Open Source at Scale: the Apache Software Foundation (2018)
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) provides open source software for the public good by supporting many software project communities. It operates as a neutral space independent from corporate influence where projects can thrive under the Apache License 2.0. The ASF oversees around 300 top-level projects at various stages, providing services like documentation, marketing, packaging, and technical support to help projects. It relies on a large volunteer community and small budget to sustain its open governance model and infrastructure for open source projects.
Open Source at Scale: the Apache Software Foundation (2018)
- 1. Open Source at Scale: The Apache Software Foundation slides revision: 2018-09-10 - photos: Adobe Stock, unless otherwise specified Bertrand Delacrétaz - @bdelacretaz Member of the Board of Directors, Apache Software Foundation Principal Scientist, Adobe Research Switzerland
- 2. The ASF’s Mission The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Its mission is to provide Open Source software for the public good. We do this by providing services and support for many like-minded software project communities of individuals who choose to join the ASF. https://www.apache.org/foundation/ A neutral space in which projects which are independent from any corporate influence can prosper and create Open Source software for the public good. Under the business-friendly Apache License 2.0 photos: http://archive.apachecon.com/c/
- 3. About 300 top-level projects, 50 in incubation and 40 in attic.apache.org Clean retirement is part of the ASF project’s lifecycle
- 6. What does ASF projects provide? Documentation Marketing Packaging Configuration Helpdesk Operations source code product system Architecture Development Tests unitaires Write source code, distribute and document it…that’s all. But with a business-friendly Open Source license
- 7. Services?
- 8. Neutral independent space Nobody can pull the plug…
- 12. Tradem arks
- 13. Size & Shape
- 14. 35M page views per week on*.apache.org 25,154 authors for 2,105,992 emails on 834,045 topics More than 600 Foundation Members, all individuals About 300 established projects, 50 in incubation 3,300 committers for 214,398 commits in 2017 9 volunteer members of the Board of Directors Approx. budget 1.4 million USD which is less than 5000$ per projet, financed by our sponsors Numbers
- 15. Roles http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html Andalso: ASFmembers Officers Boardof(9)Directors PMC members Run our projects “ProjectManagementCommittee” Contributors Suggest concrete improvements PMCvote Committers Have write access to source code PMCvote Don’tbeshy! Users Use Apache software
- 16. More Info Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport Sponsorship & Donations https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html General Information https://www.apache.org/foundation/ Governance https://www.apache.org/foundation/governance/
- 17. TPKDTFNFY (*) @bdelacretaz grep.codeconsult.ch it works! established 1999 (*) The Plan is to Keep Doing This For the Next Fifty Years! Thanks to our sponsors - http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html