[this report is available online at https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021 ]

FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY

Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2021 (August - October 2020)

"The Apache Way ensures all participants have equal representation and footing, 
and developers are valued based on their contributions' merits. Bloomberg 
developers first got involved as Open Source community collaborators and 
contributors seven years ago, and we've been involved with –and a sponsor of– 
the ASF almost this entire time, as it’s the home of dozens of projects that 
are incredibly important to us." 
—Kevin Fleming, Head of Open Source Community Engagement and Member of the CTO 
Office at Bloomberg (ASF Gold Sponsor)


> President's Report

This has been a largely quiet quarter for The Apache Software Foundation. By 
quiet, I mean that the operations side of the ASF has just been working with 
little drama, despite the fact that we're in the midst of a global pandemic. 
Whether it's been Apachecon@Home, the publication of research from Diversity 
and Inclusion, the day-to-day operations of Fundraising, Marketing, and 
Infrastructure continue unabated.

In some ways, I guess that is boring. There were no disasters that we had to 
deal with. While I was getting ready for my Apachecon@Home keynote, I was 
thinking about the impact of the pandemic on the ASF and the world. If you look 
at the statistics you'd be hard pressed to find much in terms of impact of the 
pandemic. In many ways, our distributed, asynchronous, consensus-based method 
of getting things done has set us up for success.

Maybe 'boring' is the definition of success for the ASF. A 'boring' status 
where our project communities deliver innovative Open Source software unabated.


> Conferences and Events http://apachecon.com/ 

During this time we held ApacheCon@Home 2020, September 28th through October 
1st. This was our first virtual conference, and the largest conference we have 
yet held in our 22 years of running ApacheCon.

We have provided some statistics in our post-event report, at 
https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-was-a

Some highlights include:

 - 5743 registrations
 - 66.7% of speakers were first time speakers
 - 82.9% of attendees were at their first ApacheCon ever
 - 306 sessions (all now on YouTube at 
https://www.youtube.com/theapachefoundation )
 - 26 tracks of content
 - Sessions in German, Hindi and Mandarin, in addition to English
 - Attendees, and speakers, from 6 continents

ApacheCon was made possible by our sponsors. Platinum sponsors were 
Instaclustr, Red Hat, DataStax, VMWare, Apple, Amazon, IBM, and Imply. Gold 
sponsors were OpenLogic, Cerner, and RX-M. Bronze sponsors were Codethink, US 
Postgresql Association, and Muse.dev. A huge thank you to them!

In the coming months we hope to have some smaller, project/topic focused 
events, but planning for these is still in the early stages, and we have no 
specific plans yet.

We are also cautiously looking at plans for 2021: We assume, at this point, 
based on the employee travel policies of major tech companies, that we will be 
holding ApacheCon 2021 online also. We hope to have details in early 2021.

The Pulsar Summit Asia will be held November 28th and 29th, also online. 
Details are available at https://pulsar-summit.org/  


> Community Development http://community.apache.org/ 

The main focus of this quarter was preparing for and participating in 
ApacheCon@Home. Our Community track ran over 3 days and 2 time zones and began 
with a presentation in Hindi. This was very significant for us as it was the 
first time that we have presented community content at ApacheCon in a language 
other than English. Being accessible in other languages is helping reach other 
potential contributors. Our track attracted a good audience and many of the 
sessions achieved a good interaction and participation via questions from the 
audience. 

During the event we showed the recently released ASF documentary video 
"Trillions and Trillions Served" at our online booth. We need to continue to 
investigate new ways for managing an online booth as it was difficult to 
understand when and how we could interact with the community at the same time 
being focussed on our own track.

Our Apache Local Communities (ALC) were strongly represented at ApacheCon@Home 
and the Indore Chapter held a range of meetings focussed on promoting the 
Apache Way.

All the videos from all the community sessions are now available on the ASF 
Youtube channel.

We have started preparing for GSoC 2021 and will once again be applying to 
become a mentoring organisation. In parallel we have sent out communications to 
all ASF project to begin gathering ideas for potential GSoC projects.

We are continuing to look for events where we can participate such as our 
Apache Roadshow China and FOSS Backstage.

Our mailing list has seen a significant decrease in traffic compared with the 
previous quarter. Even with the decrease we did get a lot of community 
involvement and activity during ApacheCon@Home which is not reflected in the 
mailing list statistics.


> Committers and Contributions 
> http://apache.org/licenses/contributor-agreements.html 

Over the past quarter, 1,540 contributors committed 61,208 changes that amount 
to 28,336,795 lines of code across Apache projects. The top 5 contributors, in 
order, were: Andrea Cosentino (1,813 commits), Mark Miller (926 commits), Claus 
Ibsen (790 commits), Mark Thomas (771 commits), and Jean-Baptiste Onofré (742 
commits).

All individuals who are granted write access to the Apache repositories must 
submit an Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA). Corporations that 
have assigned employees to work on Apache projects as part of an employment 
agreement may sign a Corporate CLA (CCLA) for contributing intellectual 
property via the corporation. Individuals or corporations donating a body of 
existing software or documentation to one of the Apache projects need to 
execute a formal Software Grant Agreement (SGA) with the ASF.

During Q2 FY2021, the ASF Secretary processed 151 ICLAs, 9 CCLAs, and 5 
Software Grants. History of Apache committer growth can be seen at 
https://projects.apache.org/timelines.html


> Brand Management http://apache.org/foundation/marks/ 

Operations —the work of the Brand Management team falls broadly into one of 
three categories:

 - trademark transfers and registrations
 - granting permission to use our marks
 - addressing potential infringements of our marks

The volume of work this quarter is about half of what it was last quarter. This 
may be an impact of Covid-19 (fewer events), part of the natural fluctuation in 
activity or a combination of the two.

This quarter has seen the usual collection of requests to use Apache marks for 
user groups, events, merchandise and publications with nearly all requests 
being granted, subject to our Trademark Usage Policy.

Registrations —This quarter was also a relatively quiet one for registrations. 
We made progress on a number of our pending registrations, particularly in 
China, but we did not complete any registrations this quarter.

Infringements —Potential infringements are brought to our attention from both 
internal and external sources. The majority of infringements we see are 
accidental and our project communities are able to resolve these quickly and 
informally with occasional input from the Brand Management team. A small number 
of issues take longer to resolve. We made progress on some of these this 
quarter and hope that that progress will continue next quarter.

We have continued to address the infringements reported to us relating to 
products using our marks being sold through various online stores. We hope to 
resolve a number of these in the coming quarter.

And finally…

The Brand Management team welcomes your comments and suggestions as well as any 
questions you might have. Please see 
https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/contact for our contact details.


> Security http://apache.org/security/ 

We continued to work on handling incoming security issues, keeping projects 
reminded of their outstanding issues, allocation of CVE names, and other 
general oversight and advice.

For Q2 we tracked 124 new vulnerability reports across 48 projects. (Q2 last 
year for comparison was 116 reports). Those reports led to 23 published CVE 
vulnerabilities.


> Privacy http://apache.org/foundation/policies/privacy.html 

This quarter ends without any complaints from users, committers or other 
parties.

The VP Privacy can be reached in private with the new email alias 
vp-priv...@apache.org.

A check of our privacy policy showed that we have several issues with our main 
site which needs to be addressed (not exhaustive):

 - We need to add Youtube, Google Fonts etc to the privacy statement
 - We need to update the policy to give the correct contact for complaints (no 
longer dev@)
 - We need to check if we actually need AdSense code 

Also, we should make sure to apply cookie laws.

The reason for the check is the open issue around status.apache.org since we 
need to cover that site with our privacy policy as well.

In another finding, Apache Whimsy shows all kinds of email addresses (i.e. 
personal ones) to all committers. This should be an option, so committers can 
decide if they want their email address shown and also the possibility to 
remove email addresses. Same issue is with the postal address shown. This issue 
has not yet been addressed and needs to be communicated to the Apache Whimsy 
team.

We have open discussion how ICLA (and similar documents) should be stored.


> Treasury and Financial Statement --map against 
> https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport 

The Foundation is in excellent fiscal shape with all tax and compliance forms 
filed on time. Latest public filings can be found at 
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/ . I have advised that officers 
minimize expenses until there is more certainty in global economic outlooks.  
Officers have done so by delaying new investments.  This quarter we conducted 
ApacheCon@Home which operated with a profit via our generous sponsors.

We made a technical adjustment to our accounting to recognize the income of 
$892,882 from the very generous Pineapple fund donation as a public donation. 
The donation was originally made at the beginning of 2018. Removing this 
one-time donation from consideration, our losses this quarter were $141,848.

The majority of our cash remains in a CDARS account at Boston Private which 
provides FDIC insurance for the full amount. See below for income and expenses:

[please Income and Expenses for Q2 FY 2021 at https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021 ]

> Diversity and Inclusion http://diversity.apache.org/

Important milestones were accomplished for two of the major projects driven by 
the Diversity and Inclusion committee as follows: 

Project 1: Research on the current status of Diversity and Inclusion at the ASF

This project was composed of two initiatives: The ASF Community Survey and a 
User Experience Research for contributors of underrepresented groups. These two 
initiatives concluded in Q2 and we are now working on a final report, expected 
to be published and shared with the ASF membership in Q3. 

For the ASF Community Survey, we recorded a read out, which you can watch in 
our official YouTube channel https://s.apache.org/pnkzw , and read the slides 
shared in the D&I wiki 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/**+Files+and+Resources .

In the User Experience research, we conducted 19 one-on-one interviews, which 
provided insightful information on how we can help our community to ease the 
challenges experienced by contributors in our Apache community, especially 
those coming from under-represented backgrounds. You can find early results on 
these interviews in our public mailing list https://s.apache.org/ibs4z . 

In Q3, the work will be focused on publishing the official reports, which will 
include recommendations for our projects and the community in general, to 
enable the participation of folks from diverse backgrounds. 

Project 2: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy)

The second round of internships for the Outreachy program concluded in August. 
We had four participants, which brought the total number of interns to 5 in our 
first year of participation. 

The third period of internships starts this December, we’ll have six interns 
for six different Apache projects, you can see the full list of interns and 
projects in the Outreachy working group notes https://s.apache.org/8ahu8 .

This program has provided opportunities to learn about the experience of new 
contributors to the participation project, and we look forward to analyzing 
them in the same context as the scientific data gathered with the survey and 
user experience interviews. 


> Fundraising http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

This past quarter has been fairly quiet for the Fundraising team aside from the 
wonderful success of ApacheCon@Home. We are ecstatic to report that eight 
Sponsors joined the ApacheCon family this year for the event. Feel free to 
check out our YouTube channel for recordings of all the talks.

Despite the pandemic and challenges it brings, we continue to see strong 
support from the community. Individual donations have been particularly strong 
this quarter (see https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Fundraising.html  for 
month by month playlist). We have also had a few Sponsors either increase or 
decrease their support level this quarter and are pleased to welcome two new 
Bronze sponsors to the Apache family.

As always, we are immensely thankful to our sponsors, who make it possible for 
our communities to build world-changing software -- 

PLATINUM: Amazon Web Services, Comcast, Facebook, Google, LeaseWeb, Pineapple 
Fund, Verizon Media, Tencent

GOLD: Anonymous, ARM, Bloomberg, Cloudera, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, 
Union Investment, Workday

SILVER: Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Baidu, Budget Direct, Capital One, 
Cerner, Inspur, Red Hat, Target

BRONZE: Airport Rentals, The Blog Starter, Bookmakers, Cash Store, 
Bestecasinobonussen.nl, CarGurus, Casino2k, The Economic Secretariat, Emerio, 
Footprints Recruiting, Gundry MD, HostChecka.com, Host Advice, 
HostingAdvice.com, Journal Review, LeoVegas Indian Online Casino, Mutuo Kredit 
AG, Online Holland Casino, ProPrivacy, PureVPN, RX-M, SCAMS.info, Site Builder 
Report, Start a Blog by Ryan Robinson, Talend, The Best VPN, Top10VPN, Twitter, 
Web Hosting Secret Revealed, Xplenty

TARGETED PLATINUM: CloudBees, DLA Piper, JetBrains, Microsoft, OSU Open Source 
Labs, Sonatype, Verizon Media

TARGETED GOLD: Atlassian, The CrytpoFund, Datadog, PhoenixNAP, Quenda

TARGETED SILVER: Amazon Web Services, HotWax Systems, Rackspace

TARGETED BRONZE: Bintray, Education Networks of America, Google, Hopsie, No-IP, 
PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation, Sonic.net, SURFnet, 
Virtru

To sponsor The Apache Software Foundation, visit 
http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html . To make a one-time or monthly 
recurring donation, please visit https://donate.apache.org/ .

= = =

Report prepared by Sally Khudairi, Vice President Marketing & Publicity, with 
contributions by David Nalley, President; Rich Bowen, Vice President 
Conferences; Mark Cox, Vice President Security; Sharan Foga, Vice President 
Community Development; Christian Grobmeier, Vice President Data Privacy; Myrle 
Krantz, Treasurer; Griselda Cuevas, Vice President Diversity & Inclusion, Vice 
President Fundraising; and Mark Thomas, Vice President Brand Management.

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