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  • Twitter Sponsors Apache, Takes to Twitter

    Twitter has just announced that is has become an official sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, the non-profit, decentralized collective of developers of open-source software. Twitter’s Chris Aniszczyk comments on the company’s personal stake in the sponsorship and the Apache-developed cluster manager Mesos – “Mesos runs on hundreds of production machines [within Twitter] and makes it easier to execute clustered jobs that do everything from running services to handling our analytics workload.”

    Twitter made an additional statement on the matter:

    Sponsoring the ASF is not only the right thing to do, it will help us sustain our existing projects at the ASF by supporting the foundation’s infrastructure. We have a long history of contributing to Apache projects, including not only Mesos, but also Cassandra, Hadoop, Mahout, Pig and more. As Twitter grows, we look to further our commitment to the success of the ASF and other open source organizations.

    Not surprisingly, Twitter also took to Twitter:

    @TwitterOSS
    Twitter Open Source    Starting today, we are sponsoring The Apache Foundation. We look forward to contributing more and increasing our commitment to @TheASF 19 hours ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Hacker network Anonymous also chimed in to relay the news:

    @YourAnonNews
    Anonymous    Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation | http://t.co/VrAccZmm 6 hours ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    @colzbox
    Colz    @YourAnonNews good, this is because of Apache’s #flex which #Google gave them last year. 6 hours ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Apache then welcomed Twitter to its Software Foundation Sponsorship Program:

    @TheASF
    Apache – The ASF    Welcome @TwitterOSS to The #Apache Software Foundation Sponsorship Program http://t.co/ACrbMvpa #TheApacheWay 19 hours ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    In related news, whenever I think of Apache, I think of Tommy Seebach:

  • Google Wave Lives on as Apache Wave

    Earlier this year Google made an unexpected move when it announced it would shut down Google Wave as a standalone product. Since then, despite a lack of mainstream use, it has become clear that Google Wave has a loyal fan base, and Google has made efforts to open source much of the code behind Wave. 

    Wave lives on to an even greater extent now, as Google is giving it to the Apache Software Foundation, which supports open-source software projects. 

    "One of the best outcomes from November’s Wave Protocol Summit was a proposal for Wave to enter the Apache Software Foundation’s incubator program," explains software engineer Alex North with the Google Wave team. "Apache has a fantastic reputation for fostering healthy open source communities that create great software. Last week, that proposal was accepted, and we’re spinning up the project infrastructure so that the community can continue to grow in the Apache way."

    "During the summit, it became quite clear that there is a healthy community of startups, independent developers, and industry partners enthusiastic to continue development of the Wave Federation protocols and Wave in a Box product," adds North. 

    It did indeed become clear after Google’s initial announcement that it would be halting Wave development that there were quite a few saddened by the news. Many as it turned out viewed Wave as a helpful realtime collaboration tool. They should be happy with today’s news that a broader open source community will likely bring good things to Wave’s technology. 

    The creator of Google Wave recently left Google to go to Facebook. Google had previously suggested that it may utilize some of the technology behind the product in other products. 

    The chain of events has been quite interesting considering Google’s heightened emphasis on social and the very social nature of Wave.