The Apache Software Foundation
Budget
€2,400,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) exists to provide software for the public good. It was founded 1999 It was formed in 1999 primarily to: 1) provide a foundation for open, collaborative software development projects by supplying hardware, communication, and business infrastructure, 2) create an independent legal entity to which companies and individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for the public benefit, 3) provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects and finally 4) protect the 'Apache' brand, as applied to its software products, from being abused by other organizations. The ASF is s run almost exclusively by volunteers that provide support for hundreds of projects. Its members, individual open source developers that voluntarily contribute their time, elect an all-volunteer board annually. Full details can be found at https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/
EU Legislative Interests
Proposals and policies that affect Open Source in general and our community in particular; support policy makers with information on open source, Interoperability, security, cloud, privacy and related IT and ICT topics.
Communication Activities
Provide input to policy makers around proposals and policies that affect Open Source in general and our community in particular; support policy makers with information on open source, Interoperability, security, cloud, privacy and related IT and ICT topics.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Supporter (not a member) of Open Forum Europe (OFE); a representative presence at the World Wide Web Consortium, Open Source Initiative Affiliate and Associate member of Eclipse. 2024-03-18.
Organisation Members
A complete/current list of our members can be found at https://www.apache.org/foundation/members. A list that also includes our contributors can be found at http://home.apache.org/committers-by-project.html. The ASF hosts well over 300 projects; each with anywhere between 10 and 250 active developers that provide software for the public good. We believe in the power of community over code, known as The Apache Way. Many thousands of people around the world contribute to ASF open source projects every day. The ASF does not allow companies or other `non human' legal persons/entity as its members. Every member is a natural person. These developers, i.e. private individuals are generally IT professionals that typically work for a wide range of companies, with most at SMEs. It is common for our members to also be a member of professional (engineering) bodies and similar in a private capacity. More details at https://www.apache.org/foundation/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.