The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 34 New Members

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members’ Meeting on 31 March – 2 April 2020: John Andrunas, Paul Angus, Zaheda Bhorat, Timothy Chen, Andrea Cosentino, Adina Crainiceanu, Griselda Cuevas, Fokko Driesprong, PJ Fanning, Julian Feinauer, Drew Foulks, Von Gosling, Susan Hinrich, Clay Leeds, Swapnil […]

Inside Infra: Drew Foulks

The second in the “Inside Infra” interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team features Drew Foulks, who shares his experience with Sally Khudairi, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity.   “I am in the business of making life easy for people who do phenomenal stuff.“ What is your name –how is it pronounced? My […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 24 April 2020

Greetings all. It’s time to review the Apache community’s activities from 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: 20 May 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998. – […]

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

Open Source distributed Big Data middleware ecosystem used for partitioning data, distributed transactions, and database orchestration by more than 120 organizations, including video sharing site Bilibili, commercial bank China MINSHENG Bank, telecommunications and mobile provider China Telecom, eCommerce retailer JD.com, and delivery courier ZTO Express, among many others. Wakefield, MA —16 April 2020— The Apache […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 April 2020

Greetings everyone –it’s time to review the Apache community’s activities from the past week: Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF “just works”.  – “Welcoming Communities Strengthens the Apache Way” by Jarek Potiuk https://s.apache.org/tcs0m ASF Board – management and oversight of the business […]

Success at Apache: Welcoming Communities Strengthens the Apache Way

by Jarek Potiuk During my career, I have been a software engineer, Tech Lead Manager at Google, a robotics engineer at an AI and robotics startup, and am currently the Principal Software Engineer of a software house, Polidea, which I helped grow from 6 to 60 people within 6 years as CTO. Over the past year […]

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 3 April 2020

Welcome, April! We’ve had a great week within the Apache community. Here’s what happened: Break out the cake, balloons, and streamers! The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation “The Apache Way” https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF […]

Announcing New ASF Board of Directors

At The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Members’ Meeting held this week, the following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: Shane Curcuru (re-elected Director) Bertrand Delacretaz (former Director) Roy Fielding (former Director) Niclas Hedhman (new Director) Justin Mclean (new Director) Craig Russell (re-elected Director) Sam Ruby (former Director) Patricia Shanahan (new Director) Sander […]