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    The myApache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)3 in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June, 1999.

    The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License and are therefore free software / open source software. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process and an open and pragmatic software license. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project. The ASF is a meritocracy, implying that membership to the foundation is granted only to volunteers who have actively contributed to Apache projects.

    Among the ASF's objectives are to provide legal protection to volunteers working on Apache projects, and to prevent the Apache brand name from being used by other organizations without permission.

    The ASF also holds several ApacheCon conferences each year, highlighting Apache projects, related technology, and allowing Apache developers to gather together.

        Apache Software Foundation
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    Projects
    Formally recognized Apache projects include:

      APR: Apache Portable Runtime, a portability library written in C
      Beehive: A Java visual object model
      Directory: A directory server supporting LDAP and other protocols
      Forrest: documentation framework based upon Cocoon
      iBATIS: Persistence framework which enables mapping sql queries to POJOs.
        OFBiz: A suite of enterprise automation applications
      Jakarta: server side Java (including its own set of sub-projects)
      Logging: logging services for application debugging and auditing, including log4j
      Lucene: text search engine library written entirely in Java
      XML: XML solutions for the web
        Batik
        A pure Java library for SVG content manipulation
        FOP
        A pure Java processor converting XSL-FO files to PDF or direct-printable-files

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    Board of directors
    The current board of directors includes:

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    History
    The history of the Apache Software Foundation is linked to the Apache HTTP Server, the work on which started in 1994. A group of eight developers started working on enhancing the NCSA HTTPd daemon. They were Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau and Andrew Wilson with additional contributions from Eric Hagberg, Frank Peters and Nicolas Pioch.

    The enhanced product called the Apache server was released in April 1995. In 1999, members of the Apache Group formed the Foundation to provide support for the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF has a membership of 151 members and approximately 1000 committers as of 2005.
     
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