ApacheCon - State of the Feather

Presented by Jim Jagielski, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation board of directors

ASF started with 21 members, 2 projects (httpd and comcon - the conferences), and now has 270 members, over 63 top level projects and 32 in the incubator with 1920 committers.  One of the core things that the foundation provides is providing the infrastructure, as well as the legal infrastructure, so that open source projects can focus on what they do best - releasing great software.

He continues with a long list of highlights from the last year.  Over the past year it seems that the ASF has grown considerably.  They have grown their infrastructure quite a bit to accommodateall of the new growth.  They were able to form the Travel Assistance Committee this year, to which I am very grateful for assisting me in making the conference this year.  They had 23 projects in the Google Summer of Code contest this year.

Overall - it looks like it will be a very good conference to attend!

ApacheCon Wednesday Morning

Wednesday morning is starting off with the “Open Plenary and State of the Feature” by Shane Curcuru and Jim Jagielski, followed by a keynote address entitled: “Learning from Apache to Create Open Specifications” by David Recordon with the Open Web Foundation.

Of course, when you come in to register, you have to stop and get your “swag”.  Today’s swag is the obligatory t-shirt and bag.  Also included was a PrimeLine Robot Series Book Light.  Sure - not the most exciting swag of all conferences I’ve been to, but certainly not the worst.  I do need to find where the hack-a-thon t-shirts are being handed out - those look cool, sporting “May the source be with you” in Star Wars style on the front.

ApacheCon US 2008 Live Blog

All of us have at one time or another told ourselves that we were going to start writing interesting posts in our blog.  If you’re a geek like me, you started by installing a blog software package on your server and testing it out.  But - then what?  That’s where I’ve been several times.  Blog software ready - blogger not ready.

So, since I have the privilege of attending the 2008 US ApacheCon event here in New Orleans, I am going to use it as an opportunity to seed my blog with entries on the sessions I attend.  Stay tuned here for live blogging from the event as it happens.

To see the schedule of sessions held, visit: http://www.us.apachecon.com/c/acus2008/schedule

ApacheCon US 2008 Hack-a-thon

Today was the second day of the ApacheCon US 2008 Hackathon in New Orleans and I was able to attend.  For most of the day, I was able to sit at a table with Martijn Dashorst and Bruno Borges from the Wicket community.  It was nice getting to meet both of them in person and talk about Wicket, Rio de Janeiro and Holland.

I tried to spend most of the day doing something productive for Wicket.  I was able to submit a couple of patches for issues currently in JIRA, and Igor already committed one of them (WICKET-1619).  Martijn utilized the Apache resources (sitting next to Wendy, a Maven committer) to resolve a long-standing request to include javadocs with the Wicket builds.

All in all - a very nice experience.  I can’t wait for the conference to actual begin tomorrow.

Hello World!

Everyone on the net has a blog.  Ten year old kids have a blog.  So, I guess I should create a blog.  This will be a technology-focused blog, with my thoughts and observations regarding technology that I work with on a day-to-day basis.  Hopefully you’ll find some answer here that helps you. 

I’ll start posting in the coming days.  Until then, check out my about me page to find out a little more.  (The link’s at the top of this page).