3. The mission of the
Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) is to
provide software for the
public good. We do this
by providing services and
support for many for like-
minded software project
communities of
individuals.
4. Act in the best
interest of their
shareholders,
customers and
employees.
7. • Develop non-differentiating features
• Promote the core technology
• Build the Apache brand
• Build the project brands
• Improve relationships among like-minded people
• Be charitable
• Build user base for Apache projects
8. • Ability to direct funds to projects I care
about
• Better ability to promote the brand to
users, press and analysts
• Help make it easier for our business
partners to get involved
• Make us all successful
9. • Host events
• Create promotional giveaways (free t-shirts)
• Help with social media and PR
• Provide travel scholarships
• Hire Interns
• Create goodwill
• Create jobs for Apache committers
• Sponsor the ASF and ASF events
10.
11.
12. • Members, PMC boards, committers ask the ASF board to help
improve the projects viability
• Find a way for companies to help your project and make sure to be
consistent with the Apache Way TM
• If you ask for help make it clear what you want and why I should
care
• If you take the help make sure you treat our resources the same
way you’d treat your own personal resources
13. And I work on open source at Citrix.And I work on open source at Citrix.
http://open.citrix.comhttp://open.citrix.com
Thank You
Notas do Editor
My name is Mark Hinkle and I work on open source at Citrix.
We are active in the Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing Community. (www.cloudstack.org)
The Linux Foundation’s Xen Project (the open source hypervisor) and Open Daylight projects. (www.xenproject.org and www.opendaylight.org)
We also operate XenServer as an open source project as well. (www.xenserver.org)