Open Source storage format for the Apache™ Hadoop® ecosystem in use at Cloudera, NASA, Netflix, Stripe, and Twitter, among other organizations  Forest Hill, MD –27 April 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Parquet™ has graduated from the Apache […]

After wrapping up a successful ApacheCon, Hackathons, BarCampApache, MeetUps, PGP keysigning, Project Geode Lab, Ignite Training, CloudStack Days, Spark Forum, Traffic Server Summit, and more, our community accomplished much over the past week! Here’s what’s happened: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – The City of Austin and Mayor Steve Adler proclaimed […]

At the opening session of ApacheCon, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) President Ross Gardler read a proclamation from City of Austin Mayor Steve Adler that recognized the all-volunteer ASF for its leadership in developing, stewarding, and incubating more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives over the past 15 years: 13-16 April 2015 have been designated "Apache […]

Our ApacheCon week in Austin wraps up today, with countless highlights, including celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server with some of the original members of the Apache Group, and launching a revised version of the apache.org homepage with thanks to our friends at Hot Wax Systems. Here’s what’s happened this week: […]

Sponsorship provides critical infrastructure and support services that keep the Foundation running on a day-to-day basis. Forest Hill, MD –13 April 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Pivotal has renewed its sponsorship of the ASF with an […]

We’re excited to head to Austin next week and celebrate our 15th Anniversary with the Apache community at ApacheCon. Here’s what we’ve been working on this week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.– 130+ sessions, plus trainings, BarCamp Apache, MeetUps, PGP Key Signing, Project Geode Lab, CloudStack Days, Ignite Training, Spark […]

We’re ramping up for ApacheCon in 10 days and look forward to continuing our 15th Anniversary celebrations with the Apache community at-large. Here’s what our 4,500+ Committers have been working on this week: The Apache™ Software Foundation to celebrate 15 years of community-led innovation at ApacheCon™ http://s.apache.org/g9F ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.– Sixteen […]

Developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 projects and initiatives lauded among the most successful influencers in Open Source; will also honor 20th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server with ASF founding members FOREST HILL, MD –30 March, 2015– The Apache™ Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than […]

The ASF had a very busy week, and held its 2-day Members’ meeting (highlighted by elections for the new Board and 100+ potential new Members; votes took place using Apache STeVe). The ASF welcomed its new Board, comprising Rich Bowen, Shane Curcuru, Bertrand Delacretaz, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann, David Nalley, Brett Porter, Sam Ruby, and […]

Let’s kick off the Vernal Equinox with a snapshot what the Apache community has been working on this week:  ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.– Special Registration & Hotel Rates for ApacheCon North America close TODAY http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the […]

Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the program’s inception in 2005. Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of […]

It’s certainly been a productive week! Here’s what’s happened within the Apache community: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – Special Registration Rates for ApacheCon North America available through 21 March http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock. – Whilst currently undergoing maintenance, uptime […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has confirmed today that the Groovy dynamic object-oriented programming language has formally submitted itself to the Apache Incubator in order to become part of the Foundation’s efforts. [1] The incubation of Groovy is the first step to becoming an ASF Top-Level Project. The Groovy community will join more than 350 […]

Mature, robust, Open Source relational Big Data warehousing solution provides advanced "SQL-on-Hadoop®" functionality and support. Forest Hill, MD —9 March 2015— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache™ Tajo™ v0.10.0, the latest version of the advanced […]

The Apache community has been working hard this week! Here’s what’s happened: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – Special Registration Rates for ApacheCon North America available through 21 March http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock. – Global uptime across all Apache services […]

Here’s what our community of 4,000+ Committers have been busily working on this week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. – The ApacheCon program is now available; Early Bird registration ends 28 February http://apachecon.com/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – Global uptime across all Apache […]

Stable version of Open Source, distributed Big Data store for Apache Hadoop features improved performance, ease of use, new availability guarantees, and future release compatibility. Forest Hill, MD –24 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability […]

This week we welcomed Cloudera, who renewed its sponsorship of the ASF and upgraded to the Platinum level http://s.apache.org/5KH . Here’s what happened elsewhere at the Foundation: ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – The Infra team’s global uptime across all Apache services is a stellar 99.73% http://status.apache.org/ Apache Accumulo™ –sorted, […]

Sponsorship boosts operational support for Apache projects and community Forest Hill, MD –17 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Cloudera has renewed its sponsorship of the ASF with an upgrade to the Platinum level. "We are […]

In addition to what’s happened at the Foundation over the past week, we’re curious: "Did You Know?", and are also sharing some community announcements: ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running 24x7x365. – The Infra team’s 2 million weekly checks report 94.19% global uptime across all services http://status.apache.org/ Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance […]