Category Archives: Community

CamelOne 2012 Presentation – About: Apache

16th
May. × ’12
By Shane

I was recently asked to speak at the CamelOne conference here in Boston, about The Apache Way. Here are my slides (including my speaker notes, written today). TheApacheWay-ShaneCurcuru-CamelOne2012 This presentation is placed under the Apache License, v2.0, and was created with Apache OpenOffice v3.4 Impress application, and uses Open Sans fonts, also under the Apache [...]

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Apache projects are technically independent

11th
May. × ’12
By Shane

In the earlier essay I wrote on Apache project independence (since promoted to an article on the Apache Community Development website) I missed a critical bit of independence that I think we should add to the ComDev site. Apache projects are technically independent While Apache PMCs provide a report of their operations to the Board [...]

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Thank you, Apache Sponsors!

1st
May. × ’12
By Shane

I just wanted to take time to say thank you to the many financial Sponsors of the ASF. “Thank you, Apache Sponsors!“ Our many regular Sponsors pledge to donate a set amount of funds to the ASF annually, and they really deserve some recognition for this. While we very, very much appreciate the many individuals [...]

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Apache Governance: Membership

6th
Dec. × ’11
By Shane

This is the third in a series of essays describing Apache governance. The ASF is a non-profit, membership-based corporation; as such the Members of the ASF have a role similar to shareholders in a publicly traded corporation. In this essay, the term “member” specifically means someone who is a Member of the Foundation itself, as [...]

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Apache Governance: Project Management Committees

9th
Nov. × ’11
By Shane

This is the second in a series of essays describing Apache governance. Fundamentally, the most important organization at the ASF is a PMC, or Project Management Committee. These are the actual groups that decide what software our projects release, and as such do the bulk of the actual work of the ASF. Organization Apache projects [...]

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Apache Governance: Board of Directors

7th
Oct. × ’11
By Shane

This is the first in a series of essays describing Apache governance. While there are a number of existing documents that explain some of the “hows”, I’m hoping to fill in some of the key information about the “whys” of how the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) actually works day-to-day. Look for more articles on things [...]

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Apache by the Numbers

5th
Sep. × ’11
By Shane

With credit to the many. many folks who have written nice stats collection code – a review of what the ASF is by the numbers. People Committers (any project): 2771 ASF Members (active): 370 iCLAs on file (from any contributors): 4162 PMC Members (all top level projects): 1788 Communities Apache Top Level Projects: 96 Apache [...]

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Shane’s Apache Director Position Statement

12th
Jul. × ’11
By Shane

The ASF is currently holding it’s annual Member’s meeting, where we elect a new board of directors among other matters (and usually elect a number of new ASF Members!) I am fortunate enough to have been nominated again for the board election, something which I am truly grateful for. Along with participating in Apache projects [...]

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Apache Office, anyone?

1st
Jun. × ’11
By Shane

I imagine there will be a lot of news – and commentary – and, ahem, heated discussions about today’s submission of the OpenOffice.org codebase to the Apache Incubator by Oracle. Here are a few handy links and thoughts that may be helpful to ponder: It’s official – here’s Oracle’s announcement on “Statements on OpenOffice.org Contribution [...]

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Apache news roundup: raining cloud projects

1st
Jun. × ’11
By Shane

It’s been a surprisingly quiet couple of months at Apache; well, at least in terms of new projects graduating from the Incubator. Welcome to the Apache Libcloud project – “a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.” The Apache Libcloud graduation does bring up an important point about Apache project [...]

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