Re: [VOTE] Replace projects.apache.org with projects-new.apache.org

[Joseph Schaefer]

Kinda strange that none of this involves site-dev@ which was the genesis of the 
original site.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 13, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Daniel Gruno  wrote:
> 
> 
> If someone other than me could apply those patches, that'd sure be swell.
> This is (the future) projects.apache.org, not humbedooh.apache.org :(
> 
> 
> As for keeping the old site around for a while, I suppose that's an option, 
> just don't expect infra to maintain it if it keels over ;)
> With regards,
> Daniel.
> 
>> On 2015-03-13 08:40, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
>> ping?
>> 
>> Le mercredi 11 mars 2015 08:49:23 Hervé BOUTEMY a écrit :
>>> Le mardi 10 mars 2015 13:32:26 Rich Bowen a écrit :
 On 03/06/2015 11:52 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I'd like for us to go ahead and replace projects.apache.org with
> projects-new.apache.org. It now has all the functionality that
> projects.a.o has, and much more, and there's no reason to have two sites
> up. If you object to moving forward with this, please say so.
> 
> [ ] +1, do it
> [ ] +0, whatevs
> [ ] -1, No (and say why, so we can address the problem)
 I'm going to call this a "yes" vote overall, with a few nits
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> one more thing: when we switch projects-new to projects, it would be useful
>>> to have old projects switched to projects-old, since there are still parts
>>> that are useful or to be integrated to the new site (see Feeds, DOAP Files
>>> and Documentation sections)
>>> 
 that have been addressed.
>>> -1 I sent patches but they were not applied
>>> 
 Thank you all for your thoughts. Thanks, Daniel, for
 your work on this. And with all the folks that have said they'll get
 checkouts and hack on it, we should have much wonderment real soon.
>>> Can I get commit access (without being PMC member)?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to add an "about" folder equivalent to
>>> https://projects.apache.org/references.html, and with a reference to
>>> http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#comdev
>>> 
>>> Notice: shouldn't comdev be added to projects-new as 6th "special
>>> committee"?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Hervé
>>> 
 --Rich
> 

Re: commit rights to ComDev non-community.a.o site resources

[Pierre Smits]

Why not register the solution as a component of the COMDEV project in JIRA,
and do the same as any other ASF project does when it comes to code:
register and evaluate issues, have patches registered there and have
invited committers work from there.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM *
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ulrich Stärk  wrote:

> Heh.
>
> When I put that sentence in the board report we didn't have projects-new
> yet.
>
> I don't see a reason why we shouldn't open up those two (or even all of
> /comdev) for all committers
> as long as changes are first discussed on our lists.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Uli
>
> On 2015-03-14 16:38, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I lately gave patches for projects-new that were not applied: it seems
> there
> > is a problem to determine who should do it (to avoid projects-new to be a
> > single-man affair).
> >
> > Then I made some investigations: in the last board report for ComDev
> [1], I
> > think I found the cause:
> > "Since artifacts produced by ComDev are usually documentation on our
> website
> > which is writable for all Apache committers, we usually do not add
> committers
> > to the ComDev project."
> >
> > Then should projects(-new).apache.org become writeable for all Apache
> > committers too? Same for reporter.apache.org?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hervé
> >
> > [1] https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Community_Development.html
> >
>

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Sally Khudairi]

Hello again!

Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you can 
please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it!

Warm regards,
Sally

= = =


DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION

The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 
Mentoring Organization

Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven 
development since the program's inception in 2005.

Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source 
projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google 
Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 11th consecutive year.

The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write 
code for various Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, 
students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source, free software, and 
technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, 
WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.

The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the 
very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the 
GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community Development project, which 
comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The Apache Software 
Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic 
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open 
Source community at-large.

"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by 
Google and will be working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice 
President of Community Development at the ASF. "The program helps us to not 
only get some great code written, but also to introduce students into Open 
Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."

Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and 
finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March deadline. ASF 
mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, 
Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & 
Linked Data, along with other categories. Students may choose from the Apache 
"Ideas Page" at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own project 
for approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August.

"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source 
projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world experience 
related to their academic pursuits," added Stärk. "We are proud to have 
mentored so many talented students over the years, and furthered our mission of 
providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding experience 
both for the students and the Apache community at-large."

Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful 
student participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 
countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of code.

"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization 
reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven 
development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the 
GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of students have been mentored 
in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code 
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program 
participants elected as ASF Members."

Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at 
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html 


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Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Ulrich Stärk]

Hi Sally,

I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!

Cheers,

Uli


> Am 15.03.2015 um 22:37 schrieb Sally Khudairi :
> 
> Thanks, Uli!
> 
> I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.
> 
> How do you feel about your proposed quotes?
> 
> Chat soon,
>  Sally
> 
> [From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and 
> brevity]
> 
> - Reply message -
> From: "Ulrich Stärk" 
> To: , "Greg Stein" 
> Cc: "pr...@apache.org" , "Sally Khudairi" 
> Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 
> 2015
> Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14
> 
> Thank you Sally,
> 
> my two comments are inline.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 2015-03-15 17:37, Sally Khudairi wrote:
> > Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
> > 
> > Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET 
> > tomorrow (Monday) in
> > order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before 
> > then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
> > we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please 
> > update the ASF
> > boilerplate at 
> > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the one 
> > at the
> > bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks so much, Sally
> > 
> > = = =
> > 
> > 
> > DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
> > 
> > The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 
> > Mentoring Organization
> > 
> > 
> > Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven 
> > development since the
> > program's inception in 2005.
> > 
> > Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
> > all-volunteer
> > developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects 
> > and initiatives,
> > announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 
> > mentoring
> > organization for the 11th consecutive year.
> > 
> > The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to 
> > write code for various
> > Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be 
> > paired with mentors
> > from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that 
> > include CERN, GNU
> > Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
> > 
> > The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in 
> > the very first GSoC
> > in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC 
> > program is overseen by the
> > Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help 
> > guide newcomers to The
> > Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of 
> > meritocratic
> > development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open 
> > Source community
> > at-large.
> > 
> > "Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored 
> > by Google and will be
> > working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of 
> > Community Development at
> > the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but 
> > also to introduce
> > students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new 
> > long-term Committers."
> > 
> > Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with 
> > mentoring organizations and
> > begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 
> > 25 May and end 21
> 
> I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. 
> To me "begin drafting"
> sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native speaker so 
> it could totally be OK
> to write it like that).
> 
> > August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big 
> > Data, Cloud, Enterprise
> > Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked 
> > Data, along with other
> > categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg
> 
> That sounds a bit as if students have already submitted ideas for projects, 
> which is not the case.
> We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL is
> http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or better 
> yet, come up with
> something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries.
> 
> > 
> > "GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source 
> > projects, collaborate
> > with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their 
> > academic pursuits,"
> > added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over 
> > the years, and
> > furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. 
> > It's a rewarding
> > experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
> > 
> > Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together ove

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Sally Khudairi]

Thanks, Uli!

I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.

How do you feel about your proposed quotes?

Chat soon,
Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and 
brevity]

- Reply message -
From: "Ulrich Stärk" 
To: , "Greg Stein" 
Cc: "pr...@apache.org" , "Sally Khudairi" 
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14

Thank you Sally,

my two comments are inline.

Cheers,

Uli

On 2015-03-15 17:37, Sally Khudairi wrote:
> Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
> 
> Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET 
> tomorrow (Monday) in
> order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before 
> then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
> we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please 
> update the ASF
> boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache 
> to the one at the
> bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great.

Will do.

> 
> Thanks so much, Sally
> 
> = = =
> 
> 
> DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
> 
> The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 
> Mentoring Organization
> 
> 
> Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven 
> development since the
> program's inception in 2005.
> 
> Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
> all-volunteer
> developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects 
> and initiatives,
> announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 
> mentoring
> organization for the 11th consecutive year.
> 
> The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write 
> code for various
> Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be 
> paired with mentors
> from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that 
> include CERN, GNU
> Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
> 
> The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in 
> the very first GSoC
> in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program 
> is overseen by the
> Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help 
> guide newcomers to The
> Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of 
> meritocratic
> development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open 
> Source community
> at-large.
> 
> "Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored 
> by Google and will be
> working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of 
> Community Development at
> the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but 
> also to introduce
> students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new 
> long-term Committers."
> 
> Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring 
> organizations and
> begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 
> May and end 21

I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. To 
me "begin drafting"
sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native speaker so it 
could totally be OK
to write it like that).

> August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big 
> Data, Cloud, Enterprise
> Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked 
> Data, along with other
> categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg

That sounds a bit as if students have already submitted ideas for projects, 
which is not the case.
We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL is
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or better 
yet, come up with
something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries.

> 
> "GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source 
> projects, collaborate
> with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their 
> academic pursuits,"
> added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over 
> the years, and
> furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. 
> It's a rewarding
> experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
> 
> Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 
> successful student
> participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries 
> worldwide to produce
> over 55 million lines of code.
> 
> "Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization 
> reinforces The
> Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," 
> said ASF Vice Chairman
> Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-creat

Re: commit rights to ComDev non-community.a.o site resources

[Ulrich Stärk]

Heh.

When I put that sentence in the board report we didn't have projects-new yet.

I don't see a reason why we shouldn't open up those two (or even all of 
/comdev) for all committers
as long as changes are first discussed on our lists.

What do others think?

Cheers,

Uli

On 2015-03-14 16:38, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I lately gave patches for projects-new that were not applied: it seems there 
> is a problem to determine who should do it (to avoid projects-new to be a 
> single-man affair).
> 
> Then I made some investigations: in the last board report for ComDev [1], I 
> think I found the cause:
> "Since artifacts produced by ComDev are usually documentation on our website 
> which is writable for all Apache committers, we usually do not add committers 
> to the ComDev project."
> 
> Then should projects(-new).apache.org become writeable for all Apache 
> committers too? Same for reporter.apache.org?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hervé
> 
> [1] https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Community_Development.html
> 

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Ulrich Stärk]

Thank you Sally,

my two comments are inline.

Cheers,

Uli

On 2015-03-15 17:37, Sally Khudairi wrote:
> Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
> 
> Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET 
> tomorrow (Monday) in
> order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before 
> then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
> we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please 
> update the ASF
> boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache 
> to the one at the
> bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great.

Will do.

> 
> Thanks so much, Sally
> 
> = = =
> 
> 
> DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
> 
> The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 
> Mentoring Organization
> 
> 
> Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven 
> development since the
> program's inception in 2005.
> 
> Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
> all-volunteer
> developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects 
> and initiatives,
> announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 
> mentoring
> organization for the 11th consecutive year.
> 
> The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write 
> code for various
> Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be 
> paired with mentors
> from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that 
> include CERN, GNU
> Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
> 
> The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in 
> the very first GSoC
> in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program 
> is overseen by the
> Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help 
> guide newcomers to The
> Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of 
> meritocratic
> development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open 
> Source community
> at-large.
> 
> "Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored 
> by Google and will be
> working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of 
> Community Development at
> the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but 
> also to introduce
> students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new 
> long-term Committers."
> 
> Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring 
> organizations and
> begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 
> May and end 21

I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. To 
me "begin drafting"
sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native speaker so it 
could totally be OK
to write it like that).

> August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big 
> Data, Cloud, Enterprise
> Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked 
> Data, along with other
> categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg

That sounds a bit as if students have already submitted ideas for projects, 
which is not the case.
We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL is
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or better 
yet, come up with
something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries.

> 
> "GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source 
> projects, collaborate
> with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their 
> academic pursuits,"
> added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over 
> the years, and
> furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. 
> It's a rewarding
> experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
> 
> Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 
> successful student
> participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries 
> worldwide to produce
> over 55 million lines of code.
> 
> "Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization 
> reinforces The
> Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," 
> said ASF Vice Chairman
> Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. 
> "Hundreds of
> students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to 
> become long-term code
> committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program 
> participants elected as ASF
> Members."
> 
> Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available 
> at
> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
> 
> About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Estab

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

[Sally Khudairi]

Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.

Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET 
tomorrow (Monday) in order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to 
finalize before then (by 9PM ET TODAY), we can go live Monday morning if you'd 
like.
Also, if someone can please update the ASF boilerplate at 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the one at 
the bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great.

Thanks so much,
Sally 

= = =


DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION

The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 
Mentoring Organization


Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven 
development since the program's inception in 2005.

Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source 
projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google 
Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 11th consecutive year.

The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write 
code for various Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, 
students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source, free software, and 
technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, 
WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.

The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the 
very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the 
GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community Development project, which 
comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The Apache Software 
Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic 
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open 
Source community at-large.

"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by 
Google and will be working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice 
President of Community Development at the ASF. "The program helps us to not 
only get some great code written, but also to introduce students into Open 
Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."

Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring 
organizations and begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. 
Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been 
proposed for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, 
Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with 
other categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg

"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source 
projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world experience 
related to their academic pursuits," added Stärk. "We are proud to have 
mentored so many talented students over the years, and furthered our mission of 
providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding experience 
both for the students and the Apache community at-large."

Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful 
student participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 
countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of code.

"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization 
reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven 
development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the 
GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of students have been mentored 
in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code 
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program 
participants elected as ASF Members."

Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at 
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

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leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most 
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successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, 
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