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    <title>Apache Ant Mission</title>
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  <section name="Board Resolution">
    
    <p>Apache Ant is a project of the <a
    href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Software Foundation</a>.  It
    started as a subproject of the <a
    href="http://jakarta.apache.org/">Apache Jakarta Project</a>.</p>

    <p>This is the resolution to the board that created the Apache Ant
    project:</p>

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Resolution
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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 the Apache Ant build tool.

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

RESOLVED, that the Apache Ant PMC be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Ant build
system and related software components; and be it further

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

Bruce Atherton
Stefane Bailliez
Stefan Bodewig
James Duncan Davidson (Emeritus)
Peter Donald
Erik Hatcher
Diane Holt
Donald Leslie
Steve Loughran
Conor MacNeill
Costin Manolache
Sam Ruby
Jon Skeet
Magesh Umasankar
Christoph Wilhelms

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Conor MacNeill be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
Ant, 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 Ant 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 Ant Project.
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