Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2013.

Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.

Dates:
31 Aug 2013    last release
12 Mar 2013    last PMC addition
15 Jan 2013    last Committer addition
            
3 Releases: 
  2.4.1 release of main UIMA Java SDK, 26 Jul 2013 
      http://uima.apache.org/news.html#26 Jul 2013
  2.4.2 release of main UIMA Java SDK, 09 Aug 2013  
      http://uima.apache.org/news.html#09 Aug 2013     
  2.0.0 release of uimaFIT             31 Aug 2013  
      http://uima.apache.org/news.html#31 Aug 2013

Other Activity:

All three new major recent contributions, uimaFIT, Ruta, and DUCC,
continue to be very active. 

An upcoming UIMA workshop and tutorial will be held at the 
International Conference of the German Society for Computational 
Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2013 (23-24. Sept.).  
This workshop is co-organized by two of the Apache UIMA project's 
committers. A keynote at the workshop will be given by Pei Chen 
(Apache cTAKES PMC Chairperson) and Guergana Savova.

Community:
We are voting on adding one new committer who has been contributing
several patches to the Ruta project (vote in progress for that now).
 
Issues: 
No Board level issues at this time.