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The incubating Apache Fineract community believes it is time to graduate to TLP.

Apache Fineract entered incubation in December of 2015.  Since then, we've overcome technical challenges to remove Category X dependencies, and made 3 releases.  Our most recent release contains binary convenience artifacts. We are a very helpful and engaged community, ready to answer all questions and feedback directed to us via the user list.  We've added one committer, and are actively pursuing others. While we do still have issues to address raised by means of the maturity model, all projects are ongoing processes, and we believe we no longer need the incubator to continue addressing these issues.

<TODO: Anything our mentors would like to add?>

To inform the discussion, here is some basic project information:

Project status:
  http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fineract.html
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Project website:
  http://fineract.incubator.apache.org/

Project documentation:
   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Fineract+User+Zone

Maturity assessment:
   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Maturity+Evaluation

DRAFT of the board resolution is at the bottom of this email

Proposed PMC size: 11 members

Total number of committers: 12 members

PMC affiliation (* indicated chair)
   Conflux Technologies (2)
 * The Mifos Initiative (1)
   Musoni Systems (1)
   SanJose Foundation (1)

4,525 commits on develop
255 closed PR”s on GitHub
89 contributors across all branches

dev list averaged ~192 msgs/month in 2016
user list averaged ~13 msgs/month in 2016
81  unique posters

399 issues created
123 issues resolved

committer affiliations
   Conflux Technologies
   The Mifos Initiative
   Musoni Systems
   SanJose Foundation
   Capital One

Thanks,
<TODO: Which mentor wishes to add this?>.Myrle Krantz

Resolution:

Establish the Apache Fineract 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 a data management platform that provides
real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications
throughout widely distributed cloud architectures.

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

RESOLVED, that the Apache Fineract Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a core banking platform that provides a reliable,
robust, and affordable solution for entrepreneurs, financial
institutions, and service providers to offer financial
services to the world's underbanked and unbanked.

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

* Vishwas Babu AJ <vishwasb...@apache.org>
* Edward Cable <edca...@apache.org>
* Markus Geiss <mage...@apache.org>
* Sander van der Heijden <shey...@apache.org>
* Ishan Khanna <ishan1...@apache.org>
* Myrle Krantz <myrl...@apache.org>
* Terence Monteiro <tere...@apache.org>
* Adi Nayaran Raju <rajua...@apache.org>
* Gaurav Saini <gsai...@apache.org>
* Nazeer Hussain Shaik <naz...@apache.org>
* Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Myrle Krantz
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, 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 Fineract 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 Fineract Project; and be it further

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

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