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From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 7:45 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack™ as a
Top-Level Project
Sending to dev@ - it's now officially official: Please spread the word!
Thanks!
Mature, Open Source turn-key platform widely used for delivering scalable,
full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.
Forest Hill, MD –25 March 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source
projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache CloudStack has graduated
from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that
the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's
meritocratic process and principles.
"When CloudStack first became an Apache Incubator project, it was a well-established cloud
management platform with a mature codebase," said Chip Childers, Vice President of Apache
CloudStack. "Our work in the Incubator has focused on growing a really strong community around
the code and establishing the governance practices expected of a top-level project within The
Apache Software Foundation."
Widely used in production by many organizations, CloudStack is formerly the
product of Cloud.com, which was acquired by Citrix in 2011, and was submitted
to the Apache Incubator by Citrix in April 2012.
Apache CloudStack is a complete software suite for creating
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in private-, public-, and
hybrid cloud environments. It has been proven to be both stable and highly
scalable, underpinning production clouds with more than 30,000 physical nodes,
in geo-distributed environments.
"Becoming a TLP is an important step in the project's evolution and growth," added
Childers. "CloudStack had the advantage of having many long-term, large deployments which had
proven the stability and scalability of the technology. This helped us concentrate on adopting the
'Apache Way' of governance, which is well understood and open, delivering so many great pieces of
software over the years."
CloudStack's target environments include service providers and enterprises; it
is used by many service providers to set up an on-demand, elastic cloud
computing services and by enterprises to set up a private cloud for use by
their own employees. Apache CloudStack is also available to individuals and
organizations that wish to study and implement an IaaS for personal,
educational, and/or production use.
"We believe that Infrastructure-as-a-Service is the next generation of IT infrastructure,
and that people will demand open standards and open governance for such an important layer in
their IT stack," explained Childers. That is why having the CloudStack project meet the
rigorous standards of ASF governance is so significant."
Underscoring the ASF's edict of "Community over Code", Childers said:
"we've managed to build a diverse, friendly and very open community around
CloudStack. New participants receive a really warm welcome and we make sure that all
contributors are on an equal footing, whether they are writing code or helping with
any other aspect of the project.
Anybody thinking of getting involved in the project would quickly find what a great
community we are. In addition to online involvement, we've already had a global
collaboration conference and there are many CloudStack groups established in many
different countries."
Availability and Oversight
Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is
overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A
Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations,
including community development and product releases. Apache CloudStack source
code, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at
http://cloudstack.apache.org/.
About the Apache Incubator
The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to
become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation.
All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects
wishing to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations
are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and
2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles.
Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review
indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process
have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects.
While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or
stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully
endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/.
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer
Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including
Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's
meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual
Members and 3,500 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. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit
charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD,
Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP,
Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW
Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.
"Apache", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", and "ApacheCon" are registered
trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other
brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
pr...@apache.org
+1 617 921 8656
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jzb
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