Rocket Science

Wow. So, I received an email the other day asking me if I accepted membership within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). For a long time, I've been a participant, as a committer, as someone who was the progenitor of one of Apache's projects (Tika), as a PMC member (within Apache Lucene), but I honestly was taken aback that I had been nominated and accepted into the ASF as a member.

I sincerely appreciate the goodwill, Apache members, and will do my best to live up to the great precedent by the other ASF members. Of note: it seems I'm the first member from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the first member to represent the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.