The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates a Decade of Open Source Leadership

AMSTERDAM - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - developers, stewards, and
incubators of leading community-driven Open Source projects - announced its
tenth anniversary at ApacheCon, its official user conference, trainings, and
expo.

Widely recognized for its technical excellence and community leadership,
the Foundation supports the incubation and development of enterprise-grade,
freely available software while minimizing potential legal exposure of
intellectual property and financial contributions. Apache products benefit
millions of Internet users worldwide, with thousands of software solutions
available under the popular Apache License distributed in both Open Source
and proprietary products.

Evolving from eight developers known as “the Apache Group” who created
enhancements and managed the development of the original Apache Web server,
The ASF today comprises nearly 300 individual Members and over 2,000
Committers collaborating across six continents through The ASF’s successful
meritocratic process known as “The Apache Way.”

The all-volunteer, non-profit Foundation oversees more than sixty-five
award-winning and diverse Open Source projects, including the Apache HTTP
Server - the world’s most popular Web server software since its creation in
1994. In addition, the ASF is currently guiding 33 codebases in the Apache
Incubator and 23 initiatives in the Apache Labs.

The ASF footprint continues to grow, helping the global Open Source
community at-large through thousands of bug fixes and lines of code, hundreds
of developer, user, and issue tracking mailing lists, as well as numerous
community outreach and mentoring initiatives, such as the Google Summer of
Code and Highly Open Participation Contest.

The Foundation’s day-to-day operating expenses are offset by individual
donations and corporate sponsors at various levels of contribution. They
include, at the Platinum level: Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!; at the Gold
level: Hewlett-Packard; at the Silver level: Progress Software and
SpringSource; and at the Bronze level: AirPlus International, Joost, Matt
Mullenweg, Tetsuya Kitahata, and Two Sigma Investments.

As part of its 10th Anniversary, the ASF will be highlighting various
projects, initiatives, individuals, and organizations from the Apache
community throughout the year. The Foundation’s ongoing celebrations will
culminate at ApacheCon US, taking place 2-6 November 2009 in Oakland,
California.

For more information on The Apache Software Foundation, visit
www.apache.org/

Source: Apache Software Foundation

Sally Khudairi of The Apache Software Foundation, +1-617-921-8656, sk at apache.org; NOTE TO EDITORS: Editor Resources — History of the Apache HTTP Server https://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html — ASF Highlights: 1999 - 2009 https://apache.org/press/highlights.html — ASF Fast Facts https://apache.org/press/media.html#timeline