Have you ever considered getting involved at the Apache Software Foundation, but aren’t sure where to get started? No matter what your skills are, there’s a place for you. At Community Over Code in Bratislava, I spoke with Brian Proffitt, VP Marketing & Publicity, about how he leverages his writing and journalism skills at the ASF. Prefer video? Th…

Stamatis Zampetakis gives us an overview of what’s in the new 4.0 release of Apache Hive, and what’s next for the project. Download: https://hive.apache.org/general/downloads/ Project information: https://hive.apache.org/ Prefer video? That’s HERE. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Apache-Hive-Stamatis-Zampetakis.mp3…

Community Over Code Europe 2024 (formerly called ApacheCon) will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, June 3-5 2024. Come join us! https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/community_over_code_eu_2024.mp3 Prefer video? That’s HERE. Links: Event site: https://eu.communityovercode.org/ How to get there: https://eu.communityovercode.org/ho…

Lenny Primak talks about Apache Shiro, the most recent release, and his journey at the Apache Software Foundation. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/shiro_lenny_final.mp3 Prefer video? That’s on YouTube. Links: Project website: https://shiro.apache.org/ Github: https://github.com/apache/shiro…

The Apache Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) offers travel grants for individuals to attend ASF events, as an investment in our projects and our communities. I spoke with Atita Arora and Chris Dutz, past TAC recipients, about their TAC experience, and how it has affected their career and communities. https://tac.apache.org/ Prefer video? That’s her…

At Cassandra Summit 2023, in San Jose California, I spoke with Mick Semb Wever about a variety of topics around the Cassandra Community, the new Cassandra Catalyst program, and open source at the Apache Software Foundation. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ Cassandra Cata…

At Cassandra Summit 2023, in San Jose California, I spoke with Jon Haddad about his decade on the project, and the changes he’s seen during that time. We also talked about what’s coming in the 5.0 release. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ If you prefer video, that’s here…

At Cassandra Summit 2023, in San Jose California, I spoke with Rahul Singh about some of the challenges facing the Cassandra project. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ If you prefer video, that’s here: https://youtu.be/KQVWDze1yvs https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content…

At the recent Cassandra Summit in San Jose, California, I had a chat with Aaron Ploetz about the ways people use Cassandra, and what’s coming in the next months and years. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ If you prefer video, that’s here. https://feathercast.apache.org/w…

Apache Heron (Incubating) is “A realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine” Project member Josh Fischer talks with me about what that actually means. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/heron_josh.mp3 Project info: https://heron.apache.org/ Prefer video? https://youtu.be/QD1Pto-HQzc…

Myrle Krantz is a member of the Apache Fineract community, which is an open source project which supports microfinance providers. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fineract_feathercast_final_edit.mp3 She will also be giving a keynote at the upcoming ApacheCon in Montreal. Fineract: http://fineract.apache.org/ ApacheCon North…

The first feathercast is now available! It features David Reid talking to Noirin Plunkett about Dublin to try and help those travelling there in June for ApacheCon EU. Related links The Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/ ApacheCon http://www.apachecon.com/ ApacheCon Wiki http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/FrontPage Guiness Jameson Whis…