The Apache Software Foundation Blog
With more than 200 projects and initiatives at The Apache Software Foundation, there are so many amazing things happening in the Apache community! Here are some noteworthy items from over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation – Keynotes and Program Announced for ApacheCon and CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe http://s.apache.org/BoJ […]
With more than 200 projects at The Apache Software Foundation, there are so many amazing things happening in the Apache community! Here are some noteworthy items from over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation – Cassandra Days Joins Apache Hadoop, HBase, Spark and Other Projects on ApacheCon and CloudStack […]
Highest performing "NoSQL" distributed Big Data database now faster, with improved analytics and ease-of-use. Forest Hill, MD –11 September 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced at the Cassandra Summit the availability of Apache™ Cassandra™ v2.1, the highly-performant Big […]
New payment option offers flexibility for digital currency contributions Forest Hill, MD –02 September 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it is now accepting donations through the Bitcoin virtual monetary system. The ASF’s decision to accept Bitcoin […]
On August 26th, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) received a request to accept donations via Bitcoin. Shortly after publishing a wallet on the 28th, the ASF has received more than 3BTC in donations, or about $1,500 at the current exchange rate. Rich Bowen pushed the Bitcoin address to the ASF donations page, without any fanfare […]
Earlier this week, the Apache Software Foundation’s Infrastructure Team launched a new status service that displays a ton of information about the health of the Apache infrastructure and activity within its projects. Daniel Gruno, infrastructure architect at the ASF, explains how the service came to be and where it’s headed. Joe Brockmeier: Can you tell […]
Interest surges in Apache’s 200+ software projects, accelerating development and participation by 100% in four years Earlier this month, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) surpassed its two millionth revision milestone with a commit by ASF Member* Daniel Kulp on behalf of the Apache CXF Project: > committer Daniel Kulp <dkulp@apache.org> > Mon, 14 Jul 2014 […]
Highly-efficient Open Source framework for Apache Hadoop® YARN-powered data processing applications in use at Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, and Yahoo, among others. Forest Hill, MD –22 July 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Tez™ has graduated from […]
Framework for widely-used Open Source Java-based logging library now faster and more extensible, with new plugin architecture. Forest Hill, MD –22 July 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the General Availability of Apache™ Log4j™ v2, the widely-used Open […]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) is now accepting applications for ApacheCon Europe 2014, taking place 17-21 November in Budapest, Hungary. The TAC is seeking individuals from the Apache community at-large, users, developers, educators, students, Committers, and Members, who would like to attend ApacheCon, but need some financial support in order to […]
Open Source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework brings enterprise-grade service, governance, security, and performance to private-, public-, and hybrid clouds Forest Hill, MD –3 June 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache Stratos has graduated from the Apache Incubator […]
Open Source large-scale, flexible, "Hadoop Swiss Army Knife" cluster computing framework offers enhanced data analysis and richer integration with other Apache projects Forest Hill, MD –30 May 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache Spark […]
Leading Open Source office application and personal productivity suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux reaches a major adoption milestone 17 April 2014 –Forest Hill, MD– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache OpenOffice™ has been downloaded 100 million […]
Highest performing "NoSQL" distributed Big Data database in use at hundreds of organizations including Adobe, CERN, Comcast, Disney, eBay, GE, GitHub, GoDaddy, HP, Hulu, IBM, Instagram, Intuit, Netflix, Plaxo, Polyvore, Sony, and The Weather Channel Forest Hill, MD –08 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than […]
Open Source, generic Java client and server library implementation of the OData (Open Data Protocol) standard for interoperable querying and sharing of data across applications in enterprise, Cloud, and mobile environments Forest Hill, MD –07 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects […]
Open Source collaborative software development platform in use at DARPA, DLR German Aerospace Center, Open Source Projects Europe, and SourceForge, among others, to manage source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs and more Forest Hill, MD –01 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 […]
Advanced Open Source data warehousing system in Apache Hadoop in use by Gruter, Korea University, and SK Telecom, among others, for processing Web-scale data sets Forest Hill, MD –01 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache […]
Numerous Apache Projects support standards-based document accessibility and interoperability Forest Hill, MD –26 March 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today joins open standards supporters around the world in celebrating Document Freedom Day. Document Freedom Day raises awareness of the […]
Flexible, scalable, Open Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) used by organizations such as Zynga, Datapipe, and ISWest, among others, for creating, managing, and deploying public, private, and hybrid Cloud Computing environments Forest Hill, MD –The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, […]
Open Source analysis and evaluation toolkit initiated by UCLA and NASA/JPL’s Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES) scientific collaboration; used in regional weather research and global climate dynamics modeling Forest Hill, MD –03 March 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, […]