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| Date | Action | Decided by |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-18 | Appointed Daniel Gruno | the board, by resolution |
| 2024-08-21 | Appointed Jeff Genender | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-20 | Terminate the Apache Logo Development Project | special order | approved |
| 2024-08-21 | Establish Logo Development Committee | special order | approved |
| 2024-08-21 | Supplemental report about the Logo process — see Report about Logo discussions | discussion | discussed |
The Logo Development committee concluded its second round of polling in July of 2025. The consensus of the committee is that we have found a logo candidate with general approval of the foundation membership, and will be presenting the proposed candidate to the board. The committee has furthermore agreed, by consensus, to submit a resolution to disband the logo development committee, should the board be satisfied that the task of the committee has been completed. Some members of the committee that have expressed the idea of continuing with a logo development committee for the sake of aiding projects looking for either new logos or redesigning older ones, though the general feeling seems to be that this is outside the mission/remit of the committee, and would be better suited for Marketing & Publicity to handle.
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the creation and maintenance of software related to Creation and development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, moderate activity Issues for the board: No issues for the board at the moment. ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-21 (a year ago) There are currently 16 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Melissa Logan on 2024-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Chris Wells on 2025-04-11. ## Project Activity: We are gearing up for the second round of polling for the new logo, and expect to notify the membership next week (week starting July 14th). This will be a ranked choice poll and possibly (but not guaranteed) the final poll conducted, depending on whether we have a clear winner or not. As far as an overall timeline for the Logo Development project is concerned, I would say a conservative estimate would be two to three months before we have a final recommendation for the board, depending on the outcome of the second round of polling. ## Community Health: No changes worth noting here. Activity ebbs and flows on an individual level.
No report was submitted.
Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the creation and maintenance of software related to Creation and development of a brand and logo for the Foundation Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, low-to-moderate activity Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-20 (9 months ago). There are currently 16 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:7. Community changes, past quarter: - One PMC member resigned on 2025-05-05 - Chris Wells was added as committer on 2025-04-10 Project Activity: After some initial conversations about the outcome of the first poll, it was decided to move forward with cleaning up and revising the _top three_ logos from the last members' poll, and action was taken to send these logo concepts to the designer used initially by the BSC, for refinement using specs outlined by the project[2]. When this refinement has concluded, we will announce the second round of polling to the membership. Community Health: Progress is being made, albeit slowly. Some lazy consensus decisions have (from what I have observed) helped move the needle in some more technical areas of the process where conversations have stalled a bit. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/6xf8mkz4vfnq4cr2oc21yjbtz3k002dy [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/gfghccodsq98bvr5ws7kfqqkpllx69b1
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the creation and maintenance of software related to Creation and development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, low-to-moderate activity Issues for the board: No issues as such, although we have requested a line item for graphics works, which should be reflected in the proposed budget. ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-20 (8 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Melissa Logan on 2024-08-27. - Chris Wells was added as committer on 2025-04-10 ## Project Activity: A budget was submitted to the president based on received quotes for the graphics cleanup needed for the top logo candidates going into round two. There remains some uncertainty on the question of whether we proceed with the top three or top five of the candidates, but hopefully that should be cleared up soon. Once we have contracted and received the cleaned-up logos, we will announce the second round of polling to the membership. ## Community Health: Nothing worth noting for this month. The committee remains the same. There is an informational typo in this report's Community Changes section, but that is due to a username change for Chris Wells.
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the creation and maintenance of software related to Creation and development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing activity Issues for the board: There are no issues for the board ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-20 (7 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Melissa Logan on 2024-08-27. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: The first round poll for the best suited logo candidate has begun, and will end on March 20th. Once we have the results from that poll, we will condense the list of candidates for the second round and look at refining some of the candidates to make them more viable for the final round(s). ## Community Health: No changes to committee size. Overall the project is working as intended. Nothing to report here, really.
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the creation and maintenance of software related to Creation and development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, moderate activity Issues for the board: No issues for the board currently ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-21 (6 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Melissa Logan on 2024-08-28. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: The committee has successfully set up a test vote that allows for both a summary and in-depth view of all the design candidates, and is currently testing to make sure everything works as intended. The tentative plan (being worked on right now) is to call for a first round of voting on March 13th through 20th (a seven day period), then assess the results, refine the candidate list and have the final candidate ideas reviewed and polished by professional designers. We will then call a second round of votes at a later point in time. We hope the chair will also announce this first date at the annual members' meeting in March. Once the date has been set for the first round, we'll work on an instructional document that relays our intentions and expectations for the first round to the membership. ## Community Health: No material changes in the makeup of the committee this past quarter. This was expected, so there really isn't anything to report on.
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the creation and maintenance of software related to Creation and development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: No issues for the board. ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-21 (5 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Melissa Logan on 2024-08-28. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: Work is underway to set up the voting mechanisms for conducting test voting, ensuring our tooling works with the voting platform and can be deployed when we get closer to the official vote. There are some technical issues to coordinate with infrastructure, but we have no concerns at present that this would present any form of blocker. Once we have conducted the tests to satisfaction, we will begin discussing the official vote and the messaging around it. It is my personal expectation that the committee will be able to reach this point in the coming month. ## Community Health: No updates of note. The roster has remained the same since last report, and we are slowly getting back into the groove after the holidays.
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: board concern: mild ### Work Efforts The PMC is in-process of preparing a ballot for presentation to the Membership. The current discussion is whether to try to rush this before the late-December holidays, or simply wait until the New Year. Given that ballot language has not been decided upon, and will likely require much discussion, it certainly appears the ballot will appear in January. The PMC will likely run a test/empty ballot in December to test the desired process. The set of candidate logos to be presented to the Members for consideration has been finalized. ### Health Many words have been written about the Logo Development PMC, and its on-list discussions, about its participants, and whether there are factions. All of this is arguably true or false, but is materially irrelevant as long as the PMC is able to make progress. Thus, this report is not going to cover “health” concerns that others may have raised. ### Composition The PMC has recently seen the resignation of Dave Fisher (wave) who is performing new Foundation duties as VP, Tooling. The prior VP Logo Development, Jeff Genender, has resigned his position as of Dec. 6th, 2024. The PMC is recommending Daniel Gruno (humbedooh) as the new PMC Chair to replace Jeff Genender (jgenender), and a Resolution has been placed on the Board's agenda.
## Description: The mission of Apache Logo Development is the development of a brand and logo for the Foundation ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-20 (3 months ago) There are currently 18 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Melissa Logan was added to the PMC on 2024-08-27 - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: Project is moving towards selecting a logo as expected ## Community Health: Discussions are occurring as expected surrounding the logo.
## Description: The Logo Development mission is to champion an open based process to obtain a new logo for the Apache Software Foundation. ## Project Status: Current project status: New Issues for the board: None at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-20 There are currently 18 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Melissa Logan was added to the PMC on 2024-08-27 - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: Work on the new-logo is progressing on pace. ## Community Health: Discussions are occurring as expected surrounding the logo.
## Description: The Logo Development mission is to champion an open based process to obtain a new logo for the Apache Software Foundation. ## Project Status: Current project status: New Issues for the board: None at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Logo Development was founded 2024-08-20 (15 days ago) There are currently 18 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Melissa Logan was added to the PMC on 2024-08-27 - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: Over the last few weeks since its inception, the PMC has been active in updating the private (Members only) cwiki with background and pertinent information from the previous effort, including the full list of work products of the previous committee.
