Board Report Draft

Hi all

back to our regularly scheduled copy of the last board report:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GUMP/20240918

As usual, feel free to add or adjust.

This time there are only two days until I need to send the report. I've
been (and will be for the foreseeable future) incredbly busy with non
OSS stuff, sorry about that.

Cheers

        Stefan