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layout: news_item
title: "ORC adds Panagiotis Garefalakis to PMC"
date: "2021-02-08 12:00:00 -0800"
author: dongjoon
categories: [team]
---

On behalf of the Apache ORC Project Management Committee (PMC), it gives
me great pleasure to announce that Panagiotis Garefalakis has joined the PMC. Panagiotis
has radically improved the integration between Hive and ORC.

Please join me in welcoming Panagiotis to the ORC PMC!

