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The Apache Software Foundation

🌎 apache.org

Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a nonprofit organization that oversees more than 350 open-source projects, including the widely used Apache HTTP Server. The ASF promotes community-led innovation through its meritocratic process known as 'The Apache Way,' enabling collaboration among over 850 individual members and 8,200 committers. The foundation is funded by donations and corporate sponsorships, providing freely available enterprise-grade software to millions of users worldwide.

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The Apache Software Foundation - Latest News and Updates

• The Apache Software Foundation released Apache Tika 3.0 for download, a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text from documents.
• On November 12, Snowflake announced that Apache Polaris, donated to The Apache Software Foundation, is now available as Snowflake Open Catalog.
• The Apache Software Foundation released Apache Beam 2.60 with bug fixes, features, and improvements on November 8.
• The Apache Software Foundation is incubating Apache XTable, a project originally launched as OneTable, with support from major cloud providers like Google Cloud and Microsoft.
• The Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack Collaboration Conference will be held in November in Madrid, featuring discussions by PMC member Ivet Petrova Madzharova.

• The Apache Software Foundation is seeking donations on December 3 to support over 300 community-driven software projects.
• Abhishek Balaji Radhakrishnan has joined The Apache Software Foundation as PMC, Apache Druid in the San Francisco Bay Area, previously holding a position at another company.
• Alina Kazi has become the first woman and the first person from Pakistan to join the Project Management Committee for the Apache Royale project at The Apache Software Foundation.

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