Graduation Resolution Draft

    X. Establish the Apache Sling Project

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
       interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
       Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
       Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
       open-source software related to a scriptable web framework
       that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache
       Jackrabbit, to store and manage content for distribution
       at no charge to the public.

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

       RESOLVED, that the Apache Sling Project be and hereby is
       responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
       related to a scriptable web framework that uses a Java
       Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store
       and manage content; and be it further

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

         * Alexandru Popescu          <apopescu at apache dot org>
 	 * Bertrand Delacretaz        <bdelacretaz at apache dot org>
 	 * Christophe Lombart         <clombart at apache dot org>
 	 * Carsten Ziegeler           <cziegeler at apache dot org>
 	 * Felix Meschberger          <fmeschbe at apache dot org>
 	 * Gianugo Rabellino          <gianugo at apache dot org>
 	 * Padraic Hannon             <hannonpi at apache dot org>
 	 * Juan José Vázquez Delgado  <juanjo at apache dot org>
 	 * Karl Pauls                 <pauls at apache dot org>
 	 * Vidar Ramdal 	      <vramdal at apache dot org>


       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Felix Meschberger
       be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Sling, 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 Sling 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 Sling Project; and be it further

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

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