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 The post below is the result of a discussion with the author that originated in early September 2018 and remained unpublished as its tone deviates...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
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
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
by Alex Karasulu I'm a long time member of the Apache Software Foundation and have been an executive officer of several corporations over the course of the past 20 years. I've co-founded several projects in the community and mentored several others. The "Apache Way" has benefited several aspects of my life, however I never... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:32PM Jul 09, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Weiwei Yang I submitted my first patch to Apache Hadoop in 2015, a very simple bug fix with just a few lines of changes. However the feeling is still vivid to me when the patch was accepted, I felt great accomplishment. It was not about how big the change was, but rather because I knew even a small change would help a lot of people.... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:05AM Jun 04, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Nick Couchman Like other recent contributors to this blog, I am not a developer by trade. My day job is as a Linux Systems Engineer and team manager, and, truth be told, my programming skills are not something I would rely on to make a living. Despite these facts, I've found something beyond acceptance in being a part of the Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:59AM May 07, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Charles Givre Let me start out by saying that I am not a developer. I do have a technical background, but I hadn't coded in Java for at least 10 years before I got involved in the Apache Drill project. One has to wonder how, as a non-developer, I ended up as a committer for the Drill project. In this blog post, I'd like to share... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:37PM Apr 10, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Von Gosling When I saw the "Success at Apache" series, I thought about writing something about my, being from a non-native English country, Open Source experience these past few years. Last year, RocketMQ graduated from the Apache Incubator and became one of the Apache Top-Level Projects. As one of the original co-founders of... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:00PM Mar 05, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Anthony Shaw I believe in the mission of the ASF for many reasons, but the first is the reason why I got into open-source software- free and open access to knowledge. Back when I was age 12 (1998), I started to learn to program in dBase 4. dBase 4 and the compiler Clipper were not cheap, especially for a $5-a-week paper-round.... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:02AM Feb 26, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache