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Happy Friday, everyone –let’s review the Apache community’s activities from over the past week: ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998. – FINAL CALL: Travel Assistance available for ApacheCon North America. Application deadline 1 July ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with […]
Open Source Big Data MPP analytical database engine in use at Baidu, JD, Meituan, Sina, Tencent, and Xiaomi, among others. Wilmington, DE —16 June 2022— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Doris™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache […]
Open Source PostgreSQL extension for graph database functionality in use in government agencies, research and education institutions, utility providers, and more. Wilmington, DE —8 June 2022— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® AGE™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP). […]
Open Source universal Big Data and Machine Learning resource scheduler in use at Alibaba, Apple, Cloudera, Lyft, Visa, and Zillow, among others. Wilmington, DE —16 May 2022— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® YuniKorn™ as a Top-Level Project […]
Happy Friday, everyone –here’s what the Apache community has been up to over the past week: ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998. – CFP for ApacheCon North America 2022 (taking place 3-6 October in New Orleans) is now open https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/call-for-presentations-apachecon-north – Travel Assistance applications for ApacheCon are open until 1 July […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members’ Meeting on 1 and 3 March 2022: Akira Ajisaka, Ahmet Altay, Mike Beckerle, Ash Berlin-Taylor, László Bodor, Michael Bolz, Javier Borkenztain, Robert Bradshaw, Etienne Chauchot, Zili Chen, Marcus Christie, Ed Coleman, Lidong Dai, Heng Du, Eric Friedrich, […]
by Etienne Chauchot I have been working in software engineering for more than 15 years. I’ve always contributed to Open Source software as a user or a developer. But I’ve been contributing to Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects such as Apache Flink, Apache Beam or Apache Spark for nearly 6 years. It is long enough […]
We’re opening March with a cracking week. Here’s what the Apache community has been up to: Sponsor Apache – a number of tax-deductible sponsorships help offset the ASF’s day-to-day operating expenses that include infrastructure support, bandwidth, connectivity, servers, hardware, development environments, legal counsel, accounting services, trademark protection, marketing and publicity, educational events, and more. – The Apache […]
At The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Annual Members’ Meeting held this week, the following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: Rich Bowen (former Director) Bertrand Delacretaz (current Director) Christofer Dutz (new Director) Roy T. Fielding (current Director) Sharan Foga (current Director) Willem Jiang (new Director) Sam Ruby (current Director) Roman Shaposhnik (current […]
Wilmington, DE —3 March 2022— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF) today welcomed VMware® as its latest sponsor at the Platinum level. “We are happy to welcome VMware as a Platinum Sponsor,” said Bob Paulin, ASF Vice President Fundraising. “Sponsoring the ASF provides essential funds and services that enable us to support more than 300 Apache […]
“Responding to and Learning from the Log4Shell Vulnerability” Opening Statement by David Nalley President, Apache Software Foundation Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs February 8, 2022 Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and distinguished members of the Committee: thank you for the invitation to appear this morning. My name is David Nalley, and I […]
Wilmington, DE —18 January 2022— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Hop™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Hop —the Hop Orchestration Platform— is a flexible, metadata-infused data orchestration, engineering, and integration platform. The project originated more than […]
Synopsis: This report explores the state of security across all of The Apache Software Foundation projects for the calendar year 2021. We review key metrics, specific vulnerabilities, and the most common ways users of ASF projects were affected by security issues. Released: January 2022 Author: Mark Cox, Vice President Security, The Apache Software Foundation Background […]
During 2021 the all-volunteer Apache community has demonstrated unwavering commitment to our tenet of “Community Over Code.” Highlights over the past year include — Community/People The Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) merit-driven “Contributor-Committer-Member” progression is the central governing process across the Apache ecosystem. Following the ASF’s incorporation in 1999, the core Apache Group of 21 individual […]
Hello, everyone –let’s review the Apache community’s activities from over the past week: Sponsor Success at Apache – the blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF “just works”, featuring insights and experiences from the perspective of select ASF Sponsors – “Exploration and Practice of the Apache Way in Tencent” by Mark […]
by Mark Shan, Chairman of Tencent Open Source Alliance and Tencent Cloud Open Source Ecosystem General Manager The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) manages more than 227 million lines of code, has 206 project management committees, leads more than 350 Apache projects and operates through a merit system, with more than 850 members, 8,100+ committers, and […]
For the 9th year running, the global Apache CloudStack community will be holding its major event —CloudStack Collaboration Conference— on 8-12 November 2021. Due to the pandemic, the event will take place virtually to enable even more people interested in CloudStack technology to learn about its latest features, capabilities, and integrations. Тhe 2021 edition of […]
Updates to security and availability of leading Open Source office document productivity suite Wilmington, DE —7 October 2021— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the world’s largest Open Source foundation, announced today Apache OpenOffice® 4.1.11, the popular Open Source office-document productivity suite. Used by millions of organizations, institutions, and individuals around the world, Apache OpenOffice delivered […]
by Ephraim Anierobi This post is about how I became a committer and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Airflow, and provides guidance to those new to programming, are new to contributing to open-source projects, and want to become committers and PMC members in their respective Apache projects. About a year and a […]
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here’s a summary of what happened in August: New this month — – The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Pinot™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/ft8p6 – The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program for ApacheCon@Home 2021 https://s.apache.org/ACHome2021 – The Apache Drill Project Announces Apache® Drill™ v1.19 Milestone Release https://s.apache.org/bfhy6 – The […]