It is with a mix of sadness and appreciation that the ASF Board accepted the resignations of Board Member Jim Jagielski, Chairman Phil Steitz, and Executive Vice President Ross Gardler last month. As an ASF co-founder, Jim has held every officer position since the Foundation’s incorporation, with the exception of a one-year break in 2018. He... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:48PM Jun 24, 2019 by Sally in General
Call for Presentations outlining Apache projects that include geospatial data and processing closes 13 May. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that, after a successful geospatial track at last year's ApacheCon North America, OGC will once again lead a conference track concerning geospatial data and processing at... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:00AM Apr 10, 2019 by Sally in General
At The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Members' Meeting held this week, the following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: - Rich Bowen - Shane Curcuru - Jim Jagielski - Myrle Krantz - Daniel Ruggeri - Craig Russell - Roman Shaposhnik - Phil Steitz - Joan Touzet The ASF... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:58PM Mar 28, 2019 by Sally in General
with Robert van der Meulen, Global Product Strategy Lead at Leaseweb Robert is Global Product Strategy Lead at Leaseweb. Fascinated by technology, Robert studied computer sciences, and after his studies, he delved into the then relatively young and rapidly developing internet technology. He soon understood that the internet would be at the... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:04PM Mar 18, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Success at Apache" reflects diverse, personal experiences from our community members, with particular focus on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". The post below is the result of a discussion with the author that originated in early September 2018 and remained unpublished as its tone deviates... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:18PM Feb 05, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today welcomed Amazon Web Services (AWS), the latest company to sponsor the ASF at the Platinum level . "We are pleased to have AWS as a Platinum Sponsor," said ASF Chairman Phil Steitz. "In addition to helping support the ASF’s day-to-day operations through a Platinum sponsorship, AWS has been a... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:00PM Jan 28, 2019 by Sally in General
with Kevin Fleming, Head of Open Source Community Engagement and Member of the CTO Office at Bloomberg Kevin has spent more than 20 years in the technology industry. In 2004, he started a VOIP service provider company and chose Asterisk as his platform. 9 months later he was offered a position at Digium to work on Asterisk full-time. After seven... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:25AM Jan 15, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Daniel Ruggeri My involvement with the ASF started very simply. I was a server administrator who wanted to have a bug or two fixed and a feature or two added to the Apache HTTP Server (httpd). I spent some time learning the codebase a bit and submitted my first patch to the httpd dev list. I wasn't... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:16PM Jan 07, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
It's been a great year for the Apache community at-large. With nearly 200M lines of code under the ASF's stewardship, our ongoing success is the result of community-led development "The Apache Way", executed through the collaborative efforts of more than 300 Apache projects and their communities. Highlights include: Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:30AM Jan 01, 2019 by Sally in General
by Isabel Drost-Fromm As a researcher interested in machine learning, Web- and social graphs I joined the Nutch mailing lists back in 2005 when the project was still on SourceForge. I started tinkering with Nutch Writeables to store the data I needed for my analysis – something that today some may know as Hadoop Writeables – the Nutch wiki... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:41AM Dec 03, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Rich Bowen Within The Apache Software Foundation, many of us have different roles. I am a committer on the Apache httpd project , and also a PMC member on that project. I am the Vice President, Conferences . I am a board member. And I’m a member of the Foundation. I'm also an employee of Red Hat, and may, at times, be perceived to... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:21PM Nov 05, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Mikael Ståldal Back in 2013, I worked as software developer and architect at a small IT company. We needed a logging framework for the Java based server platform we were developing. Initially, we tried to use the java.util.logging framework built in to the Java platform. But we soon realized that it was insufficient for our needs. ... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:27PM Oct 01, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
Joins ASF Platinum Sponsors Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, Oath, and Pineapple Fund in supporting the ASF's Mission of Providing Software For the Public Good Wakefield, MA —20 September 2018— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:01PM Sep 20, 2018 by Sally in General
by Sally Khudairi, with contributions by Ignasi Barrera, Von Gosling, Luke Han, Kevin A. McGrail, and Anthony Shaw. Translations by Ted Liu and David Zhenwei Dong. I became active in The Apache Software Foundation at its inception in 1999. I am responsible for elevating the ASF's visibility, and supporting the Foundation by counseling... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:03AM Sep 05, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Bertrand Delacretaz I became active in the ASF in 2001 via Gianugo Rabellino -- he was the one who started the discussions with Apache Fop about me donating the jfor XLS-FO to RTF converter that I had developed earlier. It was already too late to uninvent RTF which is a terrible format, but I digress. I am currently a member of the Board of... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:21AM Aug 07, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache