This month’s Plus One newsletter is packed with community highlights, project updates, Foundation news, and more. The #ASFNewLeaf social media giveaway is officially underway to help celebrate The ASF’s new oak leaf logo, and we hope you’ll all participate in a chance to win ASF swag! We’ve got new video and podcast content as well as project news to tout. We’re also celebrating major milestones, including Apache Fineract’s recertification as a UN Digital Public Good, plus insights from leaders across the open source world.
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Community
To celebrate The ASF’s new logo, we’re hosting #ASFNewLeaf, a fun social media giveaway and an opportunity to unite the entire ASF community. We encourage anyone who is part of The ASF ecosystem to follow the prompts given on our social channels for a chance to win some ASF-branded swag. Learn more on The ASF blog.
ICYMI We’ve got lots of new content on The ASF’s YouTube channel. Be sure to catch on-demand recordings from Community Over Code, including:
Plus One Podcast
Project Updates
Foundation News
In the News
ODBMS Industry Watch: Community Over Code: Ruth Suehle on Leading The Apache Software Foundation into the Future
President’s Letter
First of all, big congrats to Fineract for being recertified as a Digital Public Good. (See the full blog post earlier in this newsletter.) If you’re unfamiliar, recognition as a DPG is a high bar and an accomplishment certainly well-aligned with The ASF’s mission of software for the public good.
A lot of folks I know have started setting a theme word in January for their year, like a one-word, mood-setting New Year’s resolution. I haven’t done this yet, but if I look back over 2025 as the year wraps up, in retrospect, I could certainly declare the theme to have been sustainability. I no longer know how many talks and panels I’ve been on just this year on that topic. It’s not just about the money–although of course, that’s important. It’s about building our communities and making them strong and resilient for whatever comes next.
To that goal and looking into the future, I’ve been helping our VP, Conferences seek venues for Community Over Code next year. We’ve been telling you all for a while now that the goal is to alternate between the US and Europe, but finding affordable venues of a large enough size in Europe has been a bit of a challenge. Local volunteers who speak the language and can help with coordination would be extremely helpful to broadening our options. If that’s you, please reach out!
Last month I told you that we were also looking to expand one of the annually most popular sessions from the conference into a recurring virtual event: Lightning talks! We’re still working out the scheduling of the first session with the folks who have signed up so far, so keep an eye out for those details. Meanwhile, you can still sign up for a lightning talk slot through April 2026. Same rules as lightning talks in person: five minutes each, hard stop, no slides. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say!
Sincerely,
Ruth Suehle
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