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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 like-minded software project communities consisting of individuals who choose to participate in ASF activities.

WHAT IS THE ASF?
Established in 1999, the ASF is a US 501©(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 simultaneously limits potential legal exposure for our project committers. Through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as “The Apache Way,” more than 730 individual Members and 7,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed 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 expo.

HOW DID THE ASF AND APACHE® PROJECTS GROW?
Formerly known as the Apache Group, the ASF was incorporated in 1999 as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order 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 is awarded 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.

HOW ARE THE ASF AND APACHE PROJECTS GOVERNED?
The ASF members periodically elect a Board of Directors to manage the organizational affairs of the Foundation, as accorded by the ASF Bylaws. The Board, in turn, appoints a number of officers to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. A number of public records of our operation are made 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.

Individual Apache projects are in turn governed directly by Project Management Committees (PMC) made up of individuals who have shown merit and leadership within those projects. There are detailed descriptions of ASF and project governance models.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF ASF MEMBERS?
As a Delaware membership corporation, Apache Members are like shareholders in the legal corporation. Members vote on the Board of Directors and may propose new Member candidates at Annual Member’s 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 and their role is 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.

WHO RUNS THE ASF?
The membership of the ASF elects the 9 member board to run the foundation and to set and ensure policy. The directors of the board are:

BOARD MEMBERS
Shane Curcuru Bertrand Delacretaz Roy T. Fielding
Niclas Hedhman Justin Mclean Sam Ruby
Craig L Russell Patricia Shanahan Sander Striker
OFFICERS

The Board has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:

Office Individual
Chairman Craig L Russell
Vice Chairman Shane Curcuru
President Sam Ruby
Exec. V.P David Nalley
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 Henri Yandell
V.P., Security Mark J. Cox
V.P., Data Privacy Dirk-Willem van Gulik
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 Griselda Cuevas
V.P., Fundraising Daniel Ruggeri
V.P., Infrastructure David Nalley
V.P., Marketing and Publicity Sally Khudairi
V.P., Travel Assistance Gavin McDonald
V.P., Finance Tom Pappas
Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein

VP, Fundraising has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:

Office Individual
V.P., Sponsor Relations Sally Khudairi
PMC CHAIRS

The Board has appointed the following Vice Presidents to chair the PMCs of each Apache project:

Office Individual
V.P., Apache Accumulo Michael Wall
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 Archiva Olivier Lamy
V.P., Apache Aries Christian Schneider
V.P., Apache Arrow Jacques Nadeau
V.P., Apache AsterixDB Till Westmann
V.P., Apache Atlas Madhan Neethiraj
V.P., Apache Attic Mads Toftum
V.P., Apache Avro Sean Busbey
V.P., Apache Axis Robert Lazarski
V.P., Apache Bahir Luciano Resende
V.P., Apache Beam Kenneth Knowles
V.P., Apache Bigtop Jun He
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 Stamatis Zampetakis
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 Sven Vogel
V.P., Apache Cocoon Cédric Damioli
V.P., Apache Commons Gary D. Gregory
V.P., Apache Community Development Sharan Foga
V.P., Apache Cordova Jesse MacFadyen
V.P., Apache CouchDB Jan Lehnardt
V.P., Apache Creadur Philipp Ottlinger
V.P., Apache Crunch Josh Wills
V.P., Apache cTAKES Pei J Chen
V.P., Apache Curator Jordan Zimmerman
V.P., Apache CXF Daniel Kulp
V.P., Apache DataFu Matthew Hayes
V.P., Apache DB Bryan Pendleton
V.P., Apache DeltaSpike Mark Struberg
V.P., Apache Directory Shawn McKinney
V.P., Apache DRAT Tom Barber
V.P., Apache Drill Charles Givre
V.P., Apache Druid Gian Merlino
V.P., Apache Dubbo Ian Luo
V.P., Apache Eagle Edward Zhang
V.P., Apache Empire-db Rainer Döbele
V.P., Apache Felix Karl Pauls
V.P., Apache Fineract Vishwas Babu A J
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 Karen Miller
V.P., Apache Geronimo Romain Manni-Bucau
V.P., Apache Giraph Dionysios Logothetis
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 Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
V.P., Apache Hama Chia-Hung Lin
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 Daniel Gruno
V.P., Apache HttpComponents Asankha Perera
V.P., Apache Ignite Dmitry Pavlov
V.P., Apache Impala Jim Apple
V.P., Apache Incubator Justin Mclean
V.P., Apache Isis Kevin Meyer
V.P., Apache Jackrabbit Marcel Reutegger
V.P., Apache James Benoit Tellier
V.P., Apache jclouds Ignasi Barrera
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 Rich Bowen
V.P., Apache Knox Larry McCay
V.P., Apache Kudu Adar Dembo
V.P., Apache Kylin Shao Feng Shi
V.P., Apache Labs Danny Angus
V.P., Apache Lens Amareshwari Sriramadasu
V.P., Apache Libcloud Tomaž Muraus
V.P., Apache Logging Services Matt Sicker
V.P., Apache Lucene Anshum Gupta
V.P., Apache Lucene.Net Shad Storhaug
V.P., Apache MADlib Aaron Feng
V.P., Apache Mahout Andrew Musselman
V.P., Apache ManifoldCF Karl Wright
V.P., Apache Marmotta Jakob Frank
V.P., Apache Maven Robert Scholte
V.P., Apache Mesos Vinod Kone
V.P., Apache MetaModel Kasper Sørensen
V.P., Apache Metron Casey Stella
V.P., Apache MINA Guillaume Nodet
V.P., Apache Mnemonic Gang Wang
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 Open Climate Workbench Huikyo Lee
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 Parquet Julien Le Dem
V.P., Apache PDFBox Andreas Lehmkühler
V.P., Apache Perl Philippe M. Chiasson
V.P., Apache Petri Dave Fisher
V.P., Apache Phoenix Josh Elser
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 PredictionIO Donald Szeto
V.P., Apache Pulsar Matteo Merli
V.P., Apache Qpid Robbie Gemmell
V.P., Apache Ranger Selvamohan Neethiraj
V.P., Apache REEF Sergiy Matusevych
V.P., Apache River Peter Firmstone
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 Sentry Kalyan Kalvagadda
V.P., Apache Serf Branko Čibej
V.P., Apache ServiceComb Willem Ning Jiang
V.P., Apache ServiceMix Krzysztof Sobkowiak
V.P., Apache Shiro Les Hazlewood
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 SpamAssassin Sidney Markowitz
V.P., Apache Spark Matei Zaharia
V.P., Apache Sqoop Venkat Ranganathan
V.P., Apache Stanbol Rafa Haro
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 Stefan Sperling
V.P., Apache Synapse Isuru Udana
V.P., Apache Syncope Francesco Chicchiriccò
V.P., Apache SystemML Deron Eriksson
V.P., Apache Tajo Hyunsik Choi
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 David Neuman
V.P., Apache Traffic Server Bryan Call
V.P., Apache Trafodion Pierre Smits
V.P., Apache Turbine Georg Kallidis
V.P., Apache Twill Terence Yim
V.P., Apache UIMA Marshall Schor
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 Sam Ruby
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