The Apache Software Foundation
Acronym: ASF
General Information
Identification Code: 460992853150-94
Website: https://www.apache.org/
Entity Form: Foundation
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 3/6/2024
Last Update: 3/18/2024
Mission & Interests
Goals: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) exists to provide software for the public good. It was founded 1999 It was formed in 1999 primarily to: 1) provide a foundation for open, collaborative software development projects by supplying hardware, communication, and business infrastructure, 2) create an independent legal entity to which companies and individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for the public benefit, 3) provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects and finally 4) protect the 'Apache' brand, as applied to its software products, from being abused by other organizations.
The ASF is s run almost exclusively by volunteers that provide support for hundreds of projects. Its members, individual open source developers that voluntarily contribute their time, elect an all-volunteer board annually.
Full details can be found at https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Digital economy and society
- International co-operation and development
- Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
- global
- european
- national
- sub-national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Proposals and policies that affect Open Source in general and our community in particular; support policy makers with information on open source, Interoperability, security, cloud, privacy and related IT and ICT topics.
Communication Activities: Provide input to policy makers around proposals and policies that affect Open Source in general and our community in particular; support policy makers with information on open source, Interoperability, security, cloud, privacy and related IT and ICT topics.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: The Apache Software Foundation1000 N West Street, Suite 1200
Post Code: DE 19801
City: Wilmington
Country: UNITED STATES
Phone:
Indic Phone: 1
Phone Number: 9195739199
EU Office
Address: The Apache Software Foundation1000 N West Street, Suite 1200
Post Code: DE 19801
City: Wilmington
Country: UNITED STATES
Phone:
Indic Phone: 1
Phone Number: 9195739199
Financial Data
Closed Year:
Start Date:
End Date:
Funding Sources:
- Donations
- Other
Other Source Info: Donations: No donation exceeded 10% of the total budget AND were above 10k€.
This is intentional. The ASF strives to avoid a situation where a few overly large donors indirectly get a certain level of control. Instead - the ASF focuses on a larger,. intentionally diverse, set of smaller donors.
Other: Event revenue (if that year ran a surplus) from annual meetings of our community/members.
Contributions:
Total Budget: 1600000
Grants:
Current Year:
Grants:
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 1
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.10000000149011612
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: The ASF hosts well over 300 projects; each with anywhere between 10 and 250 active developers that provide software for the public good.
We believe in the power of community over code, known as The Apache Way. Many thousands of people around the world contribute to ASF open source projects every day.
A list of our members and committers (i.e. our active developers) can be found at http://home.apache.org/committers-by-project.html. The ASF does not allow companies or other `non human' legal persons/entity as its members.
More details at https://www.apache.org/foundation/
These developers, i.e. private individuals are generally IT professionals that typically work for a wide range of companies, with most at SMEs. It is common for our members to also be a member of professional (engineering) bodies and similar in a private capacity.
Organisation Members: Supporter (not a member) of Open Forum Europe (OFE); a representative presence at the World Wide Web Consortium, Open Source Initiative Affiliate and Associate member of Eclipse. 2024-03-18.
Current Job Opportunities
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