Mostly it was to disassociate the foundation with the Codeplex hosting service. People would, understandably, get them confused, and it further strengthened the belief that the foundation was a "sham" by Microsoft. So we went with Outercurve to create our *own* identity.

Open Source will take over the world... Hadoop will be one, of many, open source projects that enable that.

What efforts would *you* like to see Outercurve (or whoever) take on to benefit the FLOSS community??

In fact, I *STILL* hack on Apache httpd... So that's about 18+ years of steady development on that project.

Thx!

Simply because they *don't* have the best record. One can either gripe and complain, or one can spend some effort in education with the hopes that you make some change for the better. No matter what, it's worth a try. And slowly but surely we *are* seeing some positive changes, and that's a Good Thing.

Yes, I still write a LOT of code, and I really enjoy doing it.

I would be remiss in not saying that I'm lucky enough to work for Red Hat, which is as passionate about Open Source as I am, and they allow me to indulge in all my Open Source efforts, from coding to the speaking/leadership stuff.

I think what's cool is that whatever organizational and leadership stuff I do, or am known for, arose from my actual coding efforts. It was all kind of "placed" on me, instead of me trying to grab it. And I am hardly unique in that regards. I love how open source does that, that the experts are those who walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk and not just talking heads.

For me, Open Source is all about empowerment and enabling people to share information for the betterment of mankind. So I am personally drawn towards projects that enable that at some level. I am also about education and advocacy of that empowerment, and that's why I enjoy speaking and presenting about Open Source and communities as much as I do.

Of course, some projects are just fun to hack on and scratch some little itch that I have...

Evah rever on.

I am passionate about Open Source. So anything I can do to help with that, especially when it's directed towards the grassroots developers and their projects, I am drawn to. Being asked to be President allows for Outercurve to really ramp up the efforts started by Sam Ramji in making Outercurve an influential foundation.

Plus, I'm out of my mind. :)

The whole DNT issue is now over and done...

Dashing good looks. Expert coding skills. Oratory skills of a god. And exceptional humility.

First of all, Github isn't a foundation. It's infrastructure. If all you want and need is someplace to host your project, Github is fine.

If, however, you want to build a *community* around your project, then you need the sort of help and guidance that a foundation provides. ASF, Eclipse, Outercurve, et.al. have some underlying "requirements" regarding that (for example, at the ASF the project must be under the ALv2, at Eclipse it must be the EPL (although there are ways around that)). Outercurve has the lowest barrier to that. OC doesn't force one license or another (it must be an Open Source license though), nor does it force a particular governance model, nor a specific infrastructure. In fact, I would suggest that people who are hosting their projects @ Github and really want them to be a viable Open Source project, *needs* a foundation like Outercurve to help them make that transition. Most projects on Github don't even have an associated LICENSE. Sweet Sassy Molassy!

But to your question: I feel that the ASF does a great job enriching the community, even if just because it realized that the *power* of the community is what drives open source and open source projects.

What did Spock say was that old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China