The document introduces the Apache Software Foundation and the Jackrabbit project's CMIS sandbox. It discusses that the ASF is a nonprofit organization that provides an open and vendor-neutral community. It also notes that the Jackrabbit project manages the CMIS sandbox within the ASF's SVN repository. The goal of the CMIS sandbox is to provide reusability for implementors and users through an open source and unrestricted CMIS API, client, and server implementations without dependencies on specific frameworks, repositories, or standards beyond CMIS.