Before there was the Apache Software Foundation, there was the Apache Group, a group of, originally, eight people, who devoted their spare time to create the Apache Web Server using the NCSA web server as a basis, and eventually rewriting it from the ground up.

Leading up to the tenth birthday party for the ASF in Oakland, at ApacheCon this Fall, I’m hoping to get in touch with all eight of these people and talk with them briefly about their involvement in the early days of the project. Some of them are harder to get in touch with than others.

First, of course, I spoke with Brian Behlendorf. In this episode, I speak with Randy Terbush, who was in the original eight, and was part of creating the foundation.

You can listen HERE, or via iTunes.

 

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We’ve talked with a number of projects who have entered the incubator. Here’s a conversation with some members of the Habari project - a project that decided not to, and their reasons for that decision.

You can listen to it HERE or via iTunes.

 

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Here’s the rest of the conversation with Brian from ApacheCon Europe 2006. No particular topic, but some interesting insights into the Way Things Were, and how they got the way they are now.

You can listen to it HERE, or via iTunes.

 

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Long, long ago - 2006, in fact - I had a long rambling conversation with Brian Behlendorf. It was in Dublin, at ApacheCon Europe, and we just chatted about the ASF, what Brian was doing at the time, and the state of technology in general. Although much has changed since then, it’s still interesting to pull things like this out of the archives and listen.

You can listen to it HERE, or via iTunes.

 

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The second half of the conversation will follow shortly.

At the upcoming ApacheCon in Amsterdam, Chad Davis will be conducting a training class on Struts 2, and using Ajax with Struts 2. I spoke with him about the training class.

You can listen HERE, or via iTunes.

 

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Related links

• Struts
• Chad’s blog
• Chad’s book

At ApacheCon Europe 2009, Chris Bisciglia, and other engineers from Cloudera, will be giving a training class on Hadoop. I spoke with him about his class. You can listen to it HERE, or on iTunes.

Related links:

• Hadoop
• Cloudera

 

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ApacheCon Europe 2009 is just over a month away. On Monday and Tuesday before the conference, there are numerous half-day, full-day, and two-day training classes in the various Apache technologies. These will be hands-on, in-depth training classes taught by the experts in the field.

On Monday, there will be two half-day training classes on CouchDB taught by Chris Anderson and Jan Lehnardt. I spoke with them a few days ago about what their training will cover.

You can listen HERE, or on iTunes.

Related links

• ApacheCon Europe 2009
• CouchDB

 

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WSO2 is a company based in Sri Lanka which provides support and products around a number of Apache projects. I spoke with Paul Freemantle, the Chief Technology Officer of WSO2, about their company, and how they interact with the rest of the Apache community.

You can listen to the episode HERE, or via iTunes.

Related links:

• WSO2

 

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HotWax Media was our Platinum Sponsor at ApacheCon New Orleans. I spoke with the CEO of HotWax about the project that they’re involved with (OFBiz) and what they get out of sponsoring the foundation and the conference.

You can listen to it HERE, or on iTunes.

Related Links:

• HotWax Media
• OFBiz
• OFBiz FeatherCast

 

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I spoke with Guillaume Nodet at ApacheCon about the ServiceMix project.

Related links:

• ServiceMix website
• Guillaume’s Blog

You can listen to the interview HERE, or on iTunes.

 
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