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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 […]
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, […]
New generation serverless event middleware for building event-driven applications has graduated to Top-Level Project. Wilmington, DE – March 15, 2023 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® EventMesh has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) exists to provide software for the public good with support from more than 70 sponsors. ASF’s open source software is used ubiquitously around the world with more than 8,400 committers contributing to 320+ active projects. As one of the largest open source foundations in the world, ASF has built the […]
We are proud to participate in Google Summer of Code as a mentor organization again this year. #GSoC is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This summer, ASF community members and committers have the opportunity to mentor GSoC contributors as they work on a 12+ week programming […]
Apache ShenYu is now a Top-Level Project (TLP). This means that the project has graduated from the Apache Incubator. The incubator helps incoming projects to the Apache Software Foundation (called ‘podlings’) adopt the Apache style of governance and operation and guides them to the ASF services available to Apache projects. Podlings also benefit from mentors […]
The Apache Software Foundation has become a worldwide force in the software industry because of the diverse programs, applications,and tools built on its projects such as the HTTP Server, Tomcat, Hadoop, Lucene and many others. This year, we’re celebrating 10 years of the ASF! While the Foundation and committers have kept the innovation coming, it’s […]