002
- Jakarta election of new PMC
- Request from IBM to make a BSF project within Jakarta
- Lars Eilebrecht wants approval to use the Apache feather on his
- Distribution of jar files from Jakarta and XML sites without proper
- Chuck Murcko proposes that the bylaws be changed to make the board
- The UK scam using “Apache Group” name at <http://www.icu2.cjb.net/>
16 Jan 2002
- Conference supplies
- Trademarks
- Java Community Process

2001 Board meeting minutes

28 Nov 2001
- ASF License 2.0
- Establishing a PMC for a federated identity project
17 Oct 2001
- Request from IBM to make a BSF project within Jakarta
15 Aug 2001
- ApacheCon speaker payments from Santa Clara ApacheCon 2001
- Red Hat request for use of “for Apache” and “powered by Apache”
- Contributor logos
18 Jul 2001
- ApacheCon contract issues
- Election of Chairman
- Appoint Ted Leung to V.P., Apache XML
- Appoint someone to replace Randy Terbush on Conference Planning
- Request for use of the ASF Feather in official merchandise
- NT Services project
- ASF virtual office
18 Apr 2001
21 Mar 2001
- Allocation of $2500 for Batik press announcement
- Covalent request for permission to use Apache name
- Tripwire request for permission to use Apache name
- Discussion of things we need to do to advertize 501(c)(3) status
- Re-established and updated membership of Jakarta and XML Projects
- Amending the bylaws to prevent a situation where more than half of the board of directors consisted of employees/owners of the same company
21 Feb 2001
- Confirming the Conference Planning Committee
- Improving the structure of the Jakarta and XML projects
- New V.P. for the Jakarta Project
- New charter for the XML Project
- Coordinating release versions among Apache projects
- ASF Members allowed to sit on any PMC without a voice

2000 Board meeting minutes

20 Dec 2000
- Establishment of the Apache Portable Runtime Project
15 Nov 2000
- Trademark
- Engage in a relationship with Cooley
22 Oct 2000
24 Jul 2000
- Clarification on open board mailing list and archives
- Authorize budget for retaining counsel on crypto export issues
- Authorize budget for payment of member fees at ApacheCon 2000 Europe
- Update membership of the Apache HTTP Server Committee
- Update membership of the Apache XML Committee
- Establishment of an Apache PHP Committee
- Establishment of an Apache/TCL Project
- Acclamation of Apache Conferences Committee
- Budgeting for counsel on member employment agreements and NDAs
- Official policy regarding use of the Apache name for such
- Coriolis copyright infringement
- Budgeting for ASF Hackathon event prior to ApacheCon 2000 Europe
- Plan for creating an annual report for fy1999
- Plan for creating a budget for fy2000
10 Mar 2000
- Proposal from ZOT Group for continuing media management services
- Perl-Apache PMC
- XML and Data Channel License
28 Feb 2000
- Proposal from ZOT Group for continuing media management services
- Discussion about pro/con of becoming 501(c)(3)
- Ken requested that the ASF investigate the procedure in having the ASF formally accept PHP and mod_perl as Foundation projects
- Discuss our usability policies for the various bits of artwork

1999 Board meeting minutes

01 Nov 1999
- Adopting the contributor license agreement
- Modifications to Trademark Assignment agreement
22 Sep 1999
16 Sep 1999
- Application for tax-exempt status as a private operating foundation
- ASF Software License
- Project Management Committees
- Establishment of the Apache Jakarta Project
- Establishment of the Apache XML Project
- Budgeting process
- Overhead charge
- Initial Foundation Budget
13 Jul 1999
- PR post-mortem from June 30 announcement of The ASF
- Status on setting up projects
- Handling funds marked for use by specific projects
- Licensing issues regarding projects
- Finishing up the corporate loose ends
22 Jun 1999
- PR for announcement of The ASF
- Jakarta
- Finishing up the corporate loose ends
01 Jun 1999
- Effective date of incorporation
- Budget discussion

Pre-organization meetings

13 May 1999
27 Apr 1999
- Banking Resolutions
- Appointing additional responsibilities to officers and/or non-officers
- Issues regarding the membership application form
- Adoption of the license agreement form (license-grant.txt)
- Adoption of the trademark assignment form (trademark-assignment.txt)
- Adoption of the equipment use letter (equipment-use-letter.txt)
- Adoption of the bill-of-sale/assignment form (BOS-and-assignment.txt)
- Appointment of a Vice Chairman of the Board
- Set dates for next two Board meetings
13 Apr 1999
- Officer Elections
- Ratification and Adoption of Acts of Incorporator
- Adoption of the Bylaws of The Apache Software Foundation
- Adoption of the Corporate Seal
- Selection of an initial principal office
- Adoption of the member consent form
- Adoption of the membership application form
- Establishment of the Apache HTTP Server Project Management Committee
- Establishment of the Apache Conference Committee
- Miscellaneous Incorporation Resolutions
- Attorney