We’re excited to head to Austin next week and celebrate our 15th Anniversary with the Apache community at ApacheCon. Here’s what we’ve been working on this week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.– 130+ sessions, plus trainings, BarCamp Apache, MeetUps, PGP Key Signing, Project Geode Lab, CloudStack Days, Ignite Training, Spark […]

We’re ramping up for ApacheCon in 10 days and look forward to continuing our 15th Anniversary celebrations with the Apache community at-large. Here’s what our 4,500+ Committers have been working on this week: The Apache™ Software Foundation to celebrate 15 years of community-led innovation at ApacheCon™ http://s.apache.org/g9F ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.– Sixteen […]

Developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 projects and initiatives lauded among the most successful influencers in Open Source; will also honor 20th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server with ASF founding members FOREST HILL, MD –30 March, 2015– The Apache™ Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than […]

The ASF had a very busy week, and held its 2-day Members’ meeting (highlighted by elections for the new Board and 100+ potential new Members; votes took place using Apache STeVe). The ASF welcomed its new Board, comprising Rich Bowen, Shane Curcuru, Bertrand Delacretaz, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann, David Nalley, Brett Porter, Sam Ruby, and […]

Let’s kick off the Vernal Equinox with a snapshot what the Apache community has been working on this week:  ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.– Special Registration & Hotel Rates for ApacheCon North America close TODAY http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the […]

Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the program’s inception in 2005. Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of […]

It’s certainly been a productive week! Here’s what’s happened within the Apache community: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – Special Registration Rates for ApacheCon North America available through 21 March http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock. – Whilst currently undergoing maintenance, uptime […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has confirmed today that the Groovy dynamic object-oriented programming language has formally submitted itself to the Apache Incubator in order to become part of the Foundation’s efforts. [1] The incubation of Groovy is the first step to becoming an ASF Top-Level Project. The Groovy community will join more than 350 […]

Mature, robust, Open Source relational Big Data warehousing solution provides advanced "SQL-on-Hadoop®" functionality and support. Forest Hill, MD —9 March 2015— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache™ Tajo™ v0.10.0, the latest version of the advanced […]

The Apache community has been working hard this week! Here’s what’s happened: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – Special Registration Rates for ApacheCon North America available through 21 March http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock. – Global uptime across all Apache services […]

Here’s what our community of 4,000+ Committers have been busily working on this week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – The ApacheCon program is now available; Early Bird registration ends 28 February http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – Global uptime across all Apache […]

Stable version of Open Source, distributed Big Data store for Apache Hadoop features improved performance, ease of use, new availability guarantees, and future release compatibility. Forest Hill, MD –24 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability […]

This week we welcomed Cloudera, who renewed its sponsorship of the ASF and upgraded to the Platinum level http://s.apache.org/5KH . Here’s what happened elsewhere at the Foundation: ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – The Infra team’s global uptime across all Apache services is a stellar 99.73% http://status.apache.org/ Apache Accumulo™ –sorted, […]

Sponsorship boosts operational support for Apache projects and community Forest Hill, MD –17 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Cloudera has renewed its sponsorship of the ASF with an upgrade to the Platinum level. "We are […]

In addition to what’s happened at the Foundation over the past week, we’re curious: "Did You Know?", and are also sharing some community announcements: ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – The Infra team’s 2 million weekly checks report 94.19% global uptime across all services http://status.apache.org/ Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance […]

February marks the 20th Anniversary of the ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server, the world’s most popular Web server since 1996, and the flagship project behind the creation of the ASF. Here’s what happened at the Foundation over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Events in 2015: North America (13-17 […]

Liaison helps enterprise users benefit from enhanced PDF technology and serves as a foundation to other software applications. Forrest Hill, MD —03 February 2015— Apache PDFBox™, a Top-Level Project of The Apache Software Foundation, today announced the project has been named as a Partner Organization of the PDF Association.  The Apache PDFBox™ library is an […]

FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY October-December 2014 "The Apache Software Foundation is a cornerstone of the modern open source software ecosystem – supporting some of the most widely used and important software solutions powering today’s Internet economy…" –Mark Driver, Research Vice President, Gartner Group > The Place for Open Innovation and Collaboration: A recent recount of the […]

It’s hard to believe that we’re wrapping up the first month of the new year! Here’s what happened over the past week: ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team (10 rotating volunteers and 4 paid staff) on four continents responsible for keeping the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – 94.47% global uptime across all services this week http://status.apache.org/ FINAL […]

Open Source Big Data distributed stream processing framework used in business intelligence, financial services, healthcare, mobile applications, security, and software development, among other industries. Forest Hill, MD –27 January 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Samza™ […]