The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) provides open source software for the public good by supporting many software project communities. It operates as a neutral space independent from corporate influence where projects can thrive under the Apache License 2.0. The ASF oversees around 300 top-level projects at various stages, providing services like documentation, marketing, packaging, and technical support to help projects. It relies on a large volunteer community and small budget to sustain its open governance model and infrastructure for open source projects.

1. Open Source at Scale:
The Apache Software Foundation
slides revision: 2018-09-10 - photos: Adobe Stock, unless otherwise specified
Bertrand Delacrétaz - @bdelacretaz
Member of the Board of Directors, Apache Software Foundation
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research Switzerland

2. The ASF’s Mission
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a
US 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Its mission is to provide Open Source software for
the public good.
We do this by providing services and support for
many like-minded software project communities of
individuals who choose to join the ASF.
https://www.apache.org/foundation/
A neutral space in which projects which
are independent from any corporate
influence can prosper and create Open
Source software for the public good.
Under the business-friendly
Apache License 2.0
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3. About 300 top-level projects, 50 in incubation and 40 in attic.apache.org
Clean retirement is part of the ASF project’s lifecycle

4. Apache License

5. Community
over
Code
Community
over
Code

6. What does ASF projects provide?
Documentation
Marketing
Packaging
Configuration
Helpdesk
Operations
source code product system
Architecture
Development
Tests unitaires
Write source code, distribute and document it…that’s all.
But with a business-friendly Open Source license

7. Services?

8. Neutral
independent space
Nobody can pull the plug…

9. sim
ple, solid
infrastructure
build
track
talk
code

10. com
m
unity
best practices

11. legal shield
+
services
https://tinyurl.com/asf-legal-shield

12. Tradem
arks

13. Size &
Shape

14. 35M page views
per week on*.apache.org
25,154 authors for 2,105,992 emails on 834,045 topics
More than 600 Foundation Members, all individuals
About 300 established projects, 50 in incubation
3,300 committers for 214,398 commits in 2017
9 volunteer members of
the Board of Directors
Approx. budget
1.4 million USD which
is less than 5000$ per
projet, financed by our
sponsors
Numbers

15. Roles http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
Andalso:
ASFmembers
Officers
Boardof(9)Directors
PMC members
Run our projects
“ProjectManagementCommittee”
Contributors
Suggest concrete improvements
PMCvote
Committers
Have write access to source code
PMCvote
Don’tbeshy!
Users
Use Apache software

16. More Info
Annual Report
https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport
Sponsorship & Donations
https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html
https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html
General Information
https://www.apache.org/foundation/
Governance
https://www.apache.org/foundation/governance/

17. TPKDTFNFY
(*)
@bdelacretaz
grep.codeconsult.ch
it works!
established 1999
(*) The Plan is to Keep Doing This For the Next Fifty Years!
Thanks to our sponsors - http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html