For those of you lucky enough to be attending OSCON this week in Portland, there will be a number of well-know Apache folk there, as well as some talks about Apache projects. Plus, the ASF has an official exhibitor’s booth, #812 at the expo. Sadly, I won’t be attending, but I did pick out a [...]
The Apache Software Foundation held it’s Annual Member’s Meeting this week and cast votes to elect a new board of directors as we do each year. We also elected a number of new potential members, who may be receiving their private invitations shortly. The new 2010-2011 Board of Directors comprises: Shane Curcuru Doug Cutting Bertrand [...]
Several people have contacted the ASF recently asking about an “Apache Indonesia Project”, something to do with “Digitization of Indonesian Population”, and/or something to do with an Apache 4.3 database server. The reports reference the domain name “apache-project dot org” (which I won’t link directly to here). PLEASE NOTE: all of these projects or organizations [...]
The bulk of the active development community for the Apache iBATIS project has decided to fork the code, and move their development efforts to the new project they’ve founded called mybatis. While this may be old news to iBATIS/mybatis users, I thought it deserved a wider mention, both about the fork and some of the [...]
In last week’s monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the ASF, we approved the creation of six new Top Level Projects (TLPs) at the ASF. This is the most new TLPs ever created at once, followed only by the meeting of November, 2008 where 5 new TLPs were created (CouchDB, Buildr, the Attic, [...]
There have been a number of exciting updates at and around the ASF over the winter holidays – which I enjoyed quite well with a long spell offline. No more; here are some of the key Apache news from the past month. Welcome Facebook as a Gold sponsor of the ASF! We all thank the [...]
The ASF just concluded it’s annual member’s meeting, where we elected a new board of directors. Before I list them here, I want to say what gets said at every member’s meeting when we elect a new board: THANK YOU! To the hard work and dedication from all the past board members, and our executive [...]
Stephen Colebourne has done an amazing job in explaining Sun’s violations of the JSPA and why it’s important to the ASF and open software. This is a must read for anyone interested in the issue of shipping open or free Java software. There’s a lot of commentary – both pro and con – over the [...]
There are a wide variety of content sources for the ASF and ApacheCon, including a number of official ones (i.e. from moderated sources or from specific PMCs or ASF officers) as well as a stunning array of unofficial ones (from members, committers, and others associated with the ASF). Note that the many projects, Incubator Podlings, [...]
This is a sample post for testing typography. Yes, I’m vain; I take forever to pick a theme. Primary Heading Ordered lists I tend to over-use them; I should really work on editing structure more Three is a good number And now for something different O Fortuna, velut Luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; [...]