Category Archives: Community

Apache winter news roundup: new and famous projects

4th
Mar. × ’11
By Shane

It’s continued to be a busy winter at the ASF, with a number of new projects being announced – as well as this year’s ApacheCon! Submit your ideas now for the CFP of ApacheCon NA 2011 – coming to Vancouver this 7-11 November. CFP submissions are open through April. Welcome Apache Extras! Apache Extras is [...]

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Why trademarks are important in open source

11th
Jan. × ’11
By Shane

Groklaw recently wrote about the upcoming OpenSUSE project creation, and just now Hudson project volunteers are renaming to be Jenkins. These are both excellent examples of why trademarks are important to a successful open source project, and definitely deserve more attention. Trademarks, you say? Isn’t that some complex legal stuff that big companies care about? [...]

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The JCP is dead; long live Java

9th
Dec. × ’10
By Shane

The Apache Software Foundation has just announced it’s resignation from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. After several other recent community departures from the EC, and scathing commentary supplied as comments with the votes from other EC members for the recent Java 7/8, it’s clear that Apache is not alone in it’s dissatisfaction with Oracle’s complete [...]

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Java: no longer free as in speech

6th
Dec. × ’10
By Shane

El Reg has breaking news that the JCP vote on the Java 7/8 JSR’s has passed. Apache and Google voted no, and the rest of the players sadly (but perhaps unsurprisingly) voted yes. This effectively changes the game around Java standards stewardship – you might say it turns the JCP into “Just Customers, Please“, removing [...]

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OpenJDK += Oracle, IBM

12th
Oct. × ’10
By Shane

The big news this week is the sudden move by IBM to join with Oracle in collaborating on the OpenJDK. You can read the formal joint press release, or browse some of the first set of thoughtful commentaries here: IBM’s Bob Sutor talks about the IBM decision to move into OpenJDK – at the expense [...]

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Apache new(s): officers, projects, commits

22nd
Sep. × ’10
By Shane

A brief roundup of recent Apache news: Congratulations to Yonik Seeley, who made the one millionth commit to the main ASF code repository earlier today by adding a new feature to SOLR: SOLR-2128: full param substitution for function queries At the recent annual ASF Board Retreat, we appointed a new slate of executive officers, including [...]

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July Apache news roundup: Greg! Adobe+Day! FOP! FOP?

30th
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

A brief listing of some of the news around the ASF this past month. Adobe is in talks to purchase Day Software. You can read the Redmonk’er Coté’s analyst view of how the products compliment each other, a good ComputerWorld overview article, or can read Bertrand’s or Jukka’s great community analysis, or just see Bertrand’s [...]

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Apache is at at OSCON!

19th
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

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 [...]

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Congratulations to the new Apache Board

15th
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

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 [...]

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Likely Fraud Alert: “apache-project dot org”

2nd
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

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 [...]

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