I gave a talk on the Apache Way in 2017 to their Open Source department, I 
could reach out to my
contact there if required.

Cheers,

Uli

On 13.12.18 09:28, Christofer Dutz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> currently the production industry is all about “industry 4.0” and this mainly 
> covers topics like: Cloud, BigData, Machine Learning … while we know that 
> Apache has a lot to offer in that regard.
> Still Siemens is doing a lot in promoting their MindSphere platform and are 
> gaining some traction in the industry.
> 
> Especially in the IoT projects of Apache it would be great to be able to talk 
> to that platform the same way we can with Azure, Google, AWS, … unfortunately 
> an insanely expensive membership is needed.
> 
> In all of my recent meetings with Siemens, I always underlined that I would 
> love to support MindSphere, but I and I bet most others here at Apache are 
> definitely not going to pay 10k€/year in order to develop software for 
> Siemens in my free time. Now after a lot of constant nagging on different 
> occasions, I was told that even if Apache is not a research or academic 
> institiution, they would be willing to grant the ASF the same status. However 
> someone with the formal capacity to do so would have to fill out the form.
> 
> So my question is: Would there be an interest in this? And who should I 
> involve in this?
> 
> Chris
> 

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