Justin Erenkrantz of the Apache Software Foundation

Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x13

August 4, 2009

Running time: 00:30:13.

Karen liked the Thursday keynote by Kirrily Robert called Standing Out in the Crowd. (01:39)
Jesse Vincent gave a talk about hacking the Kindle to have a community-built distribution on it. (02:17)
Jesse is also known for his work on RT, and more recently SD. He's also worked on an Android application, K-9.
Karen enjoyed Liz Henry's talk on accessibility and hacking medical equipment. (03:11)
Microsoft claimed they announced their Linux code release at OSCON last Monday at 09:00, but Bradley was there and saw only five people in line for tutorial registration, and no announcement taking place. (03:25)
Bradley wrote a blog post about the Microsoft code release. (04:01)

Justin mentioned the tenth anniversary of Apache Foundation which will be celebrated at their conferences. (05:42)
Justin mentioned Roy Fielding, who was a founding director of the Apache Software Foundation. (06:55)
Justin and Bradley discussed the benefits of the Apache 2.0 License, particularly its patent provisions. (07:45)
Justin talked about the Apache Incubator, where new projects come to Apache. (16:01)
Justin mentioned Spam Assassin was one of the first to come through the Incubator. (16:41)
The Apache Foundation seeks to free up developers to hack so they don't need to worry about organizational issues (18:05)
According to Justin, Apache Foundation does not support individual project targeted donations. (19:20)
Apache Foundation gives PR and marketing support to projects. (21:01)
Microsoft became a platinum fiscal sponsor of Apache Foundation last year, and Justin reports that now Microsoft employees are contributing code. (22:05)
Justin encourages everyone to attend ApacheCon US. (25:30)

Bradley mentioned that one of the key benefits of Apache Foundation appears to be the mentoring for both individuals and companies. (26:50)