The Apache News Round-up: week ending 24 August 2018

** this post is our 500th "Foundation" entry on blogs.apache.org … shout-outs, emojis, and ascii art welcome <g> ** Hello, hello! It’s time for our Friday review of our activities over the past week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – Next Board Meeting: […]

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® HAWQ® as a Top-Level Project

Advanced Big Data query engine and analytic database in use at Alibaba, Haier, VMWare, ZTESoft, and hundreds more. Wakefield, MA —23 August 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® HAWQ® as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache HAWQ is […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 August 2018

Another lovely week draws to a close. Here’s what the Apache community has been up to: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". – The Apache Legal Shield – A Pragmatic View, by Bertrand Delacrétaz https://s.apache.org/tmi6 ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of […]

Success at Apache: the Apache Legal Shield – a pragmatic view

by Bertrand Delacretaz I became active in the ASF in 2001 via Gianugo Rabellino — he was the one who started the discussions with Apache Fop about me donating the jfor XLS-FO to RTF converter that I had developed earlier. It was already too late to uninvent RTF which is a terrible format, but I […]