Establish the Apache DataSketches 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 an open source, high-performance library of streaming algorithms commonly called “sketches” in the data sciences. Sketches are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream and can provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to computationally difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional, exact methods.

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

RESOLVED, that the Apache DataSketches Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an open source, high-performance library of streaming algorithms commonly called “sketches” in the data sciences. Sketches are small, stateful programs that process massive data as a stream and can provide approximate answers, with mathematical guarantees, to computationally difficult queries orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional, exact methods; and be it further

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

• Alexander Saydakov alsay@apache.org
• Dave Fisher wave@apache.org
• Edo Liberty edo@apache.org
• Eshcar Hillel eshcar@apache.org
• Evans Ye evansye@apache.org
• Furkan Kamaci kamaci@apache.org
• Jon Malkin jmalkin@apache.org
• Justin Thaler jthaler@apache.org
• Kenneth Knowles kenn@apache.org
• Lee Rhodes leerho@apache.org
• Liang Chen chenliang613@apache.org
• Roman Leventov leventov@apache.org

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Lee Rhodes be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache DataSketches, 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 Apache DataSketches Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator DataSketches podling; and be it further

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