The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its Newest Sponsor

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today welcomed Amazon Web Services (AWS), the latest company to sponsor the ASF at the Platinum level. "We are pleased to have AWS as a Platinum Sponsor," said ASF Chairman Phil Steitz. "In addition to helping support the ASF’s day-to-day operations through a Platinum sponsorship, AWS has been a Silver-level […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 January 2019

It’s the final Friday of January already, and the Apache community is closing out the week with the following activities: Thanks in advance for helping the ASF by taking a very short survey on The Apache Way https://s.apache.org/oxTr ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – […]

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Hadoop® v3.2.0

Pioneering Open Source distributed enterprise framework powers US$166B Big Data ecosystem Wakefield, MA —23 January 2019— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache® Hadoop® v3.2.0, the latest version of the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 January 2019

It’s been a great week! Let’s review the Apache community’s activities: Please take a few minutes to help the ASF by providing your feedback on The Apache Way https://s.apache.org/oxTr Sponsor Case Study –insight from our Sponsors, whose support ensures our 300+ community-driven software products remain available to billions of users around the world at no cost. – Apache […]

Apache Software Foundation Gold Sponsor Profile: Bloomberg

with Kevin Fleming, Head of Open Source Community Engagement and Member of the CTO Office at Bloomberg Kevin has spent more than 20 years in the technology industry. In 2004, he started a VOIP service provider company and chose Asterisk as his platform. 9 months later he was offered a position at Digium to work […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 January 2019

Happy Friday –with the year off to a hot start, we’re picking up the pace with a new Top-Level Project, more events, and 80% more commits over the past 7 days. Let’s take a look at what’s happening with the Apache community: Do you have a few minutes to help the ASF? In advance of […]

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

Open Source Big Data workflow management system in use at Adobe, Airbnb, Etsy, Google, ING, Lyft, PayPal, Reddit, Square, Twitter, and United Airlines, among others. Wakefield, MA —8 January 2019— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Airflow™ as […]

Success at Apache: Accidentally Finding Awesome

by Daniel Ruggeri My involvement with the ASF started very simply.  I was a server administrator who wanted to have a bug or two fixed and a feature or two added to the Apache HTTP Server (httpd). I spent some time learning the codebase a bit and submitted my first patch to the httpd dev […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 January 2019

Welcome, 2019! We’re testing a slightly adjusted format –do let us know what you think: Apache in 2018 – By The Digits – Stewarding 300+ projects "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. – Next Board Meeting: 16 January. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html […]