The mission of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is to provide software for the public good. We do this by providing services and support for many software project communities consisting of individuals who choose to participate in ASF activities.
Established in 1999, the ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors. Our all-volunteer board oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software.
The ASF provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that limits potential legal exposure for our project committers. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 740 individual Members and 8940 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software that benefits millions of users worldwide: projects distribute thousands of software solutions under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon (the Foundation's official user conference), trainings, and other events.
Formerly known as the Apache Group, the ASF was incorporated in 1999 as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers. Individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software development, through sustained participation and contributions within the Foundation's projects, are eligible for membership in the ASF. An individual receives membership after nomination and approval by a majority of the existing ASF members. Thus, the ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves: the people collaborating within its projects.
The ASF members periodically elect a Board of Directors to manage the organizational affairs of the Foundation, following the ASF Bylaws. The Board, in turn, appoints a number of officers to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. Public records of our operations are available to the community. A more detailed explanation of How the ASF works in terms of day to day operations is available, and the Apache Community Development project's goal is to help newcomers learn more about the Apache Software Foundation.
Project Management Committees (PMCs), made up of individuals who have shown merit and leadership within ASF projects, govern those projects. There are detailed descriptions of ASF and project governance models.
Since the Foundation is a Delaware membership corporation, Apache Members are like shareholders in the legal corporation. Members vote to elect the Board of Directors and may propose new Member candidates at Annual Members' Meetings. Members have a number of rights and responsibilities documented in our Governance guide.
Note that Apache Members have a role with respect to the ASF as a corporation, as defined in the ASF's bylaws. This is separate from membership in our many Apache Project Management Committees, who are only responsible for development and community management in their individual project.
The membership of the ASF elects the nine-member board to run the foundation, to set policy, and to ensure it is carried out. The directors of the board are:
| Rich Bowen | Shane Curcuru | Bertrand Delacretaz |
| Christofer Dutz | Sharan Foga | Willem Ning Jiang |
| Justin Mclean | Craig L Russell | Sander Striker |
The Board has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| Board Chair | Sander Striker |
| Vice Chair | Sharan Foga |
| President | David Nalley |
| Exec. V.P | Ruth Suehle |
| Treasurer | Craig McClanahan |
| Assistant Treasurer | Roberto Galoppini |
| Secretary | Matt Sicker |
| Assistant Secretary | Craig L Russell |
| V.P., Legal Affairs | Roman Shaposhnik |
| Assistant V.P., Legal Affairs | Justin Mclean |
| V.P., Security | Mark J. Cox |
| V.P., W3C Relations | Andy Seaborne |
The President has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Brand Management | Mark Thomas |
| V.P., Conferences | Rich Bowen |
| V.P., Diversity and Inclusion | Katia Rojas |
| V.P., Fundraising | Bob Paulin |
| V.P., Infrastructure | Myrle Krantz |
| V.P., Marketing and Publicity | Brian Proffitt |
| V.P., Data Privacy | Christian Grobmeier |
| V.P., Travel Assistance | Gavin McDonald |
| Infrastructure Administrator | Greg Stein |
VP, Fundraising has appointed the following corporate officers of the ASF:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Sponsor Relations | Sally Khudairi |
The Board has appointed the following Vice Presidents to chair the PMCs of each Apache project:
| Office | Individual |
|---|---|
| V.P., Apache Accumulo | Ed Coleman |
| V.P., Apache ActiveMQ | Bruce Snyder |
| V.P., Apache AGE | Eya Badal |
| V.P., Apache Airavata | Suresh Marru |
| V.P., Apache Airflow | Bolke de Bruin |
| V.P., Apache Allura | Dave Brondsema |
| V.P., Apache Ambari | Roman Shaposhnik |
| V.P., Apache Ant | Jan Matèrne |
| V.P., Apache APISIX | Ming Wen |
| V.P., Apache Archiva | Olivier Lamy |
| V.P., Apache Aries | Christian Schneider |
| V.P., Apache Arrow | Andrew Lamb |
| V.P., Apache AsterixDB | Till Westmann |
| V.P., Apache Atlas | Madhan Neethiraj |
| V.P., Apache Attic | Herve Boutemy |
| V.P., Apache Avro | Ryan Skraba |
| V.P., Apache Axis | Robert Lazarski |
| V.P., Apache Bahir | João Boto |
| V.P., Apache Beam | Kenneth Knowles |
| V.P., Apache Bigtop | Yuqi Gu |
| V.P., Apache Bloodhound | Gary Martin |
| V.P., Apache BookKeeper | Enrico Olivelli |
| V.P., Apache Brooklyn | Juan D. Cabrerizo |
| V.P., Apache bRPC | James Ge |
| V.P., Apache BuildStream | Tristan Van Berkom |
| V.P., Apache BVal | Matt Benson |
| V.P., Apache Calcite | Stamatis Zampetakis |
| V.P., Apache Camel | Andrea Cosentino |
| V.P., Apache CarbonData | Liang Chen |
| V.P., Apache Cassandra | Josh McKenzie |
| V.P., Apache Causeway | Johan Doornenbal |
| V.P., Apache Cayenne | Michael Gentry |
| V.P., Apache Celix | Pepijn Noltes |
| V.P., Apache CloudStack | Rohit Yadav |
| V.P., Apache Cocoon | Cédric Damioli |
| V.P., Apache Commons | Gary D. Gregory |
| V.P., Apache Community Development | Swapnil Mane |
| V.P., Apache Cordova | Jesse MacFadyen |
| V.P., Apache CouchDB | Jan Lehnardt |
| V.P., Apache Creadur | Philipp Ottlinger |
| V.P., Apache cTAKES | Pei J Chen |
| V.P., Apache Curator | Enrico Olivelli |
| V.P., Apache CXF | Daniel Kulp |
| V.P., Apache Daffodil | Mike Beckerle |
| V.P., Apache DataFu | Eyal Allweil |
| V.P., Apache DataSketches | Lee Rhodes |
| V.P., Apache DB | Bryan Pendleton |
| V.P., Apache DeltaSpike | Mark Struberg |
| V.P., Apache Directory | Shawn McKinney |
| V.P., Apache DolphinScheduler | Lidong Dai |
| V.P., Apache Doris | Mingyu Chen |
| V.P., Apache Drill | Charles Givre |
| V.P., Apache Druid | Gian Merlino |
| V.P., Apache Dubbo | Jun Liu |
| V.P., Apache ECharts | Wenli Zhang |
| V.P., Apache Empire-db | Rainer Döbele |
| V.P., Apache EventMesh | Eason Chen |
| V.P., Apache Felix | Karl Pauls |
| V.P., Apache Fineract | James Dailey |
| V.P., Apache Flagon | Joshua C. Poore |
| V.P., Apache Flex | Harbs |
| V.P., Apache Flink | Robert Metzger |
| V.P., Apache Flume | Balázs Donát Bessenyei |
| V.P., Apache Fluo | Keith Turner |
| V.P., Apache FreeMarker | Dániel Dékány |
| V.P., Apache Geode | Mark Bretl |
| V.P., Apache Geronimo | Jean-Louis Monteiro |
| V.P., Apache Giraph | Dionysios Logothetis |
| V.P., Apache Gobblin | Abhishek Tiwari |
| V.P., Apache Gora | Kevin Ratnasekera |
| V.P., Apache Griffin | William Guo |
| V.P., Apache Groovy | Paul King |
| V.P., Apache Guacamole | Mike Jumper |
| V.P., Apache Gump | Stefan Bodewig |
| V.P., Apache Hadoop | Wei-Chiu Chuang |
| V.P., Apache HAWQ | Lei Chang |
| V.P., Apache HBase | Duo Zhang |
| V.P., Apache Helix | Junkai Xue |
| V.P., Apache Hive | Naveen Gangam |
| V.P., Apache Hop | Hans Van Akelyen |
| V.P., Apache HTTP Server | Joe Orton |
| V.P., Apache HttpComponents | Michael Osipov |
| V.P., Apache Hudi | Vinoth Chandar |
| V.P., Apache Iceberg | Ryan Blue |
| V.P., Apache Ignite | Dmitry Pavlov |
| V.P., Apache Impala | Jim Apple |
| V.P., Apache Incubator | Justin Mclean |
| V.P., Apache InLong | Charles Zhang |
| V.P., Apache IoTDB | Xiangdong Huang |
| V.P., Apache Jackrabbit | Marcel Reutegger |
| V.P., Apache James | Benoit Tellier |
| V.P., Apache jclouds | Andrew Gaul |
| V.P., Apache Jena | Andy Seaborne |
| V.P., Apache JMeter | Bruno (Milamber) Demion |
| V.P., Apache Johnzon | Jean-Louis Monteiro |
| V.P., Apache JSPWiki | Juan Pablo Santos |
| V.P., Apache Juneau | James Bognar |
| V.P., Apache Kafka | Mickael Maison |
| V.P., Apache Karaf | Jean-Baptiste Onofré |
| V.P., Apache Kibble | Sharan Foga |
| V.P., Apache Knox | Larry McCay |
| V.P., Apache Kudu | Andrew Wong |
| V.P., Apache Kvrocks | Hulk Lin |
| V.P., Apache Kylin | Shao Feng Shi |
| V.P., Apache Kyuubi | Kent Yao |
| V.P., Apache Libcloud | Tomaž Muraus |
| V.P., Apache Linkis | Shuai Di |
| V.P., Apache Logging Services | Volkan Yazici |
| V.P., Apache Lucene | Greg Miller |
| V.P., Apache Lucene.Net | Shad Storhaug |
| V.P., Apache MADlib | Ed Espino |
| V.P., Apache Mahout | Andrew Musselman |
| V.P., Apache ManifoldCF | Karl Wright |
| V.P., Apache Maven | Karl Heinz Marbaise |
| V.P., Apache Mesos | Qian Zhang |
| V.P., Apache MINA | Guillaume Nodet |
| V.P., Apache Mnemonic | Yanhui Zhao |
| V.P., Apache MXNet | Sheng Zha |
| V.P., Apache MyFaces | Bernd Bohmann |
| V.P., Apache Mynewt | Szymon Janc |
| V.P., Apache NetBeans | Geertjan Wielenga |
| V.P., Apache NiFi | Joe Witt |
| V.P., Apache Nutch | Sebastian Nagel |
| V.P., Apache NuttX | Alin Jerpelea |
| V.P., Apache OFBiz | Jacopo Cappellato |
| V.P., Apache Olingo | Michael Bolz |
| V.P., Apache Oozie | Dénes Bodó |
| V.P., Apache OpenJPA | Mark Struberg |
| V.P., Apache OpenMeetings | Maxim Solodovnik |
| V.P., Apache OpenNLP | Jeffrey T. Zemerick |
| V.P., Apache OpenOffice | Dave Fisher |
| V.P., Apache OpenWebBeans | Mark Struberg |
| V.P., Apache OpenWhisk | Dave Grove |
| V.P., Apache ORC | William Hyun |
| V.P., Apache Ozone | Sammi Chen |
| V.P., Apache Parquet | Xinli Shang |
| V.P., Apache PDFBox | Andreas Lehmkühler |
| V.P., Apache Perl | Steve Hay |
| V.P., Apache Petri | Dave Fisher |
| V.P., Apache Phoenix | Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla |
| V.P., Apache Pig | Koji Noguchi |
| V.P., Apache Pinot | Kishore G |
| V.P., Apache Pivot | Roger Whitcomb |
| V.P., Apache PLC4X | Christofer Dutz |
| V.P., Apache POI | Dominik Stadler |
| V.P., Apache Portable Runtime (APR) | Yann Ylavic |
| V.P., Apache Portals | Neil Griffin |
| V.P., Apache Pulsar | Matteo Merli |
| V.P., Apache Qpid | Robbie Gemmell |
| V.P., Apache Ranger | Selvamohan Neethiraj |
| V.P., Apache Ratis | Tsz-wo Sze |
| V.P., Apache RocketMQ | Xiaorui Wang |
| V.P., Apache Roller | Dave Johnson |
| V.P., Apache Royale | Piotr Zarzycki |
| V.P., Apache Rya | Adina Crainiceanu |
| V.P., Apache Samza | Yi Pan |
| V.P., Apache Santuario | Colm O hEigeartaigh |
| V.P., Apache SeaTunnel | Jun Gao |
| V.P., Apache Sedona | Jia Yu |
| V.P., Apache Serf | Justin Erenkrantz |
| V.P., Apache ServiceComb | Bao Liu |
| V.P., Apache ServiceMix | Krzysztof Sobkowiak |
| V.P., Apache ShardingSphere | Liang Zhang |
| V.P., Apache ShenYu | Yu Xiao |
| V.P., Apache Shiro | Brian Demers |
| V.P., Apache SINGA | Wang Wei |
| V.P., Apache SIS | Martin Desruisseaux |
| V.P., Apache SkyWalking | Sheng Wu |
| V.P., Apache Sling | Robert Munteanu |
| V.P., Apache Solr | David Smiley |
| V.P., Apache SpamAssassin | Sidney Markowitz |
| V.P., Apache Spark | Matei Zaharia |
| V.P., Apache Steve | Daniel Gruno |
| V.P., Apache Storm | P. Taylor Goetz |
| V.P., Apache StreamPipes | Philipp Zehnder |
| V.P., Apache Streams | Steve Blackmon |
| V.P., Apache Struts | René Gielen |
| V.P., Apache Submarine | Liu Xun |
| V.P., Apache Subversion | Nathan Hartman |
| V.P., Apache Superset | Maxime Beauchemin |
| V.P., Apache Synapse | Isuru Udana |
| V.P., Apache Syncope | Francesco Chicchiriccò |
| V.P., Apache SystemDS | Matthias Boehm |
| V.P., Apache Tapestry | Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo |
| V.P., Apache Tcl | Georgios Petasis |
| V.P., Apache Tez | László Bodor |
| V.P., Apache Thrift | Jens Geyer |
| V.P., Apache Tika | Tim Allison |
| V.P., Apache TinkerPop | Florian Hockmann |
| V.P., Apache Tomcat | Mladen Turk |
| V.P., Apache TomEE | David Blevins |
| V.P., Apache Traffic Control | Eric Friedrich |
| V.P., Apache Traffic Server | Bryan Call |
| V.P., Apache Turbine | Georg Kallidis |
| V.P., Apache TVM | Tianqi Chen |
| V.P., Apache UIMA | Richard Eckart de Castilho |
| V.P., Apache Unomi | Serge Huber |
| V.P., Apache VCL | Josh Thompson |
| V.P., Apache Velocity | Nathan Bubna |
| V.P., Apache Web Services | Daniel Kulp |
| V.P., Apache Whimsy | Shane Curcuru |
| V.P., Apache Wicket | Andrea Del Bene |
| V.P., Apache Xalan | Gary D. Gregory |
| V.P., Apache Xerces | Michael Glavassevich |
| V.P., Apache XML Graphics | Clay Leeds |
| V.P., Apache Yetus | Allen Wittenauer |
| V.P., Apache YuniKorn | Wilfred Spiegelenburg |
| V.P., Apache Zeppelin | Jongyoul Lee |
| V.P., Apache ZooKeeper | Flavio Junqueira |
The Foundation is a collaborative project of the ASF. Our goal is to build and sustain the literal foundation upon which our open-source software projects are based.