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The State of the Feather
An Overview and Year In Reviewof
The Apache Software Foundation
-- Jim Jagielski, Chairman ASF
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The Overview• Not a replacement for “Behind the
Scenes...”• To appreciate where we are -• Need to understand how we got here
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In the beginning...• There was The Apache Group• But we needed a more formal and
legal entity• Thus was born: The Apache Software
Foundation (April/June 1999)• A non-profit, 501(c)3 Corporation• Governed by members - member
based entity
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“Hierarchies”
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Development Administrative
Users
Patchers/Buggers
Contributors
Committers
PMC Members
Members
Officers
Board
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At the start• There were only 21 members• And 2 “projects”: httpd and Concom• All servers and services were
donated
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Today...• We have 270 members...• >63 TLPs• ~32 Incubator podlings• Tons of committers (literally)
– (Over 1920 people)
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The only constant...• Has been Change (and Growth!)• Over the years, the ASF has adjusted
to handle the increasing “administrative” aspects of the foundation
• While remaining true to our goals and our beginnings
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Handling growth• ASF dedicated to providing the
infrastructure resources needed• Volunteers supplemented by
contracted out SysAdmin• Paperwork handling supplemented by
contracted out SecAssist
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Handling growth• Infrastructure Chair• Separate Exec. Vice President• ExecAssist to help President• Accounting services as needed• Using pro-bono legal services
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Staying true• Policy still firmly in the hands of the
ASF• Use outsourced help where needed
– Help volunteers, not replace them– Only for administrative efforts
• Infrastructure itself is a service provided by the ASF
• Board/Infra/etc exists so projects and people don’t need to worry about it
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Last year highlights• November 2007:
– ApacheCon US 2007– HALO Worldwide– Apache C++ Standard Library (Incubator)
– Apache HttpComponents (Jakarta)
• December 2007:– Apache Synapse (Web Services)
– ASF Members Meeting (32 new members)
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Last year highlights• January 2008:
– Apache Hadoop (Lucene)
– Major update of infra equip.• February 2008:
– Apache Continuum (Maven)
– Backup equip budget authorized• March 2008:
– Apache Archiva (Maven)
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Last year highlights• April 2008:
– Apache CXF (Incubator)
– Major update of infra equip.• May 2008:
– Apache Tuscany (Incubator)
• June 2008:– Members Meeting - (16 new members)
– EVP position “broken out” (Sander Striker)
– Infrastructure Chair (Paul Querna)
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Last year highlights• July 2008:
– Microsoft becomes 3rd Platinum Sponsor
• August 2008:• September 2008:
– Travel Assistance Committee formed– EVP position “broken out”– Infrastructure Chair
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Other Important Highlights• ASF Sponsorship Program really
taking off (*== charter sponsors)!– 3 Platinum Sponsors:
• Google* , Yahoo! and Microsoft– 1 Gold Sponsor:
• HP*– 2 Silver Sponsors:
• Covalent/SpringSource* & IONA– 6 Bronze Sponsors:
• Airplus International, Matt Mullenweg, Tetsuta Kitahata*, Two Sigma Investments, BlueNog, Intuit
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Other Important Highlights• Major Trends:
– Podlings graduating– Podlings incubating– Labs activity– Major updating/upgrading of infra
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Other Important Highlights• Major Changes:
– Board Election• Bertrand Delacretaz *• Justin Erenkrantz (President)
• J Aaron Farr (Treasurer)
• Jim Jagielski (Chairman)
• Geir Magnusson Jr.• William Rowe Jr.• Sam Ruby (Secretary)
• Henning Schmiedehausen• Greg Stein
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Other Important Highlights• Travel Assistance Cmmt formed
– Direct indication of the kind of efforts the Sponsorship Program allows
• Also, Sponsored AC EU 08 Hackathon
• Google Summer of Code– 23 projects
• Formal and Informal representation at events/conferences
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Top Level View• In general, PMCs are active and
healthy!– Lots of releases– Lots of development– New committers and PMC members
• Last members meeting had a very high turnout
• ASF continues to be recognized as FOSS leader
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Top Level View• Not seeing has much movement to
TLP as last year• There are some PMCs maintaining
the status quo– this ain’t bad
• There are also some PMC’s that have very low activity/energy
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What’s on the horizon?• Members meeting - December• Expect to see more PR from the ASF
– We are doing great things– We are the great Open Source success
story– We are world changers
• Continue our effort for completely electronic corporate files
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And finally...• A big Thank You to:
– Every member– Every committer– Every developer– Every user– Every supporter
• Community over code isn’t just a slogan
• It’s a way of life.22
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That’s all folks!
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