by Wei Zhou I joined the Apache CloudStack community in 2012 and became a committer in 2013, eventually becoming a PMC (Project Management Committee) member in 2017. My journey to becoming a PMC was both physical and literal, and included several forks in the road. The forks presented themselves in all aspects of my journey […]
by Eric Pugh On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! On July 2nd, 2007, I opened SOLR-284, a ticket for adding content extraction to Solr. A committer on an open source project under the Apache Foundation […]
by Marvin Humphrey I “arrived” at the Apache Software Foundation in 2005, unreasonably angry about a bug in Apache Lucene. By “arrived”, I mean that I sent the first few emails among several thousand I would go on to send over the next 15 years — the ASF didn’t have a physical office where I could […]
by Julián Bruno Creating the Apache Beam firefly was the first opportunity I had to contribute my skills as a designer and illustration artist to an open source project. I didn’t know anybody working in open source until I moved to San Francisco from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I knew about open source software for video […]
