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Apache has been at the forefront of dozens of today's industry-defining 
technologies and tools; nearly every end-user computing device has been touched 
by at least one Apache product. 

Budapest, Hungary –19 November– At ApacheCon Europe, members of the Apache 
community commemorated The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s fifteenth 
anniversary and congratulated the people, projects, initiatives, and 
organizations that played a role in its success. 
Recognized as the leader in community-led Open Source software development, the 
ASF was established to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open Source innovations 
"The Apache Way". Reflections on achievements over the past 15 years include: 
 - ASF @ 15 Statement by Chairman Brett Porter http://s.apache.org/RYD 
 - Sponsorship and Stewardship by President Ross Gardler 
http://s.apache.org/oLh 
 - Community Over Code by Executive Vice President Rich Bowen 
http://s.apache.org/AQJ 
Apache products power half the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute 
teraflops of operations, store billions of objects in virtually every industry, 
and enhance the lives of countless users and developers worldwide. Apache 
projects power mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, 
publishing, big data, Cloud computing, mobile, government, healthcare, 
research, infrastructure, development frameworks, foundational libraries, and 
many other categories. Beginning with the Apache HTTP Server —the world's most 
popular Web server— Apache software has been at the forefront of dozens of 
today's industry-defining technologies and tools, playing an integral role in 
nearly every end-user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile 
phones. 
Apache software is so ubiquitous that 50% of the top 10 downloaded Open Source 
products are Apache projects. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache 
License v2 has become an industry standard within the Open Source world. The 
Apache License and open development model are widely recognized as among the 
best ways to ensure open standards gain traction and adoption. The ASF offers a 
vendor-neutral space in which to collaborate whilst enabling third parties to 
pursue almost any for-profit or not-for-profit business model. To date, 
hundreds of thousands of software solutions have been distributed under the 
Apache License. 
Amazingly, this is achieved by an all-volunteer community comprising 505 
individual Members and 4,081 Apache Committers collaborating across six 
continents. The ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous 
sponsorship of individual donors and corporate sponsors including Citrix, 
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, Matt Mullenweg, 
Microsoft, and Yahoo. 
"ASF @ 15" Timeline and Highlights follow. Visit http://apache.org/ and @TheASF 
on Twitter for more information. 

Highlights: pre-1999 
Brian Behlendorf started collecting patches to be applied to the last version 
of the NCSA http server. The Apache Group, consisting of 8 individuals, traded 
patches on a mailing list set up for the purpose. In April of 1995 the first 
public release of Apache (version 0.6.2) came out. Apache 1.0 released on 
December 1, 1995, and within a year surpassed NCSA as the most-used Web server. 
Highlights: 1999 
The ASF formally incorporates as a Delaware-based 501(c)(3) non-profit 
corporation from The Apache Group on 1 June. Original directors are: Brian 
Behlendorf (President), Ken Coar (VP Conferences), Roy T. Fielding (Chairman), 
Ben Hyde (VP Apache HTTP Server Project), Jim Jagielski (Secretary and EVP), 
Ben Laurie, Sameer Parekh, Randy Terbush (Treasurer), and Dirk-Willem van 
Gulik. New Apache Jakarta and XML Projects join the Apache HTTP Server Project. 
Board Committees on ASF Conferences, Licenses, and Security are formed. 
Discussions about ASF's role as an Open Source incubator address fostering new 
technologies such as Cocoon. The ASF receives numerous industry awards, 
including the ACM Software System Award, the Datamation Product of the Year, 
and LinuxWorld Editor's Award. ASF is listed in the Industry Standard's "100 
Companies That Matter" and included in the ServerWatch Hall of Fame. 

Highlights: 2000 
Perl-Apache Project, as well as Apache PHP, Apache/TCL Project, and Apache 
Portable Runtime Project are established. Apache Struts, Batik, FOP, and Ant 
undergo "incubation". The ASF draws record attendance at the second ApacheCon 
in Orlando (the first-ever conference was held in San Francisco in 1998), and 
launches its first European event in London later that year. 
Highlights: 2001 
Apache Avalon, Commons, and Jetspeed/Portals undergo "incubation". Work begins 
on next version of the Apache License. The fourth ApacheCon is held in Santa 
Clara, where the ASF maxim of "Community Over Code" is widespread and 
collaborators meet in person for the very first time. The ASF receives the 
Internet Service Providers Association's Internet Industry Awards for "Best 
Software Supplier" Apache XML's Xalan-Java 1.2.2 is a finalist in the Best 
Java-XML Application category in the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards. 
Highlights: 2002 
Participation in The ASF booms; its process for community and collaborative 
development becomes known as "the Apache Way". New Board is formed: Greg Stein 
elected Chairman, Dirk-Willem van Gulik as President, Randy Terbush as 
Treasurer (later replaced that year by Chuck Murko), and Jim Jagielski as 
Executive Vice President/Secretary. Apache Jakarta launches sub-project BSF; 
the Apache Incubator Project is born: new projects include Apache Ant, Avalon, 
DB, Forrest, HC, POI, and TCL. Apache HTTP Server and Portable Runtime Project 
Management Committees are reestablished. New Board Committees on Infrastructure 
as well as Fundraising are formed. The ASF participates in the Java Community 
Process. The fifth ApacheCon takes place in Las Vegas. The first 
community-driven Apache Cocoon GetTogether is held. 
Highlights: 2003 
"Web 2.0" comes to the ASF; the Apache Web Services Project is formed. New 
projects in the Apache Incubator include Directory, Geronimo, Gump, James, 
Logging Services, Maven, Pluto, SpamAssassin, Tapestry, and XML Beans. 
Perl-Apache Project is renamed to the Apache Perl Project, and Cocoon becomes a 
Top Level Project. The sixth ApacheCon is held in Las Vegas, featuring an expo 
exchange with COMDEX. The Apache HTTP Server wins Best Server Software by Linux 
Format; Apache Ant wins Software Development Magazine Jolt Product Excellence 
and Productivity Award, the Java Pro Readers' Choice Award for Most Valuable 
Java Deployment Technology, as well as the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for 
"Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology". JavaWorld also awards Apache 
Xerces-J Editors' Choice for "Best Java XML Tool". SpamAssassin wins the OSDir 
Editor's Choice Award. The Apache License v.1.2 is released; all products of 
the Foundation are required to be
 released under the new license. 

Highlights: 2004 
ASF Board members are re-elected: Greg Stein as Chairman, Dirk-Willem van Gulik 
as President, Chuck Murko as Treasurer, and Jim Jagielski as Executive Vice 
President/Secretary. The stable Apache License v.2.0 is released, and the ASF 
Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is expanded to accommodate corporate 
donations. New Apache projects in the Incubator include Beehive, Excalibur, 
Forrest, Gump, Hivemind, iBatis, Lenya, myFaces, Portals, SpamAssassin, Struts, 
wsrp4J (Portals sub-project), Xalan, XMLBeans, and XML Graphics. The Apache 
Commons project is terminated, as well as the Project Management Committee for 
Avalon. A New Public Relations Committee is established, and The ASF issues a 
formal response regarding alleged JBoss IP infringement in Geronimo. The PHP 
project amicably separates from The ASF, granting all rights and 
responsibilities pertaining to its codebases to the PHP Group. ApacheCon 
returns to Las Vegas for its seventh conference. Apache
 Ant wins the Java Developer's Journal "Editors' Choice Award". 
Highlights: 2005 
The ASF continues to be the community of choice to spearhead new innovations 
through its Incubator. Numerous projects in development include activeMQ, 
Apollo, Bridges, Continuum, Derby, Directory, Felix, Harmony, Roller, stdcxx, 
Synapse, and Xerces; Apache Lucene graduates as a Top Level Project. ApacheCon 
returns to Europe with the eighth conference held in Stuttgart, Germany, 
followed by ApacheCon US in San Diego. Tomcat receives the SD Software 
Development Readers' Choice Awards for "Best Open Source Tool"; Software 
Development Magazine's JOLT! Awards recognize Apache Jakarta and Tomcat. 
Highlights: 2006 
A new Board of Directors is elected: Greg Stein and Jim Jagielski are 
re-elected as Chairman and Executive Vice President/Secretary respectively; 
Sander Striker joins the Board as President, and Justin Erenkrantz is elected 
Treasurer. The Incubator matures, with new projects created to meet growing 
industry interest in Open Source solutions for enterprise resource planning and 
manage related business processes. Projects undergoing incubation are Abdera, 
Archiva, Cayenne, CXF, Hadoop, Harmony, HiveMind, Jackrabbit, MINA, ODE, OfBIZ, 
Open JPA, Open EJB, Qpid, Santuario, Shale, Tapestry, Tiles, and Velocity; 
Apache Cayenne, OFBiz, and Tiles graduate to become Top Level Projects later 
that year. The Apache Security Team is re-established, a new Testing project is 
established to oversee the creation of software related to the domain of 
software testing; in addition, and the ASF launches new Innovation Laboratories 
for the experimentation of new ideas without
 Project bylaws or community building requirements. The ASF hosts its tenth 
ApacheCon in Dublin, Ireland, followed by ApacheCon US in Austin, and launches 
ApacheCon Asia in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Foundation establishes the 
Sponsorship program to help offset day-to-day operating expenses; donations are 
accepted by both individual and corporate contributors. SpamAssassin wins the 
Linux New Media Award, and Tapestry was awarded Sun's annual Duke's Choice 
Award for outstanding Java product innovation. 
Highlights: 2007 
The breadth and capability of The ASF is reflected in the largest changeover 
its Board members since its incorporation: Jim Jagielski is elected Chairman, 
Justin Erenkrantz as President, J. Aaron Farr as Treasurer, and Sam Ruby as 
Executive Vice President/Secretary. New projects continue to germinate, 
including Buildr, Camel, C++ Standard Library, Pig, Quetzalcoatl, ServiceMix, 
Synapse, and Tiles entering the Incubator; Apache ActiveMQ, Commons (Jakarta), 
Felix, HttpComponents, ODE, OpenEJB, OpenJPA, POI, Quetzalcoatl, Roller, 
ServiceMix, Turbine, and Wicket graduate as Top Level Projects. The ASF 
establishes a Legal Affairs Committee to manage legal policies, as well as a 
Travel Assistance Committee to provide financial support to select individuals 
otherwise unable to attend ApacheCon. The twelfth ApacheCon is successfully 
held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, followed by ApacheCon US in Atlanta. 
Highlights: 2008 
The ASF re-elects Jim Jagielski, Justin Erenkrantz, and Sam Ruby to the Board 
as Chairman, President, and Secretary respectively; Sander Striker is elected 
Executive Vice President, and J. Aaron Farr is Treasurer. HBase, Hive, and 
Zookeeper enter the Incubator; Apache Abdera, Archiva, Buildr, Continuum, 
CouchDB, CXF, Hadoop, Qpid, and Tuscany become Top Level Projects. The Apache 
Attic is established to retire ASF projects that have reached their end of life 
through a scalable process. Apache user gatherings continue to gain popularity, 
with events hosted by projects that include Cocoon, Derby, Forrest, Hadoop, 
Jakarta, OfBIZ, Pig, Wicket, among others. The fourteenth ApacheCon is held in 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, followed by ApacheCon US in New Orleans, where 
sixty members of the community participate in voluntourism efforts to help 
rebuild the City still suffering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. 
ApacheCon US also marks the expansion of
 ASF-wide developer and user community events to include "unconferences" such 
as BarCamps, GetTogethers, Symposia, and the first ASF Meet Up in Beijing. 
Apache tops the Software Development Times 100 list of Industry Influencers for 
the third year running in the category of Application Servers, The ASF wins its 
third Member of the Year prize awarded by the Java Community Process Program 
Management Office, Apache SpamAssassin won the InfoWorld "Best Of Open Source 
Software" BOSSIE Award, Apache Directory Studio finishes as runner-up for the 
Eclipse Community Award's Best Open Source RCP Application, and barely six 
months under incubation, Sling wins the JAX Innovation Award. 

Highlights: 2009 
The ASF announces Ten Years of Apache; celebrates a decade of innovation in 
Open Source software and community development. Nearly 300 ASF Members 
collaborate successfully with more than 2,000 Committers; 68 Top Level 
Projects, 35 initiatives in the Incubator, and 23 Labs concepts are currently 
active at the Foundation. ApacheCon Europe 2009 was held 23-27 March in 
Amsterdam, with the Hackathon (face-to-face Apache project-related 
collaboration/development with ASF Members and Committers) open to the public 
and including another BarCamp. 10th Anniversary celebrations continued at 
ApacheCon US 2009, in Oakland 2-6 November, where both the Governor of 
California and the Mayor of Oakland congratulated Apache on its success and 
named 4 November "Apache Software Foundation Day". 
Highlights: 2010 
The ASF hits its millionth code commit with a revision milestone today with a 
commit by ASF Member Yonik Seeley on behalf of the Apache Lucene Project. 
Apache Aries, Avro, Cassandra, Click, ESME, HBase, Hive, jUDDI, Karaf, Mahout, 
Nutch, OODT, Pig, Pivot, Shindig, Shiro, Subversion, Thrift, Tika, Traffic 
Server, UIMA, ZooKeeper become Top-level Projects. Alois, Amber, Bean 
Validation, Celix, Chukwa, Deltacloud, Gora, Isis, Jena, Kitty, Lucy, 
ManifoldCF, Mesos, NPanday, Nuvem, OODT, OpenNLP, SIS, Stanbol, Wave, Whirr, 
and Zeta Components entered the Apache Incubator. Milestone project releases 
include Cassandra 0.6, Cayenne 3.0, FOP 1.0, Maven 3.0, SpamAssassin 3.3.0, and 
Tomcat 7.0. Apache Excalibur, iBatis, Quetzalcoatl, and WSIF Projects were 
retired to the Attic. The ASF launches "Apache Extras" (hosted by Google) to 
provide a "home-away-from-home" for code associated with Apache projects. The 
ASF issued Public Statements about Apache Harmony as well
 as Oracle's decision on the Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit's Field Of 
Use, and resigns from the Java Community Process Executive Committee. Shane 
Curcuru, Doug Cutting, Bertrand Delacretaz, Roy T. Fielding, Jim Jagielski, Sam 
Ruby, Noirin Shirley, Greg Stein, and Henri Yandell have been elected to serve 
on the ASF Board of Directors; Geir Magnusson, Jr., is named as replacement for 
Henri Yandell. ASF Director Greg Stein awarded O'Reilly Open Source Award at 
OSCON. New role of Executive Assistant has been created and staffed. 30 new ASF 
Members were elected this year. ASF Platinum Sponsors are Google, Microsoft, 
and Yahoo!; IBM joins Gold Sponsor Hewlett-Packard; Silver Sponsors are 
Cloudera, Progress Software and Springsource/VMWare, and Bronze Sponsors are 
BlueNog, Intuit, Joost, and Matt Mullenweg. ApacheCon North America took place 
in Atlanta, Georgia. BarCampApache in Sydney, Australia, was the first 
ASF-backed event to take place in the
 Southern Hemisphere. 

Highlights: 2011 
Apache ACE, Chemistry, Deltacloud, JMeter, Libcloud, River, Whirr became 
Top-level Projects. More projects than ever submitted to become part of the 
Apache community: Accumulo, Airavata, Ambari, Any23, AWF, Bigtop, Bloodhound, 
Cordova, DeltaSpike, DirectMemory, EasyAnt, Flex, Flume, Giraph, HCatalog, 
Kafka, Kalumet, Lucene.Net, MRUnit, ODF Toolkit, OGNL, Oozie,   OpenMeetings, 
OpenOffice, Rave, S4, and Sqoop entered the Incubator. Apache Alois retired 
from the Incubator. Apache Harmony, Jakarta, and Xindice moved to the Attic. 
Milestone project releases include Cassandra 0.7 and 1.0, Geronimo v3.0-beta-1, 
Pivot 2.0, Subversion 1.7.0, Tika 1.0, and Turbine 4.0-M1. Apache TomEE is 
certified as Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatible. Apache UIMA and Hadoop advance 
data intelligence and semantic capabilities of Watson, IBM's "Smartest Machine 
on Earth" demonstrated in first-ever man vs. machine competition on Jeopardy! 
quiz show. Apache Hadoop wins
 MediaGuardian’s "Innovator of the Year" award. The ASF accepted to become an 
Affiliate at the Open Source Initiative. New Executive Committee is appointed: 
Doug Cutting as Chair, Greg Stein as Vice Chair, Jim Jagielski as President, 
Noirin Plunkett as Executive Vice President, Sam Ruby as Vice President - 
Infrastructure, Craig L Russell as Secretary, Sam Ruby as Assistant Secretary, 
and Geir Magnusson, Jr., as Treasurer. The ASF is subpoenaed by the United 
Stated District Court to produce documents in Oracle America vs. Google related 
to the use of Apache Harmony code in the Android software platform, and the 
unsuccessful attempt by Apache to secure an acceptable license to the Java SE 
Technology Compatibility Kit. The ASF issues statement on Apache OpenOffice.org 
(the first mature, end-user-facing Apache project) and Open Letter to the Open 
Document Format Ecosystem clarifying that its code base was not pursued by the 
ASF prior to its acceptance into
 the Apache Incubator, and articulating the project’s vision within the wider 
Open Document Format ecosystem. 42 new ASF Members were elected, bringing the 
active membership to 370 individuals and 2,663 Apache Commiters world-wide. ASF 
Platinum Sponsors are Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!; AMD, Facebook, and 
Hortonworks join Gold Sponsors Hewlett-Packard and IBM; PSW Group joins Silver 
Sponsors Cloudera, Progress Software and Springsource/VMWare; and Liip AG, 
Lucid Imagination, Talend, and WANdisco join Bronze Sponsors BlueNog, Intuit, 
Joost, and Matt Mullenweg. ApacheCon North America took place in Vancouver, 
Canada, marking the 25th event in the conference series. 
Highlights: 2012 
The ASF celebrated the 17th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server with the 
release of v2.4; the project maintains its standing as the world's most popular 
Web server, powering nearly 400 million sites. The Apache Incubator continues 
to gain momentum, with 85 podlings graduating over the past decade. Apache 
Accumulo, Airavata, Any23, Bigtop, BVal, Cordova, Creadur, DirectMemory, 
Empire-db, Flex, Flume, Giraph, Gora, Hama, ISIS, Jena, Kafka, Lucene.Net, 
Lucy, ManifoldCF, MRUnit, Oozie, OpenNLP, OpenOffice, Rave, SIS, Sqoop, 
Stanbol, Steve, Syncope, VCL, Wink, Wookie become Top-level Projects. Allura, 
Blur, CloudStack, Crunch, cTAKES, DeviceMap, Drill, Hadoop Development Tools, 
Helix, Marmotta, Ripple, Streams, and Syncope entered the Incbuator. Apache 
AWF, HISE, Kato, Kitty, and PhotArk retired from the Incubator. Milestone 
project releases include Deltacloud 1.0, Hadoop 1.0, Nutch 2.0, TomEE 1.0, 
Traffic Server 3.2, and Wicket 6.0. New Executive Committee
 is appointed: Doug Cutting as Chair, Greg Stein as Vice Chair, Jim Jagielski 
as President, Ross Gardler as Executive Vice President, Craig L Russell as 
Secretary, Chris Mattmann as Treasurer, and Sam Ruby as Assistant Secretary. 
ASF Officers that now serve at the direction of the President are: Vice 
President, Brand Management; Vice President, Fundraising; Vice President, 
Marketing and Publicity; and Vice President, Conference Planning. The office of 
Vice President, Java Community Process is dissolved. 46 new ASF Members were 
elected this year. Citrix became an ASF Sponsor, joining Facebook, Google, 
Microsoft, and Yahoo! at the Platinum level; AMD, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, and 
Matt Mullenweg at the Gold level; GoDaddy, Huawei, and In Motion Hosting joined 
Basis Technology, Cloudera, PSW GROUP, SpringSource, and WANdisco at the Silver 
level; and Intuit and Twitter joined BlueNog, Digital Primates, Intuit, Joost, 
Liip AG SA Ltd, Lucid Imagination, Talend,
 and Two Sigma Investments at the Bronze level. The ASF returned to Europe with 
the ApacheCon Europe Community Edition in Sinsheim, Germany, underwritten and 
hosted by SAP. 
Highlights: 2013 
Apache Ambari, Bloodhound, Chukwa, Clerezza, CloudStack, Crunch, cTAKES, 
Curator, DeltaSpike, Etch, Helix, jclouds, JSPWiki, Marmotta, Mesos, Oltu, 
Onami, OpenMeetings, graduate as Top-level Projects. Aurora, BatchEE, Curator, 
Falcon, jclouds, Knox, log4cxx2, MetaModel, MRQL, Olingo, Open Climate 
Workbench, Phoenix, Provisionr, Samza, Sentry, Sirona, Spark, Storm, Stratos, 
Tajo, Tez, Twill, Usergrid entered the Apache Incubator. Apache Provisionr 
retired from the Incubator. Milestone project releases include Cassandra 1.2 
and 2.0, OpenOffice 4.0, and Subversion 1.8.0. Apache Struts 1 announces 
End-Of-Life, and recommends Struts 2 as successor. Apache C++ Standard Library 
(STDCXX), ESME, and XMLBeans moved to the Attic. The ASF issues a statement on 
Oracle's Technology Compatibility Kit License. Shane Curcuru, Doug Cutting, 
Bertrand Delacretaz, Roy Fielding, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann, Brett Porter, 
Sam Ruby, and Greg Stein were elected to the ASF
 Board of Directors. The office of Vice President, Conference Planning, was 
dissolved; committee was renamed to Events Planning. 36 new ASF Members were 
elected, bringing the active membership to 468 individuals. ASF Sponsors are 
Citrix, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! at the Platinum level; AMD, 
Hortonworks, HP, IBM, and Matt Mullenweg at the Gold level; Basis Technology, 
Cloudera, GoDaddy, Huawei, InMotion Hosting, PSW GROUP, SpringSource, and 
WANdisco at the Silver level; and BlueNog, Digital Primates, Intuit, Joost, 
Liip AG SA Ltd, Lucid Imagination, Talend, Twitter, and Two Sigma Investments 
at the Bronze level. Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) committed to become the 
provider of Apache server hosting and bandwidth in Europe. The ASF was accepted 
into the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization for the 
eighth consecutive year; hundreds of students have been mentored in "The Apache 
Way" under the guidance of the ASF Community
 Development Project, with many continuing to be long-term code committers on a 
variety of Apache projects, as well as some active program participants elected 
as ASF Members. ApacheCon North America took place in Portland, Oregon. 

Highlights: 2014 
The ASF exceeded 2 Million code commits: the two millionth revision was by ASF 
Member Daniel Kulp on behalf of the Apache CXF Project. The Apache HTTP Server 
remains the world's leading Web server: the Netcraft September Web Server 
Survey exceeded a billion Websites, stating "Apache truly dominates this 
market, with more than half of all active sites choosing to use Apache 
software". Interest in Apache's projects continued to boom, accelerating 
development and participation by 100% in four years: Apache Allura, Celix, 
Knox, Olingo, Open Climate Workbench, Phoenix, Spark, Storm, Stratos, Tajo, 
Tez, VXQuery became Top-level Projects. Argus, Brooklyn, Calcite, DataFu, 
Flink, HTrace, Ignite, Johnzon, Lens, Parquet, REEF, Slider, Tamaya, and 
Taverna entered the Apache Incubator. Milestone project releases included 
Cayenne 3.1, CloudStack 4.3, Log4j 2, SpamAssassin 3.4.0, and Spark 1.0. Apache 
Click was retired to the Attic. Apache OpenOffice reached a major
 adoption milestone with 100 million downloads. Apache TomEE won a Duke's 
Choice and Geek Choice Award; DeltaSpike, dubbed "the Swiss Army Knife of 
modern Java EE" won a Duke's Choice Award. The ASF Celebrated Document Freedom 
Day, with numerous Apache Projects supporting standards-based document 
accessibility and interoperability. Rich Bowen, Doug Cutting, Bertrand 
Delacretaz, Ross Gardler, Jim Jagielski, Chris Mattmann, Brett Porter, Sam 
Ruby, and Greg Stein were elected to the ASF Board of Directors. The ASF boasts 
505 active Members and 4,081 Apache Committers. The ASF Infrastructure team 
continues to keep the ASF's multi-datacenter, multi-cloud deployment running 
24x7x365 on multiple continents, distributing terabytes of artifacts per week 
and archiving more than 11 million Apache email messages. Apache's repositories 
changed greatly with the introduction of Git to the source code management 
system four years ago; since then the original Subversion
 repository had been decentralized and augmented with 268 Git repositories, and 
a robust GitHub presence with 564 different repositories. In addition, the 
Infrastructure team launched a new status service that provides extensive 
information about the health of the Apache infrastructure and activity within 
its projects, as well as a new code signing service for Java, Windows and 
Android applications for any Apache project to use to sign their releases. The 
ASF provided new "Powered by Apache" graphical assets for Apache projects, 
developers, and users to identify their affiliation with products and 
initiatives under the Apache umbrella. The ASF continues to flourish thanks to 
support from Platinum Sponsors Citrix, Facebook, Google, Matt Mullenweg, 
Microsoft, and Yahoo!; Gold Sponsors Cloudera, Comcast, HP, Hortonworks, and 
IBM; Silver Sponsors Budget Direct, Cerner, Huawei, InMotion Hosting, Pivotal, 
Produban, and WANdisco; and Bronze Sponsors Accor,
 Basis Technology, Bluehost, Cloudsoft Corporation, Samsung, Talend, and 
Twitter. The ASF decided to accept donations using Bitcoin, and received more 
than 90 transactions within 48 hours of opening its Bitcoin wallet. ApacheCon 
North America took place in Denver, Colorado, and ApacheCon Europe was held in 
Budapest, Hungary. 
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