2007 marked the largest changeover of ASF board members since the organization's incorporation in 1999 and newly-elected board members include Justin Erenkrantz as president, J. Aaron Farr as treasurer and Sam Ruby as executive vice president and secretary.

With over 1,500 committers and countless contributors and users collaborating in the development of Apache-related activities across the open source landscape, ASF projects continue to grow at a steady rate, says the organization. Beginning with just two projects - Apache HTTP Server and the ApacheCon Conference Planning committee - the ASF today comprises more than 55 top-level projects and two-dozen initiatives under incubation. In 2007 milestones were reached in top-level projects like Ant, Cocoon, Directory, Excalibur, HiveMind, Jakarta, Lucene, Tapestry, Tomcat and Velocity.

"Our achievements reflect strong commitment from our community, boosting confidence in our ability to meet end-user and market demand and building excitement about the work that is underway," Jim Jagielski, chairman of the ASF. "With our proven success of working together, producing premium projects, building active and healthy user and developer communities and advancing innovative technologies, we have a tremendous opportunity to continue to meet future needs of this technology space, so important to the industry. For us, 'Community Over Code' isn't a slogan, it's a way of life."

As the backbone of more websites than any other Web server software, the Apache HTTP Server remains the number one Web server, powering more than 75 million websites across the Internet, according to the December 2007 Web Server Survey by Netcraft.