The document discusses The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an open source software charitable organization established in 1999. It provides architecture, development, testing, packaging, documentation, marketing, and other support for over 350 open source projects. The ASF operates under principles of earned authority, community of peers, open communication, and consensus decision making. It also has an incubation process for new projects. The document encourages connecting with the ASF and local developer communities.

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3. Piergiorgio Lucidi
Member and Mentor at The Apache Software Foundation
Chief Technology Evangelist & ECM Specialist at TAI Solutions
Reviewer of ECM Standards at 3D PDF Consortium (ISO)
Author & Reviewer at Packt Publishing
Contributor at Alfresco, JBoss / Red Hat
More than 16 years of Open Source contributions

4. The Apache Software Foundation
Established in 1999
US 501(c)(3)
charitable
organization
600+ ASF Members 3300+ Committers
Funded by individual
donations and
corporate sponsors
350+ Open Source
projects
Not only Apache
HTTP Server ;)

5. The Apache Software Foundation – What we provide
Architecture
Development
Unit and
integration
tests suite
Packaging Documentation
Marketing
Support /
Mentoring
Governance Finance
Legal and
Trademark

6. The Apache Software Foundation – The Apache Way
Earned Authority
§ Public merit, not influenced by employment status
Community of Peers
• Individual contributors, code of conduct, no jerks
Open Communication
• async collaboration, public and private threads for PMCs
Consensus Decision Making
• Self-selected team, auto-government, voting, +1, 0 , -1
Responsible Oversight
• Board and PMCs provide reliability and health check

7. The Apache Software Foundation – Incubation

8. The Apache Software Foundation – Contribution and Roles
Director
Officer
ASF
Members
Mentor PMC Chair
PMC
Member
Committer
User
Download and
Use
Test and report
any issue
Subscribe the
mailing list
Interact with
Committers
Submit new
patches
Improve
documentation
Help other
users
Join events and
help to spread
out

9. The Apache Software Foundation – Call to action
§https://www.apache.org
Website
•http://www.apache.org/theapacheway/
How it works
•https://community.apache.org/
Community Development
•https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language
Search your project by language
•piergiorgio@apache.org
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