The Apache Software Foundation Blog
The ASF Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) has opened applications to assist those seeking to attend ApacheCon US 2009 (2-6 November in Oakland, California), but are unable to do so for financial reasons. Assistance is open to all people involved in Open Source projects; Financial support is available for flights, accommodation, subsistence and Conference fees, either […]
Watch the interviews with ASF Members Rich Bowen, Jean-Frederic Clere, Doug Cutting, Paul Fremantle, and Ross Gardler, on their experiences with Apache. Select clips from a series of interviews with ASF Members as well as Apache users and developers will be posted online through ApacheCon US, taking place 2-6 November 2009 in Oakland, California. Join […]
Not only does the Apache HTTP Server power more than 106 million Websites worldwide, an astounding 89% of Linux Journal readers have chosen the “competitor-less” Apache HTTP Server as their favorite Web server, according to the 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards. We were tickled to read, “As with last year, the thought arises in Favorite Web […]
One of the top enterprise software packages in the world, OFBiz boasts hundreds of experienced service providers and thousands of live production instances; the framework comprises mature eCommerce, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Customer Relationship Management functionality with a general enterprise software framework and a set of base and special purpose applications. Release Branch 9.4 features […]
Last week, ASF incorporator and founding Chairman Roy Fielding reminded us of the ASF’s mission as created ten years ago. ASF Board member Bertrand Delacretaz then suggested we post it here on the ASF blog to reinforce the fact that, in spite of its tremendous growth, the ASF hasn’t strayed from its roots; still remaining […]
The Apache Software Foundation has become a worldwide force in the software industry because of the diverse programs, applications,and tools built on its projects such as the HTTP Server, Tomcat, Hadoop, Lucene and many others. This year, we’re celebrating 10 years of the ASF! While the Foundation and committers have kept the innovation coming, it’s […]
Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership Exactly ten years ago, Roy Fielding signed the Certificate of Incorporation of The Apache Software Foundation. As I’m writing this post, our chairman Jim Jagielski is giving the traditional "State of the Feather" talk at ApacheCon Europe 2009. Today, the ASF comprises nearly 300 individual Members and over […]
Even if you can’t make it to Amsterdam this week, you can still follow along with all of the fun activities regarding ApacheCon. Follow along on Twitter by searching for ‘#apachecon‘. Although this was posted earlier on our ApacheCon blog (watch keynotes), we think the following list of free (as in beer, mmm beer!) talks […]
First (real) post! Welcome to the official blog of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This week, we are here at the Mövenpick Amsterdam City Centre hotel for ApacheCon Europe 2009. Today, we’ve got the Hackathon and BarCampApache going on in addition to a number of training sessions. Tonight, we have some MeetUps. Tomorrow, the Hackathon […]