From the Apache Group, a group of individuals that was initially formed in 1995 (to develop the Apache HTTP Server)
Founding members : Brian Behlendorf, Ken Coar, Mark Cox, Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall, Roy T. Fielding, Dean Gaudet, Ben Hyde, Jim Jagielski, Alexei Kosut, Martin Kraemer, Ben Laurie, Doug MacEachern, Aram Mirzadeh, Sameer Parekh, Cliff Skolnick, Marc Slemko, William (Bill) Stoddard, Paul Sutton, Randy Terbush and Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
Origin of ASF : Apache Group
Officially : 'Apache' was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache
Pun : A PAtCHy server
Work on Apache HTTP Server started in 1994
A group of eight developers started working on enhancing the NCSA HTTPd daemon
Became known as the Apache Group.
March 25th 1999 the Apache Software Foundation formed
Management of ASF
Management of the Foundation is overseen by a board of directors
Elected by the ASF membership on an annual basis
Board appoints a set of officers to manage day-to-day operations of the Foundation and oversee ASF projects
Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts (active contributors to the project)
Objectives of ASF
Provide a foundation for open, collaborative software development projects
By supplying hardware, communication, and business infrastructure
Create an independent legal entity to which companies and individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for the public benefit
Provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects
Protect the 'Apache' brand, as applied to its software products, from being abused by other organizations
Apache Software License
Free-software license authored by the ASF
Versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 require preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer
Not a copyleft license
Allows use of the source code for the development of free and open source software as well as proprietary software.
Allows the user of the software the freedom to use the software for any purpose, to distribute it, to modify it, and to distribute modified versions of the software.
Joining ASF
Apache Software Foundation is a meritocracy
Must first be actively contributing to one or more of the Foundation's collaborative projects
New candidates for membership are nominated by an existing member
Put to vote (majority required)
Apache HTTP Server
Commonly referred to simply as Apache
Evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance
Played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web
Since April 1996 Apache has been the most popular HTTP server on the World Wide Web
As of June 2008, Apache served 49.12% of all websites
Apache Projects
HTTP Server: Web server
ActiveMQ: Java Message Service 1.1 (JMS) message broker
Ant: Java-based build tool
APR: Apache Portable Runtime, a portability library written in C
Axis: Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework
Camel: A declarative routing and mediation rules engine which implements the Enterprise Integration Patterns using a Java based domain specific language.
Batik : A pure Java library for SVG content manipulation
FOP : A Java print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO). Supported output formats include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT.
