The Apache Software Foundation

We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects, which provide software products for the public good.

The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.

The ASF is made up of over 100 top level projects that cover a wide range of technologies. Chances are if you are looking for a rewarding experience in Open Source, you are going to find it here.

• Apache Pig

  Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets on Hadoop. It provides a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs.

  Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets. Pig's infrastructure layer consists of a compiler that produces sequences of Map-Reduce programs. Pig's language layer consists of a textual language called Pig Latin, which has the following key properties: * Ease of programming. It is trivial to achieve parallel execution of simple, "embarrassingly parallel" data...

• Apache .NET Ant Library

  Support for Mono and Microsoft .NET development using Ant

  This is a library of Ant tasks that help developing .NET software. It includes the "old" .NET tasks like a C# compiler task but also comes with support for NUnit testing or running the popular NAnt or MSBuild build tools.

• Apache Droids (incubating)

  An intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create robots as plugins, which can automatically seeks out relevant online information based on the user's specifications.

  Apache Droids (incubating) aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create robots as plugins, which can automatically seeks out relevant online information based on the user's specifications. Droids makes it very easy to extend existing robots or write a new one from scratch, which can automatically seek out relevant online information based on the user's specifications. Droids (plural) is not designed for a special usecase, it is a framework: Take what you need, do what you want.