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<h2 align="center">Donating to the Apache Software Foundation</h2>
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The <a href="http://www.apache.org/";>Apache Software Foundation</a>
is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to producing and supporting
open-source software development projects. It grew directly from
The Apache Group, which is a group of roughly two dozen volunteer
software developers who mostly worked on the HTTP (Web) server
in their spare time for fun, or to make enhancements they needed
personally. (See the "<a href="/ABOUT_APACHE">About Apache</a>"
document for more information.)
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As a result of being a not-for-profit volunteer-based organisation,
the Apache Software Foundation relies entirely on donations. The
most common donation is time, from users and developers, but
there <i>is</i> a need for donations of money. That's what this page
is about.
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<h3>Why you should donate</h3>
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This is largely a philosophical question, and as usual with such, there
is no single answer for everyone.
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Individuals may choose to donate time
or otherwise contribute because they want to see particular bug-fixes or
features make it into the baseline software, or because they hope that
they'll become known through their contributions (and hence potentially
more employable), or because they simply feel it's the Right Thing to do,
or for almost any other reason.
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Companies may choose to donate for similar reasons, such as desiring to
support the further development of quality software that they've found
useful or even crucial to their business, or perhaps they wish to get
some positive PR from their support of an organisation dedicated to
opern-source development. Unfortunately, since the ASF
isn't a non-profit company, corporate donations can't be made
as tax write-offs. Our recommendation to companies that want to
donate goods or money (as opposed to services or employee time) is that the
donation be considered part of the cost of doing business -- in other
words, a business expense.
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<h3>What the Foundation needs</h3>
<p>
What the ASF needs boils down to the usual trite items: time & money.
'Time' in terms of effort by individuals to work on the various projects,
and 'money' to handle things that, well, require money. (A list of these
latter items can be found <a href="#grants">below</a>.)
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The Foundation can definitely use donations of time from people
willing to work on
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<ul>
<li>Documentation (particularly HTML)</li>
<li>Bug reports (both fixing open bugs, and cleaning up old reports
that have been fixed but not yet closed)</li>
<li>Software coding</li>
</ul>
<p>
For some reason, most of the contributions we get are in the last
area. <grin>
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<h3>What you should donate</h3>
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This is really a question you need to answer for yourself. It depends
entirely upon what you have to offer. Money is always good, because
it can be exchanged for goods or services
needed by the Foundation and its projects. Time is also an excellent
thing to contribute; there's more than enough work for people willing
to do it. Hardware and software donations are good, but usually by
their very nature end up having to be allocated to individual contributors.
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If you have any questions, contact the Secretary of the Foundation
and he will advise you about the current needs of the Foundation and its
projects. He can check to see if any of the projects, or the Foundation
itself, can use what you'd like to give.
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<h3>How to donate</h3>
<p>
If you want to donate something other than money, you should take a look
at the list of Foundation projects (see the
<a href="projects.html">projects page</a>) and choose one to
which you'd like to contribute. Then contact one of the members of
that project's management committee (see the individual project's
pages for the list) and ask how you can contribute. If you're not
sure with which project you want to be involved, or you want to
donate to the Foundation itself, contact the Secretary of the Foundation.
</p>
<p>
If you intend to donate funds, please send them to the Treasurer of
the Foundation at the following address:
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<address>
The Apache Software Foundation<br>
<sup>c</sup>/o Covalent Technologies, Inc.<br>
1200 'N' Street, Suite 112<br>
Lincoln, NE 68508<br>
USA
</address>
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Please include a cover letter identifying the grant to which you would
like your donation applied (specify the 'general fund' if you have no
preference), and a postal address to which a receipt may be sent.
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<blockquote>
<b>Remember: Donations to the Apache Software Foundation are <i>not</i>
tax-deductible in the United States!</b>
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<a name="grants"> </a>
<h2>Current 'grant' efforts</h2>
<p>
Here is a list of things for which the Foundation needs monetary donations.
If you contribute funds to the Foundation, you can indicate to which of
these grants you would like your donation applied (less a small percentage
that will be allocated to the ASF general fund for emergency allocation
and overhead coverage).
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<h3>Grant: Retainer for Legal Counsel</h3>
<p>
The Apache Software Foundation has an ongoing need for legal assistance in
matters such as contract law, software licencing, management of trademarks
and other intellectual property, and corporate procedures. Donations
for this grant may either be in the form of monetary contributions to
offset the cost of retaining a law firm, or a <i>pro bono</i> donation
of services from such a firm.
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<td align="left">Total amount needed:</td>
<td align="right">US$25,000</td>
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<td align="left">Donated so far:</td>
<td align="right">US$0</td>
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<td align="left">Date needed:</td>
<td align="right">Immediate</td>
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<td align="left">Recurrence:</td>
<td align="right">Annual</td>
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<h3>Grant: Public/Press Relations Firm</h3>
<p>
Due to its growth and the intensity of the attention focussed on it,
the Apache Software Foundation has a need for a professional public- and
press-relations firm to deal with press releases, requests for speakers,
interviews, and announcements. These services are currently being
provided <i>pro bono</i> by the
<a href="http://www.zotgroup.com/";>ZOT Group</a>,
but this is a short-term donation on their part. The ASF needs
funding to either extend the contract with ZOT, or to retain another
firm -- preferably the former.
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<td align="left">Total amount needed:</td>
<td align="right">US$25,000</td>
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<td align="left">Donated so far:</td>
<td align="right">US$0</td>
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<td align="left">Date needed:</td>
<td align="right">31 December 1999</td>
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<td align="left">Recurrence:</td>
<td align="right">Annual</td>
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<h3>Grant: Conference Planning Expenses</h3>
<p>
The Apache Software Foundation intends to hold conferences for users and
developers of the Foundation software packages on an annual basis, if
not more frequently. Indeed, the planning for the first ASF ApacheCon
is already underway. This grant is to cover the pre-conference
(and therefore pre-revenue) costs of things like advertising,
planning meetings, and site visits.
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<td align="left">Total amount needed:</td>
<td align="right">US$20,000</td>
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<td align="left">Donated so far:</td>
<td align="right">US$0</td>
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<td align="left">Date needed:</td>
<td align="right">1 June 2000</td>
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<td align="left">Recurrence:</td>
<td align="right">At least annual</td>
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<h3>Grant: HTTP Server Developer's Meeting</h3>
<p>
Although the Apache HTTP server development effort has been around for
nearly half a decade, most of the developers had not actually met one
another until June of 1998, when a grant from IBM Corporation made a
face-to-face meeting possible. (Almost all discussion takes place
<i>via</i> email.) That meeting was extremely productive, and the HTTP
Server Project would like to repeat it before June of 2000. The
grant is to cover the travel, lodging, meal, and incidental expenses of
bringing from ten to twenty developers together, from all over the
world, for two or three days.
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<td align="left">Total amount needed:</td>
<td align="right">US$25,000</td>
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<td align="left">Donated so far:</td>
<td align="right">US$0</td>
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<td align="left">Date needed:</td>
<td align="right">30 September 1999</td>
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<td align="left">Recurrence:</td>
<td align="right">One-time grant for 1999</td>
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<h3>Grant: PHP Developer's Meeting in Israel</h3>
<p>
The PHP Development Team is looking for funding to cover expenses in order
for the principal developers to meet face-to-face. Tens of thousands
of people use PHP every day and hundreds of companies rely on it heavily.
Out of the hundred people that have contributed directly to PHP, a core
group of about 8 people has worked tirelessly for years. Despite this
close collaboration, they have never actually sat down in the same room and
gotten to know each other. It is believed a meeting of the current main
PHP developers would be very beneficial and would help ensure continued
productivity and cohesiveness of the team. Since two of the main
developers are in the Israeli army and cannot leave Israel, the meeting
needs to held there. Therefore, the proposal is to hold a 4-day meeting
in Tel-Aviv from January 21 to January 24, 2000.
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<td align="left">Total amount needed:</td>
<td align="right">US$25,000</td>
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<td align="left">Donated so far:</td>
<td align="right">US$0</td>
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<td align="left">Date needed:</td>
<td align="right">30 November 1999</td>
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<td align="left">Recurrence:</td>
<td align="right">One-time grant for 2000</td>
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