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## Resolution to create a TLP from graduating Incubator podling

    X. Establish the Apache ${PROJECT}OpenNLP 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 ${DESCRIPTION-AND-SCOPE}
       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 ${PROJECT}OpenNLP Project",
       be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
       Foundation; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the Apache ${PROJECT}OpenNLP Project be and hereby is
       responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
       related to ${DESCRIPTION-AND-SCOPE};
       and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ${PROJECT}OpenNLP" 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 ${PROJECT}OpenNLP Project, and to have primary responsibility
       for management of the projects within the scope of
       responsibility of the Apache ${PROJECT}OpenNLP 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 ${PROJECT}OpenNLP Project:

         * John Smith                <example@apache.org>

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that John Smith
       be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ${PROJECT}OpenNLP, 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 ${PROJECT}OpenNLP 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 ${PROJECT}OpenNLP Project; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the Apache ${PROJECT}OpenNLP Project be and hereby
       is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
       Incubator ${PROJECT}OpenNLP podling; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
       Incubator ${PROJECT}OpenNLP podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
       Project are hereafter discharged.