The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Annual Report for 2015-2016 Fiscal Year

Trusted community recognized for accelerating Open Source innovation and advancing the future of open development.


Forest Hill, MD, June 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of its annual report for its 2015-2016 fiscal year, which ended 30 April 2016. Highlights include:

Open Source Leadership -- 

  • 21st anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server Project
  • 17th anniversary of The Apache Software Foundation
  • 175 committees managing 291 Top-level Projects (TLPs) and dozens of sub-projects
  • Millions of people worldwide access the ASF's two dozen servers and 75 distinct hosts each day
  • Apache featured more than 400 times in Gartner Magic Quadrant reports

Innovation --

  • 20 new Apache Top-level Projects (TLPs)
  • Record 55 podlings undergoing development in the Apache Incubator, plus 39 initiatives in the Apache Labs
  • Apache Hadoop® ecosystem continues to dominate the Big Data marketplace
  • 743 repositories managed
  • 33% increase in signed Individual Contributor License Agreements (CLAs)
  • 3,425 ASF Committers and 5,922 Apache code contributors (21% increase) added nearly 20M lines of code; average 18,000 code commits per month
  • 315,533,038 Lines of code changed (65% increase)

Community --

  • 58 new individual ASF Members elected
  • Apache projects overseen by 2,000+ Project Management Committee (PMC) members
  • Launched new "Help Wanted" application to match volunteers with Apache projects and activities seeking assistance
  • Held hundreds of events globally, including ApacheCon Europe and North America, plus countless conferences, workshops, and regional MeetUps
  • Participated in the Google Summer of Code as a Mentoring Organization for 12 consecutive years

Operations --

  • Apache services running 24x7x365 at near 100% uptime on an annual budget of less than US$5,000 per project
  • Launched new home.apache.org and lists.apache.org services
  • Initiated experiment with Github to automate user management and group permissions for 5,000+ Apache users
  • Launched new ASF brand identity
  • Ongoing trademarks, brand management, and legal support for dozens of existing and new projects
  • Bolstered organizational backing, with 37 ASF Sponsors and 11 Infrastructure partners
  • The ASF exited FY 2015 with revenue at $996K, ahead of projected budget

The full report is available online at https://s.apache.org/Ccml

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 550 individual Members and 5,300 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed 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 expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Confluent, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, OPDi, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Produban, Red Hat, Serenata Flowers, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

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