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blog/announce-apache-participation-at-the.markdown | 37 +++++++++
...ache-event-tsinghua-university-beijing.markdown | 33 ++++++++
...-software-foundation-community-sponsor.markdown | 15 ++++
...pache_software_foundation_accepted_for.markdown | 12 +++
blog/community-development-at-open-expo.markdown | 33 ++++++++
.../community-development-news-april-2017.markdown | 23 ++++++
.../community-development-news-april-2018.markdown | 52 +++++++++++++
...mmunity-development-news-february-2017.markdown | 14 ++++
...mmunity-development-news-february-2018.markdown | 52 +++++++++++++
...ommunity-development-news-january-2017.markdown | 28 +++++++
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blog/community-development-news-june-2018.markdown | 13 ++++
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...munity-development-news-september-2017.markdown | 36 +++++++++
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+---
+layout: post
+title: An approach to community building from Apache Beam
+date: '2019-02-22T19:04:04+00:00'
+permalink: an-approach-to-community-building
+---
+<a href="https://beam.apache.org/">Apache Beam</a> has been a top-level project since January 2017. I, current Beam PMC Chair, would like to share some of Beam's recent efforts to tackle the challenges of growing our community.
+
+<b><i>[Updated Feb 27, 2019 to clarify that the article is authored by the Beam PMC Chair and describes the Beam project's work to build their own community. Previously it could have mistakenly been read as an ASF Foundation statement about the Beam project, or as describing an ASF action taken upon the Beam project. Neither is the the case.]</i></b>
+
+We identified two things we want to improve in our contributor/committer-base, common to many open source projects:</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>We could use more committers to review all the code being contributed, in part due to recent departure of a few committers</li>
+<li>We want our contributor-base (hence committer-base) to be more spread across companies and backgrounds. This is a core value of the Apache Software Foundation. In particular, the project's direction should not be dominated by any company, and the project should be able to survive the departure of a major contributor or all contributors from a particular employer. Eventually, we hope that our user base is active and diverse enough that this happens naturally. But we are not there yet, [...]
+</ol>
+
+<h4>What we did</h4>
+
+<h5>Committer guidelines</h5>
+
+We published <a href="https://beam.apache.org/contribute/become-a-committer">committer guidelines</a> for transparency and as an invitation. We start by emphasizing that there are many kinds of contributions, not just code. We have committers from community development, tech writing, training, etc. Then we have three aspects:
+
+<ol>
+<li>ASF code of conduct</li>
+<li>ASF committer responsibilities</li>
+<li>Beam-specific committer responsibilities</li>
+</ol>
+
+The best way to understand is to read the guidelines. The important influence on the community is this: you shouldn't be proposing a committer for other reasons, such as a new member of your team at work, or forging political alliances. And you shouldn't be blocking a committer for other reasons, such as any reason that isn't about their actions as an individual.
+
+<h5>Instead of just discussing potential committers and PMC members, we discuss many layers of the community</h5>
+
+Previously, when a PMC member noticed a contributor that they thought might make a good committer, they would start a thread with a subject like "[DISCUSS] Potential committer: Jane Doe". The PMC would discuss and it could lead to a vote or not. More rarely, a similar process was followed for new PMC members.
+
+We were fortunate to have Gris Cuevas (gris@apache.org) working with us, and she outlined these phases that people go through in their relationship with our project:
+
+<ol>
+<li>aware of it</li>
+<li>interested in it / checking it out</li>
+<li>using it for real</li>
+<li>first-time contributor</li>
+<li>repeat contributor</li>
+<li>committer</li>
+<li>PMC</li>
+</ol>
+
+As soon as we notice someone, like a user asking really deep questions, we invite discussion on private@ on how we can move them to the next level of engagement.
+
+<h5>Monthly cadence</h5>
+
+About every month, we call for new discussions and revisit prior discussions. This way we do not forget to keep up this effort.
+
+<h5>Individual discussions</h5>
+
+For each person we have a separate thread on private@. This ensures we have quality focused discussions that lead to feedback. In collective discussions that we used to do, we often didn't really come up with actionable feedback and ended up not even contacting major contributors to encourage them. And consensus was much less clear.
+
+<h5>Feedback!</h5>
+
+If someone is brought up for a discussion, that means they got enough attention that we hope to engage them more. But unsolicited feedback is never a good idea.
+
+For an early contributor, we have sent a simpler encouragement email thanking them, being sure to be specific about the contribution(s) discussed, so they know we really did pay attention and it is not just a form letter. And if we missed something, they can let us know :-)
+
+For a contributor who was discussed as a potential committer, we did this:
+
+<ol>
+<li>Send an email saying something like "you were discussed as a potential committer - do you want to become one? do you want feedback?"</li>
+<li>If they say yes (so far everyone) we send a few bullet points from the discussion and *most important* tie each bullet to the committer guidelines. Formulating this feedback is important for helping contributors to learn, but it also serves as a check against bias and politics. If we found ourselves unable to specify such feedback, that is a sign that we are deciding for a reason other than those we have declared and agreed upon.</li>
+</ol>
+
+We have seen a <i>very</i> significant increase in engagement from those we sent feedback to. Almost all of them become more active but also they act on the feedback and really engage The Apache Way (as interpreted by Beam). Most become committers. But not only that, they become mentors for other new contributors.
+
+<h5>Results</h5>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Q1 we had no process and we invited no new committers or PMC members.</li>
+<li>Q2 when we tried these new things we invited 7 committers and 1 PMC member, with a few obvious committer candidates for next time around, plus positive feedback from other contributors, spread across five companies.</li>
+<li>Q3 we invited 3 committers</li>
+<li>Q4 we have invited 5 committers (so far!)</li>
+</ul>
+
+We've had a pretty major uptick in building Beam as a result.
+
+<h5>Review-then-commit</h5>
+
+I want to conclude with another formal change we made around the same time. Beam uses <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#RTC">review-then-commit</a>, a pretty typical GitHub workflow. Previously, the reviewer was required to be a committer, even if the author was a committer. So non-committers had no opportunity to review code. We changed our policy to require that <i>either</i> the reviewer <i>or</i> the author be a committer. Rationale: if we trust someone as a co [...]
+
+But most important for this post: reviews are not just a way to make code better or spread knowledge, they are a place where community is built. Letting non-committers review code by committers gives them another opening to the Beam community. I like to reference this quote by Richard Stallman that really drew me in to open source development: "The fundamental act of friendship among programmers is the sharing of programs" and reviews are one place where we do that.
diff --git a/blog/announce-apache-participation-at-the.markdown b/blog/announce-apache-participation-at-the.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: "[ANNOUNCE] Apache Participation at the Open Source Summit Paris"
+date: '2017-11-10T13:27:37+00:00'
+permalink: announce-apache-participation-at-the
+---
+<em>Voir ci-dessous pour la version française de cette annonce</em>.
+
+We are happy to announce our participation at the Open Source Summit in Paris on 6th and 7th December 2017. The event schedule contains a mix of both French and English speaking presentations across many areas of open source technology, innovation and community.
+
+The Summit will feature an Apache Software Foundation keynote by Bertrand Delacretaz, member of our Board of Directors, as well as a half day track of Apache based projects and technologies, with the following program:
+
+<ul><li>Asynchronous Decision Making - why and how - Bertrand Delacretaz</li><li>IoT using Apache Spark and Apache Bahir - Luciano Resende</li><li>Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) + Geospatial Standards - Martin Desruisseaux</li><li>Apache Beam: Portable and efficient data-intensive processing - Ismaël Mejía</li><li>DevOps for Apache OFBiz using Jenkins and Selenium - Olivier Heintz</li></ul>
+
+We'll also be present at the Community Summit on Thursday with a topic on "Project and Community Services the Apache Way" presented by Emmanuel Lécharny and Bertrand.
+
+The Summit is free to attend but you are requested to register on the conference website at <a href="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris">www.opensourcesummit.paris</a>, which provides lots more details.
+
+We will also have an Apache Software Foundation booth at the event where we look forward to meeting attendees and talking to them about the Foundation and its projects.
+
+ =============
+<em>
+Nous avons le plaisir d'annoncer notre participation au Paris Open Source Summit les 6 et 7 décembre 2017. Le programme comprend des présentations en français et anglais sur des sujets technologiques, d'innovation et de communauté liés à l'Open Source.
+</em>
+
+<em>Le Summit inclura une keynote présentée par Bertrand Delacrétaz, membre du comité de direction de la Fondation Apache, ainsi qu'une session d'une demi-journée consacrée aux technologies et projets de la Fondation, avec le programme suivant:</em>
+
+<em><ul><li>Asynchronous Decision Making - why and how - Bertrand Delacretaz</li><li>IoT using Apache Spark and Apache Bahir - Luciano Resende</li><li>Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) + Geospatial Standards - Martin Desruisseaux</li><li>Apache Beam: Portable and efficient data-intensive processing - Ismaël Mejía</li><li>DevOps for Apache OFBiz using Jenkins and Selenium - Olivier Heintz</li></ul></em>
+
+<em>Nous serons aussi présents au Community Summit le jeudi sur le sujet des services aux projets et à la communauté, avec une présentation de Emmanuel Lécharny et Bertrand ("Project and Community Services the Apache Way").</em>
+
+<em>Le Summit est gratuit mais il est nécessaire de s'y inscrire pour participer, sur le site <a href="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris">www.opensourcesummit.paris</a> qui fournit toutes les informations utiles.</em>
+
+<em>Nous serons également présents sur le stand de la Fondation Apache et nous réjouissons de vous y rencontrer pour échanger sur nos activités et projets!
+</em>
+
+
diff --git a/blog/apache-event-tsinghua-university-beijing.markdown b/blog/apache-event-tsinghua-university-beijing.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: Apache Event @ Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Embracing The Apache Open
+ Source Community
+date: '2019-11-25T15:34:35+00:00'
+permalink: apache-event-tsinghua-university-beijing
+---
+<p> <strong>Apache Event @ Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Nov. 9, 2019</strong><br /> <strong>The Way of Open Source Lecture Series - Embracing The Apache Open Source Community</strong></p>
+ <p>--The All-in-one video of the Apache Event - Embracing the Apache OSS Community (Panel Discussion included): <a href="https://youtu.be/vDc7nUb7V0w">https://youtu.be/vDc7nUb7V0w</a><br />--Craig's talk, The Apache Way : <a href="https://youtu.be/JZbR5vW7oL0">https://youtu.be/JZbR5vW7oL0</a><br />--Junping Du's talk (in Chinese), The practice of enjoying Apache : <a href="https://youtu.be/cCQ52QPtZ_s">https://youtu.be/cCQ52QPtZ_s</a><br />--Willem Jiang's talk (in Chinese), Gett [...]
+ <p><strong>Apache Event @ Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Embracing The Apache Open Source Community</strong></p>
+ <p>November 9, a cold sunny Saturday morning, the Apache Event, "Embracing The Apache Open Source Community" was held in the lecture hall on the fourth floor of the New Hydraulic Engineering Building of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The Event is also the second edition of "The way of open source" Lecture Series hosted by School of Software, Tsinghua University and NELBDS lab in China. The Lecture Series about Open Source is an initiative of School of Software [...]
+ <ul>
+ <li>Junping Du, Apache Member, Apache Hadoop PMC, Chairman of Tencent Open Source Alliance, introduced the Apache practice for engineers. </li>
+ <li>Ning Jiang, Apache Member, Apache ServiceComb PMC, Director of Huawei Open Source Capability Center, gave a very gentle and inspiring tutorial for novice of open source projects. </li>
+ <li>Liang Zhang, Apache ShardingSphere PPMC, a mathematician from JD.com Mathematics Department, shared the great experience of joining the open source community and the exploration of Apache Shardingshpere project. </li>
+ <li>Xiangdong Huang, Apache IoTDB PPMC, a fresh new faculty member of Tsinghua University, host of the event, shared his experience of growing from a young student to an open source project backbone, and the Objective of Apache IoTDB project, which invites interested college students to join.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>At the end of the activity, Lin Liu, Associate Professor with Tsinghua University, Junping Du, Craig Russell, and Ted Liu (Apache Member and head of Kaiyuanshe) shared their views during their panel discussion on<strong><em> "open source education from the perspective of universities, enterprises, foundations and society".</em></strong> </p>
+ <p>Duo Zhang, Apache HBase VP, from Mi.com, Zhongyi Tan, Apache BRPC PPMC, from Baidu, Liang Zhang from JD.com, Ning Jiang from Huawei, Qipeng Li, Apache RocketMQ PMC, from Ali shared their views during the panel discussion on <em><strong>"open source experience and work</strong></em>". There also active discussions inspired by questions from the audience. Lunch were severely delayed till 13:15, leaving Craig running for the airport without finishing his first slice of Pizza [...]
+ <p><strong>Event Photos</strong></p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Introduction :<a href="https://s.apache.org/7p0gm">https://s.apache.org/7p0gm</a> </li>
+ <li>Jianmin Wang <a href="https://s.apache.org/ktdxs">https://s.apache.org/ktdxs</a></li>
+ <li>Craig L. Russell <a href="https://s.apache.org/cwrwq">https://s.apache.org/cwrwq</a></li>
+ <li>Ning Jiang <a href="https://s.apache.org/96j4g">https://s.apache.org/96j4g</a></li>
+ <li>Liang Zhang <a href="https://s.apache.org/sh0pb">https://s.apache.org/sh0pb</a></li>
+ <li>Xiangdong Huang <a href="https://s.apache.org/lkmys">https://s.apache.org/lkmys</a></li>
+ <li>Panel discussions <a href="https://s.apache.org/q6i2z">https://s.apache.org/q6i2z</a> <a href="https://s.apache.org/f27gi">https://s.apache.org/f27gi</a></li>
+ <li>Craig signs on the flag with many Apache projects <a href="https://s.apache.org/sfosw">https://s.apache.org/sfosw</a> <br /></li>
+ <li>Young students with Apache stickers <a href="https://s.apache.org/pvc36">https://s.apache.org/pvc36</a></li>
+ <li>Group picture in the end <a href="https://s.apache.org/lhnsh">https://s.apache.org/lhnsh</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p><strong>Written by Xiangdong Huang </strong></p>
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+---
+layout: post
+title: Apache Software Foundation Community Sponsor for DeveloperWeek 2018
+date: '2018-01-14T11:08:45+00:00'
+permalink: apache-software-foundation-community-sponsor
+---
+We are happy to announce that the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) will be participating as a Community Sponsor for <a href="http://www.developerweek.com/" target="external">DeveloperWeek 2018 </a> which takes place on February 3-7, San Francisco Bay Area.
+
+The conference says it is the world's largest developer festival with 8,000+ participants. DeveloperWeek includes <a href="https://s.apache.org/3pCX" target="external"> 200+ DevTech sessions </a> across Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, JavaScript, Microservices, Serverless Dev, and more. It also features 90+ innovators exhibiting at the DeveloperWeek Expo. One of the PRO workshops will be run by Denis Magda on "Apache Ignite Service Grid: Foundation of Your Microservices-Based Solution"
+
+In recognition of our community sponsorship of this event, the ASF has been offered <a href="https://s.apache.org/uAg6" target="external"> 100 free OPEN Passes and discounted PRO Passes</a> to DeveloperWeek 2018 to be made available to anyone from our Apache project communities who want to attend. To receive a free or discounted pass:
+
+<ul><li>You must <a href="https://s.apache.org/an7N" target="external"> register </a> <strong>by 11:59 pm on January 17</strong> to get your free OPEN Pass or SAVE $300 on your PRO Pass.</li><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/an7N" target="external"> Click here to start your registration.</a> Promotional code SFOMP4025, with a $300 discount, will automatically be applied to your order making your OPEN Pass completely free -- or use the discount towards an all-access PRO Pass.</li><li>The [...]
+<strong>NOTE: To get your free OPEN Pass or discounted PRO Pass you must register by 11:59 pm on January 17 (or before they run out).</strong>
+
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+---
+layout: post
+title: The Apache Software Foundation Participating in Google Summer of Code 2012
+ as a Mentoring Organization
+date: '2012-03-21T20:30:03+00:00'
+permalink: apache_software_foundation_accepted_for
+---
+<p>The Apache Software Foundation will be participating in the <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012">Google Summer of Code</a> again this year as a mentoring organization.</p>
+ <p><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#whatis">Google Summer of Code</a> is a program where students work on open source projects backed by a stipend granted by Google. The Apache Software Foundation has been participating in the program since its inception in 2005.</p>
+ <p>Each year, 30-40 students are guided by volunteer mentors from various Apache communities. During the summer they learn what it means to participate in a diverse open source community and develop open source software "The Apache Way". Many of past students are now active contributors to our projects.</p>
+ <p>This year we hope to build on our previous successes and again build student interest and enthusiasm in The Apache Software Foundation. Our list of project ideas (at <a href="http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks">http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks</a>) already contains over 100 ideas spanning more than 25 Apache projects. But that's only what <i>we</i> have come up with. A lot of students have their very own itch to scratch and approach our projects with their own ideas.</p>
+ <p>If you are enrolled as a university student and always wanted to get involved with Apache, here's is your chance. Browse our <a href="http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks">ideas list</a>, approach the projects you are most interested in, discuss your ideas, get involved, code the summer away, and at the end, get a nice paycheck from Google!</p>
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+---
+layout: post
+title: Community Development at Open Expo in Madrid
+date: '2017-06-15T11:26:03+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-at-open-expo
+---
+Throughout May we promoted that we had been invited to have an Apache booth at the <a href="http://www.openexpo.es/en/" target="_blank">Open Expo in Madrid.</a> The event took place on 1st June 2017 and was the first time that we had an Apache presence there. We received an invitation to the event because of a contact made at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/" target="_blank">FOSDEM</a> (so you can see how being at one event can lead to another!)
+
+In preparation we made sure that we had enough stickers and swag (pens, usb hubs, fandanas and lapel pins) for our booth.
+
+<h2>Booth Duty</h2>Our booth staff was made up of myself and two amazing Spanish speaking volunteers (Ignasi Barrera and Jan Iversen). Ignasi had also designed a flyer / leaflet with details about the ASF, who we are and what we do on one side and some information about Incubator on the other. This was translated into Spanish as we expected that it would be a predominantly Spanish event. One hundred of the leaflets were printed and when we put the first few out, they disappeared quickly. [...]
+
+We understand that the conference attracted over 3000 visitors throughout the day and 300 of them (around 10%) stopped by the Apache booth to talk to us. We found that most people already knew about specific Apache projects and were keen to talk to us about them. Around one in every six spent around 5-10 minutes which is really great as it shows that they are very interested in knowing or finding out more about Apache.
+
+Being part of Apache, we sometimes take it for granted and it was a little surprising to find out that many people didn't really know very much about the Apache Software Foundation and in fact most of them didn't even know that there was a Foundation behind Apache projects!. Being at the event helped us fill this knowledge gap.
+
+We had a wide range of questions - ranging from 'I want to use the Apache Licence for my own open source project, Do I need to join Apache to do that?' to 'What do I need to do if I wanted to sponsor the Foundation?'
+
+We noticed that people were quite selective in which stickers they took (it wasn't a grab everything!) and one attendee especially wanted the first sticker on his new PC to be an Apache one!
+
+It was good to see and meet up with some of our Apache project contributors and committers at the event and they were also very happy to see us.
+I was also pleasantly surprised to see that there were a lot of women attending this conference. I'd heard that Madrid is becoming a technology hub and it was great to see women in technology being so well represented at this event.
+
+A main highlight (apart from the great atmosphere and conference buzz) was that we completely ran out of our flyers (information leaflets) about the ASF. To us it showed that people were really interested in finding out more about Apache.
+
+<h2>What we learned and achieved?</h2>These are the main things we achieved and learned by being here were:.
+<ul><li>This event was mainly a Spanish speaking event although the organisers are trying to bring more English speaking presentations.</li><li>There wasn't any Apache content at the event so if we are do plan to be there in then it would be good to encourage participation in the CFP (<strong>NOTE:</strong> We need to be prepared to do this in Spanish)</li><li>Being there brought a bit more awareness about Apache to a new audience</li><li>Having information leaflets and flyers at events [...]
+</ul><strong>So was it a success? </strong>
+Yes definitely! And we will be looking out for any future events to see if we can participate. Also some photos from the event have been uploaded to <a href="https://s.apache.org/Ah2w" target="_blank">our Facebook page.</a>.
+
+We are hope that we will be invited again next year and if so will be looking forward to another successful event so please come along (especially any Spanish speakers) and support us.
+
+<h2>Special Thanks!</h2>Once again huge thank you to Ignasi Barrera and Jan Iversen who volunteered their time and energy to come to Madrid and help out.
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+---
+layout: post
+title: 'Community Development News - April 2017 '
+date: '2017-05-05T16:10:08+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-april-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)! This month we have news about ApacheCon North America; give you some reasons why attending BarCampApache is great; encourage projects to ask for help protecting their trademarks; share some mini podcasts from FeatherCast; and we're planning a Community Development Tools Hackathon.<br />
+ <h2>ApacheCon NA 2017</h2>It is less than 2 weeks to <a href="https://apachecon.com">ApacheCon NA in Miami</a> and tickets are still available. We have a full schedule and a range of mini conferences that cover a variety of topics. Many of the mini conferences (TomCatCon, FlexJS Summit, ApacheIoT, Cloudstack Collaboration Conference, Apache Big Data) also include access to the main ApacheCon event so you can mix and match what you attend. <br/><br/>Please check <a href="https://apache [...]
+ <h2>BarCampApache</h2>If you haven't heard about BarCamp, the please read on. BarCampApache an informal 'unconference' that happens around ApacheCon. It is a completely free event that anyone can attend. So whether you are already involved in Apache or simply wanting to find out more about what we do and how we do it, then please feel free to come along and ask your questions at the BarCamp. <br/><br/>There is no fixed agenda and in fact the schedule is created on the day by the partici [...]
+<ul><li>We talk and discuss any topic that people want to raise</li><li>We share experience and ideas </li><li>If anyone is looking for advice or has a problem they need to solve then we help them with brainstorming options</li><li> You can present or share something that you are working on and get feedback</li><li> We experience the culture, sights and sounds of our e location by going for a walk around the city </li>
+</ul>If you'd like to know more about the BarCamp the please listen to our <a href="https://s.apache.org/gXFu">Feathercast interview with Jean-Frederic Clere</a> who has been it for the quite a while<br/><br/>BarCamp will run on Monday 15th May from 9.30am to 3pm approx. If you'd like to come along then please help us with the organisation by registering to your attendance via
+<ol><li> <a href="https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/BarCampApacheMiami">ApacheCon Wiki</a> - for planning what we'll do </li><li><a href="https://apachecon2017.sched.com/event/9zyD/barcampapache">Sched</a> - to let folks know you're attending!</li></ol><p></p>Please remember that you don't need to stay for whole day and you are free to drop in and out at any time.<p></p><strong>Interested in sponsoring BarCampApache?</strong>It's cheaper than you think! Generally BarCamp runs alongside A [...]
+<h2>FeatherCast</h2><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">FeatherCast</a> is the voice of the ASF and our main podcast / news channel. Generally we try to record presentations from events such as ApacheCon and make them available online for reference and also for those who did not get the chance to attend. We also share news and interviews about what is happening in our projects. <br/><br/>As part of the lead up to ApacheCon we have recorded some short interviews with some of the Apa [...]
+<ul><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/gDeb">Keynote Preview Nithya Ruff,Comcast</a></li><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/vw84">Keynote Preview: Alan Gates,Hortonworks</a></li><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/dB67">FlexJS Summit, Chris Dutz</a></li><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/0n4S">Traffic Server and Traffic Control Summit, Bryan Call</a></li><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/atkI">Apache IoT, Roman Shaposhnik</a></li><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/stIy">Nexmark and Apache Beam [...]
+</ul>Please feel free to check our webpage for updates and <a href="https://twitter.com/feathercast">follow us on Twitter</a>.
+<h2>ComDev Inventory & Tools Hackathon</h2>We are putting together a list of all the tools and applications that the Community Development team has at its disposal. This will include a list of what websites (internal or external), social media accounts, or other applications that we use, manage or are responsible for. Having this will give us greater visibility and more flexibility to share and co-ordinate activities.
+<br/>Following on from this ComDev tools theme, contributor Benjamin Young has suggested a ComDev tools hackathon for ApacheCon in Miami. The session will be used not only to get familiar with the tools and applications, but also work on cleanup, coding and anything that can help make our tools use more effective. A few of our community members will be attending ApacheCon and it will be a good environment to get together, share information and review what we have. <br/><br/>If you are in [...]
+<h2>Improving Your Project's Brand</h2>Have you ever wanted to improve your project's brand and attract more contributors? Concerned that BigCo Vendor is misusing your project's trademarks and good reputation? Apache Brand Management is here to help.
+
+We have a complete <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources">Trademark And Branding Site Map</a> with links to all relevant ASF policies and best practices, like social media account guidelines and how to address abuses of your project's trademarks. <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/contact">Contact Brand Management</a> if we can help your project.
+
+<h2>OpenExpo in Madrid</h2>We have been offered a booth at a new conference in Madrid. The conference is called <a href="http://www.openexpo.es/en/">Openexpo</a> and will run on 1st June. You can find out more details about the conference and the schedule on <a href="http://www.openexpo.es/en/"> their website. </a>The conference has content in both Spanish and English, though we are expecting that attendees will be mainly Spanish speakers.<br/><br/>Thanks very much to our two Spanish sp [...]
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: 'Community Development News - April 2018 '
+date: '2018-05-09T11:32:31+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-april-2018
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)!
+
+This month we have news about our Apache EU Roadshow, the schedule for Apachecon North America is announced, we talk about our participation at GOTO Chicago, we plan for having an Apache presence at more open source conferences and we welcome another PMC member.
+<h2>OpenExpo Europe</h2>As part of our involvement with the <a href="https://openexpoeurope.com/" target="external">OpenExpo Europe Conference</a> there was a request for volunteers to write short articles on open source trends for the conference e-book. Several volunteers came forward and the ebook was published in both <a href="https://s.apache.org/wTcp" target="external">English</a> and <a href="https://s.apache.org/xxYP" target="external">Spanish</a> versions. Thanks very much to e [...]
+
+Ignasi Barrera has taken over the event co-ordination and a <a href="https://s.apache.org/cDT6" target="external">wiki page</a> has been setup to track the details. We will have a keynote and several other presentations at the event, as well as being part of informal question and answer sessions.
+
+We will also have our Apache booth available at the event. If you will be attending the event or would like to help out as part of our presence at the event then please contact us via the <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">community developmen mailing list</a>.
+<h2>Apache EU Roadshow</h2>Our <a href="https://s.apache.org/ifff" target="external"> Apache EU Roadshow </a> will be co-located with <a href="https://foss-backstage.de/" target="external"> FOSS Backstage </a>on 13th and 14th June 2018 in Berlin. The CFP for the Roadshow ended with 72 talks being submitted. A request for reviewers was made via our mailing list and we found several volunteers who were happy to help us select the presentations for our roadshow tracks.
+
+The <a href="http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/schedule.html">schedule has been announced</a> and we have a full program of 28 talks. We have 2 days filled with new and exciting presentations. Join us to learn the latest about Apache Tomcat, IoT, Cloud technologies, Micro-services and Apache Httpd Server. The main dates and details are as follows:
+
+<strong>Monday 11th - Thursday 14th June 2018 </strong>: Apache Lounge and Booth, available for networking, hacking and community meetups
+<strong>Wednesday 13th June 2018</strong>; <a href="https://s.apache.org/5xmn">Track 1: Cloud</a> ; <a href="https://s.apache.org/xAGQ">Track 2: Apache Tomcat</a>
+<strong>Thursday 14th June 2018</strong>;<a href="https://s.apache.org/NCMF"> Track 1: Apache Httpd and Microservices</a> ; <a href="https://s.apache.org/0lO5"> Track 2; Internet of Things (IoT)</a>
+
+Registering to attend FOSS Backstage will also give you access to the Apache EU Roadshow. Please note that this will be the main Apache event in Europe for 2018 so we are hoping that as many people from our project communities are able to attend.
+
+<strong>Please note</strong> that many Community related, governance or Apache Way presentations have been included as part of the FOSS Backstage program.
+
+You can find out more information about the EU Roadshow and also and register to attend at <a href="https://s.apache.org/ifff" target="external"> http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18 </a> and more about FOSS Backstage at <a href="https://foss-backstage.de " target="external"> https://foss-backstage.de</a>
+<h2>ApacheCon NA Schedule Announced</h2>We are pleased to announce our schedule for <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18" target="external"> ApacheCon North America 2018 </a> will be held September 23-27 at the Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal, Canada. Our CFP ended with nearly 250 submissions and we have selected more than 100 of them for the conference. The <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/" target="external">schedule is now live</a> and includes full tracks from Ap [...]
+
+This year, we have keynotes from:
+<ul><li>Bridget Kromhout, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate from Microsoft</li><li>Euan McLeod, VP VIPER at Comcast</li><li>Cliff Schmidt from Literacy Bridge</li><li>Myrle Krantz with the Apache Fineract</li></ul>
+
+Registration is open and there is currently an early bird rate lasts until 21st July.
+
+Follow us on <a href="https://s.apache.org/LhYE" target="external">Twitter </a> and join the discuss@apachecon.com mailing list (send email to discuss-subscribe@apachecon.com) to stay up to date with developments. And if your company wants to sponsor this event, get in touch at help@apachecon.com for opportunities that are still available.
+
+<h2>GOTO Chicago</h2>We were allocated a free booth at
+<a href="https://gotochgo.com/" target="external">GOTO Chicago </a> which was staffed by several community members. Kanchana Welagedara, Bob Paulin, and Trevor Grant worked the booth for two days and were able to engage with several developers who are interested in getting involved with projects. Most of the participants knew about the ASF (which is great!), although a few thought that we were trying to sell something (which is great because we made them aware of who the ASF is / what i [...]
+
+The most important conversations revolved around
+<ol><li>There are ALOT of Apache Projects and;</li><li>projects are made up of ordinary people and to not be intimidated about getting involved and contributing.</li></ol>
+
+The GOTO event organisers were excited to have us at the event, and would like to have the ASF do booths at other conferences in the future. Finally, another great outcome of the event was a <a href="https://s.apache.org/4wWF" target="external"> proposal to have an Apache Roadshow Chicago in Spring of 2019. </a> This has been taken back to our mailing list and planning has already begun!
+
+Huge thanks very much to Trevor Grant for taking the lead on managing our participation at this event, and to all the other volunteers who participated and helped promote Apache. Remember, if you are interested in being involved or helping out then please join the discussion on our <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd"> mailing list</a>.
+
+<h2>OSCON 2018</h2>We have been allocated a free booth at <a href="https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or" target="external"> OSCON.</a> It has been a while since we had a presence there but this year the OSCON schedule includes quite a few talks related to Apache projects. Taking a quick look through the schedule you will find presentations on Spark, OpenWhisk, Kafka, PredictionIO, Ignite, MXNet, Mesos and Fineract. It is great to see our projects being promoted at this type of event.
+<h2>GSoC</h2>The ASF was accepted as a GSoC mentor organisation again this year and our mentors mailing list is being used to co-ordinate the work. Both Uli and Maxim have been very active in finalising the list of accepted students.
+<h2>Welcome New PMC Member - Maxim Solodovnik</h2>The Apache Community Development PMC is pleased to announce another new PMC member this month. Maxim Solodovnik has been involved with community development activities for a while and has also been helping us administer and support GSoC. Maxim has shown himself to be very open, enthusiastic and willing to share his knowledge with others.
+
+We are sure that Maxim will be a great addition to the ComDev PMC.
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: 'Community Development News - February 2017 '
+date: '2017-03-17T09:00:40+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-february-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development. This month we have news about ApacheCon, Apache Big Data and our range of mini themed conferences, we also invite you to promote your talk on Feathercast. <br />
+ <h2>ApacheCon NA 2017 - Miami</h2>
+ During February our main focus was in promoting Apache Big Data and the new format ApacheCon in Miami. Over 225 submissions were received and we'd like to thank everyone that was involved in helping review them all. There are 126 sessions planned for Apachecon and 90 sessions for Big Data. The full schedule for both conferences have now been published and details can be found at the links below:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/prog [...]
+Five mini or themed conferences will also be running alongside ApacheCon and Apache Big Data. More details can be found at the following links:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://us.apacheiot.org">Apache IoT (Internet of Things) </a><br /> <a href="http://us.cloudstackcollab.org">Cloudstack Collaboration Conference</a> <br /> <a href="http://us.apacheflexjs.org/">FlexJS Summit </a><br /> <a href="https://s.apache.org/S8jE">Apache Traffic Server and Traffic Control Summit</a> <br /> <a href="ht [...]
+Conference dates are 16th - 18th May 2017 and registrations for ApacheCon or Big Data can be done via the <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/register-">Linux Foundation website</a>. Please check individual schedules if you are only attending any of the mini conferences as they may begin before the main conferences. <br /> <br /><strong>PLEASE NOTE:</strong> With the exception of the Flex and Traffic Server events, which begin before the main [...]
+
+ <h2>Promote Your Talk on Feathercast!</h2>Congratulations if you were lucky enough to get a talk accepted for ApacheCon, Big Data or any of the mini summits. Would you like to promote your talk by participating in a short interview for <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">Feathercast? </a>. <br />Interviews are approximately 5 minutes and will be published on the feathercast.apache.org website. We also usually share these links via social media. If you would like to organize an in [...]
+ <h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+layout: post
+title: Community Development News - February 2018
+date: '2018-03-05T08:38:50+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-february-2018
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)!
+
+This month we have news about our participation at FOSDEM, we include an update on Apachecon North America and our Apache EU Roadshow events, we continue to actively look for event sponsors, we prepare to take part in GSoC and we welcome another PMC member.
+
+<h2>FOSDEM</h2>During February, we participated at <a href="http://fosdem.org/2018" target="external">FOSDEM</a>. FOSDEM is a open source conference held in Brussels every year. It is completely free to attend and attracts around 4000-5000 attendees. We were allocated a booth at the event which has been a great way for projects to promote themselves to new users or potential new contributors, and also to spread the word about Apache.
+
+In preparation, a wiki page was setup with booth volunteers could register and projects could book time on the ASF booth to promote their project. Following on from last year's feedback, this year we had some larger roller banners, one with our feather logo and one with our list of projects. Once again people were surprised to realise just how many projects we have at the ASF or that they were already using. We also had a few project demos running via a monitor at the booth. Visitors oft [...]
+
+As usual, people came by to pick up stickers, and giveaway items. This year our items were a little different, we had some Apache balloons, Apache pens, bracelets t,-shirts and some mugs that became a most wanted item. There were also quite a few Apache project related presentations which also help generate a wider awareness of the Foundation.
+
+A big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out on the booth or to chat to people about their projects. Special mentions goes to all the booth volunteers (Daan, Rohit, Trevor, Myrle, Andrus, Kevin, Rich, Daniel, Pono, Bertrand and Isabel).
+
+<h2>Apachecon NA 2018</h2>More details about <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/" target="external">Apachecon North America 2018</a> in Montreal were announced this month. It will take place on 24 - 28 September 2018 and there will be a range of technical tracks as well as the opportunity to connect with project communities. The <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/" target="external">Call for Papers (CFP) </a> is now open. You can also register to attend and take advantage of early b [...]
+
+Please use the following link to <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/" target="external">submit a talk for Apachecon or Register to attend</a>.
+
+Key dates to remember are as follows:
+<ul><li>March 30: CFP Closes</li><li>April 20: CFP Notifications Sent</li><li>August 24: Hotel Reserved Room Block Closes</li></ul>
+
+Please follow <a href="https://twitter.com/apachecon" target="external">@ApacheCon on Twitter</a> to be the first to hear announcements about keynotes, the schedule, evening events, and everything you can expect to see at the event.
+
+<h2>Apache EU Roadshow</h2>Our <a href="http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/" target="external">Apache EU Roadshow</a> will be co-located with <a href="https://foss-backstage.de/" target="external"> FOSS Backstage </a>on 13th and 14th June 2018 in Berlin. Registering to attend FOSS Backstage will also give you access to the Apache EU Roadshow. Our Roadshow will focus on the latest developments in Cloud technologies, IoT, <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/" target="external">Apache Tomcat [...]
+
+<strong>Please note</strong> that any submissions for Community related, governance or Apache Way talks will be included as part of the FOSS Backstage program.
+
+Find out more information about the EU Roadshow and also and register to attend at <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18" target="external"> http://apachecon.com/acna18 </a>
+Find out more details about FOSS Backstage at <a href="https://foss-backstage.de " target="external"> https://foss-backstage.de</a>
+
+The Community development team will be providing support for both events and and will also continue to help market and promote them.
+<h2>Actively Seeking Sponsors</h2>We are actively looking for sponsors to help sponsor our <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/" target="external">Apachecon North America </a> and <a href="http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/" target="external">Apache EU Roadshow</a> events. Sponsorship can range from actual presence at the event with a booth package to limited sponsorship of smaller items such as video recording, attendee or speakers event, lightning talks, or the coffee breaks.
+
+If you are interested in helping us with any form of sponsorship, or need more information about the levels of sponsorship packages available then please contact Kevin McGrail on kmcgrail AT apache DOT org
+<h2>New PMC Member</h2>The Apache Community Development PMC is pleased to announce another new PMC member this month. Olivier Heintz has been involved with open source at Apache for several years and has shown himself to be positive and enthusiastic in helping others learn about how the ASF works.
+
+We are sure that Olivier will be a great addition to the PMC so please join us in welcoming Olivier to the team.
+
+<h2>Mentoring at Google Summer of Code 2018</h2>We are involved in the next Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as one of the Mentoring Organizations for the 13th consecutive year!
+
+The GSoC program allow students to spend their summer (three months and full time) working on an Open Source project. They can learn how to work in a team on a stable project, they can increase their technical skills but the most important skill is the understanding of how an Open Source community work to deliver a common and spontaneous effort for the public good.
+
+You will find us with our own page in the <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5718432427802624/">GSoC program website</a> and here you will find all <a href="http://s.apache.org/gsoc2018ideas">our project ideas</a> designed by each PMC for giving an opportunity to any student to start their first journey in one of the Apache projects.
+
+For any student that wants to join the program and for ASF people that want to be a mentor, please take a look at <a href="http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html">our GSoC page</a> for more useful information.
+
+Proposals registrations from students are allowed starting on 12th March but any student is invited to get in touch with us leaving a comment on our JIRA or in the mailing list related to the chosen ASF project.
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: Community Development News - January 2017
+date: '2017-02-14T16:39:06+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-january-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development. This month we have news about FOSDEM and our Commnity Development presence there, Feathercast and the audio recordings available and the new mini conference format for Apachecon NA 2017. <br />
+ <h2>Community Development at FOSDEM 2017</h2> During January a lot of our focus has been in preparing for <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/">FOSDEM</a>. FOSDEM is a open source conference in Brussels that is held every year. It is completely free to attend and attracts 4000-5000 attendees. It is a great event to spread the word about Apache and also projects can use it to promote themselves to potential new users or community members.<br />
+A wiki page was setup with details of the event where projects could book time on the ASF booth to promote their project.This year we had a special banner made featuring logos of as many Apache projects as we could fit. Having the banner with the project logos really helped people realise just how many projects we have at the ASF. We are now seeing a lot more recognition of Apache projects than before.<br />
+Around 20 FOSDEM presentations and talks were from ASF contributors which shows that the ASF is already building a strong presence. There is also an increased awareness of Big Data and IoT and it was good to see that many people recognised ASF projects as leading the way in these technology areas. And <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/828031760810270720">tweets</a> from the ASF Twitter account helped guide people to our booth. <br />
+During FOSDEM we also had the opportunity to record some Feathercast interviews. Links can the recordings can be found below: <br /><br /> <a href="https://s.apache.org/89GS">Interview : Joerg Schad (Apache Mesos)</a> <br /> <a href="https://s.apache.org/mORk">Interview : Holden Karau (Apache Spark)</a> <br /> <a href="https://s.apache.org/zNRf">Interview : Danese Cooper</a> <br /> <a href="https://s.apache.org/i9cJ">Interview : Rich Bowen </a> <br /> <a href="https://s.apache.org/mS4I"> [...]
+Thanks to everyone who helped out on and around the ASF booth during the conference and also to the people who volunteered to be interviewed. We are looking forward to being at FOSDEM again next year.
+
+ <h2>Feathercast</h2> <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">Feathercast</a> was started by David Reid and Rich Bowen and is currently used to store podcasts and recorded audio from ASF related events or presentations. It contains a lot of audio from previous Apachecons and is a good way to catch a presentation that you haven't been able to attend. All the audio from Apache Big Data and Apachecon 2016 in Seville has is now uploaded and available.<br />
+ In the past Feathercast was jointly maintained by David and Rich. More recently Rich has taken on the majority of the work involved so now we are actively looking for additional volunteers to help share the workload. If you are interested in helping out with Feathercast then please follow the feathercast mailing list feathercast@apache.org or subscribe to the feathercast mailing list by sending an email to feathercast-subscribe@apache.org
+
+ <h2>Apachecon NA 2017</h2> The Community Development team will be working on helping support the preparations for <a href="https://apachecon.com/">Apachecon</a> NA in Miami. If you have been following the discussions on our mailing lists then you will have seen that a new format for Apachecon has been proposed. This involves mini project or themed conferences integrated with Apachecon. Already confirmed for Miami are the following:<br />
+ <ul>
+ <li>Apache: Big Data </li>
+ <li>Cloudstack Collaboration Conference</li>
+ <li> Tomcatcon</li>
+ <li>Apache IoT (Internet of Things)</li>
+ <li>FlexJS Summit</li>
+ <li>Apache Traffic Server and Traffic Control Summit</li>
+ </ul>
+We will still be including our core Apachecon tracks for community, lightning talks, general project presentations and tutorials, as well as our regular Barcamp.We hope that you will enjoy the new format and hope to see as many of you as possible in Miami.
+
+ <h2>Contacting Community Development</h2> Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: Community Development News - January 2018
+date: '2018-02-08T09:36:47+00:00'
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+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)!
+
+This month we have news about ApacheCon North America and also our Apache EU Roadshow, we register for GSoC, we report on our experience at the Open Source Summit Paris, we introduce Apache Community Business Cards, and we welcome two new PMC Members.
+<h2>ApacheCon NA 2018</h2>Good news! ApacheCon North America will be held 24-28 September 2018 in Montreal, Canada. ApacheCon is a key ASF event that showcases dozens of Apache projects, from ideation to deployment. The sessions are aimed at a broad audience, from seasoned professionals to novices who want to learn what's new and how it all fits in to the greater Open Source ecosystem. It is a great way to bring together Apache users with the projects and communities.
+The <strong>CFP for ApacheCon is open</strong> so please make your submissions:<a href="http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/" target="external"> </a>
+<a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18" target="external"> ApacheCon CFP</a>
+
+More details will be announced soon and updates will be posted at <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18" target="external"> http://apachecon.com/acna18 </a> and the ApacheCon mailing list (sign up for updates by sending email to <an...@apachecon.com> ). You can also follow what is happening on <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCon" target="external"> Twitter @ApacheCon </a>
+
+We are also looking for sponsors so if you are interested in Sponsorship opportunities then please contact Kevin A. McGrail at kmcgrail(at)apache(dot)org.
+<h2>Apache EU Roadshow 2018</h2>We have been working on trying to get a Apache European event organised this year as many of you told us that you missed not having an Apache EU last year. If you haven't already seen the <a href="https://s.apache.org/9Ork" target="external"> announcement, </a> then we are extremely happy to let you all know that we will be holding an Apache EU Roadshow co-located with <a href="https://foss-backstage.de" target="external"> FOSS Backstage </a> in Berlin on [...]
+
+As well as our Apache Booth, there will be an Apache Lounge space for people to relax, collaborate and hack. (In fact the Lounge will be there during Berlin Buzzwords too and there is also a Barcamp on Sunday 10th June!). During the Roadshow we will have 2 Apache Devrooms available as well as a shared workshop space with FOSS Backstage where we can run sprints, BoFs or small workshops.
+
+We only have capacity to run 2 full tracks per day for this Roadshow, plus some small additional workshops so will need to limit the scope since this is a smaller event than our normal ApacheCon. Our main focus for this Roadshow will be Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Httpd and Tomcat.
+
+The <strong>CFP for the Roadshow is open</strong> so please submit your proposals using the link below:
+
+<a href="http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/" target="external"> Apache EU Roadshow CFP </a>
+
+Please note that we won't have any space for Community or Apache Way talks but the good news is that the FOSS Backstage organisers are happy to include an Apache track if there are enough submissions, so please submit any community, governance or legal themed talks directly to FOSS Backstage.
+
+<a href="https://foss-backstage.de/call-papers" target="external"> FOSS Backstage CFP </a>
+
+Please feel free to spread the word that we will be having an Apache event in Europe this year and if possible makes plans to come along and participate.For more information and updates please check <a href="http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/" target="external"> http://apachecon.com/euroadshow18/</a>
+
+We are also looking for sponsors so if you are interested in Sponsorship opportunities then please contact Kevin A. McGrail at kmcgrail(at)apache(dot)org.
+ <h2>Apache Business Cards</h2>A couple of months ago we had a discussion about introducing Apache business cards. Apache Business Cards are cards that people involved with Apache projects can use when they are promoting their Apache project at an event or representing their Apache project. Individuals (not the ASF) would be responsible for printing their own cards. We have two standard formats:<ul><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/12nG" target="external"> Apache Official Role Business [...]
+
+The Apache Community Business Card can contain all the official roles as well as other role descriptions. For example Developer, Contributor. It can also include other details related to your involvement in Apache such as PGP key and does not need to include your apache.org email address.
+
+For convenience we have created <a href="https://s.apache.org/2vDD" target="external"> an ASF account with moo.com </a> where you can order business cardsbased on both formats.
+
+<strong>NOTE:</strong> You do not have to buy your business cards from moo.com. You can order your business cards from another supplier. We have setup the ASF Moo account to make it easier for lots of people to order their cards.You can find more <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Apache+Business+Cards" target="external">details about business cards on the Comdev wiki. </a>
+<h2>New PMC Members</h2>The Apache Community Development PMC is pleased to announce that two new PMCs members. Piergiorgio Lucidi (PJ) and Ignasi Barerra have been involved in a range of community development activities both on and off the mailing lists. Both have also supported the ASF at events and conferences.
+
+More recently PJ helped promote the introduction of Apache Business Cards and Ignasi helped design and create our ASF Brochure. Please join us in welcoming PJ and Ignasi to the team.
+<h2>Open Source Summit Paris</h2>In December, we were invited to participate at the Open Source Summit in Paris. The event attracts around 6000 attendees and we were given a booth and a half day track at the event. Our booth was in the Associations Village (for Open Source Foundations and non profits) and they also had a Legal Tech Village about the legal side or open source. A key focus this year was Africa and how open source is opening up new technology opportunities.
+
+Our Apache track was run during the afternoon in a room that held a maximum 35 people. Our talks were a mix of French and English and attendance numbers varied from around 10 to 30. The most popular talk being Apache Spark! Many of the discussions were in French and one of the most common questions we were asked is 'Does Apache have a local company in France?' And each time we explained that the Apache community is everywhere.
+
+Thanks very much to our speakers (Bertrand, Luciano, Martin, Ismael, and Olivier) and to everyone who helped out on the booth. It was a great event to be involved in and we hope that we get invited to participate again next year!
+
+<h2>Google Summer of Code (GSoC)</h2>
+The ASF is registering again to be a mentoring orgnanisation for Google Summer of Code. Projects that want to participate have been asked to start creating a list of task ideas that students could work on. Participating in GSoC is a good way of encouraging new people to become involved with a project and also gain mentoring skills.
+
+If your project is interested in participating then please add your task ideas to the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/COMDEV/issues/COMDEV-266?filter=allopenissues" target="external"> Comdev JIRA. </a>ComDev Jira using the component "GSoC/Mentoring Ideas"
+
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: 'Community Development News - July 2017 '
+date: '2017-08-04T12:17:17+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-july-2017
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+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)! You may have noticed that we missed our June issue, this was due to the holiday season so we have a double update for you this month. This month we have lots of news about upcoming conferences that we are interested in participating at, we share a more detailed blog post about the OpenExpo in Madrid, we remind everyone to find us on Twitter, and provide a pointer to how to help fix misus [...]
+
+ <h2>Call for Apache Project Presentations for Solutions Hamburg</h2>We have been invited to provide a 3 day track filled with Apache content for<a href="https://solutions.hamburg/" target="external"> Solutions Hamburg.</a> The conference runs from 6th-8th September 2017. This is an established conference that is attended by a wide range of people and businesses so could be a great opportunity to inform a new audience about Apache and our projects. Our proposed 3 day Apache track will be [...]
+<ul><li>Dev-Day with Developer-Centric Apache project talks</li><li>Ops-Day with Operations-Centric Apache project talks</li><li>Apache Day with talks on Apache itself</li></ul>An initial call for participation went out on the ComDev mailing lists in June and so far several people have volunteered to do presentations but we could always do with more!. So if your project fits into any of these categories and you would like to participate then please let us know by:
+<ul><li> responding to the <a href="https://s.apache.org/JJzL" target="external">Solutions Hamburg mailing list thread</a> </li> <ul/>
+
+<strong>Please note:</strong> that the presentation can be in English or German.
+
+This will be a new event for Apache and once again it is another opportunity to have a presence, spread the Apache message and grow our communities. A very big thank you to Chris Dutz for initiating this and also Myrle Krantz for helping summarise and organise the prospective talks.
+ <h2>Open Source Summit Europe 2017</h2>This month we had some discussions on our mailing list about participating in the <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe" target="external">Open Source Summit Europe 2017 </a>which runs from 23-26 October 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference is actually a consolidation of several other conferences including LinuxCon, ContainerCon, the Open Community Conference and the <a href="http://events.linuxfound [...]
+
+Although we could not get scheduling for a specific Apache track, many of the topics covered in the Apache Way presentations are very relevant to open source communities and several presentations have been submitted via the CFP. The schedule will be announced 17th August so thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal and we hope that some Apache related content will be included.
+<h2>ASF Booth at MesosCon Europe 2017</h2>We have been offered an Apache booth at <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon-europe" target="external"> MesosCon Europe 2017 </a>which is happening from 25-27 October in Prague, Czech Republic. MesosCon is an established conference from the <a href="http://mesos.apache.org/" target="external"> Apache Mesos</a> community that runs globally. This year their European conference is co-located alongside the Open Source Summit [...]
+
+Thanks very much to Piergiorgio Lucidi and Sharan Foga for volunteering to help out with MesosCon booth duty.
+
+ <h2>Introducing FOSS Backstage</h2>Over the last few months there has been some detailed discussions on our mailing list about creating a new conference event that would be more focussed on open source governance and community related topics. The new event has now been created and is called <a href="http://FOSS-backstage.de" target="external"> FOSS Backstage.</a>
+
+While the main conference is planned June 2018, a micro FOSS Backstage summit has been organised for 20th November 2017 in Berlin.The <a href="https://s.apache.org/YEzo" target="external"> CFP for the FOSS Backstage Micro Summit 2017 </a>is now open so please submit your proposals. The deadline for submissions is <strong> 10th September 2017</strong> and you can find out more details from the <a href="https://s.apache.org/YEzo" target="external"> FOSS Backstage website.</a>
+
+A very big thanks to Isabel Drost-Fromm for making this initiative happen.
+ <h2>Blog Post re: OpenExpo in Madrid</h2>In our May blog post we talked about our participation at the OpenExpo conference in Madrid. It was our first time at this event and have written <a href="htttps://s.apache.org/9uem" target="external"> a short blog post about it </a>
+
+Being at the OpenExpo also opened up a new opportunity to talk to people about Apache. A local Spanish podcast channel focussed on open source software asked us to record an interview (in Spanish) about Apache. Ignasi Barrera was interviewed and the podcast can be found at the link below:
+
+ <a href="https://s.apache.org/aiHh" target="external"> Podcast with Ignasi Barrera </a>
+
+Once again, a big thank you to everyone who helped to make this event a success.
+
+ <h2>Help Fix Misuses Of Apache Project Brands</h2>Have you ever seen a corporate website or press release that claims they run an Apache project, or seen someone using Apache project names or logos improperly? We have a guide for fixing that - but it requires <b>you</b> to raise the issue up so the PMC can address it! We hope all committers and expect that PMC members will speak up if someone is misusing their project's brand.
+
+<a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/reporting">Read the Apache brand misuse reporting guide!</a>
+
+ <h2>Follow @ApacheCommunity on Twitter</h2>Apache Community Development has been tweeting since April 2017 and has already built up a following of 80 people. We'd like to keep it growing so please feel free to tweet us @ApacheCommunity or follow us.
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: 'Community Development News - July 2018 '
+date: '2018-08-06T06:57:10+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-july-2018
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)!
+
+This month we have news about ApacheCon NA in Montreal, we prepare to participate at Solutions Hamburg, we talk about our great experience at OSCON, and we look at making sure people can find out about Apache related meetups and events.
+
+<h2>ApacheCon NA 2018</h2><p>ApacheCon North America, in Montreal, is less than 60 days away and there is still a lot of work happening to ensure that the conference is a success. The schedule includes over 100 talks and we’ll be featuring talks from many of our our ASF projects., We have inspiring keynotes from some of the brilliant members of our community and the wider tech space, including:</p><ul><li>Myrle Krantz, PMC chair for Apache Fineract, and leader in the open source financi [...]
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+title: 'Community Development News - June 2018 '
+date: '2018-07-03T08:42:42+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-june-2018
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)!
+
+This month we have news about the Apache EU Roadshow and FOSS Backstage conferences in Berlin, we talk about our participation at the OpenExpo Europe, we interview speakers, attendees and Board members for FeatherCast and we prepare for participation in even more conferences.
+
+<h2>Apache EU Roadshow</h2><p>This month our <a href="https://s.apache.org/rvjm" target="external">Apache EU Roadshow</a> was held in Berlin. Our Apache Lounge was very popular as an informal meetup space to sit, relax, hack or generally catch up. As well as stickers our special giveaway item was ice cream which went down very well with attendees. For those who attended, we hope that you enjoyed the event. A huge thank you to all the speakers who participated at the EU Roadshow and also [...]
+<p>You can find all the videos from the Apache EU Roadshow at the link below:</p><ul><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/fEmT" target="external">Apache EU Roadshow Videos</a> </li></ul><p>If you have any feedback that you think could help us make our next event even better then please feel free to contact us.</p><h2>FOSS Backstage</h2><p>We also had a lot of Apache participation at FOSS Backstage. Their focus on governance, community and the legal aspects of open source is very relevant to [...]
+<ul><li><a href="https://s.apache.org/ag06" target="external">FOSS Backstage Videos</a> </li></ul><p>We look forward to future events where we hopefully can continue to participate.</p><h2>FeatherCast Interviews</h2><p><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/" target="external">FeatherCast</a> is the ASF podcast channel and we usually try to do interviews with speakers or attendees at events. The Apache EU Roadshow and FOSS Backstage were great places for finding interviewees. Instead of [...]
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+layout: post
+title: Community Development News - March 2017
+date: '2017-04-10T06:38:04+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-march-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development. This month we have news about our Annual Members meeting, we celebrate our 18th birthday, we encourage participation in GSoC, a new system for making donations to the ASF goes live, we simplify the Apache Way and the ASF joins Facebook. <br />
+ <h2>Happy 18th Birthday Apache!</h2>Last month the <a href="https://s.apache.org/TRc7">ASF celebrated its 18th birthday.</a> and who would have believed that the Apache HTTP Server, the ASF's original project still remains the most popular Web server on the planet totalling nearly 80M active sites. Over the 18 years the ASF has grown and developed and now has 300+ projects and 6000+ committers. Our projects cover a range of different domains including Big Data, Artificial Intelligence [...]
+
+ <h2>Donate and Help Support the ASF</h2> Last month saw the start of a new way to donate and support Apache. We do rely on a lot of volunteer effort but we still need to spend money on things such as infrastructure, marketing, legal services and administration. Any amount is accepted and even small donations can make a real difference. Details of how to make a donation can be found below. <br /><br /> <a href="https://donate.apache.org/">Donate to the ASF</a> <br /><br />If you use or [...]
+
+ <h2>Apache Annual Members Meeting</h2>Every year the foundation holds its Annual Members meeting to review the previous year and prepare for the next one. A key part of this includes reveiwing the state of the foundation itself and also voting in a new board of directors. During this year's meeting the following were elected as the new ASF Board. Rich Bowen, Shane Curcuru, Bertrand Delacretaz, Ted Dunning, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann, Brett Porter, Phil Steitz, and Mark Thomas<br />< [...]
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html">About the ASF and How it Works</a></li>
+ <li> <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/">About the ASF Board</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <h2>Apache and the Google Summer of Code 2017</h2> Once again the ASF is one of the mentoring organisations for the <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5416945173135360/">Google Summer of Code (GSoC).</a>A range of Apache projects have volunteered mentors and tasks that can picked up, worked on and then contributed back to a project.<br /><br />We have already seen some activity on our mailing lists as people sign up for various tasks so if you are interested in [...]
+ <h2>The Apache Way</h2> A new resource is available that simply and easily explains the main concepts of the <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/governance/"> Apache Way</a>. The <a href="http://theapacheway.com/"> new site</a> was put together by community member Shane Curcuru and breaks down the Apache Way into 6 key concepts as follows:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://theapacheway.com/charity/">Charity</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://theapacheway.com/community/">Community</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://theapacheway.com/consensus/">Consensus</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://theapacheway.com/merit/">Merit</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://theapacheway.com/open/">Open</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://theapacheway.com/pragmatic/">Pragmatic</a></li>
+ </ul>
+A big thank you to Shane Curcuru for putting this together and if you have any feedback or comments regarding the site then Shane is happy to receive your pull requests.
+
+ <h2>ASF on Facebook</h2> Did you know that the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/?ref=page_internal">ASF is now on Facebook?</a> <br />
+One of our community members, Raphael Bircher discovered that the ASF had an automatically generated Facebook site with over 9000 likes. Facebook automatically generates pages for highy requested pages that don't already exist, so highlights that we have a significant amount of followers looking for us. <br />
+We have now taken over the autogenerated page and are working on actively building our following. If you or your community has a Facebook page then please help support Apache by liking us. Big thanks to Raphael Bircher for working on getting this setup.
+
+ <h2>Committer Survey Feedback and Comments</h2> During March the detailed comments from our <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Committer+Diversity+Survey+-+2016"> committer diversity survey</a> were posted on our mailing list. We had a range of feedback from improvements for the structure of the survey to comments about diversity and the role of the Apache Software Foundation itself. <br />Details of all these comments can be found at the links below:
+
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="https://s.apache.org/Wtjy">Survey Related Feedback</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://s.apache.org/sdwf">Diversity Related Feedback</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://s.apache.org/XU6v">Improvements Related Feedback</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://s.apache.org/OQUF">Running Survey and General Apache Related Feedback</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://s.apache.org/XU6v">Improvements Related Feedback</a></li>
+ </ol>
+It was good to be able to engage with our committer group and get their feedback. We are now looking at following up on some of the ideas for improvements, including finding a way to better inform and engage committers across all our projects.
+
+ <h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+layout: post
+title: " Community Development News - May 2017 "
+date: '2017-06-14T06:21:53+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-may-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)! This month we have lots of news about ApacheCon North America; share some links to some of the conference keynotes; deliver a co-ordinated Apache Way track alongside our Community one; get some feedback from a first time ApacheCon attendee; encourage you to listen to ApacheCon via our FeatherCast podcast channel and we run yet another successful BarCampApache.
+
+ <h2>ApacheCon NA 2017</h2>After all the preparation ApacheCon North America took place this month in Miami. As well as the standard ApacheCon and Big Data tracks, several mini conferences were held around the main event. It also featured a new Apache Way track which is mentioned in separate section below in more detail.
+
+ApacheCon featured some great keynote speakers with some interesting topics from IoT to Digital Pychometrics. If you haven't had a chance to hear or see them then they are all available on Youtube as follows:
+<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFUNz6UP-E" target="_blank"> Keynote: State of the Feather - Sam Ruby, President, Apache Software Foundation </a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwZEPfICuUE" target="_blank"> Keynote: Apache Projects and Comcast’s Journey to Open Source - Nithya Ruff </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFNE0IpKOxU" target="_blank"> Keynote: Training Our Team in the Apache Way - Alan Gates </a></li> <li><a href="https: [...]
+
+During ApacheCon Benjamin Young organised a ComDev Tools Hackathon where people interested in improving some of our tools got together and started working on it. Thanks very much to Benjamin for this initiative and to all the hackathon participants who came along to help out.
+
+<h2>BarCampApache</h2>Our BarCampApache was a great success and attracted well over 35 people. It was facilitated by Jean-Frederic Clere and some of our attendees on the day. It was great to see so much involvement from people from a wide range of Apache projects.
+
+The following were some of the topics raised by our partitcipants and discussed:
+<ul><li>MQ in Practice</li><li>Community Engagement & How to Atract More Contributors / Committers </li><li>Benchmarking </li><li>Open Source in China</li><li>Orchestraiton</li><li>YARN/MESOS</li><li>Static Analysis and Project Management</l></ul>At every BarCampApache a key theme is sharing information and advice as well as making contacts, and I'm sure we succeeded in doing that. How do we know? The discussions kept on well after the time when we were planning to finish!
+
+So thanks again to everyone that attended and we hope that you will pass on your experiences to other colleagues and encourage them to participate at future events.
+
+The audio from the <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/2017/05/30/apachecon-miami-2017-barcampapache/" target="_blank"> BarCampApache is available on FeatherCast</a>.
+(<strong>WARNING</strong>: This current file is over 5 and a half hours long but we will be splitting this up into more topic based discussions)
+<h2>The Apache Way Track and Community Track</h2>As well as our usual community based track, for the first time at ApacheCon a co-ordinated track detailing different aspects of the Apache Way was organised by Shane Curcuru and Nick Burch. The five presentations and one panel discussion incorporated common themes and explored some of the challenges encountered.
+
+The Apache Way Track" was recorded and videos are available on Youtube at the following links:<br/><ul><li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAv54KIgK8" target="_blank">Apache Way: Effective Open Source Project Management - Shane Curcuru</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea_9qkaTeVw" target="_blank">A Tale of Two Developers: Finding Harmony Between Commercial Software Development and the Apache Way - Andrew Wang & Alex Leblang</a></li><li><a href="https://www [...]
+</ul>Thank you to everyone who attended and participated, both on and off camera. Please watch, learn and share.
+<h2>FeatherCast Audio from ApacheCon</h2>Our Community Development <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/" target="_blank">podcast channel FeatherCast</a> has been extremely busy this month. Before ApacheCon we were recording interviews with some of the speakers and during the conference itself we talked to attendees, sponsors and some of our Apache Directors and Officers. We now have a large amount of content for you to listen to.
+
+Also don't worry if you missed missed ApacheCon or couldn't make to all the sessions because they have all been recorded. You can find the audio for all the ApacheCon sessions on <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/" target="_blank">FeatherCast</a>. Thanks very much to all the people who worked hard to get this audio up so quickly after ApacheCon.
+
+Please follow <a href="https://twitter.com/feathercast?lang=en">FeatherCast on Twitter</a> to be informed about our latest interviews. We are always looking for volunteers so if you are interested in helping out with our FeatherCast podcast channel then please email contact our mailing list feather@apache.org
+<h2>First Time ApacheCon Experience - Stephen Downie</h2>If you haven't taken a look at the blog post by Stephen Downie then it is highly recommended. Miami was Stephen's his first ever ApacheCon and his blog post describes his experiences all the way through from apprehension to realisation.
+<br/>Stephen's full blog post can be found here. <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/my-first-experience-of-apachecon" target="_blank">My First Experience of ApacheCon Blog Post by Stephen Downie</a>
+<h2>OpenExpo in Madrid</h2>During May we promoted that we had been invited to have an Apache booth at the Open Expo in Madrid on 1st June. This is a new event for us and we wanted to find out whether it could be a good place to have an Apache presence at in the future. We understand that the conference had over 3000 visitors and 300 of them passed by our Apache booth not only to pick up stickers but to also find out more about the Foundation itself. Please take a look at <a href="https: [...]
+
+A big thank you to Ignasi Barrera, Jan Iversen and Sharan Foga who spent the day on booth duty during the event.
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+title: 'Community Development News - October 2017 '
+date: '2017-11-09T09:13:09+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-october-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)!
+
+This month we have news about attending the FOSS Backstage Micro Summit, we share some interviews from the Prague Open Source Summit, we revitalise our Jira issue tracker, we welcome a new PMC Chair, we translate our ASF brochure into more languages, we prepare for FOSDEM and a for a half day track at the Open Source Summit in Paris, and we look at introducing Apache Community Business Cards.
+
+ <h2>FOSS Backstage Micro Summit</h2>The schedule for FOSS Backstage Micro Summit, which takes place in Berlin on November 20th, has been announced and focuses on community, governance and the legal aspects around open source. Several speakers from Apache have been selected to present. Full details of the program can be found at the following link:
+
+<a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-program-online-now" target="external">FOSS Backstage Program</a>
+
+Attendance at the conference is free but organisers have requested that you register so that they know how many people to expect. You can register for the event at
+
+<a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now" target="external">FOSS Backstage Registration</a>
+
+ <h2>Open Source Summit Europe</h2>It was great to meet people and talk about Apache and other related topics at the Open Source Summit in Prague in October. Although we did not have a booth at this event, there were several Apache related presentations including a keynote from Neha Narkhede about Apache Kafka,
+
+Other talks included Rich Bowen's presentation about why mentoring is so important, Piergiorgio Lucidi's talk on the incubation process for Apache ManifoldCF and Sharan Foga's presentation of the ASF Committer Diversity Survey at the Diversity Empowerment Summit.
+
+We also managed to record some interviews for our podcast channel FeatherCast and you can find details of the interviews below
+<ul><li><a href="" target="external">Interview with Robert Kratky about Documentation (Feature Based vs User Stories)</a></li><li><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/2017/10/30/oss-prague-apache-manifoldcf-and-incubation-piergiorgio-lucidi/" target="external">Interview with Piergiorgio Lucidi about Apache ManifoldCF and Incubation</a></li><li><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/2017/11/08/oss-prague-mentoring-micro-mentoring-and-apache-rich-bowen/" target="external">Interview wit [...]
+This was a great event to attend and meet others in the open source world.
+<h2>MesosCon Europe</h2>The Apache Mesos community were happy to have an Apache presence with a booth and also a keynote presentation from Rich Bowen. Feedback on the keynote was very positive and many people were interested to learn about the Foundation itself and Apache as the work it does to support its projects.
+
+Quite a few people stopped by our booth to collect stickers and talk to us not only about Mesos but other Apache projects that they used or were familiar with. We also received several enquiries about future ApacheCons. Rich took a short video of us all on duty at the Apache booth:
+
+<a href="https://t.co/f7H9qRgYYh" target="external">Apache Booth Duty</a>
+
+Thank you to everyone that helped out on booth duty or supported us at the event especially to the Apache Mesos community for inviting us.
+
+<h2>Comdev Jira</h2>Community Development has a Jira instance that we use to track tasks and issues. Over the last few months it hasn't been fully utlised so we have decided to revitalise it and start using it again to help us manage things we are working on. Some initial cleanup of old and existing tasks is needed and this is currently in progress.
+
+Those of you subscribed to our dev mailing list may have noticed the that the Jira notifications are now appearing there when an issue or task is updated. This has been done to enable better communication so that everyone can see the progress on any specific task. So far this has been been successful and people who see a task that they can help with are volunteering to make a contribution.
+
+If you would like to see if you can help us with any of our open issues and tasks then please take a look at our Jira list
+
+<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/COMDEV" target="external">Comdev Jira Issues / Task List</a>
+<h2>ASF Brochures</h2>An ASF brochure was put together for the OpenExpo in Spain earlier this year and was available in English and Spanish. A German language version was later created for our participation at the Solutions Hamburg conference. With the help of our contributors the brochure has now been translated into several other languages including Italian, Catalan, French, Russian, Japanese and we have a Chinese translation on the way.
+
+These brochures are available for anyone running or attending an event that need to information about the ASF for attendees. People can download and print the details they need.
+
+You can find the brochure in the various translations can be found on the Wiki at the link below:
+
+<a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Information+Brochure" target="external">ASF Information Brochures</a>
+
+We are still looking for volunteers to if you would like to help translate the brochure into yet another language then please contact us.
+<h2>Open Source Summit Paris</h2>The Open Source Summit in Paris is planned for 6th and 7th December and we have been given a booth. . The event schedule has a mix of French and English speaking presentations and we have recruited some French speaking volunteers to help out on our booth.
+
+We have also been given a half day track and the details are as follows:
+<ul><li>Asynchronous Decision Making - why and how - Bertrand Delacretaz</li><li>IoT using Apache Spark and Apache Bahir - Luciano Resende</li><li>Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) + Geospatial Standards - Martin Desruisseaux</li><li>Apache Beam: Portable and efficient data-intensive processing - Ismaël Mejía</li><li>DevOps for Apache OFBiz using Jenkins and Selenium - Olivier Heinz</li></ul>
+
+and we also a keynote slot that will be presented by Bertrand Delacretaz.
+
+This is a new event for us and it is great that we have some talks on the schedule. We are looking forward to being there and talking to attendees about Apache. The conference is completely free to attend but you do need to register on the conference website. More information can be found at: <a href="https://www.opensourcesummit.paris" target="external">www.opensourcesummit.paris</a>
+<h2>FOSDEM</h2>We have requested an Apache booth for next year's FOSDEM conference in Brussels. The decisions will be announced in late November so we are hoping that we will be allocated a place.
+
+Based on feedback from the community, we put together a FOSDEM devroom proposal but unfortunately it was unsuccessful. However FOSDEM will have a <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002610.html" target="external">Community Devroom</a> again next year so we are encouraging people to make submissions to this devroom on any community related topic. You can find details of the CFP and how to submit a talk proposal at the following link:
+
+<a href="https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18" target="external">CFP for FOSDEM Community Devroom</a>
+
+Deadlines for submissions is 27th November 2017 so if you are interested in presenting, then please get your proposals in now.
+<h2>New PMC Chair</h2>We have decided to rotate our PMC Chair. Uli Stark has held the role for a while and it is general practice for projects to rotate the role within the PMC. Sharan Foga has now been appointed the new PMC Chair for Community Development.Many thanks to Uli for all his hard work and effort as VP ComDev over the last few years and also congratulations to Sharan on her new role.
+<h2>Apache Community Business Cards</h2>This month we started a <a href="https://s.apache.org/111l" target="external">discussion about the introduction of Apache Community business cards.</a> The idea is that people could have Apache style business cards that could be given out to people. For example, if you are at an event representing your Apache role or project or if you are volunteering at the ASF booth and want to give your contact Apache details to someone you have been speaking to.
+
+Individuals (not the ASF) would be responsible for the cost of printing their own cards. The <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Community+Business+Cards" target="external">two suggested card formats</a> are now on the Comdev wiki and we will be promoting their use to committers and projects.
+
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+layout: post
+title: 'Community Development News - September 2017 '
+date: '2017-10-12T08:53:15+00:00'
+permalink: community-development-news-september-2017
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development (ComDev)! You may have noticed that we missed our August issue, this was due to preparations and participation at the Solutions Hamburg conference so once again we have a double update for you this month.
+
+This month we have news about the FOSS Backstage Micro Summit, we share our experience of the Solutions Hamburg conference, and we start preparing for two conferences in October - the Open Source Summit and MesosCon.
+
+ <h2>FOSS Backstage Micro Summit</h2>FOSS Backstage is "a conference on everything related to governance, collaboration, legal and economics within the scope of Free and Open Source (FOSS)". A micro summit will be talking place in Berlin on 20th November and the conference schedule has been announced. A list of the presentations is as follows:
+<ul><li>Open Source and Trusting the Water</li><li>Open Source Licensing for Rocket Scientists</li><li>Building distributed systems in distributed teams</li><li>The hateful 20 </li><li>How mentoring projects can help newcomers get started with Open Source</li><li>Open Source: Access or Contribution?</li><li>Training our team in the ApacheWay </li><li>Ant's Community - Looking Back and Current State</li><li>Beware of geeks bearing gifts</li><li>Asynchronous Decision Making – why and how?< [...]
+
+Full details of the program can be found at the following link: <a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-program-online-now" target="external">FOSS Backstage Program</a>
+
+ <h2>Solutions Hamburg</h2>In early September we were invited to present a 3 day track filled with Apache content. We were allocated was at a university campus where most of the technical talks were held and had a mix of talks in both in English and German. Approximately 5000 conference tickets had been sold for the conference yet attendance was mixed. The most popular of our talks were microservices related which attracted approximately 20 people.
+
+The talk around open source licencing was also well attended with many people keen to ask questions. We had prepared a German version of the ASF information brochure and it was very useful for giving people some general background about the focus and role of the ASF within open source.
+
+The organisers were great and provided everyone with lots of food, coffee and evening events. This was the first time we had a complete track at this conference so the next step will be to start a discussion about how we could improve our participation and attract more attendees.
+
+A huge thank you to our 9 speakers (Justin McClean, Mark Struberg, Benedikt Ritter,Jacek Laskowski, Lars Francke, Myrle Krantz, Christofer Dutz, Sharan Foga, Greg Stein) and a very special thank you to Myrle Krantz and Chris Dutz for their work in organising, facilitating and generally liaising with the conference organisers.
+
+We have received some pictures from the official event photographers and will be publishing them on our Facebook page soon.
+
+ <h2>Open Source Summit Europe</h2>The <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe" target="external">Open Source Summit Europe </a> will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from 23rd - 26th October 2017. The conference feathers Open Community Summit, Open Community Summit, ContainerCon, a Diversity Empowerment Summit, Cloud Open as well as the usual LinuxCon.
+
+The schedule has been published and is <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe/program/schedule" target="external"> available online here</a>
+
+There are several Apache related presentations and we will feature an update of the conference in our next monthly update.
+
+<h2>MesosCon Europe</h2><a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon-europe" target="external"> MesosCon Europe</a> will take place on 25 - 27 October in Prague, Czech Republic. It will be at the same location as the Open Source Summit and is co-located. Rich Bowen will be giving a keynote at the event which includes a Hackathon, MesosCon University and Town Halls. You can find all the details in the <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon-europe/program/ [...]
+
+We will also have an Apache booth at the event where were will be talking to people about Apache and giving away stickers and promotional items, so please come along and see us.
+
+<h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+layout: post
+title: 'Community Development News - December 2016 '
+date: '2017-01-05T10:06:44+00:00'
+permalink: community_development_news_december_2016
+---
+Welcome to our monthly blog update about what is happening in Apache Community Development. This month we have news about defininig a Commnity Development Strategy, ASF involvement in GSoC and the results from our Committer Diversity Survey are published. <br />
+ <h2>Community Development Strategy</h2>
+ This month our mailing list has had some detailed discussions around the goal of the Apache Community Development project. The discussion covered topics such as the original mission statement when the project was established and why people felt that more organisation and direction was needed.
+<br />
+When the project was established our original mission was <strong>'charged with coordinating community development efforts'</strong> which was a very broad and flexible definition. Defining a strategy will guide the project and give better visibility of our current and planned activities.<br />
+Some of the main ideas mentioned were as follows:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li> Increase community diversity</li>
+ <li>Develop tools that projects can use to promote themselves and attract new participants</li>
+ <li>Educate projects about the Apache Way so that they can more richly experience what Apache really is</li>
+ <li> Strengthen the bonds between projects and the larger Foundation</li>
+ <li>Work with marketing to promote what our projects are doing and promote the idea that the ASF is where innovation happens</li>
+ <li>Internal promotion - many of our projects don't know about what other projects are doing</li>
+ </ul>
+The next step is to document these ideas into a formal strategy and link it to specific goals and plans.
+
+ <h2>GSoC</h2>
+Another big discussion topic this month was around ASF involvement in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and how we might be able to gather data and statistics that show more clearly how GSoC benefits our projects and communities. <br />
+Apache Community Development's main goal is about developing Apache communities so it would be good to have actual data about the GSoC program within the ASF and how it supports us in achieving this.
+
+ <h2>Committer Diversity Survey Results</h2>
+Thank you to everyone that has helped or participated in getting the Committer Diversity Survey out, and also to all the committers who responded to the survey. It has been really good to be able to collect this information and see what it tells us about our committer base.
+The main data and graphs from the survey onto the <a href="https://s.apache.org/yHON">Community Development Wiki</a> <br />
+In total we received 765 responses (out of a 5861 committer base at the time the survey was run) so around a 13% response rate. We also got 111 feedback comments of which 29 did not give their permission to share or from quote their comments. <br />. <br />
+The comments have been categorised into various themes / topics with the main ones as follows:
+
+ <ol>
+ <li>Suggestions for improvements within the ASF</li>
+ <li>Suggestions for improvements to the survey (or any future ones)</li>
+ <li>Thanks / positive feedback about the ASF and/or survey</li>
+ <li>Feedback and ideas around diversity</li>
+ </ol>
+Next Steps will be: <br />
+ <ul>
+ <li> Continue to analyse the information and identify any potential Community Development related actions</li>
+ <li>Start discussion threads on the various themes and topics raised to see if they will result in additional actions</li>
+ <li>Discuss feedback and diversity ideas and if necessary, integrate into diversity and/or general community development strategy</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>
+Remember that we are always happy to get your feedback and comments so please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a>. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening in Community Development then please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+layout: post
+title: Community Development News - November 2016
+date: '2016-12-08T15:59:05+00:00'
+permalink: community_development_news_november_2016
+---
+Welcome to the first in a series of monthly blog updates about what is happening in Apache Community Development. This month we have news about our Committer Diversity Survey, FOSDEM 2017, ApacheCon NA 2017 and our PMC grows.<br />
+ <h2>
+ Apache Committers Diversity Survey
+ </h2>
+ Over the last month we have been discussing diversity within the ASF and this month we sent out our first ever Apache Software Foundation Committer Diversity Survey. The committer group was selected because they are a large group that are linked to every Apache project. (<b>NOTE</b>: The ASF currently has 5861 committers across 295 projects). To ensure the confidentiality and privacy of the respondents, the survey is anonymous and completely voluntary. <br />
+ Our survey is currently in progress and thank you to all the committers that have already responded. Ideally we would like to see as many responses as possible so that we can get a clearer picture of how good the ASF is at attracting and welcoming a diverse range of people into its communities. <br />
+ If you would like more information on the survey and why we are capturing this information then please see<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/the_apache_community_development_team">https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/the_apache_community_development_team</a><br /><br /> <b>NOTE:</b> If you are committer and haven't recieved the survey link then please contact our <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">community development mailing list</a><br />
+ The survey closes on 11th December 2016.<br />
+ <h2>FOSDEM 2017</h2>
+ Once again the ASF will be running a booth at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/">FOSDEM</a>. The conference will take place over the weekend of 4th & 5th February 2017 in Brussels. Entrance is free and it has always attracted thousands of attendees so is a great place to talk to people about Apache, its projects and also its communities. As well as the usual list of developer rooms, this year FOSDEM will be featuring a Community DevRoom specifically for community related topics and [...]
+ Volunteers from the Community Development community will be helping manage and run the booth throughout the 2 day conference but we are always happy to have additional help. If you are planning to attend FOSDEM and would like to spend some time on the ASF booth promoting your ASF project then we can organise a specific time for you. Please contact the <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">community development mailing list</a> for more information. <br />
+ <h2>New PMC Member - Sharan Foga</h2>
+ The Apache Community Development PMC is pleased to announce that Sharan Foga has been voted in as a new PMC member. Sharan has been involved in a range of community development activities both on and off the mailing lists. She has actively supported the ASF at conferences such as Apachecon and FOSDEM, and more recently she has been working on developing strategies and initiatives for encouraging diversity within the ASF. Please join us in welcoming Sharan to the team.
+
+
+
+ <h2>ApacheCon North America 2017</h2>
+ ApacheCon North America will be held at the Miami Intercontinental, May 15-19th, 2017. The call for papers is open for the event, which will once again be split into Apache: Big Data, and ApacheCon. You can submit your papers, register, and find more information, at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a> <br />
+ <h2>Contacting Community Development</h2>
+ Please feel free to contact us, follow our events and participate in our discussions on <a href="https://s.apache.org/qdrd">our mailing list</a> <br /><br /> If you want to be kept up to date with all the latest news about what is happening around Community Development please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to dev-subscribe AT community DOT apache DOT org.
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+layout: post
+title: How Apache Projects Use Consensus
+date: '2010-09-21T11:32:28+00:00'
+permalink: how_apache_projects_use_consensus
+---
+<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.2315526243764907" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The Apache Software Foundation exists to provide legal and technological in [...]
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+layout: post
+title: My First Experience Of ApacheCon by Stephen Downie
+date: '2017-05-25T19:45:36+00:00'
+permalink: my-first-experience-of-apachecon
+---
+Let me start with a small introduction of myself. My name is Stephen Downie and I have been working in the world of IT for only 2 months. Tom Barber, an ASF member and committer, recently got in touch and offered me the opportunity to retrain. I have previously worked for the last 20 years in retail and if I’m being honest hated 90% of my time at work, so I thought why not. I knew Tom was very knowledgeable and I had always been very envious of his Facebook posts, it seemed like every we [...]
+
+Anyway, 13th May arrived and our flight was leaving the UK at 10:20am so we set off to the airport. Excited, nervous, anxious were just a few of the emotions I was experiencing at this stage. Check in went smoothly and we were off. We landed mid afternoon Miami time and made our way to the apartment. To make the most of our time away Tom had booked tickets for us to see a baseball game (I guess it’s a must when in the States), we went to the beach and explored Miami. My new life/career i [...]
+
+Tuesday 16th arrived and alarms were set early. We drove to the Intercontinental Hotel, the venue for <a href="http://apachecon.com/" target="_blank"> ApacheCon 2017</a>. The building was huge and I felt very out of place walking through the large automatic doors and stepping on to the escalators. As we approached the first floor I was suddenly at work. <a href="http://sched.co/AghA" target="_blank"> Tom was doing a talk on OODT </a>.so had to join a different line for registration so [...]
+
+The previous evening we had gone through the schedule planner and made an itinerary for me of talks that would be interesting/useful to attend. I would start my day in the Versailles Ballroom to watch the opening Keynotes. Again it struck me that so many people knew each other and were catching up on what had been a year since they last met. The speakers were great and had really got me in the mood for what was to come. I have to mention <a href="https://youtu.be/hFqGg8a6JHo?list=PLbzoR [...]
+<a href="http://sched.co/AghA" target="_blank">OODT 2.0: The Future of Distributed Data Management.</a>The room wasn’t packed but a good 15-20 people turned up and listened to Tom talk about the use of OODT with his work at NASA. I listened and tried to make sense of it but once again it was slightly over my head. After Tom had finished we split up and I was attending a talk on my own (scared!!) I made my way to Biscayne Room to watch Peyman Mohajerian give a talk on <a href="http://sch [...]
+
+It was lunch, I needed to eat, my brain felt overloaded with so much information so we headed out and found a restaurant to eat at. In case you were wondering I ate calamari for the first time, it was lovely (a week of firsts continuing). When we returned to the venue, next up for me was <a href="https://s.apache.org/buM2" target="_blank"> Leveraging Docker for Hadoop Build Automation and Big Data Stack Provisioning with Evan Ye.</a> in the Balmoral Room. For the first time during this [...]
+
+Later Tom suggested I went with him to the the Brickell Room which was part of ApacheCon (everything I had attended was the Big Data side of it so far). <a href="https://youtu.be/Q-zKn4MlUi4?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6pLDCyPxByWQwYTL-JrF5Rp" target="_blank"> Bob Paulin was giving a talk on user groups </a> (something I had attended in my short time in IT) The way he spoke and engaged the attendees was amazing and something I could relate too as I enjoy public speaking and engaging an audience. A [...]
+
+Day 2 went pretty much the same way, a lot of techie talks and then coffee then more techie talks and then food but it was when I attended the talk in Brickell Room with <a href="https://youtu.be/vT-kxmoLs5k?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6pLDCyPxByWQwYTL-JrF5Rp" target="_blank"> Sharan Foga on Committed to The Apache Way </a> , that things started to make a lot of sense to me. As the week had gone on I was feeling like a bit of an intruder in the midst of all these IT geniuses with their talk about c [...]
+
+Day 3 seemed very sedate compared to the first two days as a lot of people had left early for flights. We attended a few interesting talks throughout the day and spent time recapping what my experience had been like. My head was fried and I’m sure i didn’t make a great deal of sense which is why I wanted to write this blog to try and get my thoughts and experiences out there in the hope that it may inspire other people to get involved too. In the last talk we attended with <a href="https [...]
+
+I’d like to say a massive thanks to all that were involved in make ApacheCon 2017 an amazing event and I hope that I will be able to attend the next one. Thanks!
diff --git a/blog/new-apache-mailing-list-for.markdown b/blog/new-apache-mailing-list-for.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: New Apache mailing-list for inter-project communication with a focus on IoT
+ related topics
+date: '2019-07-08T11:46:24+00:00'
+permalink: new-apache-mailing-list-for
+---
+<p>
+There's a lot of magic happening in the IoT sector at the moment.<br />A lot of new projects are appearing and older projects are growing and extending their functionality.<br />We have noticed that it's currently quite difficult to keep track who the players in this field are and what they're up to.<br />So we decided to create a new mailing-list to help improve the communication:</p>
+ <p>iot@apache.org (Archive at: <a href="https://lists.apache.org/list.html?iot@apache.org">https://lists.apache.org/list.html?iot@apache.org</a>)</p>
+ <p>
+We hope this communication-channel will help reduce unnecessary double-work and improve streamlining the projects to work together as good a possible. <br />So if you're involved in projects in the IoT sector, if you want to be involved and haven't found the right project to contribute yet, or if you just want to know what's up, it would be great to see you on this list (Subscribe by sending an email to: iot-subscribe@apache.org)</p>
diff --git a/blog/the-asf-helps-promote-open.markdown b/blog/the-asf-helps-promote-open.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: 'Paving the way for a more diverse open source landscape: the First OSS Contributor
+ Summit in Mexico'
+date: '2019-12-02T20:53:50+00:00'
+permalink: the-asf-helps-promote-open
+---
+<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" id="docs-internal-guid-3dbda2ed-7fff-6723-c8c0-791c50067fbc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I was able to make my first contribution yesterday, and today it was merged. I'm so excited about my first steps in open so [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With these questions in mind and the call to contribute to software that is powering the world's favorite products, the Apache Software Foundation, along with the CNCF, sponsored the [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As reported by many advocacy groups in the past few years, diversity remains a big debt in the tech industry. Only an average of 8.4% of employees in ten of the leading tech companies [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While representation numbers in the creation of software are still looking grim, the use of OSS is growing fast: It is estimated that Cloud and big-data OSS technologies will grow fiv [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The First Summit for Open Source Contributors set out to close this fundamental gap between tech users and its makers. To tackle this problem 135 hours of content were created in Span [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event left us with a lot of hope for the future of diversity and inclusion in open source. Going forward, we hope to continue supporting this summit in Latin America. </span></p>
+ <h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 20pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" id="docs-internal-guid-b45d6c53-7fff-7697-ee44-51c591dea00b"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pictures</span></h1>
+ <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ma [...]
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ha [...]
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ha [...]
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or [...]
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sa [...]
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fi [...]
+ </ul><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video</span>
+ <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
+ <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQy7YqWDbmo" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant [...]
+ </ul>
+ <p> </p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">View more pictures of the event here: </span><a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOd_8EFVS7GHKXucIUo5DU1CBAy-sgY-QXAOWgbDeWyc6Ya1OyhYz5XxGNka2dn0Q?key=eHA3QlRqMW5jSVE3bi1UTFZNUEE4Y3RpSVJPQVVn" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font- [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">View some of the recorded presentations here:</span></p>
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://sg.com.mx/buzz/evento-sg/ccoss-2019" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sg.com.mx/buzz/evento-sg/ccoss-2019</span></a><span s [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Written By: María Cruz, Google Open Source]</span></strong></p>
+ <p> </p>
+ <div><br /></div><span style="color: #000000;"></span> font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">La ASF ayuda a promover la diversidad en código abierto en la Primera Cumbre de Colaboradores de OSS en México
+
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-deco [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Con estas preguntas en mente y el llamado a contribuir al software que está impulsando los productos favoritos del mundo, la Apache Software Foundation, junto a l [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">El evento consistió en dos días de entrenamiento y presentaciones de una selección de proyectos de código abierto, incluidos </span><a href="https://beam.apache.o [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Según lo informado por muchos grupos que promueven el OSS en los últimos años, la diversidad sigue siendo una gran deuda en la industria tecnológica. En promedio, [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Si bien los números de representación en la creación de software lucen sombríos, el uso de OSS está creciendo rápidamente; se estima que las tecnologías OSS de nu [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La Primera Cumbre de Contribuyentes de Código Abierto se propuso cerrar esta brecha fundamental entre los usuarios de tecnología y sus creadores. Para abordar este pr [...]
+ <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Este evento nos dejó con muchas esperanzas para el futuro de la diversidad e inclusión en código abierto. En el futuro, esperamos continuar apoyando esta cumbre e [...]
+ <p> </p>
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+---
+layout: post
+title: The Spirit of Thanksgiving - 2017 China Open Source Conference (COSCon'17)
+date: '2017-11-27T09:24:31+00:00'
+permalink: the-spirit-of-thanksgiving-2017
+---
+<strong>Article written by <a href="http://www.kaiyuanshe.cn" target="external">KAIYUANSHE. </a> (NOTE: A copy of the original article including all photos can be found<a href="https://shimo.im/docs/RxOQEpcG1aMKaZkR" target="external"> here.</a> }</strong>
+
+<strong>Special thanks to Ted Liu, Emily Chen, Biaowei Zhuang, Mabel Li, Rui Li, Jiansheng Li, Sting Chen, Cynthia Xin (KAIYUANSHE COSCon'17 Steering Committee)</strong>
+
+<h2>2017 China Open Source Conference-COSCon'17 successfully concluded</h2>
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/I8AV" alt="community graphic">
+
+2017 China Open Source Annual Conference-COSCon'17 which was held in November 18-19th in Shanghai Jiaotong University Campus concluded successfully. Following the successful holding of the 2015 Apache China Roadshow, and the 2016 China Open Source Conference-COSCon'16, the COSCon'17 was jointly organised and meticulously crafted by KAIYUANSHE, the first ground-up open source alliance in China, the Shanghai Branch of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and the Open Source Cloud Alliance [...]
+
+<h2>1. Event Summary</h2>The conference was attended by a total of 1,108 people on-site, 2,284 participants in the online video broadcast, 5 keynote speeches, 60 gurus delivered 45 speeches, 6 hands-on camps, 5 panel discussions. Notably, there was 50 enthusiastic volunteers from all over China to warmly serve the lecturer and the audience.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/mnCE" alt="community graphic">
+<h2>2. Highlights</h2><h3>Gurus gathered and shared</h3>As the host, Dr. Dawu GU, the chairman of the Shanghai branch of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and the professor of the computer department of Shanghai Jiaotong University, made a welcome speech, and Dr. Hongbao HE, the executive vice chairman of the Open Source Cloud Alliance for Industry (OSCAR). Breathtakingly, three executives from the world leading open source software foundations, including Nuritzi Sanchez, the chairman [...]
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/Xz35" alt="some_text">
+<h3>ASF Challenges</h3>In addition to the above-mentioned gurus, we have also invited 5 native ASF projects (incubation or top-level projects, including CarbonData, Kylin, RocketMQ, Weex, Griffin) to uncover how to be incubated and graduated from the world's top open source community. We also invited Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi (K.K.), the founder of Jenkins, to share "The hackers got to eat".
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/V2f5" alt="conference photo">
+<h3>The Rise of Grassroots</h3>[The rise of grassroots in the Github]: The founders of five well-known open source projects or communities (Beego, Element, Swoole, TiDB, Nuggets) shared their secret of success.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/OOtW" alt="conference photo">
+<h3>The Art of Community</h3>[How to run a technical community] breakout session shared the tips of their community operations.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/EYnY" alt="conference photo">
+<h3>Open Source Governance - Inconvenient truth revealed</h3>KAIYUANSHE's unique positioning, open source governance, and the OSS Goverance session is also a climax with many open source governance and community experts share their experience in a very direct and candid fashion.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/XJ2V" alt="conference photo">
+<h3>A Leading Container Project Announced Open-Sourced</h3>There are many famous open source projects shared their technology inside in the conference. Notably, Alibaba's container technology Pouch project also officially announced open-sourced in this conference.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/NxJv" alt="conference photo">
+More great topics shown in the list below. The audience can find interested topic in our video broadcast platform on demand.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/GALp" alt="speakers and talks">
+<h2>3. In the Know</h2><h3>Press Interview</h3>Niclas Hedhmen from ASF and Kohsuke Kawaguchi (K.K.), founder of Jenkins, were interviewed by InfoQ
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/wVjz" alt="interview photos">
+Niclas Hedhman：<a href="https://s.apache.org/AHde" target="external">What open source project does Apache welcome and more? </a>
+Kohsuke Kawaguchi：How to make a living from open source project and more. (editing by InfoQ)
+<h3>Community Manager Roundtable</h3>How does a healthy community operate? What is the ability of the community to contribute back to the people involved? How to help enterprises benefit from open source? How to help individuals get faster growth? What is the difference between the new generation of Github and the traditional foundation model? The leading local community managers, the new generation community model changers and old hackers got together to explore how to develop a better [...]
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/MlpO" alt="conference photos">
+<h3>The Open Source Night</h3>After a long yet bumper harvest day, get relaxed and connected with old and new friends.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/XRTT" alt="open source night photos">
+At the end of this lovely evening, we presented our special awards to two individuals, Mabel LI and Chunsheng WANG, who have made significant contributions to KAIYUANSHE and the open source communities, with the [Open Source Star] commemorative trophy.
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/Oez9" alt="award photos">
+<h2>4. Special Thanks</h3><h3>Community Partners</h3>KAIYUANSHE has positioned itself as the community of communities, and our missions are to promote open source governance, community collaboration/development, and international bridging. We walk the talks by hosting the first national event on the theme of community management and open source project contribution. 25 domestic and international communities have come together hand-in-hand to make the COSCon'17 possible.
+<h3>Kind greetings from Jim Jagielski</h3>Jim Jagielski, one of the early founder of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), recorded a greeting videos and tweeted for the conference. and the Apache Software Foundation also tweeted!
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/dpxF" alt="Jim photo">
+ <h3>Media Partners</h3>We work with the leading IT media Geekbang Technology/InfoQ China to promote and to report, with ITDKS.com for live video broadcast/replay, with Juejin.im and Linux China on their technical community platform to promote, resulting a total of more than 200,000 participants. Our exclusive registration site Huodongxing has attracted more than 60,000 viewers.
+<h3>Sponsor Partners</h3>We are also very grateful to our sponsors who supported us to make the conference excel.
+<h3>Community</h3> <img src="https://s.apache.org/NJW8" alt="some_text"><h3> Contribution</h3>The conference is concluded, but our journey has just begun. As the conference organizer, we, KAIYUANSHE's directors of the board, were worried about whether the main themes of the conference , i.e. the journey to the successful community management and project contribution, could attract the domestic technology-oriented audience. However, the feedbacks we gathered from the conference audience [...]
+
+Do you want to get the speech slides, shorthand and video playback first-hand (expected to be released November 27)? Please pay special attention to KAIYUANSHE's Wechat public QR-Code shown below. Do you also want to communicate closely with a large number of guru lecturers? Do you want to participate in the colorful community interaction of KAIYUANSHE? Do you wish to cast your sacred vote for the site selection of the 2018 China Open Source Conference? Simply scan the KAIYUANSHE's Wecha [...]
+
+<img src="https://s.apache.org/J9Jt" alt="QR code">
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+---
+layout: post
+title: The Apache Community Development Team Prepares to Send Out its First Diversity
+ Survey
+date: '2016-11-23T21:52:39+00:00'
+permalink: the_apache_community_development_team
+---
+<p>Over the next few weeks the Apache Community Development team will be sending out and running its first ever Apache Software Foundation Committer Diversity Survey. The committer group was selected because they are a significant number of people that are linked to every Apache project. <b>(NOTE</b>: The ASF currently has 5861 committers across 295 projects.)<br /><br />Although there are many aspects to diversity including socio-economic, disability and education etc which may be [...]
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+---
+layout: post
+title: What makes Apache projects different?
+date: '2010-06-03T06:43:05+00:00'
+permalink: what_makes_apache_projects_different
+---
+Sharing a code repository with some other programmers might seem enough to create an open source project; the Apache Software Foundation goes further and focuses on making projects sustainable in the long term, and ensuring that our code is legally clean.
+
+This means that our projects have to follow a (small) number of rules, and a number of best practices have been established over the years.
+
+Here's a quick description of how Apache projects are born and live on - some of the items below are derived from the ASF's bylaws (<a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html</a>), while others are best practices that evolved over time.
+
+Projects enter the ASF via the Incubator, anyone can suggest a new project as described on the Incubator website (<a href="http://incubator.apache.org">http://incubator.apache.org</a>).
+
+A Project Management Committee (PMC) oversees each project on behalf of its users, contributors, committers and the foundation itself.
+
+New committers and PMC members are elected by the PMC based on merit.
+
+Committers and PMC members are not necessarily ASF members, to be members they have to be elected separately (see "roles" in <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html</a>).
+
+Each project has at least one private and one public (development,"dev") mailing list which are the only official communication channels for the PMC members and committers.
+
+Discussions and decisions about people (such as the elections mentioned above) usually happen on the project's private list, but that's not a hard rule, each PMC can decide.
+
+All other decisions happen on the dev list, discussions on the private list are kept to a minimum.
+
+"If it didn't happen on the dev list, it didn't happen" - which leads to:
+
+a) Elections of committers and PMC members are published on the dev list once finalized.
+
+b) Out-of-band discussions (IRC etc.) are summarized on the dev list as soon as they have impact on the project, code or community.
+
+Where possible, decisions are made by consensus. The ASF has voting procedures to help reach this consensus (<a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html</a>).
+
+Releases are created according to the ASF's release rules (<a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html">http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html</a>), and all released software uses the Apache License (<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">http://www.apache.org/licenses/</a>).
+
+A formal PMC vote is required to publish a release. By voting to accept the release, the PMC makes the release an act of the foundation, as opposed to a personal action of the the release manager. This is a very important distinction should any legal issues arise.
+
+Each PMC reports to the ASF's board of directors, usually quarterly. The PMC's report mentions progress made and any problems encountered. Items of particular relevance to the board include community activities,
+software releases, development work and compliance with the ASF's rules and best practices.
+
+Trademarks and logos used by ASF projects belong to the ASF.
+
+<em>Don't hesitate to ask on the community development mailing list (<a href="http://community.apache.org/">http://community.apache.org/</a>) if you have questions about this - and in the meantime, have fun at the ASF, commit early and communicate often!</em>
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+layout: post
+title: Who should use Apache Extras?
+date: '2010-12-20T08:00:00+00:00'
+permalink: who_should_use_apache_extras
+---
+<p>Who should host their projects on <a title="Apache Extras site" href="http://apache-extras.org/" target="_blank">Apache Extras</a>?
+ <br />
+</p>
+<p>Apache Extras is aimed primarily those who are unable or unwilling to licence their code under the Apache License V2, but want to signal their relationship to one or more Apache project community.
+ <br />
+ <br />One example of this is my own Drupal connector for Apache Wookie (Incubating). This needs to be GPL licensed due to the Drupal dependency, but it contains Apache Licensed code as well. Consequently it cannot be hosted at Drupal, nor can it be hosted at the ASF. Now, with Apache Extras, it has a home that is associated with at least one of those organisations.
+</p>
+<p>A second group of projects that may choose to host on Apache Extras are those who wish to manage their projects in a way that is not aligned with our own collaborative consensus based processes.
+</p>
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+layout: post
+title: Why Apache Extras?
+date: '2010-12-15T13:32:47+00:00'
+permalink: why_apache_extras
+---
+All Apache projects use the same pragmatic software license, the Apache
+License v2. However, we recognise that there are other FOSS licences out
+there, some of which are incompatible with the Apache License v2.
+<br /> <br />Code under these licenses cannot be hosted on Apache servers, but people
+sometimes choose to, or are required to, use them.
+<br /> <br />Until the launch of <a title="Apache Extras site" target="_blank" href="http://apache-extras.org">apache-extras</a> these projects had no a single
+home to go to. They were spread across all of the various hosting
+platforms. This made it difficult for communities to cluster around
+related technologies. For us this was a problem since we believe strong
+collaborative communities are the key to successful open source software.
+<br /> <br />Apache Extras provides these projects with a way to clearly signal their
+relationship to one or more Apache project community. This will help
+them attract developer communities to their own projects.