Overview | Brand |
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Full Metadata Listing: FOSSFoundation.info/foundations/asf Website: https://www.apache.org/ Legal Name: The Apache Software Foundation Location: Delaware, US Nonprofit Status: 501C3 Software Hosted: various Licenses Used: Apache-2.0 IP/Copyright Policy: CLA |
Primary Brand: Apache Other Brand(s): various projects - 200+ Brand Registered?: yes Logo Registered?: no Trademark Policy: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ Trademark Usage Guide: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/guide |
Brand Policy Comments: Consistent policy requires use of full *Apache ProjectName* form, and allows free use of Powered By format.
Governance | Finance |
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Board Size: 9 Board Type: elected Board Listing: https://www.apache.org/foundation/ Description of Membership: elected Bylaws Link: https://www.apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html Number of Paid Employees: 7 |
Funding Sources: sponsors, donors Approximate Budget: 2.1M Budget Listing: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Budget.html Sponsor Listing: https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html Top Tier Sponsors: AWS, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Huawei, Yahoo!, Facebook |
Project Hosting |
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Accepting New Projects?: yes Projects Hosted: 200 Project Governance: The Apache Way, with open and independent governance is required, and the ASF board oversees quarterly project reports directly. Major Projects Hosted: Cassandra, OpenOffice, Lucene, Superset, Airflow Project Listing: https://projects.apache.org Project Services : Core infrastructure, legal, branding, and press services are provided by the ASF to all projects; some level of directed sponsorship under Apache-wide policies is allowed. |
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server –the world’s most popular Web server software. Through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as “The Apache Way,” more than 680 individual Members and 6,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation’s official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cash Store, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Confluent, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, ODPi, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Produban, Red Hat, Serenata Flowers, Target, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit https://www.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
How Individuals Can Get Involved
The Apache Community Development project is here to help newcomers find their way around, learn about how Apache projects work. The Apache Projects Directory lists all the different projects hosted.
How Projects Can Get Involved
Projects or communities wishing to join the ASF should submit a proposal to the Apache Incubator.
How Companies Can Get Involved
As a vendor-neutral organization, the ASF does not allow corporations as entities to directly participate in project governance. The ASF very much appreciates companies that choose to donate new codebases to the Apache Incubator, and to the many Sponsors who donate to help fund Apache-wide operations, as well as a Support Apache call to action.