The Apache Software Foundation began in 1999 as a small group of developers working on a single project. It has grown to host more than 100 projects and several thousand committers. Managing that growth has been, and continues to be, an ongoing challenge for the foundation. In this talk, we will discuss the challenges that we have faced as a foundation, how we have handled them up to now, and what we see as the key challenges ahead.
Phil Steitz is a member of the Board of Directors of the Apache Software Foundation. He has been an ASF volunteer since 2003 and an ASF member since 2005. He has served as VP, Apache Commons, as a mentor in the Apache Incubator and a committer on multiple ASF projects. His involvement... Read More →