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 was incorporated in 1999 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. A more detailed explanation of How the ASF works in terms of day to day operations is available, and the Apache Community Development project's goal is to help newcomers learn more about the Apache Software Foundation.
Current officers of The Apache Software Foundation:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Doug Cutting |
| Vice Chairman | Greg Stein |
| President | Jim Jagielski |
| Exec. V.P | Nóirín Plunkett |
| Treasurer | Sam Ruby |
| Secretary | Craig Russell |
| Assistant Secretary | Sam Ruby |
| V.P., Brand Management | Shane Curcuru |
| V.P., Community Development | Ross Gardler |
| V.P., Conference Planning | Nick Burch |
| V.P., Fundraising | Serge Knystautas |
| V.P., Infrastructure | Sam Ruby |
| 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 |
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Apache Abdera | Ant Elder |
| V.P., Apache Accumulo | Billie Rinaldi |
| V.P., Apache ACE | Marcel Offermans |
| V.P., Apache ActiveMQ | Hiram Chirino |
| V.P., Apache Ant | Conor MacNeill |
| V.P., Apache APR | Jeff Trawick |
| V.P., Apache Archiva | Maria Odea Ching |
| V.P., Apache Aries | Jeremy Hughes |
| V.P., Apache Attic | Gianugo Rabellino |
| V.P., Apache Avro | Scott Carey |
| V.P., Apache Axis | Andreas Veithen |
| V.P., Apache Buildr | Alex Boisvert |
| V.P., Apache BVal | Matt Benson |
| V.P., Apache C++ Standard Library | Martin Sebor |
| V.P., Apache Camel | Christian Müller |
| V.P., Apache Cassandra | Jonathan Ellis |
| V.P., Apache Cayenne | Andrus Adamchik |
| V.P., Apache Chemistry | Florian Müller |
| V.P., Apache Click | Malcolm Edgar |
| V.P., Apache Cocoon | Simone Tripodi |
| V.P., Apache Commons | Luc Maisonobe |
| V.P., Apache Continuum | Emmanuel Venisse |
| V.P., Apache CouchDB | Jan Lehnardt |
| V.P., Apache Creadur | Robert Burrell Donkin |
| V.P., Apache CXF | Dan Kulp |
| V.P., Apache DB | Kristian Waagan |
| V.P., Apache Deltacloud | David Lutterkort |
| V.P., Apache Directory | Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot |
| V.P., Apache Empire-db | Francis De Brabandere |
| V.P., Apache ESME | Richard Hirsch |
| V.P., Apache Felix | Richard S. Hall |
| V.P., Apache Forrest | David Crossley |
| V.P., Apache Geronimo | Kevan Miller |
| V.P., Apache Gora | Lewis John McGibbney |
| V.P., Apache Gump | Stefan Bodewig |
| V.P., Apache Hadoop | Arun Murthy |
| V.P., Apache HBase | Michael Stack |
| V.P., Apache Hive | John V. Sichi |
| V.P., Apache HttpComponents | Asankha Perera |
| V.P., Apache HTTP Server | Eric Covener |
| V.P., Apache Incubator | Jukka Zitting |
| V.P., Apache Jackrabbit | Michael Dürig |
| V.P., Apache James | Norman Maurer |
| V.P., Apache Jena | Andy Seaborne |
| V.P., Apache JMeter | Sebastian Bazley |
| V.P., Apache jUDDI | Kurt Stam |
| V.P., Apache Karaf | Jean-Baptiste Onofré |
| V.P., Apache Labs | Tim Williams |
| V.P., Apache Lenya | Richard Frovarp |
| V.P., Apache Libcloud | Tomaz Muraus |
| V.P., Apache Logging Services | Curt Arnold |
| V.P., Apache Lucene | Simon Willnauer |
| V.P., Apache Lucy | Peter Karman |
| V.P., Apache Mahout | Jeff Eastman |
| V.P., Apache Maven | John Casey |
| V.P., Apache MINA | Niklas Gustavsson |
| V.P., Apache MyFaces | Gerhard Petracek |
| V.P., Apache Nutch | Julien Nioche |
| V.P., Apache ODE | Tammo van Lessen |
| V.P., Apache OFBiz | Jacopo Cappellato |
| V.P., Apache OODT | Chris A. Mattmann |
| V.P., Apache OpenEJB | David Blevins |
| V.P., Apache OpenJPA | Pinaki Poddar |
| V.P., Apache OpenNLP | Jörn Kottmann |
| V.P., Apache OpenWebBeans | Gurkan Erdogdu |
| V.P., Apache PDFBox | Andreas Lehmkühler |
| V.P., Apache Perl | Philippe Chiasson |
| V.P., Apache Pig | Daniel Dai |
| V.P., Apache Pivot | Sandro Martini |
| V.P., Apache POI | Yegor Kozlov |
| V.P., Apache Portals | David Sean Taylor |
| V.P., Apache Qpid | Carl Trieloff |
| V.P., Apache Rave | Matt Franklin |
| V.P., Apache River | Tom Hobbs |
| V.P., Apache Roller | Dave Johnson |
| V.P., Apache Santuario | Colm O hEigeartaigh |
| V.P., Apache ServiceMix | Gert Vanthienen |
| V.P., Apache Shindig | Paul Lindner |
| V.P., Apache Shiro | Les Hazlewood |
| V.P., Apache Sling | Carsten Ziegeler |
| V.P., Apache SpamAssassin | Kevin McGrail |
| V.P., Apache Sqoop | Arvind Prabhakar |
| V.P., Apache Struts | Rene Gielen |
| V.P., Apache Subversion | Greg Stein |
| V.P., Apache Synapse | Paul Fremantle |
| V.P., Apache Tapestry | Howard Lewis Ship |
| V.P., Apache Tcl | David N. Welton |
| V.P., Apache Thrift | Bryan Duxbury |
| V.P., Apache Tika | Chris A. Mattmann |
| V.P., Apache Tiles | Greg Reddin |
| V.P., Apache Tomcat | Mladen Turk |
| V.P., Apache Traffic Server | Leif Hedstrom |
| V.P., Apache Turbine | Thomas Vandahl |
| V.P., Apache Tuscany | Luciano Resende |
| V.P., Apache UIMA | Marshall Schor |
| V.P., Apache Velocity | Nathan Bubna |
| V.P., Apache Web Services | Glen Daniels |
| V.P., Apache Whirr | Tom White |
| 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 | Chris Bowditch |
| V.P., Apache ZooKeeper | Mahadev Konar |
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.