Important context:
@TheASF is a radically open, radically non-profit entity.

The #asf and every project (such as #aoo) is run by volunteers.

There are a small number of foundation employees handling infra and ops, but there aren't 23GB of "confidential corporate documents" that could exist to […]

In terms of decolonisation: room for improvement
(a random conference catering company from Hannover)

It reminded me strongly of the recent @TheASF rebranding

Not interested in a debate on what ways are better or worse but it seems to me that @TheASF has a fair bit of material on "The Apache Way" which one could approach as a How-To even for projects that are not under the ASF or any other domiciling organization. It's not perfect but I'm not aware of […]

How the open web closes, FOSS edition...

We are running a contest to create a new logo for ASF #spamassassin, but because of the steps taken to consolidate wikis for #theasf and protect the ASF Confluence instance from various malefactors we have yet to figure out how to allow submissions from […]

The new contest page is at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/SpamAssassin+new+logo+contest

We have not worked out exactly how we're going to let everyone submit, since #theasf has had to restrict access in face of the insane AI-bots that are making everything on the web […]

Enjoying Community Over Code 2025

Congratulations to the new logo @apache.org!

#TheASF #CommunityOverCode

I will be presenting "Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes" as part of the @Cassandra track at Community over Code North America 2025; in Minneapolis, MN September 11-14, 2025. Schedule & info: communityovercode.org #CommunityOverCode #TheASF #ApacheCassandra

“Migrating the Jena editor from CodeMirror 5 to 6” kinoshita.eti.br/2025/06/25/m... #opensource #vuejs #codemirror #apache #jena #theasf #javascript

Apache #OpenNLP 2.5.4 is out!

This patch release tackles 28 issues: it brings dependency updates, 🐛 fixes, additions, a modernization of the stemmer classes, and the UIMA component has received many more tests. #TheASF

Details
➡️ issues.apache.org/jira/secure/...

opennlp.apache.org/news/release...

Every time I read anything about governance in #foss orgs that's not about #theasf I am appalled.
Not that we're perfect, but we have managed to avoid being the creature of an insular self-appointed clique. We just elected a brand new board, as we do annually, including Apache OGs & members […]

It is official folks! AI Plumbers Conference is coming to Minneapolis 11 Sep 2025 - 14 Sep 2025 as part of @TheASF Community Over Code event.

This is going to be our first ever event this side of the Atlantic! (or Pacific? I dunno... I get easily confused)

communityovercode.org/call-for-pre...

Apparently it was a broader problem, because no, I was NOT the only one to notice, just the only one to open a Jira ticket.

BECAUSE IF THERE’S NO TICKET THERE'S NO PROBLEM!!!

Clearly ASF Infra needs more staff. See my prior post if you live in Europe.

#spamassassin #theasf #SpamAssassin […]

Dunno if <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@TheASF" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">@TheASF@fosstodon.org or @[email protected] actually has anyone behind them to post this, but as it is a public job posting and M&P should be posting them to "our social media" today, it can’t hurt for me to do it too.

#theasf is hiring an infrastructure admin! […]

Is it really possible for svn.apache.org to be down and only the #spamassassin utility host and me to notice?

#theasf #SpamAssassin #sysadminnery

The Apache Commons VFS Project team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons VFS Project 2.10.0.

Apache Commons VFS is a Virtual File System library for Java 8 or later.

commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

#theASF #ApacheCommons

The Apache Commons BeanUtils team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.10.1.

This is our old-school Java Bean utility library available at commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

#theASF #ApacheCommons

PNG 1.2 Extensions added to Apache Commons Imaging via PR from Glavo (thanks!) github.com/apache/commo... & ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/libpng/d... #opensource #java #imaging #TheASF #ImageProcessing

The ASF is hiring a #python developer... I would love to take this job, but I am afraid my Python knowledge is not good enough. Maybe it works out for you?

https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-tooling-001ef6abb5b7639b

#opensource #job #theasf

Using Property Graph Databases with @apachegroovy.bsky.social #TheASF #apacheage #apachehugegraph #apachetinkerpop #groovylang 🥇🥈🥉
groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-...

Updated for TuGraph 4.5.1, HugeGraph 1.5.0, ArcadeDB 24.11.1, Gremlin 3.7.3, Neo4J 5.26.0, OrientDB 3.2.36

In honor of the first Optaplanner release as part of Apache KIE (incubating), I updated the Apache Groovy simple optimisation blog post for Optaplanner 10.0.0 and Timefold 1.16.0. #groovylang #TheASF #KIECommunity #ApacheCommonsMath #Hipparchus #Choco
t.co/W3uK1R010k

Apache OpenNLP 2.5.1, fresh from the oven!

This patch release tackles 23 issues, introducing further, thread-safe versions of 🔑 components. Moreover, it includes 🪲 fixes, upgraded dependencies, improved dev 📚, and the inclusion of the #OpenNLP 1.2 models. #TheASF

opennlp.apache.org/news/release...

Apache Maven 4 release candidate voting started. Soon several projects will start upgrading their builds and adjusting plugins (which may take some time to adapt to the new API) lists.apache.org/thread/d07jj... #opensource #java #TheASF

Apache Geronimo Jwt Auth 1.0.5 released 🎉

Apache Geronimo JWT Auth is an implementation of Microprofile JWT Auth. It provides a way to validate and interact with a JWT metadata.

geronimo.apache.org/microprofile...

The artifacts are available on central.

#TheASF #opensource #java

Apache OpenNLP Pre-trained Models 1.2 released! 🚀

Models for 9️⃣ more languages have been added:
Armenian, Basque, Catalan, Georgian, Greek, Kazakh, Korean, Icelandic, and Turkish. In total, models for 32 languages are available. #NLP #TheASF

All details here:
➡️ opennlp.apache.org/news/news-20...