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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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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.numprojects -= 1; apache.karaf.intro = “Welcome!”

1st
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

For only the fourth time in our history at last month’s June board meeting we passed resolutions that effectively reduced the total number of Apache projects by one. As was widely expected, the board terminated the Apache iBATIS project, and sent it to the Apache Attic. This recognizes that we don’t expect there to be [...]

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