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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on 20 March 2024: Jim Apple, Michael Bien, Nicolò Boschi, Francis Chuang, Cédric Damioli, Brian Demers, Hao Ding, Lukasz Dywicki, Arnout Engelen, Siyuan Feng, Jonathan Gallimore, Pedro Galvan, Jun Gao, Charles Givre, Andrew Grove, G.W. Haywood, […]
By Dirk-Willem van Gulik, VP of Public Affairs Cybersecurity is a central topic for governments around the world. The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduced rules on how software should be developed, tested, audited and supported to ensure more secure software. Because open source software underpins today’s global digital infrastructure, this has a profound […]
Development history spans the launch of the most popular HTTP client on the web to some of the most prolific modern-day technologies in big data, search, IoT, and cloud computing Wilmington, DE, March 25, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its Annual Members’ Meeting today. The following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: The ASF thanks Bertrand Delacretaz and Sharan Foga for their service, and welcomes our new and returning directors. An overview of the ASF’s governance, along with the complete list of ASF Board of […]
Roman Shaposhnik, VP of Legal Affairs at the ASF Generative AI is rapidly evolving and changing the software industry as we know it, and the open source community must adapt accordingly. Generative AI has the potential to automate significant portions of code creation which could lead to faster development cycles, increased productivity, and reduced human […]
Dirk-Willem van Gulik, VP Public Affairs, Apache Software Foundation Over the last two years, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and many other open source organizations raised concerns around upcoming software regulation in general, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)/Product Liability Directive (PLD) in particular. Both acts will have an enormous impact on our Software industry. […]
With the rapid growth of critical software infrastructure globally and the open source components therein, likewise there is rapid growth in vulnerabilities and malicious targeting of these systems through those vulnerabilities. Governing bodies around the world have taken notice, and we’ve seen an explosion in proposed regulation and legislation around these issues. In 2021, following […]
Stewarding 227M+ lines of code The Apache Software Foundation is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, established in 1999 with the mission of providing software for the public good. The ASF provides $30B+ worth of software to the public-at-large at 100% no cost. ASF software is integral to nearly every end-user computing device, from laptops […]
By: Zixuan Feng, Mariam Guizani, Anita Sarma (Oregon State University) “Our mission is to build equity in our community by developing tools and frameworks to foster inclusion and increase diversity in all phases of Apache projects. We are guided by the values of respect, empathy, openness, patience, candor & dependability.” — [Apache Diversity and Inclusion] […]
By: Roman Shaposhnik, VP, Legal Affairs, ASF Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, chances are that you’ve heard a lot about how generative AI is rapidly evolving and is rapidly changing the software industry as we know it. And while it is fun to speculate about when exactly tools […]
By: Dirk-Willem van Gulik, VP, Public Affairs, ASF TLDR; Software, including open source, is becoming regulated the world over. This lengthy blog post explains the background to the Cyber Resilience Act in the European Union, what is good, its flaws and the likely negative impact on open source. And it also explains the arcane process […]
In an effort to better serve the ASF’s open source community and projects, we’ve implemented some updates to Apache.org, including simplified site navigation and updated content pages. Simplified Navigation Apache.org site navigation now has one menu (reduced from two menus previously), in an effort to reduce confusion and make exploration of the site seamless. Refreshed […]
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, […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its Annual Members’ Meeting today. The following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: The ASF thanks Roy T. Fielding, Sam Ruby, and Roman Shaposhnik for their service, and welcomes our new and returning directors. An overview of the ASF’s governance, along with the complete list of […]
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, […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Infrastructure team is laser-focused on providing world-class support for ASF Infrastructure, so we’re pleased to announce the Infra team’s voice-activated response line at +1 717-7-APACHE (*). The service allows callers to leave messages for specific Infrastructure team members, to report issues to the whole team, and to access resources ranging […]
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 […]
“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 […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) participated today in a meeting hosted by the White House to discuss security of open source software, and how to improve the “supply chain” of open source software to better facilitate the rapid adoption of security fixes when necessary. The virtual summit included representation from a number of companies and […]
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 […]