Editing The Apache Software Foundation (section)

==History==
The history of the Apache Software Foundation is linked to the Apache HTTP Server, development beginning in February 1993. A group of eight developers started working on enhancing the [[NCSA HTTPd]] [[Daemon (computing)|daemon]]. They came to be known as the Apache Group. On March 25, 1999, the Apache Software Foundation was formed.<ref name=incorporation/> The first official meeting of the Apache Software Foundation was held on April 13, 1999.<ref name=":1" /> The initial members of the Apache Software Foundation consisted of the Apache Group: [[Brian Behlendorf]], [[Ken Coar]], Miguel Gonzales, Mark Cox, [[Lars Eilebrecht]], Ralf S. Engelschall, [[Roy Fielding|Roy T. Fielding]], Dean Gaudet, Ben Hyde, [[Jim Jagielski]], Alexei Kosut, Martin Kraemer, [[Ben Laurie]], Doug MacEachern, Aram Mirzadeh, [[Sameer Parekh]], Cliff Skolnick, Marc Slemko, William (Bill) Stoddard, Paul Sutton, [[Randy Terbush]] and [[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|date=13 April 1999|title=The Apache Software Foundation: Board of Directors Meeting Minutes|url=https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/1999/board_minutes_1999_04_13.txt|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=August 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806105303/http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/1999/board_minutes_1999_04_13.txt|url-status=live}}</ref> After a series of additional meetings to elect board members and resolve other legal matters regarding incorporation, the effective incorporation date of the Apache Software Foundation was set to June 1, 1999.<ref name=effDate/>

Co-founder [[Brian Behlendorf]] states how the [[Apache HTTP Server#Name|name 'Apache']] was chosen: "I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being called cyber this or spider that or something on those themes and I was like we need something a little more interesting, a little more romantic, not to be a cultural appropriator or anything like that, I had just seen a documentary about [[Geronimo]] and the last days of a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe called the [[Apache|Apaches]] right, who succumbed to the invasion from the West, from the United States, and they were the last tribe to give up their territory and for me that almost romantically represented what I felt we were doing with this web-server project..."<ref>{{cite web|title=Trillions and Trillions Served|website=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUt2nb0mgwg&t=249s|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=May 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508210752/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUt2nb0mgwg&t=249s|url-status=live}}</ref>