FeatherCast

At Community Over Code Europe 2024 in Bratislava, there was a room of “poster sessions” – something you may have experienced before at academic conferences. Various individuals or projects provided a poster covering some topic, and then spent some time there discussing it with anyone who was interested.

I spoke with Boris Stoyanov about his Cloudstack poster, and what’s going on with Cloudstack.

Links:

• Cloudstack
• Community over Code

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At the recent Community Over Code, in Bratislava, I had a number of conversations with people in various roles at the Apache Software Foundation. One of these was with Ivet Petrova Madzharova, marketing lead for Apache Cloustack.

We talked about one of my favorite topics – getting involved in so-called “non-technical” roles in open source projects. This is another reminder that, no matter what your skills are, they are *desperately* needed by open source projects.

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• Community Over Code Europe
• Apache Cloudstack

At the recent Community Over Code event in Bratislava I had a series of conversations with participants from across the Apache Software Foundation about how and why they got involved, and how you can get involved. Philipp Ottlinger is a member of the Travel Assistance Committee and is also the PMC Chair of the Creadur project. He talks about what skills you have to have in order to join an Apache project. In his view, curiosity, persistence, and ability to work with others rank higher than technical skills.

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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.

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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/

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Lenny Primak talks about Apache Shiro, the most recent release, and his journey at the Apache Software Foundation.

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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/

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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/

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