How Open Source Can Empower the Global Majority: Insights from UN Workshop

The concept of open source has become a universally accepted development model since its beginnings over a quarter-century ago. That statement was never realized more than walking into the United Nations headquarters earlier this month to attend the second “OSPOs for Good” event. Open source had indeed arrived. Policymaking and Strategy for Building Open Source […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces Schedule and Opens Registration for Community Over Code North America 2024

ASF’s flagship conference helps spur future innovations across ASF projects by uniting both code and non-code contributors  Wilmington, DE, July 23, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced the schedule for its flagship event, Community Over Code […]


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ASF Project Spotlight: Apache SeaTunnel  

Can you tell us a bit about the project?  Apache SeaTunnel is a high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool. The project was originally developed in 2017 and entered the ASF Incubator in December 2021 and became an ASF Top-Level Project in June 2023. When was the project started and why? Originally named Waterdrop, Apache SeaTunnel was created […]


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Why Marketing is Important for Open Source Projects

Even the most brilliant piece of code can struggle to gain traction without effective marketing. Marketing – blogging, social media promotion, and participating in tech events – helps open source projects gain visibility and awareness and also helps build and nurture communities. Marketing activities such as highlighting a project’s technical milestones, sharing end user stories, […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® DataFusion™ 

Fast, extensible query engine for building high-quality data-centric systems in Rust is now a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE, June 11,  2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache® DataFusion™ is now a Top-Level Project (TLP). DataFusion is […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Pekko™

Leading framework for building applications that are concurrent, distributed, resilient and elastic graduates to TLP Wilmington, DE, May 16, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Pekko™ has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces Two Major Releases for Apache® Causeway™

Latest releases of framework enable rapid development of maintainable domain-driven apps, for Java programming language Wilmington, DE, May 7, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 open-source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Causeway 2.0 and 3.0. Apache Causeway is an open source Java framework […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Hive 4.0 

Open source data warehouse software built on top of Apache Hadoop enables data analytics and management at massive scale  Wilmington, DE, April 30, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 open-source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Hive 4.0. For over a decade, Apache Hive […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers and Schedule for Community Over Code Europe

Flagship event for ASF covers breadth of topics impacting the open source community from big data and search to Internet of Things  Wilmington, DE, April 29, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 open source projects and initiatives, today announced the keynotes and schedule for […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Celeborn 

The intermediate data service for big data computing engines has graduated from incubation Wilmington, DE, April 23, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Celeborn has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project (TLP). […]


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ASF Project Spotlight: Apache AGE 

Can you tell us a bit about the project?Apache A Graph Extension (AGE) is a PostgreSQL extension that provides graph database functionality. The project was originally developed in 2019 as an extension to AgensGraph, Bitnine Global’s multi-model database fork of PostgreSQL. Apache AGE entered the Apache Incubator in April 2020 and became an Apache Top-Level […]


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Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Paimon 

A table format for batch and stream processing, Apache Paimon has graduated from the Apache Incubator Wilmington, DE, April 16, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Paimon has graduated from incubation and is now […]


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Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 59 New Members

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on 20 March 2024: Jim Apple, Michael Bien, Nicolò Boschi, Francis Chuang, Cédric Damioli, Brian Demers, Hao Ding, Lukasz Dywicki, Arnout Engelen, Siyuan Feng, Jonathan Gallimore, Pedro Galvan, Jun Gao, Charles Givre, Andrew Grove, G.W. Haywood, […]


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Open Source Community Unites to Build CRA-Compliant Cybersecurity Processes

By Dirk-Willem van Gulik, VP of Public Affairs Cybersecurity is a central topic for governments around the world. The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduced rules on how software should be developed, tested, audited and supported to ensure more secure software. Because open source software underpins today’s global digital infrastructure, this has a profound […]


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Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 25 Years 

Development history spans the launch of the most popular HTTP client on the web to some of the most prolific modern-day technologies in big data, search, IoT, and cloud computing  Wilmington, DE, March 25, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects […]


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First-Time ASF Contributors Fix Bugs for ASF Projects, Improving OSS Quality, Security, and Usability

Reporting, discussing, and resolving bugs in open source software is a frequent entry point for new contributors to engage and collaborate with a community around an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project. Bug fixing is fundamental to software development; it is crucial in helping improve open source software’s quality, security, and usability. It also builds trust […]


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ASF Project Spotlight: Apache Wicket 

Can you tell us a bit about the project?Apache Wicket is a component-oriented web framework for Java. Originally started by Jonathan Lock in 2004, Wicket became an Apache top-level project in June 2007. As of 2024, we released Apache Wicket v10 and it’s available for download. What technology problem are you solving?As a component-oriented framework, […]


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