- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) was incorporated in 1999 to provide legal, financial and organizational support for open source software projects. - It started with two projects - the Apache web server and Apache conferences - and has grown to over 150 projects with over 400 members. - The ASF is a non-profit organization run by volunteers and provides infrastructure for collaborative, community-based development of open source software.

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HISTORY OF THE ASF(A PERSONAL AND FACTUAL RECOLLECTION)
Jim Jagielski || @jimjag
NON PROFITS / FOUNDATIONS

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ABOUT ME
• Apache Software Foundation
• Co-founder, Member, Emeritus Director, President, EVP, Chairman, Vice
Chairman, Secretary and VP
• Director (emeritus)
• Outercurve, MARSEC-XL, OSSI, OSI …
• Developer
• Much FOSS projects
• OSPO Lead, Uber

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THE ASF
• ASF == The Apache Software Foundation
• Before the ASF there was “The Apache Group”
• The ASF was incorporated in 1999

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THE ASF
• Non-profit corporation founded in 1999
• 501( c )3 public charity
• Volunteer organization (The ASF doesn’t pay anyone to
work on Apache projects)
• Virtual world-wide organization - Membership of Individuals
• Exists to provide the organizational, legal, and financial
support for various OSS projects - let the developers
develop

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STRUCTURE OF THE ASF -
LEGAL
• Member-based corporation - individuals only
• Members nominate and elect new members
• Members elect a board - 9 seats
• Semi-annual meetings via IRC
• Each PMC has a Chair - eyes and ears of the board
(oversight only)

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ASF “ORG CHART”
Development Administrative
Users
Patchers/Buggers
Contributors
Committers
PMC Members
Members
Officers
Board
~400
9
~160
~4500
~2000
Technical Oversight Organizational Oversight
PMCs
(TLPs)
~150
Elects
ReportsAppoints
Creates
&
Updates

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ISSUES WITH DUAL
STACKS
• Despite clear differentiation, sometimes there are leaks
• eg: PMC chair seen as “lead” developer
• Sometimes officers are assumed to have too much power if
they venture into development issues
• “hats”

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THE ASF’S MISSION
• Provide open source software to the public free of charge
• Provide a foundation for open, collaborative software
development projects by supplying hardware,
communication, and business infrastructure
• Create an independent legal entity to which companies and
individuals can donate resources and be assured that those
resources will be used for the public benefit

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THE ASF’S MISSION
•Provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from
legal suits directed at the Foundation’s projects
•Protect the ‘Apache’ brand, as applied to its software products,
from being abused by other organizations
•Provide legal and technical infrastructure for open source
software development and to perform appropriate oversight of
such software

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VISION STATEMENT
• The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the
Apache community of open-source software projects. The
Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative,
consensus based development process, an open and
pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high
quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider
ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server,
but rather a community of developers and users.

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VISION STATEMENT,
TAKE 2
• Community created code
• Our code should be exceptional

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WHY COMMUNITY -> CODE
• Since we are all volunteers, people’s time and interests
change
• A healthy community is “warm and inviting” and encourages
a continued influx of developers
• Poisonous people/communities turn people off, and the
project will die
• Diversity ensures survival
• End result - better code, long-term code

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DEVELOPMENT
• The ASF never pays for development of projects
• Some contributors are corporate sponsored, some aren’t
but as far as the ASF is concerned it makes no difference!
• Diversity == Independence
• git-like mega merges are counter-productive
• Code is one form of contributing, not the only form.

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• There was no ASF
• There was just The Apache Group
• Apache === The Web Server Project
1995-1999

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• Right before incorporation1999

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• The ASF is born
• Started off w/ 2 projects:
• Web Server
• Conferences
• Quickly add additional projects
• Jakarta - Sun stuff/Java servlet
• XML - IBM stuff
• Members === Web Server PMC (21
people)
• ALv1.1
• CLA
1999

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• First ASF ApacheCon
• Added Apache TCL
• Perl Apache
• PHP (what??)
• APR
• initial work on ALv2
• Jakarta goes its own way…
2000-2001

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• Jakarta comes to a head and…
• … The Incubator is formed
• ASF joins JCP
• More projects enter the fold
• “The Apache Way” becomes more
and more well known
2002

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• ALv1.2 DOA
• What to do with PHP?
• Growth of “umbrella PMCs”
• HTTPD, Ant, Xerces-J win awards
2003

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• ALv2
• CLA, CVS and the Great Signing
• iCLA, and cCLA created
• Adios to Avalon - the ASF’s 2nd
painful lesson (https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/
7dbd83ec175e3462eb390f77b9c094efc6796f5453b59c01ef7e1abb%401101864
403%40%3Ccommunity.apache.org%3E)
• PHP “leaves”
• JBoss claims infringement on
Geronimo, ends up, they infringed
instead
2004

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• Umbrella projects lose favor - Jakarta
sub-projects start to leave the nest
• starts w/ Lucene
• Tomcat becomes TLP
• VP Legal Affairs
2005

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• The Great Jakarta Migration (to TLP)
• Security Team re-booted (board
cmmt)
• PRC re-booted (board cmmt)
• Apache Labs
• We hire a sys-admin!
• We start the ASF Sponsorship
program
• CVS shutdown - svn now default
2006

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• Website getting quite stale
• Loads of new projects
• CMO office dissolved (semi-DOA)
• Legal Affairs becomes full-fledged
cmmt
• Big changeover within board - 1st
time all Directors are “2nd
generation” (except for me)
2007

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• Major site refresh
• The Attic is born
• The Infrastructure cmmt (ad-hoc)
gets official VP
• Almost 1 project a month established
(on average)
• ASF wins JCP PMO Member of the
Year for the 3rd time (irony ahead)
2008

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• 10 Year anniversary
• VP W3C
• We take budgeting more seriously
• ~$400k/yr
• ComDev created
• PRC divides into 4 cmmts
2009

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• The ASF / Java relationship sours:
• IBM drops Harmony for OpenJDK
• Oracle’s FOU TCK restrictions
(continuation of Sun’s policy)
• ASF leaves JCP EC
• ~20 new TLPs
• From Lucene
• From Incubator
• Attic gains another 4 projects
• 1 millionth commit!
• Git starts being used
2010

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• Web site refresh
• Apache Harmony is terminated
• Jakarta terminated
• We hire our 1st (and only) executive
assistant.
• ASF subpoenaed in Oracle vs Google
2011

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• VP JCP finally dissolved
• Officers “executing operations”
moved to be under President
• Brand / Fundraising / M&P /
Conferences / TAC / Infra
• Budget ~ $750k/yr
• Apache HTTPD 2.4 released
2012

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• Infra grows
• 139 projects (or so)
• 386 members
• 25th ApacheCon event held
2013

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• Budget almost $1.2M
• Hired “Virtual” for financial
management
• We hit the 2 millionth code commit
mark
• Better GitHub integration
2014

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• We pass 500 members
• We pass 200 projects
• Lots of TLP related activity
• Chair changes
• Establish *
• Terminate *
2015

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• NEW LOGOS!
• Infra Administrator now officer
• 175 Projects
• 56 podlings
• Growth of 3rd “generation” of
ASFers
2016

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• 5 year plan discussion
• Formal Annual Reports
• 860 iCLAs on file
• 27 cCLAs
• 18 software grants
• What is “operations”?
2017

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• Hit 200M lines of code
• Board publishes ASF Vision
Statement
• Passes audit w/ flying colors
• I decide not to run for BOD
2018

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• The return of Jakarta (Eclipse
Foundation)
• The return of Xalan (from the Attic)
• VP Security
• 2nd major BOD changeout
• 2 Directors and the EVP resign;
replacements installed
2019

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• Bye bye Apache Labs
• “Trillions and Trillions Served”
released
• 2021 budget expected to be ~$1.7M
• Refocus on core value prop and
project health with eye towards the
future - return to basics
2020 -

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CURRENT STATUS

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DIRECTORS

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APACHE MESHES

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TLPS

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PODLINGS

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RETIRED

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ALL PROJECTS

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ALL PROJECTS

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COMMITTERS

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