Apache Software Foundation Opens Registration for Community Over Code North America
Call for Proposals and Travel Assistance applications are now being accepted for the Foundation’s flagship event Wilmington, DE, July 11, 2023 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced today the opening of registration for Community Over Code North America. Formerly […]
Q&A with Previous Travel Assistance Recipients
By: Gavin McDonald, Senior Systems Administrator & Project Management Committee Chair, TAC, ASF ASF’s Travel Assistance program is an amazing opportunity for anyone who wants to get more involved in the open source community via the ASF. Our Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) helps those who would like to attend ASF events but cannot do so […]
How to Apply for Travel Assistance for Community Over Code 2023 Events
By: Gavin McDonald, Senior Systems Administrator & Project Management Committee Chair, TAC, ASF This year the ASF is hosting Community over Code events in Asia and North America. If you are interested in attending one of these events but face financial hardships that make attending difficult or impossible, we want to help! The ASF Travel […]
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Kvrocks
The distributed key-value NoSQL database has graduated to Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE – June 28, 2023 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced today Kvrocks has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project (TLP). Kvrocks is a distributed […]
Apache Airflow Attracts First-Time Contributors
Earlier this year, we launched our First ASF Contributions Campaign to highlight the first-time contributor experience at the Apache Software Foundation. The people and stories in our #firstASFcontribution campaign exemplify our “community over code” ethos – our belief that open source community is ultimately more vital than open source code. In this blog post, we’ll […]
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Seatunnel
The next-generation high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool has graduated to Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE – May 31, 2023 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced today that SeaTunnel has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project (TLP). […]
3 ways to contribute to open source (that don’t involve coding)
There are many ways to contribute to ASF projects—and not all of them involve coding! Many people incorrectly assume that everyone in the OSS community is a software developer, but that’s not true. Open source requires more than source code to be successful. As the old saying goes, “It takes a village,” and in the […]
Women Contributors in the Spotlight
We recently announced our #FirstASFContribution Campaign to showcase how diversity fuels our community. Our members’ diverse backgrounds, identities, experiences, input, and skills spark creativity and innovation. Whether you contribute code or service, your unique contributions make us who we are at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Our First ASF Contributions Campaign celebrates those who embody […]
The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 46 New Members
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on 9 March 2023: The ASF is a 501(c)(3) membership corporation, so Members serve a similar role as shareholders do in publicly traded corporations. Existing members may nominate Committers who demonstrate merit in the Foundation’s growth, […]