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 The post below is the result of a discussion with the author that originated in early September 2018 and remained unpublished as its tone deviates...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
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
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