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| <div class="container"> <h1 id="members">Members<a class="headerlink" href="#members" title="Permalink">¶</a></h1> |
| <p>The Membership of the Apache Software Foundation are those individuals |
| elected to Membership in the corporation itself; they are eligible to |
| elect new Members and to elect Directors to the Board.</p> |
| <div id="toc"><ul><li><a class="toc-href" href="#organization" title="Organization">Organization</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#legal" title="Legal">Legal</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#communication" title="Communication">Communication</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#meetings" title="Meetings">Meetings</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#merit" title="Merit">Merit</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#community" title="Community">Community</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#technical" title="Technical">Technical</a></li><li><a class="toc-href" href="#references" title="References">References</a></li></ul></div> |
| <h2 id="organization">Organization<a class="headerlink" href="#organization" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>The ASF is a <a href="/foundation/bylaws">membership corporation</a>, so Members serve a similar role as |
| shareholders do in publicly traded corporations. Members may propose new |
| candidate members, may vote in new candidate elections and in board elections.</p> |
| <p>Members are not empowered to speak officially on behalf of the ASF as a whole, |
| nor do they have any special rights to influence technical direction of any |
| Apache projects that they do not participate in a committer or PMC member. While Members often volunteer and serve in many capacities both at the |
| Foundation level and within various Apache projects, their only specific |
| <em>organizational</em> rights are to vote in board and Member elections.</p> |
| <p>The Apache Incubator is special: any ASF Member may request to be added to the |
| Incubator PMC without a vote. Within the Incubator PMC, members may serve as |
| official mentors or champions to incoming podlings, as well as voting on |
| Incubator policy and releases of podlings undergoing incubation. In this way, |
| members work to mentor podling communities and guide them in the Apache Way, |
| and eventually to graduation as a top level Apache project.</p> |
| <h2 id="legal">Legal<a class="headerlink" href="#legal" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Members act as shareholders of the corporation. Each Member has a |
| single vote on electing directors to the board; similarly members may vote on |
| new nominees to membership. Members are eligible to nominate new candidate |
| members and to nominate individuals to the board.</p> |
| <p>Organizationally, members do not have specific standing within any Apache |
| projects or Incubator podlings. However, most members are active as individuals |
| within multiple Apache projects on their own technical or social merits, and |
| once elected as a member often find more ways to get involved in more Apache |
| projects.</p> |
| <p>While the board and relevant officers are directly responsible for providing |
| oversight to the many Apache projects, members often work within many Apache |
| projects to help ensure projects run smoothly and follow the Apache Way.</p> |
| <h2 id="communication">Communication<a class="headerlink" href="#communication" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>The central place for member-focused announcements and discussions is the |
| privately archived members@ mailing list. This is used for a wide variety of |
| purposes: proposing and discussing new technical or policy ideas within |
| the ASF, announcing marriages or births within members' families or other major |
| social events, and sharing any formal announcements to the membership from the board or |
| corporate officers.</p> |
| <p>By policy, members have the <strong>right to inspect and review the archives of all |
| mailing lists</strong> at Apache. This policy is designed to ensure that every member |
| can independently inspect all corporate operations, and the operations of all |
| Apache projects. Thus members may, for example, review all private mailing lists |
| about internal legal affairs, fundraising, and security issues, as well as any |
| private@ lists used by our Apache projects' PMCs.</p> |
| <p>While members may send messages to any private lists, they do not automatically |
| receive any special merit in terms of influencing the technical direction of |
| Apache projects. Merit in Apache projects is gained within each individual |
| project community, and membership does not convey any other special privileges.</p> |
| <h2 id="meetings">Meetings<a class="headerlink" href="#meetings" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>The board holds an <a href="/foundation/bylaws#3.2">Annual Members' Meeting</a> at least every 13 months, at which members elect a <a href="/foundation/governance/meetings#boardvoting">new board of |
| directors</a>, and may vote on <a href="/foundation/governance/meetings#membervoting">new member candidates</a>. Meetings |
| currently take place on a private IRC channel, as an alternative to a traditional |
| conference call, where any reports are read and members may ask questions. The |
| meeting has a ~48 hour recess for voting, and then reconvenes to announce results |
| and complete the meeting: this lets members who may not be able to personally |
| attend the first portion of the meeting attend the second half, and, more importantly, to |
| conduct voting by email asynchronously, using our own secure voter tool |
| (Now become its own <a href="https://steve.apache.org/">Apache STeVe</a> project). Members who are |
| unable to attend any of the 2 day meeting period may provide for another member |
| to proxy their attendance and votes.</p> |
| <p>The board sometimes holds interim Special Members' Meetings between Annual |
| Meetings, primarily to give members a chance to nominate and vote on new candidate members. Members also use Special and Annual meetings to raise |
| questions or issues about Foundation operations - although members |
| usually just raise questions to the board or to any ASF officer at any time |
| over our usual mailing lists. Members and invited guests are welcome at all |
| Members' meetings.</p> |
| <p>Given the distributed and volunteer nature of the ASF, the Foundation no longer holds official, in-person |
| meetings of the Membership. Foundations and projects conduct all their business on normal email lists, although some of the lists are |
| private. Members do often meet in small groups in person, although this is for |
| social reasons, and often involves a meal or drinks. When the ASF's annual ApacheCon conference takes place in a physical location, rather than online, many members and committers |
| traditionally attend and meet each other there.</p> |
| <h2 id="merit">Merit<a class="headerlink" href="#merit" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>All members have the ability to nominate new individuals as candidates for |
| membership. The amount and types of merit that existing members look for in |
| Apache committers varies, but always includes some significant technical or |
| other contribution to one or more of our projects, as well as a clear interest |
| and understanding of the Apache Way. Potential members display these contributions and |
| traits over a significant period of time, usually over a year or more of |
| engagement in one or more Apache projects.</p> |
| <p>Note that it is not required to be a committer before being considered for |
| membership. However, in the vast majority of cases any |
| potentially worthy individual has already become a committer on some Apache |
| project. At least two individuals have been elected as members without being |
| committers first, in each case for non-coding contributions in mentoring on the |
| Apache Way or for other organizational work.</p> |
| <p>Many newly elected members are surprised (pleasantly!) to be told they've been |
| elected. Typically, being nominated and elected as a new member happen well after the nominee has a clear track record and a positive |
| influence on Apache projects for some time; in hindsight, a frequent comment |
| is "Isn't So-and-So a member already? They do such good work!". The Apache culture frowns on individuals |
| asking to be made a member (or worse, insisting they should be elected!). In a perhaps counter-intuitive way, being considered |
| for membership is something that requires real effort acting over a measurable |
| time, but without making it obvious that you're seeking recognition.</p> |
| <p>Members approve candidates for membership by a simple majority vote (more yes'es than no's) |
| at Annual or Special members' meetings. Members vote using custom |
| voting software, with secret ballots.</p> |
| <p>Within the Membership, merit is equal; all members have an equal vote and |
| ability to propose change within the ASF. Membership is a notably helpful factor |
| in being considered for the board or in appointment to officer positions at the |
| ASF, although the most important factor is demonstrated merit within the |
| particular project or the ASF as a whole.</p> |
| <h2 id="community">Community<a class="headerlink" href="#community" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>The ability of members to influence the ASF is simultaneously major and |
| immaterial. On one hand, members vote on new candidate members, and more |
| importantly vote on the Board of Directors, which clearly affects strategic |
| policies of the ASF. On the other hand, membership grants individuals no other |
| special merit within any of our projects, and is not an official position within |
| the legal corporation itself.</p> |
| <p>The perceived importance of membership is likewise a dichotomy. Many members are |
| quite modest about their membership, and a frequently heard comment is that |
| "Oh, they really deserve to be recognized more than I did". For many, being |
| elected a member was not a goal or title they were pursuing; rather, |
| they were naturally doing their own work (at an Apache project), and were then |
| recognized for it. Many members list their affiliation on their resume (or |
| LinkedIn, etc.); some do not.</p> |
| <p>Recognition of membership varies widely outside of the ASF: some software |
| companies don't seem to care what the ASF is or what membership means; a few |
| software companies strongly encourage their employees to become committers |
| or members, and gaining one of those roles is a notable prestige bonus within |
| those companies. Likewise, open source conferences frequently invite members or officers of the ASF to be speakers.</p> |
| <p>Members share the community of all other members, and often serve |
| as bridges between the various Apache projects they are involved in. |
| Many members also volunteer extra time to serve as mentors, both working with projects and communities within the ASF and mentoring |
| others or speaking at conferences outside of it.</p> |
| <h2 id="technical">Technical<a class="headerlink" href="#technical" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>The membership as a whole and individually does not provide technical direction |
| for any Apache projects directly; every PMC is free to manage its technical |
| direction independently. PMCs are the governing body for their project, and are |
| expected to manage the project's technology in the best interest of the whole |
| project community, independent of outside commercial influence.</p> |
| <p>This is similar to how the board does not set technical direction for projects: |
| this is a key reflection of how the ASF is intentionally structured to provide |
| maximum freedom to its projects. The board and the ASF membership are happy to |
| provide a home to any software project communities that are willing to follow |
| the Apache Way. The mission of the ASF is to provide software for the common |
| good: we are happy to help like-minded communities to provide that software; are |
| confident that communities will form around software that is useful; and |
| understand that there are many different ways to effectively and collaboratively |
| build software.</p> |
| <p>Nearly all members participate in a number of |
| Apache projects as individuals, based on their merit within the specific |
| projects. Simply being elected a Member does not confer any additional |
| abilities in terms of other projects. Many members choose to serve as ambassadors |
| of the Apache Way, and usually get involved in more projects as time goes on.</p> |
| <h2 id="references">References<a class="headerlink" href="#references" title="Permalink">¶</a></h2> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Who They Are: <a href="/foundation/members.html">Current Members</a></li> |
| <li>Who They Are: <a href="http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html">Current Members and Committers by Project</a></li> |
| <li><a href="/foundation/bylaws.html">Bylaws of the ASF</a></li> |
| <li><a href="orgchart.html">Org chart of the ASF</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://people.apache.org/%7Ecurcuru/timeline/members.html">Graph of Membership Growth</a></li> |
| <li><a href="/foundation/governance/meetings#membervoting">How Members Are Elected</a></li> |
| <li>Members have access to additional resources listed on the <em>foundation/private-index page</em> in svn.</li> |
| </ul> |
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