Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform. ISSUES There are no issues that require the board's attention. COMMUNITY At the last OSCON, July 2012, Apache Rave was present and represented by Matt Franklin. In addition, the OpenSocial Foundation sponsored a combined Rave & OpenSocial meet-up there as well. There will be two presentations about Rave on the upcoming ApacheCon Europe 2012, Sinsheim Germany * Integrating Social Apps with Content Driven Sites using Apache Rave and Spring HMVC (Ate Douma) * Mongo, its all the Rave (Matt Franklin) COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES We've added two new committers and PMC members to the team: Kristen Legacy and Stan Drozdetski. RELEASES Since the last board report, three new Apache Rave releases were performed, 0.14, 0.15 and 0.16. ACTIVITY Development activity is currently spread out over three different area's: ongoing trunk development, a separte branch for refactoring the Rave persistence model, and a separate sandbox project to add content services integration to Rave. It is expected that in the upcoming weeks this separate branch and sandbox activities will get merged back into trunk. PRESS Nothing since last report. BRANDING The PMC has executed the suitable name search again and has not found anything of concern. http://wiki.apache.org/rave/BrandingSearches/October2012 LEGAL No legal issues to report. INFRASTRUCTURE No issues at this time.