The Apache Software Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal,
and financial support for the Apache open-source software projects.
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, to enable contributions of intellectual property
and funds on a sound basis, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal
exposure while participating in open-source software projects.
The Apache Software Foundation is a membership-based, non-profit
corporation. 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 | Greg Stein |
| President | Dirk-Willem van Gulik |
| Treasurer | Chuck Murcko |
| Exec. V.P. and Secretary | Jim Jagielski |
| V.P., APR | Cliff Woolley |
| V.P., Apache Conference Planning | Ken Coar |
| V.P., Apache DB | Jason van Zyl |
| V.P., Apache HTTP Server | Ben Hyde |
| V.P., Apache PHP | Rasmus Lerdorf |
| V.P., Apache TCL | David N. Welton |
| V.P., Apache XML | Ted Leung |
| V.P., Jakarta | Sam Ruby |
| V.P., Java Community Process | Geir Magnusson Jr. |
| V.P., Perl-Apache | Doug MacEachern |
| V.P., Apache Commons | Ken Coar |
| V.P., Apache Incubator | Jim Jagielski |
| V.P., Apache Ant | Conor MacNeill |
| V.P., Apache Web Services | Davanum Srinivas |
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.
