Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

Support the Apache Software Foundation

You are invited to participate in The Apache Software Foundation. Our membership consists of those individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software development through sustained participation and contributions within the Foundation's projects. Of course, you can contribute to the foundation in many ways:

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Latest News

If you would like to keep up with news and announcements from the foundation and all its projects, you can subscribe to the new Apache Announcements List.

Scheduled Downtime

The Apache Software Foundation will be doing some infrastructure work that will cause some public services to be innaccessible from Saturday, October 21st through Monday, October 23rd.

Tapestry Wins Duke's Choice Award

This year at JavaOne 2006, Tapestry was awarded the Duke's Choice Award in the Open Source category. On May 16th, Howard Lewis Ship received the Duke statuette directly from James Gosling (photo). Tapestry is a Java component based web application framework, and was recently elevated to an Apache Top Level Project. Tapestry's home page is http://tapestry.apache.org/.

projects.apache.org Now Open

Have you ever wondered how to get an idea of all the different projects under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella? Many interesting hours can be spent browsing our project websites to find those interesting gems. But now there is also an alternative.

We are happy to introduce the projects.apache.org website. This site contains a catalog of Apache projects and the resources they provide. It is not yet comprehensive, so if you see a project that is missing, ask them to get themselves listed.