Community-led development "The Apache Way"
Established in 1999, the ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors. Our all-volunteer board oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software.
The ASF provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that limits potential legal exposure for our project committers. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 850 individual Members and 8,200 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software that benefits millions of users worldwide: projects distribute thousands of software solutions under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon (the Foundation's official user conference), trainings, and other events.
Formerly known as the Apache Group, the ASF was incorporated in 1999 as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers. Individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software development, through sustained participation and contributions within the Foundation's projects, are eligible for membership in the ASF. An individual receives membership after nomination and approval by a majority of the existing ASF members. Thus, the ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves: the people collaborating within its projects.
The ASF members periodically elect a Board of Directors to manage the organizational affairs of the Foundation, following the ASF Bylaws. The Board, in turn, appoints a number of officers to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. Public records of our operations are available to the community. A more detailed explanation of How the ASF works in terms of day to day operations is available, and the Apache Community Development project's goal is to help newcomers learn more about the Apache Software Foundation.
Project Management Committees (PMCs), made up of individuals who have shown merit and leadership within ASF projects, govern those projects. There are detailed descriptions of ASF and project governance models.
Since the Foundation is a Delaware membership corporation, Apache Members are like shareholders in the legal corporation. Members vote to elect the Board of Directors and may propose new Member candidates at Annual Members' Meetings. Members have a number of rights and responsibilities documented in our Governance guide.
Note that Apache Members have a role with respect to the ASF as a corporation, as defined in the ASF's bylaws. This is separate from membership in our many Apache Project Management Committees, who are only responsible for development and community management in their individual project.
The membership of the ASF elects the nine-member board to run the foundation, to set policy, and to ensure it is carried out. The directors of the board are:
| Bertrand Delacretaz | Roy T. Fielding | Sharan Foga |
| Justin Mclean | Sam Ruby | Craig L Russell |
| Roman Shaposhnik | Sander Striker | Sheng Wu |
The Board has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| Board Chair | Sander Striker |
| Vice Chair | Shane Curcuru |
| President | David Nalley |
| Exec. V.P | Ruth Suehle |
| Treasurer | Myrle Krantz |
| Assistant Treasurer | Trevor Grant |
| Secretary | Matt Sicker |
| Assistant Secretary | Craig L Russell |
| V.P., Legal Affairs | Roman Shaposhnik |
| Assistant V.P., Legal Affairs | Justin Mclean |
| V.P., Security | Mark J. Cox |
| V.P., Data Privacy | Christian Grobmeier |
| V.P., W3C Relations | Andy Seaborne |
The President has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Brand Management | Mark Thomas |
| V.P., Conferences | Rich Bowen |
| V.P., Diversity and Inclusion | Katia Rojas |
| V.P., Fundraising | Daniel Ruggeri |
| V.P., Infrastructure | David Nalley |
| V.P., Marketing and Publicity | Sally Khudairi |
| V.P., Travel Assistance | Gavin McDonald |
| Infrastructure Administrator | Greg Stein |
VP, Fundraising has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Sponsor Relations | Sally Khudairi |
The Board has appointed the following Vice Presidents to chair the PMCs of each Apache project:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Apache Accumulo | Ed Coleman |
| V.P., Apache ActiveMQ | Bruce Snyder |
| V.P., Apache Airavata | Suresh Marru |
| V.P., Apache Airflow | Bolke de Bruin |
| V.P., Apache Allura | Dave Brondsema |
| V.P., Apache Ambari | Jayush Luniya |
| V.P., Apache Ant | Jan Matèrne |
| V.P., Apache Any23 | Lewis John McGibbney |
| V.P., Apache APISIX | Ming Wen |
| V.P., Apache Archiva | Olivier Lamy |
| V.P., Apache Aries | Christian Schneider |
| V.P., Apache Arrow | Wes McKinney |
| V.P., Apache AsterixDB | Till Westmann |
| V.P., Apache Atlas | Madhan Neethiraj |
| V.P., Apache Attic | Herve Boutemy |
| V.P., Apache Avro | Ismaël Mejía |
| V.P., Apache Axis | Robert Lazarski |
| V.P., Apache Bahir | Luciano Resende |
| V.P., Apache Beam | Kenneth Knowles |
| V.P., Apache Bigtop | Kengo Seki |
| V.P., Apache Bloodhound | Gary Martin |
| V.P., Apache BookKeeper | Sijie Guo |
| V.P., Apache Brooklyn | Geoff Macartney |
| V.P., Apache Buildr | Antoine Toulme |
| V.P., Apache BVal | Matt Benson |
| V.P., Apache Calcite | Haisheng Yuan |
| V.P., Apache Camel | Andrea Cosentino |
| V.P., Apache CarbonData | Liang Chen |
| V.P., Apache Cassandra | Nate McCall |
| V.P., Apache Cayenne | Michael Gentry |
| V.P., Apache Celix | Pepijn Noltes |
| V.P., Apache Chemistry | Florian Müller |
| V.P., Apache Clerezza | Hasan Hasan |
| V.P., Apache CloudStack | Gabriel Beims Bräscher |
| V.P., Apache Cocoon | Cédric Damioli |
| V.P., Apache Commons | Gary D. Gregory |
| V.P., Apache Community Development | Swapnil Mane |
| V.P., Apache Cordova | Jesse MacFadyen |
| V.P., Apache CouchDB | Jan Lehnardt |
| V.P., Apache Creadur | Philipp Ottlinger |
| V.P., Apache cTAKES | Pei J Chen |
| V.P., Apache Curator | Enrico Olivelli |
| V.P., Apache CXF | Daniel Kulp |
| V.P., Apache Daffodil | Mike Beckerle |
| V.P., Apache DataFu | Eyal Allweil |
| V.P., Apache DataSketches | Lee Rhodes |
| V.P., Apache DB | Bryan Pendleton |
| V.P., Apache DeltaSpike | Mark Struberg |
| V.P., Apache Directory | Shawn McKinney |
| V.P., Apache DolphinScheduler | Lidong Dai |
| V.P., Apache Drill | Charles Givre |
| V.P., Apache Druid | Gian Merlino |
| V.P., Apache Dubbo | Ian Luo |
| V.P., Apache ECharts | Wenli Zhang |
| V.P., Apache Empire-db | Rainer Döbele |
| V.P., Apache Felix | Karl Pauls |
| V.P., Apache Fineract | Awasum Yannick |
| V.P., Apache Flex | Olaf Krüger |
| V.P., Apache Flink | Stephan Ewen |
| V.P., Apache Flume | Balázs Donát Bessenyei |
| V.P., Apache Fluo | Keith Turner |
| V.P., Apache FreeMarker | Dániel Dékány |
| V.P., Apache Geode | Dan Smith |
| V.P., Apache Geronimo | Romain Manni-Bucau |
| V.P., Apache Giraph | Dionysios Logothetis |
| V.P., Apache Gobblin | Abhishek Tiwari |
| V.P., Apache Gora | Kevin Ratnasekera |
| V.P., Apache Griffin | William Guo |
| V.P., Apache Groovy | Paul King |
| V.P., Apache Guacamole | Mike Jumper |
| V.P., Apache Gump | Stefan Bodewig |
| V.P., Apache Hadoop | Wei-Chiu Chuang |
| V.P., Apache HAWQ | Lei Chang |
| V.P., Apache HBase | Duo Zhang |
| V.P., Apache Helix | Kishore Gopalakrishna |
| V.P., Apache Hive | Ashutosh Chauhan |
| V.P., Apache HTTP Server | Joe Orton |
| V.P., Apache HttpComponents | Michael Osipov |
| V.P., Apache Hudi | Vinoth Chandar |
| V.P., Apache Iceberg | Ryan Blue |
| V.P., Apache Ignite | Dmitry Pavlov |
| V.P., Apache Impala | Jim Apple |
| V.P., Apache Incubator | Justin Mclean |
| V.P., Apache IoTDB | Xiangdong Huang |
| V.P., Apache Isis | Johan Doornenbal |
| V.P., Apache Jackrabbit | Marcel Reutegger |
| V.P., Apache James | Benoit Tellier |
| V.P., Apache jclouds | Andrew Gaul |
| V.P., Apache Jena | Andy Seaborne |
| V.P., Apache JMeter | Bruno (Milamber) Demion |
| V.P., Apache Johnzon | Romain Manni-Bucau |
| V.P., Apache Joshua | Tommaso Teofili |
| V.P., Apache JSPWiki | Juan Pablo Santos |
| V.P., Apache jUDDI | Alex O'Ree |
| V.P., Apache Juneau | James Bognar |
| V.P., Apache Kafka | Jun Rao |
| V.P., Apache Karaf | Jean-Baptiste Onofré |
| V.P., Apache Kibble | Sharan Foga |
| V.P., Apache Knox | Larry McCay |
| V.P., Apache Kudu | Adar Dembo |
| V.P., Apache Kylin | Shao Feng Shi |
| V.P., Apache Libcloud | Tomaž Muraus |
| V.P., Apache Logging Services | Matt Sicker |
| V.P., Apache Lucene | Michael Sokolov |
| V.P., Apache Lucene.Net | Shad Storhaug |
| V.P., Apache MADlib | Aaron Feng |
| V.P., Apache Mahout | Trevor Grant |
| V.P., Apache ManifoldCF | Karl Wright |
| V.P., Apache Maven | Robert Scholte |
| V.P., Apache Mesos | Qian Zhang |
| V.P., Apache MetaModel | Kasper Sørensen |
| V.P., Apache MINA | Guillaume Nodet |
| V.P., Apache Mnemonic | Yanhui Zhao |
| V.P., Apache MyFaces | Bernd Bohmann |
| V.P., Apache Mynewt | Justin Mclean |
| V.P., Apache NetBeans | Geertjan Wielenga |
| V.P., Apache NiFi | Joe Witt |
| V.P., Apache Nutch | Sebastian Nagel |
| V.P., Apache OFBiz | Jacopo Cappellato |
| V.P., Apache Olingo | Michael Bolz |
| V.P., Apache OODT | Imesha Sudasingha |
| V.P., Apache Oozie | Gézapeti |
| V.P., Apache OpenJPA | Mark Struberg |
| V.P., Apache OpenMeetings | Maxim Solodovnik |
| V.P., Apache OpenNLP | Jeffrey T. Zemerick |
| V.P., Apache OpenOffice | Carl B. Marcum |
| V.P., Apache OpenWebBeans | Mark Struberg |
| V.P., Apache OpenWhisk | Dave Grove |
| V.P., Apache ORC | Owen O'Malley |
| V.P., Apache Ozone | Sammi Chen |
| V.P., Apache Parquet | Xinli Shang |
| V.P., Apache PDFBox | Andreas Lehmkühler |
| V.P., Apache Perl | Steve Hay |
| V.P., Apache Petri | Dave Fisher |
| V.P., Apache Phoenix | Ankit Singhal |
| V.P., Apache Pig | Koji Noguchi |
| V.P., Apache Pivot | Roger Whitcomb |
| V.P., Apache PLC4X | Christofer Dutz |
| V.P., Apache POI | Dominik Stadler |
| V.P., Apache Portable Runtime (APR) | Nick Kew |
| V.P., Apache Portals | David Sean Taylor |
| V.P., Apache Pulsar | Matteo Merli |
| V.P., Apache Qpid | Robbie Gemmell |
| V.P., Apache Ranger | Selvamohan Neethiraj |
| V.P., Apache Ratis | Tsz-wo Sze |
| V.P., Apache REEF | Sergiy Matusevych |
| V.P., Apache River | Roy T. Fielding |
| V.P., Apache RocketMQ | Xiaorui Wang |
| V.P., Apache Roller | Dave Johnson |
| V.P., Apache Royale | Piotr Zarzycki |
| V.P., Apache Rya | Adina Crainiceanu |
| V.P., Apache Samza | Yi Pan |
| V.P., Apache Santuario | Colm O hEigeartaigh |
| V.P., Apache Serf | Justin Erenkrantz |
| V.P., Apache ServiceComb | Willem Ning Jiang |
| V.P., Apache ServiceMix | Krzysztof Sobkowiak |
| V.P., Apache ShardingSphere | Liang Zhang |
| V.P., Apache Shiro | Brian Demers |
| V.P., Apache SINGA | Wang Wei |
| V.P., Apache SIS | Martin Desruisseaux |
| V.P., Apache SkyWalking | Sheng Wu |
| V.P., Apache Sling | Robert Munteanu |
| V.P., Apache Solr | Jan Høydahl |
| V.P., Apache SpamAssassin | Sidney Markowitz |
| V.P., Apache Spark | Matei Zaharia |
| V.P., Apache Sqoop | Venkat Ranganathan |
| V.P., Apache Steve | Daniel Gruno |
| V.P., Apache Storm | Kishor Patil |
| V.P., Apache Streams | Steve Blackmon |
| V.P., Apache Struts | René Gielen |
| V.P., Apache Submarine | Wangda Tan |
| V.P., Apache Subversion | Nathan Hartman |
| V.P., Apache Superset | Maxime Beauchemin |
| V.P., Apache Synapse | Isuru Udana |
| V.P., Apache Syncope | Francesco Chicchiriccò |
| V.P., Apache SystemDS | Matthias Boehm |
| V.P., Apache Tapestry | Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo |
| V.P., Apache Tcl | Georgios Petasis |
| V.P., Apache Tez | Jonathan Turner Eagles |
| V.P., Apache Thrift | Jens Geyer |
| V.P., Apache Tika | Tim Allison |
| V.P., Apache TinkerPop | Stephen Mallette |
| V.P., Apache Tomcat | Mladen Turk |
| V.P., Apache TomEE | David Blevins |
| V.P., Apache Traffic Control | Eric Friedrich |
| V.P., Apache Traffic Server | Bryan Call |
| V.P., Apache Turbine | Georg Kallidis |
| V.P., Apache TVM | Tianqi Chen |
| V.P., Apache UIMA | Richard Eckart de Castilho |
| V.P., Apache Unomi | Serge Huber |
| V.P., Apache Usergrid | Michael Russo |
| V.P., Apache VCL | Josh Thompson |
| V.P., Apache Velocity | Nathan Bubna |
| V.P., Apache Web Services | Daniel Kulp |
| V.P., Apache Whimsy | Shane Curcuru |
| V.P., Apache Wicket | Andrea Del Bene |
| V.P., Apache Xalan | Gary D. Gregory |
| V.P., Apache Xerces | Michael Glavassevich |
| V.P., Apache XML Graphics | Clay Leeds |
| V.P., Apache Yetus | Allen Wittenauer |
| V.P., Apache Zeppelin | Lee Moon Soo |
| V.P., Apache ZooKeeper | Flavio Junqueira |
The Foundation is a collaborative project of the ASF. Our goal is to build and sustain the literal foundation upon which our open-source software projects are based.