MDA - internet/web/apache/apache-software-foundation

mission: protect the 'Apache' brand
Comment:: provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects
Comment:: ASF members -- board of directors -- ASF Licence
history: founded 1999 as organizational, legal, and financial support for the Apache HTTP Server
mission: HTTP reference implementation should remain in public -- not be owned by a company
Comment:: committees: security -- conference organization -- public relations -- licencing -- JCP
Comment:: membership via meritocracy -- user -- developler -- committer -- PMC member -- ASF member
Comment:: incubator: how to adopt projects under the Apache umbrella

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