1. The
Apache
Software Foundation
h t t p : / / w w w . a p a c h e . o r g /
Apache Meet Up
Beijing 2008
Justin Erenkrantz
President
The Apache Software Foundation
jerenkrantz@apache.org

2. WELCOME!
歡迎

3. Why should I pay attention?
President, The Apache Software Foundation
Committer to Apache HTTP Server since 2001
(also a full committer on Subversion)
Completing Ph.D. at UC Irvine
Senior Software Engineer, Joost
More at http://www.erenkrantz.com/
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4. Apache Meet Up Beijing
10:00 - Welcome / About Apache - Justin Erenkrantz
10:30 - Open Source in China - Professor Lu Shouqun
11:00 - Integration of Apache Servicemix and Apache CXF -
Freeman Fang
12:00 - Riding Apache Camel - Willem Jiang
13:30 - Apache Discussion Panel - J. Aaron Farr
14:00 - OpenSolaris, Apache, MySQL, PHP - Cao Xiping
14:30 - Apache and OpenSolaris - Cao Xiping
15:00 - Develop JVM with Apache Harmony - Xiao-Feng Li
16:00 - Firefox in China - Li Gong
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5. BarCamp Beijing
Scheduling starts around 10am tomorrow
Come with ideas for discussions!
Discussions should last 30 minutes
More information tomorrow morning...
Come with ideas for discussions!
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6. Quick Poll
How many of you use Apache software?
Written code that uses Apache software?
Filed an issue in our issue trackers?
Subscribed to our mailing lists?
Posted to the mailing lists?
How many committers do we have here?
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7. Development Administrative
Users
Patchers
Contributors
Committers
PMC Members
Members
Officers
Board
“Hierarchies”

8. The Apache Software Foundation
Formed out of the Apache Group
Needed a more formal and legal entity
The Apache Software Foundation created
in April/June 1999 as a US non-profit
Governed by members
Today: ...more than just the web server!
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9. Quiz time
How many Apache projects are there?
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10. Seventy (!!) ASF Projects
Abdera
ActiveMQ
Ant
APR
Archiva
Attic
Beehive
Buildr
C++ Std. Library
Cayenne
Cocoon
Commons
Conf. Planning
Continuum
CouchDB
CXF
DB
Directory
Excalibur
Felix
Forrest
Geronimo
Gump
Hadoop
Harmony
HiveMind
HttpComponents
HTTP Server
iBATIS
Incubator
Jackrabbit
Jakarta
JAMES
Labs
Lenya
Logging
Lucene
Maven
MINA
MyFaces
ODE
OFBiz
OpenEJB
OpenJPA
Apache mod_perl
POI
Portals
Qpid
Quetzalcoatl
Roller
Santuario
ServiceMix
Shale
SpamAssassin
Struts
Synapse
Tapestry
Apache Tcl
Tiles
Tomcat
Turbine
Tuscany
Velocity
Web Services
Wicket
Xalan
Xerces
XML
XML Graphics
XMLBeans
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11. Vital ASF Stats
270 members of the foundation
(more to come next week!)
70 Top-level projects (TLPs)
~32 Incubator podlings
Tons of committers (literally)
Over 1920 people
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12. Vision for the Foundation
Policy firmly in the hands of the members
No developers are paid by the ASF
Help volunteers - not replace them
Acquire help where needed: legal,
infrastructure, press, conferences, etc.
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13. Apache Sponsorship Program
Platinum Sponsors:
Google* , Yahoo! and Microsoft
Gold Sponsor: HP*
Silver Sponsors: SpringSource*, Progress
Bronze Sponsors: Airplus International, Matt
Mullenweg, Tetsuta Kitahata*, Two Sigma
Investments, BlueNog, Intuit
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(*== charter sponsors)

14. Outreach projects
Travel Assistance Committee
Supported 6 attendees to ACUS 2008
Target of 20 attendees for ACEU 2009
Google Summer of Code
Been involved since beginning
23 students mentored this year!
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15. Upcoming events
ApacheCon Europe
Amsterdam - March 23-27, 2009
ApacheCon US
Oakland, CA - November 2-6, 2009
What should future Apache events in Asia
look like? Where? (BarCamp session!)
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16. Thanks to sponsors!
Apache Meet Up Beijing and BarCamp
Beijing is brought to you by:
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Many thanks to: J. Aaron Farr, Nóirín Shirley,
and Stone Circle Productions.

17. Thanks! 謝謝!
Questions?
Feel free to talk to me over the next two days
or send me an email at:
jerenkrantz@apache.org