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cTAKES

20 Mar 2024 [Pei Chen / Christofer]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate/low activity.
Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at
this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 40 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dennis Johns on 2023-01-06.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (5.x.x)
- Volunteers building/testing a 5.x release.
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 14% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(26 emails compared to 30).
Main top the mailing lists were related to the future release.
19 commits in the past quarter (850% increase)
4 code contributors in the past quarter (300% increase)
7 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (600% increase)
3 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (200% increase)

A friendly reminder was sent out to PMC members to join private@ on 12/17/23
as Chris Dutz pointed out.

20 Dec 2023 [Pei Chen / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate/low activity.
Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at
this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 40 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dennis Johns on 2023-01-06.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (5.x.x)
- Few volunteers building/testing a 5.x release.
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 66% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(30 emails compared to 18) mainly regarding a new release.
There are few new user questions on user@.
The project is fairly niche and not as active as other ASF projects.
There are occasional quiet times as cdutz noticed in the last report,
but there is activity.

20 Sep 2023 [Pei Chen / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate/low activity.
Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at
this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 40 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dennis Johns on 2023-01-06.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (5.x.x)
- Few volunteers came forward in testing a potential 5.x release.
- Committee migrating the website repo to git
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
Mailing lists remain steady with moderate traffic.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 20% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(18 emails compared to 15)

21 Jun 2023 [Pei Chen / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate/low activity.
Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at
this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 40 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dennis Johns on 2023-01-06.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (5.x.x)
- Committee migrated the code repo to git
- Committee migrating the website repo to git
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been an decrease in the dev and user email traffic this
quarter.  This quarter is inline with the normal traffic since there was
an uptick last quarter with a discussion around the new release.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 75% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(15 emails compared to 58)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 50% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(3 emails compared to 6)

22 Mar 2023 [Pei Chen / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Regarding last
quarter's report on @dev vs @private mailing lists, a friendly reminder was
sent to @private:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/ot39xwkfwk6175dnztbhtc3vskb28zs0

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 40
committers and 31 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 5:4. New committer (Dennis) was added as a committer this quarter.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- Dennis Johns was added as committer on 2023-01-06

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (5.x.x)
- Committee migrated the code repo to git
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been an increase in the dev and user email traffic this quarter
mainly regarding the next 5.x.x release.

21 Dec 2022 [Pei Chen / Christofer]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.
Didn't see any contributions from the proposed candidate yet, but
will keep an eye out once the nominator proposes the vote again.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
- Committee is in the process of migrating the repo to git
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been a decrease in the dev email traffic this quarter and an
increase in the user list with new user questions similar to last quarter.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 36% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(16 emails compared to 25)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 166% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(8 emails compared to 3)

21 Sep 2022 [Pei Chen / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.
Committee waiting for contributions from the new proposed committer.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
- Committee worked with infra to fix issue with 4.0.0.1 release
 (missing entry in KEYS file)
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been a decrease in the dev email traffic this quarter and an
increase in the user list with new user questions similar to last quarter.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 36% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(16 emails compared to 25)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 166% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(8 emails compared to 3)

15 Jun 2022 [Pei Chen / Sharan]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
With regards to the board's new committer comment, there were more than
enough (+) votes so the vote actually passed.  However, the nominator
voluntarily withdrew the nomination in order to wait for more
contributions per his comments.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
- There is a discussion on Git and large static ML models/files
- Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
- 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been a decrease in the dev email traffic this quarter and an
increase in the user list with new user questions.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 36% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(16 emails compared to 25)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 166% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(8emails compared to 3)

16 Mar 2022 [Pei Chen / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (9 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
 - Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
 - 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been a decrease in the dev email traffic this quarter and an
increase in the user list with new user questions.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 36% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(16 emails compared to 25)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 166% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(8 emails compared to 3)

15 Dec 2021 [Pei Chen / Sharan]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- There is a discussion for a new committer (https://s.apache.org/k9wq2).
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.

## Project Activity:
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
 - Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
 - 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There has been a decrease in the email traffic this quarter.  email lists have
been quiet, but there was at least one new user with question(s) on mailing
lists this quarter.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 64% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
( 12 emails compared to 33)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 50% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(1 email compared to 2)

15 Sep 2021 [Pei Chen / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
 - Infra migrated the static web site migration from CMS to GFM
 - Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
 - 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There have been a decrease in the email traffic this quarter.  It has been
a quiet summer but still active with new user questions on mailing lists.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 57% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(33 emails compared to 76)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 86% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(2 emails compared to 14)

16 Jun 2021 [Pei Chen / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
 - Peter Klugl hosted a discussion about Apache UIMA Ruta
 - Infra began the static web site migration from CMS to GFM
 - Last release was 4.0.0.1 patch on Jan 20 2021
 - 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
- There was a discussion regarding a larger healthcare apache
community with comdev. https://s.apache.org/vdwrt
- Dev emails resumed to their normal levels this quarter; there was a
spike in activity last quarter related to the 4.0.0.1 patch which
addressed a new authentication mechanism.
dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 47% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (79 emails compared to 147)
user@ctakes.apache.org had a 7% increase in traffic in the past
quarter (14 emails compared to 13)

17 Mar 2021 [Pei Chen / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Peter Abramowitsch on 2020-10-15.

## Project Activity:
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
 - dev@ is working with infra on CMS migration for the static web site
 - 4.0.0.1 was released on Jan 20 2021
 - 4.0.0 was released on Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015

## Community Health:
There was an increase in activity relating to a new authentication mechanism
from UMLS, a 3rd party library.
- dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 63% increase in traffic in the past quarter (147
  emails compared to 90).
- user@ctakes.apache.org had a 18% increase in traffic in the past quarter (13
  emails compared to 11).

16 Dec 2020 [Pei Chen / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 39 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- New committer: Peter Abramowitsch was added as committer on 2020-10-15

## Project Activity:
- There are ongoing discussions regarding a 4.0.x patch release to address
a new authentication mechanism from UMLS, a 3rd party library.
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.x.x or 5.x.x)
 - dev@ is working with infra on CMS migration for the static web site
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Community Health:
- cTAKES held its own track and presentations for virtual ApacheCon2020.
 - dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 30% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (95
   emails compared to 135)
 - user@ctakes.apache.org had a 22% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
   (11 emails compared to 14) There was a spike in emails last quarter largely
   due to a single user asking questions and active responses; email traffic
   resumed to typical levels.

16 Sep 2020 [Pei Chen / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (7 years ago)
There are currently 38 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
 - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
 - No new committers. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2017-11-14.

## Project Activity:
 - dev@ is working with infra on CMS migration for the static web site
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1).  There were
   discussions to possibly to create the next release as 5.x depending on
   changes.
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Community Health:
 - There are approx 10 cTAKES presentations scheduled for ApacheCon2020:
   https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/ctakes.html
 - dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 371% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (132 emails compared to 28)
 - user@ctakes.apache.org had a 366% increase in traffic in the past quarter
   (14 emails compared to 3)

15 Jul 2020 [Pei Chen / Bertrand]

## Description:
The mission of cTAKES is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache cTAKES was founded 2013-03-19 (7 years ago)
There are currently 38 committers and 31 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2018-07-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Gandhi Rajan on 2017-11-14.


## Project Activity:
 - Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Community Health:
- Sean Finan is coordinating and organizing cTAKES presentations for
   ApacheCon2020.
- There has been an increase in the number of questions from users on how
  cTAKES works, etc.  The notifications@ mailing list is for notifying SVN
  code commits; a decrease in notifications@ means there were fewer code
  commits to SVN.

- dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 60% increase in traffic in the past quarter (64
  emails compared to 40)
- user@ctakes.apache.org had a 175% increase in traffic in the past quarter
  (11 emails compared to 4)
- notifications@ctakes.apache.org had a 54% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (7 emails compared to 15)
- 1 issue opened in JIRA, past quarter (-75% decrease)

17 Jun 2020 [Pei Chen / Sam]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Membership Data:
- Currently 31 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Gandhi Rajan on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Community Health:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

18 Mar 2020 [Pei Chen / Shane]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Project Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

## Membership Data:
 - Currently 31 PMC members.
 - Last PMC addition was Gandhi Rajan on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Community Health:
Overall community health is good.  dev@ctakes.apache.org had a 28%
increase in traffic in the past quarter (58 emails compared to 45)

18 Dec 2019 [Pei Chen / Craig]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 31 PMC members.
 - Last PMC addition was Gandhi Rajan on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
Overall community health is good.  Sean Finan spoke at ApacheCon EU 2019.
We are seeing a steady influx of new people asking questions on the mailing
lists- both programming-and documentation-wise.

18 Sep 2019 [Pei Chen / Shane]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 31 PMC members.
 - Last PMC addition was Gandhi Rajan on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of emails/discussions sent to the dev @
mailing lists with less subscribers.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
dev@ had a 79% increase in traffic in the past quarter (106 emails
compared to 59)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
user@ had a 80% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (7 emails
compared to 34)

19 Jun 2019 [Pei Chen / Rich]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

## PMC changes:
- Currently 31 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Gandhi Rajan on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev  @
mailing lists with less emails sent.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 258 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 62 emails sent to list (82 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 269 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 36 emails sent to list (59 in previous quarter)

20 Mar 2019 [Pei Chen / Roman]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 31 PMC members.
 - Last PMC addition was Gandhi Rajan on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of emails/discussions sent to the
dev and user @ mailing lists with less subscribers.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 257 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
    - 97 emails sent to list (32 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 269 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 60 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)

19 Dec 2018 [Pei Chen / Isabel]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 31 PMC members.
 - Gandhi Rajan was added to the PMC on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev and user @
mailing lists.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 260 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
    - 34 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 271 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 17 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter)

19 Sep 2018 [Pei Chen / Mark]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists
- Potential future new committers/PMC members being discussed on private@

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 31 PMC members.
 - Gandhi Rajan was added to the PMC on Thu Jul 12 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev and user @
mailing lists.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 255 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
    - 63 emails sent to list (148 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 265 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
    - 46 emails sent to list (71 in previous quarter)

20 Jun 2018 [Pei Chen / Isabel]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists
- Potential future new committers/PMC members being discussed on private@

## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- New commmitters:
   - Alex Zbarcea was added as a committer on Fri Oct 20 2017
   - Gandhi Rajan was added as a committer on Tue Nov 14 2017
   - Matthew Vita was added as a committer on Mon Nov 13 2017

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev and user @
mailing lists.

- dev@ctakes.apache.org:
   - 251 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months)
   - 148 emails sent in the past 3 months (183 in the previous quarter)

- user@ctakes.apache.org:
   - 253 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months)
   - 82 emails sent in the past 3 months (111 in the previous quarter)

21 Mar 2018 [Pei Chen / Jim]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
  an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
  from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to improve unit and regression tests.
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira
- Committee is actively working on updating the cTAKES Confluence
website for improved documentation

## Health report:
 - The community continues to be moderately active.
 - There are patches from various new users/contributors
recently.  Three new committers were added within the last quarter.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 30 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Alex Zbarcea was added as a committer on Fri Oct 20 2017
    - Gandhi Rajan was added as a committer on Tue Nov 14 2017
    - Matthew Vita was added as a committer on Mon Nov 13 2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:

There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev and user @
mailing lists.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 242 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 190 emails sent to list (441 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 241 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
    - 124 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)

20 Dec 2017 [Pei Chen / Rich]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
  an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
  from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Community/Committers continue to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Community/Committers continue to improve unit and regression tests.
- Community/Committers continue to work on bug fixes and
improvements documented in Jira
- Community/Committers is actively working on updating the cTAKES
Confluence website for improved documentation

## Health report:
 - The community continues to be moderately active.
There have been an increase in new users/questions interest in the dev
and user mailing lists.
There are patches from various new users/contributors recently.
Three new committers were added within the last month.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 30 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 38 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Alex Zbarcea was added as a committer on Fri Oct 20 2017
    - Gandhi Rajan was added as a committer on Tue Nov 14 2017
    - Matthew Vita was added as a committer on Mon Nov 13 2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was 4.0.0 on Thu Apr 27 2017
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:

There was an increase in number of emails sent to the dev and user
mailing lists.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 233 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 449 emails sent to list (141 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 236 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
    - 48 emails sent to list (49 in previous quarter)

20 Sep 2017 [Pei J Chen / Mark]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
 an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
 from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1).
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements
documented in Jira
- Committee is actively working on updating the cTAKES Confluence
website for improved documentation

## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.  There have been
an increase in new users/questions interest in the dev and user mailing lists.
There is still a steep learning curve with the codebase.  However, there are
patches from various new users/contributors recently.

## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Azad Dehghan was added as a committer on Fri Jun 03 2016
  - Lewis John McGibbney was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
  - Peter Klügl was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
  - Richard Eckart de Castilho was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 24 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in the subscribers in the mailing list(s) over the
last quarter with the recent 4.0.0 release.

- dev@ctakes.apache.org:
   - 234 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
   - 159 emails sent to list (280 in previous quarter)

- user@ctakes.apache.org:
   - 226 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
   - 51 emails sent to list (77 in previous quarter)

21 Jun 2017 [Pei J Chen / Mark]

## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
  an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
  from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
- Committee released a major release 4.0.0 recently in April 2017.
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1).
- Committee is actively working on updating the cTAKES Confluence
website for improved documentation

## Health report:
 - The community continues to be moderately active.  There are a fair
number of new users/questions interest in the dev and user mailing
lists.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 30 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 35 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Azad Dehghan was added as a committer on Fri Jun 03 2016
   - Lewis John McGibbney was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
   - Peter Klügl was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
   - Richard Eckart de Castilho was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 24 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014

## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in the users mailing list(s) over the
last quarter with the recent 4.0.0 release.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 221 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 289 emails sent to list (280 in previous quarter)
 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 211 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 77 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 26 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 42 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

15 Mar 2017 [Pei J Chen / Marvin]

## Description:

Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

- Committee continues to work on the next release (4.0) and anticipate an
  upcoming release soon with new features and improvements.
- Committee is actively working on updating the cTAKES Confluence website for
  improved documentation
- James Masanz, an original cTAKES committer, also volunteered to help with
  the upcoming release.
- Committee continues to make improvements to the system.  e.g human-tagged
  gold annotations of 18 mockup clinical notes done. Notes were generated by a
  cTAKES committer-physician John Green. Format is Anafora
  (https://github.com/weitechen/anafora), annotations are for signs/symptoms,
  diseases/disorders, procedures, anatomical sites and medications with
  relevant attributes and mappings to ontology concept codes. Human tagged
  annotations done by Dave Harris at Boston Children's Hospital.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 35 committers.
- New commmitters:
   - Azad Dehghan was added as a committer on Fri Jun 03 2016
   - Lewis John McGibbney was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
   - Peter Klügl was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
   - Richard Eckart de Castilho was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016

## Releases:

- Last release was 3.2.2 on Sat May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
- 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:

There is a significant increase in the dev mailing list(s) over the
last quarter.  This is partly due to the planned upcoming release.

- dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 218 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 286 emails sent to list (77 in previous quarter)
 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 203 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
    - 26 emails sent to list (71 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

    - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
    - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Dec 2016 [Pei J Chen / Marvin]

## Description:

Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an
open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:

- The majority of the committee has been working very hard to push forward
  the next release since has been almost 2 years since the last release as
  pointed out in the last report.  There are volunteers and an RM already
  stepped forward and started the process. However, there is a small group
  which differs in opinion and prefers to delay/block the critical
  minor/patch release (https://s.apache.org/Q0iS).  Looking forward to a
  concensus soon.

## Activity:

- There was a successful cTAKES hackathon during AMIA's NLP Working Group
  earlier in Nov at Chicago, IL (https://s.apache.org/IVqy)
- There has been continued activity and contributions in new components in
  sandbox and improvements to current components (Clinical De identification,
  ctakes-wsd, ctakes-temporal, etc. )
- There is interest from new committers to improve the current codebase such
  as Java File Resource loading improvements, general code clean up, etc.
- Committee continues to work on the next release (see above notes).

## PMC changes:

- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 35 committers.
- New commmitters:
  - Azad Dehghan was added as a committer on Fri Jun 03 2016
  - Lewis John McGibbney was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
  - Peter Klügl was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
  - Richard Eckart de Castilho was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016

## Releases:

- Last release was 3.2.2 on Sat May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
- 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:

The mailing lists remain active with discussions and there is steady
growth in interest and increase in number of subscribers from various
institutions.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 211 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 85 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 189 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
    - 75 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Sep 2016 [Pei J Chen / Shane]

# Description:

Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an
open-source natural language processing system for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:

- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

- There has been continued activity and contributions in new components in
 sandbox and improvements to current components (Clinical De identification,
 ctakes-wsd, ctakes-temporal, etc. )
- There is interest from new committers to improve the current codebase such
 as Java File Resource loading improvements, general code clean up, etc.
- Committee continues to work on the next release; previously pushed back as
 there hasn't been major features/changes to code base yet.  Committers will
 be able to volunteer to be RM as soon as committee/community is ready for a
 new release.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition: Mon Feb 02 2015 (Michelle Chen)

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 35 committers.
- New commmitters:
  - Azad Dehghan was added as a committer on Fri Jun 03 2016
  - Lewis John McGibbney was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
  - Peter Klügl was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
  - Richard Eckart de Castilho was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016

## Releases:

- Last release was 3.2.2 on Sat May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
- 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:

The mailing lists remain active with discussions and there is steady
growth in interest and increase in number of subscribers from various
institutions.

- dev@ctakes.apache.org:
  - 203 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
  - 60 emails sent to list (72 in previous quarter)

- user@ctakes.apache.org:
  - 185 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
  - 46 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

15 Jun 2016 [Pei J Chen / Chris]

## Description:

Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an
open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:

 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - We have added 4 new committers this quarter.
 - There hasn't been as much activity for a new release yet.  However, there
   has been a lot of activity and contributions in new components in sandbox
   and improvements to current components (Clinical De identification,
   ctakes-wsd, ctakes-temporal, etc. )
 - There is interest from new committers to improve the current codebase such
   as Java File Resource loading improvements, general code clean up, etc.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 30 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 35 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Azad Dehghan was added as a committer on Fri Jun 03 2016
    - Lewis John McGibbney was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
    - Peter Klügl was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016
    - Richard Eckart de Castilho was added as a committer on Fri May 27 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was 3.2.2 on Sat May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:

The mailing lists remain active with discussions and there is steady
growth in interest and increase in number of subscribers on the dev
and user lists.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 202 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
    - 73 emails sent to list (145 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 178 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 38 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)

16 Mar 2016 [Pei J Chen / David]

## Description:
 Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
   an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
   from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - There continues to be interest with integration with other ASF Projects
(New contributions from Tika committers (CTAKES-343), Spark
integration (CTAKES-374).
- The committee is active with local meetups.  Last one was held in
Oct 2015 in Boston.
- The committee is actively preparing features for the next release
3.2.3.

## Health report:
 - Community is active.  There is an increase in usage based on
activity and questions asked on the dev mailing lists. The number of
mailing list subscribers to dev and user continue to increase.
- We have several new contributors to the de identification component.
## PMC changes:

 - Currently 30 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Jim Gregoric at Sat Feb 28 2015

## Releases:

 - Last release was 3.2.2 on Sat May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:

There is a significant uptick in the mailing list subscribers.  This
is a good indicator that there is growing interest in the community
and an increase in a user base.  We have also noticed an increase in
user questions and interest in helping contributing to the codebase.

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 197 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 147 emails sent to list (204 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 172 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
    - 19 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

16 Dec 2015 [Pei J Chen / Sam]

## Description:
   Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
   an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
   from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Activity:
 - There is a new contribution on using cTAKES for
clinical deidentification (CTAKES-384)
 - There was local meetup (Boston) held in Oct on integrating
cTAKES with Docker for easier deployments.
 - There continues to be interest with integration with other ASF Projects
(New contributions from Tika committers (CTAKES-343), Spark
integration (CTAKES-374).
 - The committee is actively preparing for the next release 3.2.3
(Tentatively targeted for Dec)

## Health report:
 - Community is active.  There is an increase in usage based on
activity and questions asked on the dev mailing lists. The number of
mailing list subscribers to dev and user continue to increase.

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 30 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen on Mon Feb 02 2015

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Jim Gregoric at Sat Feb 28 2015

## Releases:
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 190 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
    - 204 emails sent to list (181 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 162 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
    - 63 emails sent to list (95 in previous quarter)

 - notifications@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 20 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 94 emails sent to list (79 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

16 Sep 2015 [Pei J Chen / Bertrand]

## Description:
   Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
   an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
   from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Activity:
 - There is interest from new contributor(s) in integrating cTAKES
   with Spark (CTAKES-374)
 - There is interest from new contributor(s) in integrating Gene
   Mappings to cTAKES (CTAKES-375)
 - There is interest from new contributors(s) on using cTAKES for
   deidentification
 - The committee is planning a local meetup (Boston) in the near future to
   integrate cTAKES with Docker for easier deployments.

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
 - Currently 31 committers and 30 PMC members in the project.
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen at Fri Jan 23 2015
 - Last committer addition was Jim Gregoric at Sat Feb 28 2015

## Releases:
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 179 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
    - 181 emails sent to list (228 in previous quarter)

 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 155 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
    - 94 emails sent to list (95 in previous quarter)

 - notifications@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 21 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 77 emails sent to list (103 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Jun 2015 [Pei J Chen / Greg]

## Description:
   Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
   an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
   from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

## Activity:
- A talk about cTAKES using Spark/BigTop on processing Twitter data was well
  received at ApacheCon NA 2015.
- The committee just released ctakes-3.2.2 on May 30, 2015 and contains a
  critical patch caused by a change by a 3rd party (NLM) validation service.
Full Release notes: http://s.apache.org/ctakes-3.2.2-release-notes
- The committee is actively working on the next release cTAKES with new
  temporal components/models and various bug fixes in Jira.
- The committee is planning a local meetup (Boston) in the near future to
  integrate cTAKES with Docker for easier deployments.
- There is a recent cTAKES integration with Tika
  (https://wiki.apache.org/tika/cTAKESParser).

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## PMC/Committership changes:
 - Currently 31 committers and 30 PMC members in the project.
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Chen at Fri Jan 23 2015
 - Last committer addition was Jim Gregoric at Sat Feb 28 2015

## Releases:
 - 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 160 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
    - 227 emails sent to list (211 in previous quarter)
 - user@ctakes.apache.org:
    - 140 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
    - 93 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 Mar 2015 [Pei J Chen / Greg]

Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an
open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Activity:
 - The committee is actively working on a future release
(slated for Mar/Apr 2015).
 - A new cTAKES website has been launched (ctakes.a.o.)
 - A talk about cTAKES using Spark/BigTop on processing Twitter data has been
accepted to ApacheCon NA 2015.
 - A cloud computing class at Boston University is using cTAKES as one of
their student projects (mentored by several members of the committee).

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

PMC/Committership changes:

 - Michelle Chen was added to the PMC on Jan 23 2015
 - Jim Gregoric was added as a committer on Mar 03 2015
 - Jay Vyas was added to the PMC on Nov 04 2014

Releases:

 - 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
 - 3.2.0 was released on Jul 23 2014
 - 3.1.1 was released on Dec 05 2013

Mailing list activity:

 - dev@ctakes.apache.org: 144 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
    210 emails sent to list (225 in previous quarter)
 - user@ctakes.apache.org: 126 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
    46 emails sent to list (128 in previous quarter)

JIRA activity:

 - 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Dec 2014 [Pei J Chen / Greg]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05
- ctakes-3.2.0 on 2014-07-23
- ctakes-3.2.1 on 2014-12-10

Development:
The committee is actively working on a future release.
Some of the planned code changes for upcoming release includes:
- Hadoop/Spark Integration (example)
- Various big fixes in Jira

Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
Jay Vyas (2014-11-04)

There was a local cTAKES meetup hosted by the local Boston group in Oct
(http://s.apache.org/ctakesmeetupoct2014).
There is an ongoing collaborative work with integrating cTAKES with
other Apache Projects such as BigTop, Spark, etc. for Big Data processing.
he community seems to be active and continues to be growing steadily.

dev mailing list subscribers count: 135 (+4 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 115 (+2 since last report)

17 Sep 2014 [Pei J Chen / Ross]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05
- ctakes-3.2.0 on 2014-07-23

Development:
The committee is actively working on a release candidate for 3.2.1
tentatively scheduled for Oct/Nov.

Some of the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes:
- Infra supplied us with a demo vm for demo purposes (demo-ctakes.a.o)
- New temporal models for extracting Time and Events relations.
- Upgrade to clearTK 2.0 (retraining of any existing clearTK models)
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira

Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
There are a few federal grants submissions pending where we anticipate
more contributions/committers in the near future.

dev mailing list subscribers count: 131 (+9 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 112 (+7 since last report)

18 Jun 2014 [Pei J Chen / Jim]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05
- ctakes-3.2.0 on 2014-06-21 (tenatively scheduled)

Development:
The committee is actively working on a release candidate for 3.2.0
tenatively scheduled for end of June.
Some of the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes:
- Java 7 upgrade
- Integrated YTEX (Yale Extensions for Apache cTAKES) from sandbox
to cTAKES 3.2.0 release.
- New faster/improved dictionary lookup module
Key features include storing annotations into an relational db,
exporting annotation to data mining toolkits (WEKA, R, Matlab, etc.).
- New temporal component for extracting Time and Events.
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira

Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
dev mailing list subscribers count: 122 (+19 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 105 (+14 since last report)

19 Mar 2014 [Pei J Chen / Greg]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System)
is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
- ctakes-3.0.0-incubating on 2013-02-22
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05

Development:
The committee is actively working and planning for the future release.
Some of the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes:
- YTEX (Yale Extensions for Apache cTAKES) has been committed to sandbox.
Key features include storing annotations into an relational db, exporting
annotation to data mining toolkits (WEKA, R, Matlab, etc.).
- New faster dictionary lookup component has been committed to sandbox
- New temporal relations component in progress
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira

Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
dev mailing list subscribers count: 103 (+9 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 91 (+10 since last report)

18 Dec 2013 [Pei J Chen / Sam]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a
natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
- ctakes-3.0.0-incubating on 2013-02-22
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05

Development:
During the last quarter, the committee released 3.1.1 of Apache cTAKES.
The committee is actively working and planning for the future release Some of
the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes:
- New temporal relations component
- New Medication Extraction component
- Groovy integration to make it easier for users/developers to adopt
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira

Community:
Vijay joined the cTAKES committee and is planning to contribute
ytex components(Yale extensions to cTAKES).
cTAKES committers (Guergana, Chen, Tim, Dima, Stephen) spoke at AMIA 2014 at
Washington DC in Nov on cTAKES and NLP related topics.
New Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
dev mailing list subscribers count: 94 (+13 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 81 (+12 since last report)

18 Sep 2013 [Pei J Chen / Sam]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
- ctakes-3.0.0-incubating on 2013-02-22
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-09-16

Development:
During the last quarter, the committee released 3.1.0 of Apache cTAKES.
The committee is actively working and planning for the future release 3.2,
as well as anticipating creating a bug-fix-only 3.1.1 release.
Some of the planned code changes for 3.2.0 include:
- Enhanced regression testing component
- New temporal relations component
- New medications extraction component
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira

Community:
We have added John Green as a committer and PMC member since last report.
dev mailing list subscribers count: 81 (+13 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 69 (+11 since last report)

19 Jun 2013 [Pei J Chen / Brett]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System)
is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
Last release was created on 22.02.2013 (ctakes-3.0-incubating)

Development:
The committee is actively working on the next release of cTAKES.
The next release is tentatively scheduled for end of June.  To spread
the knowledge, another committer has volunteered (James Masanz) to be
the Release Manager.
Some of the planned code changes include:
- New Dependency Parser/Semantic Role Labeler
- New optional Clear-Based Parts Of Speech Tagger
- New HL7/CDA Sectionizer to identify and normalize EMR Segments
- New Standardized Clinical Element Model Instance Template population
- New regression testing component
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked Jira

Community:
No new committers or PMC members are added since last month.

15 May 2013 [Pei J Chen / Ross]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

Releases:
Last release was created on 22.02.2013 (ctakes-3.0-incubating)

Development:

cTAKES has graduated to TLP per board meeting on 20.03.2013.
The code repo and incubator references have been updated to reflect the
new TLP home.  The committee is currently working on the next release of
cTAKES.

Community:
No new committers or PMC members are added since last month.
There has been an increase in user questions on the user and dev mailing
lists presumably indicating more interest in the project and community.
Also, one of the contributors recently contributed a sizable update to one of
the cTAKES components (Dependency Parser) for the future release.
Existing committers have also created a Twitter and LinkedIn account
to help the community grow and thrive.

17 Apr 2013 [Pei J Chen / Doug]

Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

Issues:
No Board level issues at this time

Releases:
Last release was created on 22.02.2013 (ctakes-3.0-incubating)

Development:
cTAKES has graduated to TLP per board meeting on 20.03.2013.
The common tasks for migration to TLP has been done by Infra.
We are currently in the process of updating incubator links and
references.  The committee is also working on future releases of cTAKES.

Community:
No new committers or PMC members are added.  There has been an
increase in activity on the user and dev mailing lists from users since
graduation presumably indicating more interest in the project and community.

20 Mar 2013

Establish the Apache cTAKES 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, for distribution at no charge to the
 public, related to the processing of natural language text from
 the electronic medical record.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache cTAKES Project", be
 and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
 and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache cTAKES Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to the processing of natural language text from the
 electronic medical record; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache cTAKES" 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 cTAKES Project, and to have primary responsibility for
 management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
 of the Apache cTAKES Project; 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 cTAKES Project:

     * Andy McMurry <andymc@apache.org>
     * Britt Fitch <brittfitch@apache.org>
     * Chen Lin <clin@apache.org>
     * Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
     * Ding Cheng Li <leonleeldc@apache.org>
     * Dmitriy Dligach <dligach@apache.org>
     * Grant Ingersoll <gsingers@apache.org>
     * Guergana K. Savova <gsavova@apache.org>
     * Hongfang Liu <liuhongfang@apache.org>
     * James J Masanz <james-masanz@apache.org>
     * Jörn Kottmann <joern@apache.org>
     * Kim Ebert <kebert@apache.org>
     * Matt Coarr <mattcoarr@apache.org>
     * Karthik Sarma <ksarma@apache.org>
     * Pei J Chen <chenpei@apache.org>
     * Scott Russell Halgrim <shalgrim@apache.org>
     * Sean Finan <seanfinan@apache.org>
     * Sean Patrick Murphy <spmurphy50@apache.org>
     * Siddhartha Jonnalagadda <siddhartha@apache.org>
     * Stephen Wu <swu@apache.org>
     * Steven Bethard <stevenbethard@apache.org>
     * Sunghwan Sohn <ssohn@apache.org>
     * Tim Miller <tmill@apache.org>
     * Troy C. Bleeker <bleeker@apache.org>
     * Vinod C Kaggal <vkaggal@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Pei J Chen be
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache cTAKES, 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 cTAKES 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 cTAKES Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache cTAKES Project be and hereby is
 tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Incubator cTAKES podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator cTAKES podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache cTAKES Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Mar 2013

cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
an natural language processing tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.

cTAKES has been incubating since 2012-06-11.

Three most important steps moving towards graduation
 Attract new contributors
 Make at least one cTAKES release
 Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache
 and using the infrastructure

Anything required IPMC attention?
 None

Community:
 We added over 10 new committers after the podling was formed.
 We initiated a community VOTE for graduation
 (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ctakes-dev/201303.mbox/browser)

Development:
 We successfully produced one released (ctakes-3.0.0-incubating).
 Roadmap has been created on Jira and currently working on future
 releases.


Signed-off-by:
Jörn Kottmann: [ ](ctakes)
Grant Ingersoll: [ ](ctakes)
Chris Mattmann: [X ](ctakes)


Shepherd notes:

19 Dec 2012

cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural
language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic
medical record clinical free-text.

cTAKES was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on Monday, June 11, 2012.

Three most important steps moving towards graduation
 Attract new contributors
 Make at least one cTAKES release
 Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache and using
   the infrastructure

Anything required IPMC attention?
 None

Community:
 We have had additional committers and PPMC members join.
 We have the Software Grants on file from the necessary
  institutions(CTAKES-2).
 We have been using JIRA tickets to replace the Bugs tickets.
 We have been actively using the ASF mailing lists for communication,
  with over 328 mails in ctakes-dev@ in Nov.
 We have initiated a discussion on the road towards graduation
  (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ctakes-dev/201211.mbox/%3C924DE05C19409B438EB81DE683A942D923C405%40CHEXMBX1A.CHBOSTON.ORG%3E)

Development:
 We successfully migrated the cTAKES codebase from SourceForge to ASF SVN.
 We have been successfully using Maven builds and ASF Nexus for staging our
   development.
 We have integrated cTAKES with continuous integration using ASF Jenkins.
 We have updated the code base to include ASF copyright headers to source files.
 We have integrated the Apache RAT plug-in for Audit.
 We have updated the README/LICENSE files appropriately.
 We have a release candidate (3.0.0-incubating) pending Review/Vote.
 The ctakes-dev@ discussions have been active.

Signed-off-by: gsingers, jukka, rvs, mattmann

19 Sep 2012

cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural
language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic
medical record clinical free-text.

cTAKES was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on Monday, June 11, 2012.

Three most important steps moving towards graduation

 - Attract new contributors
 - Make at least one cTAKES release
 - Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache and using
   the infrastructure

Anything required IPMC attention?

 Developers are waiting on the SVN load to be completed by INFRA
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5079

Community:

 We have had additional committers and PPMC members join and are
 waiting for one corporate CLA before finalizing the addition
 of three more.

 We have open JIRA tickets to replace the Bugs tickets we still
 had had open on SF.net.

Development:

 - We plan to migrate the entire SVN repo from SourceForge to Apache SVN.
   (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5079)  Our goal is to create
   an initial 2.6-incubating release after this is done.

 - We have received ICLA's from  Sunghwan Sohn, Hongfang Liu, Stephen Wu,
   Troy Bleeker.

 - We began using Apache's Infrastructure (SVN, Apache CMS, Jira,
   Mailing Lists)

 - The ctakes-dev@ discussions have been active.

Signed-off-by: mattmann

15 Aug 2012

cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural
language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic
medical record clinical free-text.

cTAKES was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on Monday, June 11, 2012.

Three most important steps moving towards graduation

 - Attract new contributors
 - Make at least one cTAKES release
 - Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache and using
   the infrastructure

Anything required IPMC attention?

 No

Community:

 All ICLAs are now on file from initial committers in proposal.

 We have been actively discussing the work going on still at SF.net
 with respect to cTAKES pre-Apache and now Apache cTAKES. Most of the
 cTAKES community here at the ASF is learning the ASF model and infra.
 There was an active discussion regarding the proposed release of cTAKES
 at SF.net (2.6) and Chris and Jörn suggested that the release should be
 made at Apache. The team is now progressing towards that goal. We are
 in the process of attracting new contributors and building the community, so
 far focusing on contributors from the SF.net project from Boston Children's
 Hospital, MITRE Corp., Mayo Clinic, and Colorado University.

Development:

 - We plan to migrate the entire SVN repo from SourceForge to Apache SVN.
   (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5079)  Our goal is to create
   an initial 2.6-incubating release after this is done.

 - We have received ICLA's from  Sean Finan, Tim Miller, Dmitry Dligach,
   Vinod Kaggal

 - We began using Apache's Infrastructure (SVN, Apache CMS, Jira,
   Mailing Lists)

 - The ctakes-dev@ discussions have been very active with over 182 mails
   within the last month.

Signed-off-by: mattmann, jukka

25 Jul 2012

cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is a natural
language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic
medical record clinical free-text.

cTAKES was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on Monday, June 11, 2012.

Three most important steps moving towards graduation

 - Attract new contributors
 - Make at least one cTAKES release
 - Get everyone's ICLA on file and start developing code at Apache and using
   the infrastructure

Anything required IPMC attention?

 No

Community:

 We are still wrapping up getting a few ICLAs for Guergana Savova and for
 Sean Finan. So far, little mailing list discussion, but the project is
 getting bootstrapped. The next step will be to start developing on list
 and getting the project going.

 Jörn Kottmann who originally volunteered to Champion the project, was
 elected to the IPMC and can now officially be our Champion. Congrats Jörn!

 The light discussion on the mailing list is because there will be another
 release on the old sourceforge site before the migration to the apache svn
 and name space updates.

Development:

 So far, nothing much other than getting mailing lists set up, and other
 infrastructure tasks that can be tracked at:
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4910

Signed off by mentor: mattmann