I am excited to share the news, Apache Allura just became an Apache Top-Level project! It has been both an honor and pleasure to work with the Apache community and a personal thrill to see my dream finally turning into reality.
I still remember our first internal discussions about submitting Allura to the Apache Incubator, over two years ago. The great work we did to draft our proposal – thanks Rich Bowen – and the exceptional level of support from our former CEO, Jeff Drobick.
I wish to thank again the whole SourceForge engineering team, without them it wouldn’t have been possible to graduate. I wish also to say thank to our General Manager Gaurav Kuchhal that made the graduation a goal for all of us, and last but not least all our great mentors, and among them in a special way Jim Jagielski and Rich Bowen.
Read more at SourceForge and Apache blog.
Kris Buytaert 8:49 am on June 26, 2014 Permalink
If their subtitle is “Take back Control” does that mean they are going to make it a real Open Source event again and not the most closed and open source unfriendly event with people talking bullshit on stage like last year ?
Not that I plan on ever speaking there again .. btw..
Roberto Galoppini 9:26 am on September 16, 2014 Permalink
Hi Kris,
my sincere apologies for not having approved your comment before.
Having been a Program committee member for few years now, I can tell that in my opinion the event progressively became a bit too French. I can’t tell if that’s the result of the lack of support/interest from us international committee members or an organizational drift away from a more international perspective, though.
Stefane Fermigier 10:21 am on September 16, 2014 Permalink
Thanks Kris for your feedback. I don’t agree on a lot of things you said, but we will take care of the things we agree on this year.
An Roberto, thanks for your long term support of the event.
The program for 2014 should be announced soon.
Also, see: http://opensourceweek.fr/
Regards,
S.