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Submission + - The Apache Software Foundation now accepting BitCoin for donations (newsbtc.com)

Submitted by rbowen on Friday August 29, 2014 @02:13PM

rbowen writes: The Apache Software Foundation is the latest not-for-profit organization to accept bitcoin donations, as pointed out by a user on the Bitcoin subreddit.

The organization is well known for their catalog of open-source software, including the ubiquitous Apache web server, Hadoop, Tomcat, Cassandra, and about 150 other projects. Users in the community have been eager to support their efforts using digital currency for quite a while.

The Foundation accepts donations in many different forms: Amazon, PayPal, and they’ll even accept donated cars.

On their contribution page the Apache Software Foundation has published a bitcoin address and QR code. As of this afternoon, the address has already collected on the order of 4 BTC.

Submission + - Apache CloudStack becomes a top-level project (apache.org)

Submitted by

ke4qqq

on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:28AM

ke4qqq writes: "The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache CloudStack has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles."

Submission + - CloudStack completely opensourced (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by

ke4qqq

on Monday August 29, 2011 @08:21AM

ke4qqq writes: "CloudStack dropped the open core model and has gone completely open source. http://cloudstack.org/blog/cloudstack-the-best-kept-secret-in-cloud-computing.html The latest merge of formerly-proprietary features include VMware and OracleVM support as well as support for dynamically managing hardware network and storage devices. CloudStack is the same software used by Edmunds.com, Zynga, Godaddy, and 60 other of the largest clouds."

Comment Re:What often really matters are the upstream apps (Score 1) 157

by ke4qqq on Friday January 15, 2010 @08:31PM (#30786166) Attached to: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 vs. Early Fedora 13 Benchmarks

If your distribution closely follows upstream, and has a good policy on dealing with upstream it can help to report bugs. The keys to this are 1. Patching the distributions instance of a package as little as possible, so it's as much like upstream as possible 2. Having packagers work closely with upstream to ensure that bugs filed against the distribution are filed against the upstream project. 3. If a fix is made in the distribution- to get that patch offered upstream.

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