The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.
Formerly known as the Apache Group, the Foundation has been incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers. Individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software development, through sustained participation and contributions within the Foundation's projects, are eligible for membership in the ASF. An individual is awarded membership after nomination and approval by a majority of the existing ASF members. Thus, the ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves -- the people collaborating within its projects.
The ASF members periodically elect a Board of Directors to manage the organizational affairs of the Foundation, as accorded by the ASF Bylaws. The Board, in turn, appoints a number of officers to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. A number of public records of our operation are made available to the community.
Current officers of The Apache Software Foundation:
| Chairman | Jim Jagielski |
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| President | Justin Erenkrantz |
| Treasurer | Geir Magnusson Jr. |
| Assistant Treasurer | J. Aaron Farr |
| Secretary | Sam Ruby |
| Assistant Secretary | Craig Russell |
| Exec. V.P | Sander Striker |
| V.P., Brand Management | Shane Curcuru |
| V.P., Conference Planning | Nóirín Shirley |
| V.P., Fundraising | Serge Knystautas |
| V.P., Infrastructure | Philip M. Gollucci |
| V.P., Java Community Process | Geir Magnusson Jr. |
| V.P., Legal Affairs | Sam Ruby |
| V.P., Marketing and Publicity | Sally Khudairi |
| V.P., Travel Assistance | Gavin McDonald |
| V.P., W3C Relations | Sam Ruby |
| V.P., Apache Abdera | Ant Elder |
| V.P., Apache ActiveMQ | Hiram Chirino |
| V.P., Apache Ant | Conor MacNeill |
| V.P., Apache APR | Bojan Smojver |
| V.P., Apache Archiva | Maria Odea Ching |
| V.P., Apache Attic | Henri Yandell |
| V.P., Apache Beehive | Eddie O'Neil |
| V.P., Apache Buildr | Alex Boisvert |
| V.P., Apache C++ Standard Library | Martin Sebor |
| V.P., Apache Camel | Hadrian Zbarcea |
| V.P., Apache Cayenne | Andrus Adamchik |
| V.P., Apache Cocoon | Vadim Gritsenko |
| V.P., Apache Commons | Phil Steitz |
| V.P., Apache Continuum | Emmanuel Venisse |
| V.P., Apache CouchDB | Damien Katz |
| V.P., Apache CXF | Dan Kulp |
| V.P., Apache DB | Rick Hillegas |
| V.P., Apache Directory | Alex Karasulu |
| V.P., Apache Excalibur | Carsten Ziegeler |
| V.P., Apache Felix | Richard S. Hall |
| V.P., Apache Forrest | David Crossley |
| V.P., Apache Geronimo | Kevan Miller |
| V.P., Apache Gump | Stefan Bodewig |
| V.P., Apache Hadoop | Owen O'Malley |
| V.P., Apache Harmony | Tim Ellison |
| V.P., Apache HttpComponents | Erik Abele |
| V.P., Apache HTTP Server | William A. Rowe Jr. |
| V.P., Apache iBATIS | Clinton Begin |
| V.P., Apache Incubator | Noel J. Bergman |
| V.P., Apache Jackrabbit | Jukka Zitting |
| V.P., Apache Jakarta | Rahul Akolkar |
| V.P., Apache JAMES | Norman Maurer |
| V.P., Apache Labs | Bernd Fondermann |
| V.P., Apache Lenya | Richard Frovarp |
| V.P., Apache Logging Services | Curt Arnold |
| V.P., Apache Lucene | Grant Ingersoll |
| V.P., Apache Maven | Brian Fox |
| V.P., Apache MINA | Julien Vermillard |
| V.P., Apache MyFaces | Matthias Wessendorf |
| V.P., Apache ODE | Matthieu Riou |
| V.P., Apache OFBiz | David Jones |
| V.P., Apache OpenEJB | David Blevins |
| V.P., Apache OpenJPA | Craig Russell |
| V.P., Apache OpenWebBeans | Gurkan Erdogdu |
| V.P., Apache PDFBox | Andreas Lehmkühler |
| V.P., Apache Perl | Philippe Chiasson |
| V.P., Apache POI | Nick Burch |
| V.P., Apache Portals | David Sean Taylor |
| V.P., Apache Qpid | Carl Trieloff |
| V.P., Apache Quetzalcoatl | Gregory Trubetskoy |
| V.P., Apache Roller | Dave Johnson |
| V.P., Apache Santuario | Raul Benito |
| V.P., Apache ServiceMix | Guillaume Nodet |
| V.P., Apache Sling | Felix Meschberger |
| V.P., Apache SpamAssassin | Daryl C. W. O'Shea |
| V.P., Apache Struts | Martin Cooper |
| V.P., Apache Synapse | Paul Fremantle |
| V.P., Apache Tapestry | Howard Lewis Ship |
| V.P., Apache TCL | David N. Welton |
| V.P., Apache Tiles | Greg Reddin |
| V.P., Apache Tomcat | Mladen Turk |
| V.P., Apache Turbine | Scott Eade |
| V.P., Apache Tuscany | Ant Elder |
| V.P., Apache Velocity | Henning Schmiedehausen |
| V.P., Apache Web Services | Glen Daniels |
| V.P., Apache Wicket | Martijn Dashorst |
| V.P., Apache Xalan | David Bertoni |
| V.P., Apache Xerces | Michael Glavassevich |
| V.P., Apache XML | Gianugo Rabellino |
| V.P., Apache XMLBeans | Cezar Andrei |
| V.P., Apache XML Graphics | Simon Pepping |
The Foundation is a collaborative project of the ASF. Our goal is to build and sustain the literal foundation upon which our open-source software projects are based. Like the other projects, we will need help to achieve this goal, and several groups have already contributed their time and effort to good effect. However, it is often difficult to find volunteers to perform the essential grunge work behind the scenes. We are in the process of putting together a support organization, using funds contributed by the Apache community, that will provide the administrative assistance needed to keep the projects moving at full steam.
