March 26, 2020, Apache Software Foundation, as well as volunteer developers, stewards, incubators for 350 Open Source projects, celebrating 21 years of open source leadership!

In fulfilling its mission of providing software for the public good, the Apache Software Foundation community of volunteers has grown from 21 members (who developed the Apache HTTP server) to 765 individual members, 206 Apache project management committees, and 7600+ committers, in ~300 projects, and now there are 200+ million lines of Apache code, valued at $20+ billion.

Apache's revolutionary technologies are used everywhere, powering much of the internet, managing exabytes of data, performing teraflops of operations, and storing trillions of objects in virtually every industry. All Apache projects are available for free, and without licensing fees.
"For the past two decades, the Apache Software Foundation has served as a secure home for independent, community-led collaborative work.

Today, the Apache Software Foundation is the vanguard of Open Source, fostering community projects, large and small, with a set of best-in-class innovations that the world continues to count on." said David Nally, Executive Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation.

As a community-led organization, the Apache Software Foundation is strictly vendor independent. Its independence ensures that no organization, including sponsors of the Apache Software Foundation and those who employ Apache project authors, can control the direction of the project or receive any special privileges.

Community Oriented and Documentary

The Apache Software Foundation's focus on community is so integral to the ideals of Apache that "Community over Code" is a constant principle. Vibrant, diverse communities keep the code in action, but code, no matter how well written, cannot thrive without a community behind it. Members of the Apache community share their thoughts on "Why Apache" in the teaser trailer for "Trillions and Trillions Served", an upcoming documentary about the Apache Software Foundation: https://s.apache.org/Trillions-teaser

Applicable everywhere

Dozens of enterprise-grade Apache projects serve as the foundation for some notable and widely used applications in AI and deep learning, big data, build management, cloud computing, content management, DevOPs, IoT, Edge Computing, servers, and web frameworks . And also among many others.

No other software fund serves the industry with such a wide range of projects. Here are examples of a wide range of applications:

• The second largest Chinese courier SF Express uses Apache SkyWalking;
• Apache Guacamole helps thousands of people, businesses, and universities around the world work securely from home without being tied to a specific device, VPN, or client;
• Alibaba uses Apache Flink to process over 2,5 billion records per second in its product and customer recommendation dashboard (real-time);
• Mission control for the European Space Agency Jupiter spacecraft is provided by Apache Karaf, Apache Maven and Apache Groovy;
• In a British Government Communications Service (GCHQ) application, Gaffer stores and manages petabytes of data using Apache Accumulo, Apache HBase and Apache Parquet;
• Netflix uses Apache Druid to manage a 1,5 trillion row data store to control what users see when they click on the Netflix icon or when they log in from a browser across platforms;
• Uber uses Apache Hudi;
• Boston Children's Hospital uses Apache cTAKES to link phenotypic and genomic data in Precision Link Biobank electronic health records;
• Amazon, DataStax, IBM, Microsoft, Neo4j, NBC Universal, and many more use Apache Tinkerpop for their graph databases and for writing complex crawls;
• The Global Biodiversity Information Facility uses Apache Beam, Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, Spark, and others to aggregate biodiversity data from nearly 1600 institutions and over a million species and nearly 1,4 billion location data freely available for research;
• The European Commission has developed its new API Gateway infrastructure using Apache Camel;
• China Telecom Bestpay uses Apache ShardingSphere to scale 10 billion mobile payment datasets distributed across 30+ applications;
• Apple's Siri uses Apache HBase to fully replicate around the world in 10 seconds;
• The US Navy uses Apache Rya to power smart drones, autonomous small robots, manned unmanned teams, advanced tactical communications, and more.
• As well as hundreds of millions of websites around the world running on the Apache server!

More about dates

In addition to the Apache Software Foundation's 21st Anniversary, the large Apache community is celebrating the Xth Anniversary of the following projects:

• 25 years - Apache HTTP Server
• 21 years old - Apache OpenOffice (in ASF since 2011), Xalan, Xerces
• 20 years - Apache Jakarta, James, mod_perl, Tcl, APR / Portable
  Runtime, Struts, Subversion (in ASF since 2009), Tomcat
• 19 years old - Apache Avalon, Commons, log4j, Lucene, Torque, Turbine, Velocity
• 18 years old - Apache Ant, DB, FOP, Incubator, POI, Tapestry
• 17 years - Apache Cocoon, James, Logging Services, Mavin, Web Services
• 16 years old - Apache Gump, Portals, Struts, Geronimo, SpamAssassin, Xalan, XML Graphics
• 15 years - Apache Lucene, Directory, MyFaces, Xerces, Tomcat

Timeline of all projects can be found at − https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

The Apache Incubator has 45 projects under development including AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cryptography, Deep Learning, Hardware, IoT, Machine Learning, Microservices, Mobile Devices, Operating Systems, Testing, Visualization and many more. other categories. A complete list of projects in the Incubator is available at http://incubator.apache.org/

Support Apache!

The Apache Software Foundation advances the future of open development by providing bandwidth, connectivity, servers, hardware, development environments, legal advice, accounting services, trademark protection, marketing and advertising, educational events, and related administrative support to Apache projects and their communities.
As a private non-profit US charity, ASF is supported by tax-deductible corporate and individual contributions that offset daily operating expenses. To support Apache, visit http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.htm

For more information, visit http://apache.org/ и https://twitter.com/TheASF.

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