The Apache Brand [was: Re: Joining the Apache Foundation]

2017-01-19 Thread Greg Trasuk
> On Jan 19, 2017, at 9:50 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, wrote: >> ...There is actually a drawback from joining the community: all code >> becomes licensed to the Apache Foundation under the Apache License... > > This is actually a huge benefi

Re: Joining the Apache Foundation

2017-01-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, wrote: > ...There is actually a drawback from joining the community: all code > becomes licensed to the Apache Foundation under the Apache License... This is actually a huge benefit for some types of projects and users, especially when it's about projects wh

Re: Joining the Apache Foundation

2017-01-19 Thread Shawn McKinney
The ASF is for the community, i.e. community over code. It’s benefits are numerous and include: - high-quality infra, e.g. issue tracking, automated testing, code scanning, mailing lists, IRC, binary and source distribution, etc. - project mentorship, ASF is packed with folks that understand ho

Joining the Apache Foundation

2017-01-19 Thread gdvv
What are the advantages of joining the Apache Foundation? Yes, I've read the pages on your website, but I don't understand how a project would benefit from joining the Foundation apart from using the organization infrastructure. Since a project is required to grow a community (from the incubato

Re: ApacheCon CFP closing soon (11 February)

2017-01-19 Thread Rich Bowen
On Jan 18, 2017 18:00, "Matthew Sacks" wrote: Proposal: dissociate from Linux foundation as the ASF has nothing to do with Linux and never did. Matthew, We are 3 years into a 5 year contract with LF to produce ApacheCon. This was a decision made by a lot of people, after months of discussion,