Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At ApacheCon Europe, members of the Apache community commemorated The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s fifteenth anniversary and congratulated the people, projects, initiatives, and organizations that played a role in its success.
Recognized as the leader in community-led Open Source software development, the ASF was established to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open Source innovations "The Apache Way". Reflections on achievements over the past 15 years include:
- ASF @ 15 Statement by Chairman Brett Porter http://s.apache.org/RYD
- Sponsorship and Stewardship by President Ross Gardler http://s.apache.org/oLh
- Community Over Code by Executive Vice President Rich Bowen http://s.apache.org/AQJ
Apache products power half the Internet, manage exabytes of data,
execute teraflops of operations, store billions of objects in
virtually every industry, and enhance the lives of countless users
and developers worldwide. Apache projects power mission-critical
applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing, big
data, Cloud computing, mobile, government, healthcare, research,
infrastructure, development frameworks, foundational libraries, and
many other categories. Beginning with the Apache HTTP Server --the
world's most popular Web server-- Apache software has been at the
forefront of dozens of today's industry-defining technologies and
tools, playing an integral role in nearly every end-user computing
device, from laptops to tablets to mobile phones.
Apache software is so ubiquitous that 50% of the top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache projects. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 has become an industry standard within the Open Source world. The Apache License and open development model are widely recognized as among the best ways to ensure open standards gain traction and adoption. The ASF offers a vendor-neutral space in which to collaborate whilst enabling third parties to pursue almost any for-profit or not-for-profit business model. To date, hundreds of thousands of software solutions have been distributed under the Apache License.
Amazingly, this is achieved by an all-volunteer community comprising 505 individual Members and 4,081 Apache Committers collaborating across six continents. The ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous sponsorship of individual donors and corporate sponsors including Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
"ASF @ 15" Timeline and Highlights follow. Visit http://apache.org/ and @TheASF on Twitter for more information.
Highlights: pre-1999
Brian Behlendorf started collecting patches to be applied to the
last version of the NCSA http server. The Apache Group, consisting
of 8 individuals, traded patches on a mailing list set up for the
purpose. In April of 1995 the first public release of Apache
(version 0.6.2) came out. Apache 1.0 released on December 1, 1995,
and within a year surpassed NCSA as the most-used Web server.
Highlights: 1999
The ASF formally incorporates as a Delaware-based 501(c)(3)
non-profit corporation from The Apache Group on 1 June. Original
directors are: Brian Behlendorf (President), Ken Coar (VP
Conferences), Roy T. Fielding (Chairman), Ben Hyde (VP Apache HTTP
Server Project), Jim Jagielski (Secretary and EVP), Ben Laurie,
Sameer Parekh, Randy Terbush (Treasurer), and Dirk-Willem van
Gulik. New Apache Jakarta and XML Projects join the Apache HTTP
Server Project. Board Committees on ASF Conferences, Licenses, and
Security are formed. Discussions about ASF's role as an Open Source
incubator address fostering new technologies such as Cocoon. The
ASF receives numerous industry awards, including the ACM Software
System Award, the Datamation Product of the Year, and LinuxWorld
Editor's Award. ASF is listed in the Industry Standard's "100
Companies That Matter" and included in the ServerWatch Hall of
Fame.
Highlights: 2000
Perl-Apache Project, as well as Apache PHP, Apache/TCL Project, and
Apache Portable Runtime Project are established. Apache Struts,
Batik, FOP, and Ant undergo "incubation". The ASF draws record
attendance at the second ApacheCon in Orlando (the first-ever
conference was held in San Francisco in 1998), and launches its
first European event in London later that year.
Highlights: 2001
Apache Avalon, Commons, and Jetspeed/Portals undergo "incubation".
Work begins on next version of the Apache License. The fourth
ApacheCon is held in Santa Clara, where the ASF maxim of "Community
Over Code" is widespread and collaborators meet in person for the
very first time. The ASF receives the Internet Service Providers
Association's Internet Industry Awards for "Best Software Supplier"
Apache XML's Xalan-Java 1.2.2 is a finalist in the Best Java-XML
Application category in the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards.
Highlights: 2002
Participation in The ASF booms; its process for community and
collaborative development becomes known as "the Apache Way". New
Board is formed: Greg Stein elected Chairman, Dirk-Willem van Gulik
as President, Randy Terbush as Treasurer (later replaced that year
by Chuck Murko), and Jim Jagielski as Executive Vice
President/Secretary. Apache Jakarta launches sub-project BSF; the
Apache Incubator Project is born: new projects include Apache Ant,
Avalon, DB, Forrest, HC, POI, and TCL. Apache HTTP Server and
Portable Runtime Project Management Committees are reestablished.
New Board Committees on Infrastructure as well as Fundraising are
formed. The ASF participates in the Java Community Process. The
fifth ApacheCon takes place in Las Vegas. The first
community-driven Apache Cocoon GetTogether is held.
Highlights: 2003
"Web 2.0" comes to the ASF; the Apache Web Services Project is
formed. New projects in the Apache Incubator include Directory,
Geronimo, Gump, James, Logging Services, Maven, Pluto,
SpamAssassin, Tapestry, and XML Beans. Perl-Apache Project is
renamed to the Apache Perl Project, and Cocoon becomes a Top Level
Project. The sixth ApacheCon is held in Las Vegas, featuring an
expo exchange with COMDEX. The Apache HTTP Server wins Best Server
Software by Linux Format; Apache Ant wins Software Development
Magazine Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Award, the Java
Pro Readers' Choice Award for Most Valuable Java Deployment
Technology, as well as the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
"Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology". JavaWorld also
awards Apache Xerces-J Editors' Choice for "Best Java XML Tool".
SpamAssassin wins the OSDir Editor's Choice Award. The Apache
License v.1.2 is released; all products of the Foundation are
required to be released under the new license.
Highlights: 2004
ASF Board members are re-elected: Greg Stein as Chairman,
Dirk-Willem van Gulik as President, Chuck Murko as Treasurer, and
Jim Jagielski as Executive Vice President/Secretary. The stable
Apache License v.2.0 is released, and the ASF Contributor License
Agreement (CLA) is expanded to accommodate corporate donations. New
Apache projects in the Incubator include Beehive, Excalibur,
Forrest, Gump, Hivemind, iBatis, Lenya, myFaces, Portals,
SpamAssassin, Struts, wsrp4J (Portals sub-project), Xalan,
XMLBeans, and XML Graphics. The Apache Commons project is
terminated, as well as the Project Management Committee for Avalon.
A New Public Relations Committee is established, and The ASF issues
a formal response regarding alleged JBoss IP infringement in
Geronimo. The PHP project amicably separates from The ASF, granting
all rights and responsibilities pertaining to its codebases to the
PHP Group. ApacheCon returns to Las Vegas for its seventh
conference. Apache Ant wins the Java Developer's Journal "Editors'
Choice Award".
Highlights: 2005
The ASF continues to be the community of choice to spearhead new
innovations through its Incubator. Numerous projects in development
include activeMQ, Apollo, Bridges, Continuum, Derby, Directory,
Felix, Harmony, Roller, stdcxx, Synapse, and Xerces; Apache Lucene
graduates as a Top Level Project. ApacheCon returns to Europe with
the eighth conference held in Stuttgart, Germany, followed by
ApacheCon US in San Diego. Tomcat receives the SD Software
Development Readers' Choice Awards for "Best Open Source Tool";
Software Development Magazine's JOLT! Awards recognize Apache
Jakarta and Tomcat.
Highlights: 2006
A new Board of Directors is elected: Greg Stein and Jim Jagielski
are re-elected as Chairman and Executive Vice President/Secretary
respectively; Sander Striker joins the Board as President, and
Justin Erenkrantz is elected Treasurer. The Incubator matures, with
new projects created to meet growing industry interest in Open
Source solutions for enterprise resource planning and manage
related business processes. Projects undergoing incubation are
Abdera, Archiva, Cayenne, CXF, Hadoop, Harmony, HiveMind,
Jackrabbit, MINA, ODE, OfBIZ, Open JPA, Open EJB, Qpid, Santuario,
Shale, Tapestry, Tiles, and Velocity; Apache Cayenne, OFBiz, and
Tiles graduate to become Top Level Projects later that year. The
Apache Security Team is re-established, a new Testing project is
established to oversee the creation of software related to the
domain of software testing; in addition, and the ASF launches new
Innovation Laboratories for the experimentation of new ideas
without Project bylaws or community building requirements. The ASF
hosts its tenth ApacheCon in Dublin, Ireland, followed by ApacheCon
US in Austin, and launches ApacheCon Asia in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The Foundation establishes the Sponsorship program to help offset
day-to-day operating expenses; donations are accepted by both
individual and corporate contributors. SpamAssassin wins the Linux
New Media Award, and Tapestry was awarded Sun's annual Duke's
Choice Award for outstanding Java product innovation.
Highlights: 2007
The breadth and capability of The ASF is reflected in the largest
changeover its Board members since its incorporation: Jim Jagielski
is elected Chairman, Justin Erenkrantz as President, J. Aaron Farr
as Treasurer, and Sam Ruby as Executive Vice President/Secretary.
New projects continue to germinate, including Buildr, Camel, C++
Standard Library, Pig, Quetzalcoatl, ServiceMix, Synapse, and Tiles
entering the Incubator; Apache ActiveMQ, Commons (Jakarta), Felix,
HttpComponents, ODE, OpenEJB, OpenJPA, POI, Quetzalcoatl, Roller,
ServiceMix, Turbine, and Wicket graduate as Top Level Projects. The
ASF establishes a Legal Affairs Committee to manage legal policies,
as well as a Travel Assistance Committee to provide financial
support to select individuals otherwise unable to attend ApacheCon.
The twelfth ApacheCon is successfully held in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, followed by ApacheCon US in Atlanta.
Highlights: 2008
The ASF re-elects Jim Jagielski, Justin Erenkrantz, and Sam Ruby to
the Board as Chairman, President, and Secretary respectively;
Sander Striker is elected Executive Vice President, and J. Aaron
Farr is Treasurer. HBase, Hive, and Zookeeper enter the Incubator;
Apache Abdera, Archiva, Buildr, Continuum, CouchDB, CXF, Hadoop,
Qpid, and Tuscany become Top Level Projects. The Apache Attic is
established to retire ASF projects that have reached their end of
life through a scalable process. Apache user gatherings continue to
gain popularity, with events hosted by projects that include
Cocoon, Derby, Forrest, Hadoop, Jakarta, OfBIZ, Pig, Wicket, among
others. The fourteenth ApacheCon is held in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, followed by ApacheCon US in New Orleans, where sixty
members of the community participate in voluntourism efforts to
help rebuild the City still suffering from the effects of Hurricane
Katrina. ApacheCon US also marks the expansion of ASF-wide
developer and user community events to include "unconferences" such
as BarCamps, GetTogethers, Symposia, and the first ASF Meet Up in
Beijing. Apache tops the Software Development Times 100 list of
Industry Influencers for the third year running in the category of
Application Servers, The ASF wins its third Member of the Year
prize awarded by the Java Community Process Program Management
Office, Apache SpamAssassin won the InfoWorld "Best Of Open Source
Software" BOSSIE Award, Apache Directory Studio finishes as
runner-up for the Eclipse Community Award's Best Open Source RCP
Application, and barely six months under incubation, Sling wins the
JAX Innovation Award.
Highlights: 2009
The ASF announces Ten Years of Apache; celebrates a decade of
innovation in Open Source software and community development.
Nearly 300 ASF Members collaborate successfully with more than
2,000 Committers; 68 Top Level Projects, 35 initiatives in the
Incubator, and 23 Labs concepts are currently active at the
Foundation. ApacheCon Europe 2009 was held 23-27 March in
Amsterdam, with the Hackathon (face-to-face Apache project-related
collaboration/development with ASF Members and Committers) open to
the public and including another BarCamp. 10th Anniversary
celebrations continued at ApacheCon US 2009, in Oakland 2-6
November, where both the Governor of California and the Mayor of
Oakland congratulated Apache on its success and named 4 November
"Apache Software Foundation Day".
Highlights: 2010
The ASF hits its millionth code commit with a revision milestone
today with a commit by ASF Member Yonik Seeley on behalf of the
Apache Lucene Project. Apache Aries, Avro, Cassandra, Click, ESME,
HBase, Hive, jUDDI, Karaf, Mahout, Nutch, OODT, Pig, Pivot,
Shindig, Shiro, Subversion, Thrift, Tika, Traffic Server, UIMA,
ZooKeeper become Top-level Projects. Alois, Amber, Bean Validation,
Celix, Chukwa, Deltacloud, Gora, Isis, Jena, Kitty, Lucy,
ManifoldCF, Mesos, NPanday, Nuvem, OODT, OpenNLP, SIS, Stanbol,
Wave, Whirr, and Zeta Components entered the Apache Incubator.
Milestone project releases include Cassandra 0.6, Cayenne 3.0, FOP
1.0, Maven 3.0, SpamAssassin 3.3.0, and Tomcat 7.0. Apache
Excalibur, iBatis, Quetzalcoatl, and WSIF Projects were retired to
the Attic. The ASF launches "Apache Extras" (hosted by Google) to
provide a "home-away-from-home" for code associated with Apache
projects. The ASF issued Public Statements about Apache Harmony as
well as Oracle's decision on the Java SE Technology Compatibility
Kit's Field Of Use, and resigns from the Java Community Process
Executive Committee. Shane Curcuru, Doug Cutting, Bertrand
Delacretaz, Roy T. Fielding, Jim Jagielski, Sam Ruby, Noirin
Shirley, Greg Stein, and Henri Yandell have been elected to serve
on the ASF Board of Directors; Geir Magnusson, Jr., is named as
replacement for Henri Yandell. ASF Director Greg Stein awarded
O'Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON. New role of Executive
Assistant has been created and staffed. 30 new ASF Members were
elected this year. ASF Platinum Sponsors are Google, Microsoft, and
Yahoo!; IBM joins Gold Sponsor Hewlett-Packard; Silver Sponsors are
Cloudera, Progress Software and Springsource/VMWare, and Bronze
Sponsors are BlueNog, Intuit, Joost, and Matt Mullenweg. ApacheCon
North America took place in Atlanta, Georgia. BarCampApache in
Sydney, Australia, was the first ASF-backed event to take place in
the Southern Hemisphere.
Highlights: 2011
Apache ACE, Chemistry, Deltacloud, JMeter, Libcloud, River, Whirr
became Top-level Projects. More projects than ever submitted to
become part of the Apache community: Accumulo, Airavata, Ambari,
Any23, AWF, Bigtop, Bloodhound, Cordova, DeltaSpike, DirectMemory,
EasyAnt, Flex, Flume, Giraph, HCatalog, Kafka, Kalumet, Lucene.Net,
MRUnit, ODF Toolkit, OGNL, Oozie, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice,
Rave, S4, and Sqoop entered the Incubator. Apache Alois retired
from the Incubator. Apache Harmony, Jakarta, and Xindice moved to
the Attic. Milestone project releases include Cassandra 0.7 and
1.0, Geronimo v3.0-beta-1, Pivot 2.0, Subversion 1.7.0, Tika 1.0,
and Turbine 4.0-M1. Apache TomEE is certified as Java EE 6 Web
Profile Compatible. Apache UIMA and Hadoop advance data
intelligence and semantic capabilities of Watson, IBM's "Smartest
Machine on Earth" demonstrated in first-ever man vs. machine
competition on Jeopardy! quiz show. Apache Hadoop wins
MediaGuardian's "Innovator of the Year" award. The ASF accepted to
become an Affiliate at the Open Source Initiative. New Executive
Committee is appointed: Doug Cutting as Chair, Greg Stein as Vice
Chair, Jim Jagielski as President, Noirin Plunkett as Executive
Vice President, Sam Ruby as Vice President - Infrastructure, Craig
L Russell as Secretary, Sam Ruby as Assistant Secretary, and Geir
Magnusson, Jr., as Treasurer. The ASF is subpoenaed by the United
Stated District Court to produce documents in Oracle America vs.
Google related to the use of Apache Harmony code in the Android
software platform, and the unsuccessful attempt by Apache to secure
an acceptable license to the Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit.
The ASF issues statement on Apache OpenOffice.org (the first
mature, end-user-facing Apache project) and Open Letter to the Open
Document Format Ecosystem clarifying that its code base was not
pursued by the ASF prior to its acceptance into the Apache
Incubator, and articulating the project's vision within the wider
Open Document Format ecosystem. 42 new ASF Members were elected,
bringing the active membership to 370 individuals and 2,663 Apache
Commiters world-wide. ASF Platinum Sponsors are Google, Microsoft,
and Yahoo!; AMD, Facebook, and Hortonworks join Gold Sponsors
Hewlett-Packard and IBM; PSW Group joins Silver Sponsors Cloudera,
Progress Software and Springsource/VMWare; and Liip AG, Lucid
Imagination, Talend, and WANdisco join Bronze Sponsors BlueNog,
Intuit, Joost, and Matt Mullenweg. ApacheCon North America took
place in Vancouver, Canada, marking the 25th event in the
conference series.
Highlights: 2012
The ASF celebrated the 17th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server
with the release of v2.4; the project maintains its standing as the
world's most popular Web server, powering nearly 400 million sites.
The Apache Incubator continues to gain momentum, with 85 podlings
graduating over the past decade. Apache Accumulo, Airavata, Any23,
Bigtop, BVal, Cordova, Creadur, DirectMemory, Empire-db, Flex,
Flume, Giraph, Gora, Hama, ISIS, Jena, Kafka, Lucene.Net, Lucy,
ManifoldCF, MRUnit, Oozie, OpenNLP, OpenOffice, Rave, SIS, Sqoop,
Stanbol, Steve, Syncope, VCL, Wink, Wookie become Top-level
Projects. Allura, Blur, CloudStack, Crunch, cTAKES, DeviceMap,
Drill, Hadoop Development Tools, Helix, Marmotta, Ripple, Streams,
and Syncope entered the Incbuator. Apache AWF, HISE, Kato, Kitty,
and PhotArk retired from the Incubator. Milestone project releases
include Deltacloud 1.0, Hadoop 1.0, Nutch 2.0, TomEE 1.0, Traffic
Server 3.2, and Wicket 6.0. New Executive Committee is appointed:
Doug Cutting as Chair, Greg Stein as Vice Chair, Jim Jagielski as
President, Ross Gardler as Executive Vice President, Craig L
Russell as Secretary, Chris Mattmann as Treasurer, and Sam Ruby as
Assistant Secretary. ASF Officers that now serve at the direction
of the President are: Vice President, Brand Management; Vice
President, Fundraising; Vice President, Marketing and Publicity;
and Vice President, Conference Planning. The office of Vice
President, Java Community Process is dissolved. 46 new ASF Members
were elected this year. Citrix became an ASF Sponsor, joining
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! at the Platinum level; AMD,
Hortonworks, HP, IBM, and Matt Mullenweg at the Gold level;
GoDaddy, Huawei, and In Motion Hosting joined Basis Technology,
Cloudera, PSW GROUP, SpringSource, and WANdisco at the Silver
level; and Intuit and Twitter joined BlueNog, Digital Primates,
Intuit, Joost, Liip AG SA Ltd, Lucid Imagination, Talend, and Two
Sigma Investments at the Bronze level. The ASF returned to Europe
with the ApacheCon Europe Community Edition in Sinsheim, Germany,
underwritten and hosted by SAP.
Highlights: 2013
Apache Ambari, Bloodhound, Chukwa, Clerezza, CloudStack, Crunch,
cTAKES, Curator, DeltaSpike, Etch, Helix, jclouds, JSPWiki,
Marmotta, Mesos, Oltu, Onami, OpenMeetings, graduate as Top-level
Projects. Aurora, BatchEE, Curator, Falcon, jclouds, Knox,
log4cxx2, MetaModel, MRQL, Olingo, Open Climate Workbench, Phoenix,
Provisionr, Samza, Sentry, Sirona, Spark, Storm, Stratos, Tajo,
Tez, Twill, Usergrid entered the Apache Incubator. Apache
Provisionr retired from the Incubator. Milestone project releases
include Cassandra 1.2 and 2.0, OpenOffice 4.0, and Subversion
1.8.0. Apache Struts 1 announces End-Of-Life, and recommends Struts
2 as successor. Apache C++ Standard Library (STDCXX), ESME, and
XMLBeans moved to the Attic. The ASF issues a statement on Oracle's
Technology Compatibility Kit License. Shane Curcuru, Doug Cutting,
Bertrand Delacretaz, Roy Fielding, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann,
Brett Porter, Sam Ruby, and Greg Stein were elected to the ASF
Board of Directors. The office of Vice President, Conference
Planning, was dissolved; committee was renamed to Events Planning.
36 new ASF Members were elected, bringing the active membership to
468 individuals. ASF Sponsors are Citrix, Facebook, Google,
Microsoft, and Yahoo! at the Platinum level; AMD, Hortonworks, HP,
IBM, and Matt Mullenweg at the Gold level; Basis Technology,
Cloudera, GoDaddy, Huawei, InMotion Hosting, PSW GROUP,
SpringSource, and WANdisco at the Silver level; and BlueNog,
Digital Primates, Intuit, Joost, Liip AG SA Ltd, Lucid Imagination,
Talend, Twitter, and Two Sigma Investments at the Bronze level.
Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) committed to become the provider of
Apache server hosting and bandwidth in Europe. The ASF was accepted
into the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization
for the eighth consecutive year; hundreds of students have been
mentored in "The Apache Way" under the guidance of the ASF
Community Development Project, with many continuing to be long-term
code committers on a variety of Apache projects, as well as some
active program participants elected as ASF Members. ApacheCon North
America took place in Portland, Oregon.
Highlights: 2014
The ASF exceeded 2 Million code commits: the two millionth revision
was by ASF Member Daniel Kulp on behalf of the Apache CXF Project.
The Apache HTTP Server remains the world's leading Web server: the
Netcraft September Web Server Survey exceeded a billion Websites,
stating "Apache truly dominates this market, with more than half of
all active sites choosing to use Apache software". Interest in
Apache's projects continued to boom, accelerating development and
participation by 100% in four years: Apache Allura, Celix, Knox,
Olingo, Open Climate Workbench, Phoenix, Spark, Storm, Stratos,
Tajo, Tez, VXQuery became Top-level Projects. Argus, Brooklyn,
Calcite, DataFu, Flink, HTrace, Ignite, Johnzon, Lens, Parquet,
REEF, Slider, Tamaya, and Taverna entered the Apache Incubator.
Milestone project releases included Cayenne 3.1, CloudStack 4.3,
Log4j 2, SpamAssassin 3.4.0, and Spark 1.0. Apache Click was
retired to the Attic. Apache OpenOffice reached a major adoption
milestone with 100 million downloads. Apache TomEE won a Duke's
Choice and Geek Choice Award; DeltaSpike, dubbed "the Swiss Army
Knife of modern Java EE" won a Duke's Choice Award. The ASF
Celebrated Document Freedom Day, with numerous Apache Projects
supporting standards-based document accessibility and
interoperability. Rich Bowen, Doug Cutting, Bertrand Delacretaz,
Ross Gardler, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann, Brett Porter, Sam
Ruby, and Greg Stein were elected to the ASF Board of Directors.
The ASF boasts 505 active Members and 4,081 Apache Committers. The
ASF Infrastructure team continues to keep the ASF's
multi-datacenter, multi-cloud deployment running 24x7x365 on
multiple continents, distributing terabytes of artifacts per week
and archiving more than 11 million Apache email messages. Apache's
repositories changed greatly with the introduction of Git to the
source code management system four years ago; since then the
original Subversion repository had been decentralized and augmented
with 268 Git repositories, and a robust GitHub presence with 564
different repositories. In addition, the Infrastructure team
launched a new status service that provides extensive information
about the health of the Apache infrastructure and activity within
its projects, as well as a new code signing service for Java,
Windows and Android applications for any Apache project to use to
sign their releases. The ASF provided new "Powered by Apache"
graphical assets for Apache projects, developers, and users to
identify their affiliation with products and initiatives under the
Apache umbrella. The ASF continues to flourish thanks to support
from Platinum Sponsors Citrix, Facebook, Google, Matt Mullenweg,
Microsoft, and Yahoo!; Gold Sponsors Cloudera, Comcast, HP,
Hortonworks, and IBM; Silver Sponsors Budget Direct, Cerner,
Huawei, InMotion Hosting, Pivotal, Produban, and WANdisco; and
Bronze Sponsors Accor, Basis Technology, Bluehost, Cloudsoft
Corporation, Samsung, Talend, and Twitter. The ASF decided to
accept donations using Bitcoin, and received more than 90
transactions within 48 hours of opening its Bitcoin wallet.
ApacheCon North America took place in Denver, Colorado, and
ApacheCon Europe was held in Budapest, Hungary.
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