Announcing New ASF Board Member Kanchana Welagedara

Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board member Christofer Dutz resigned from the board of directors for personal reasons and is succeeded by Kanchana Welagedara. We thank Chris for his service to the ASF and ongoing contributions to many open source projects Apache PLC4X, Apache IoTDB, Apache Incubator, and Apache TAC.

Kanchana is a senior technical program manager with more than 17 years of experience in the field and a decade of technical and people leadership in business critical, complex enterprise software solutions. She recently appeared on the ASF podcast and is a contributor to Apache projects including Apache Axis C++ and Apache Geronimo. Please join us in welcoming her to the FY25 board of directors.

See the full list of board members and learn more about ASF governance.

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