Uh oh. He's onto us.

The Apache Attic?

Who knows... maybe because he lives in Canada

*duck*

I was a *joke*

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.