# ApacheCon Europe 2019 -- Thoughts and Insights by Airflow Committers

DevFeed: [ApacheCon Europe 2019 -- Thoughts and Insights by Airflow Committers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/apachecon-europe-2019-thoughts-and-insights-by-airflow-committers-32557.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://airflow.apache.org/blog/apache-con-europe-2019-thoughts-and-insights-by-airflow-committers/>)

Author: Apache Airflow

Published: 2019-11-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Apache Airflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apache-airflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [Apache Spark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spark.md>), [flink](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/flink.md>)

Tags: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/airflow.md>), [apache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache.md>), [apache-spark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-spark.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [flink](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flink.md>), [foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/foundation.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>)

## AI overview

The article shares insights from Apache project committers after ApacheCon Europe 2019, focusing on the Apache Software Foundation's community-centered model for organizing and sustaining open-source projects such as Airflow, Spark, Flink, and Beam.

## Source excerpt

Is it possible to create an organization that delivers tens of projects used by millions, nearly no one is paid for doing their job, and still, it has been fruitfully carrying on for more than 20 years? Apache Software Foundation proves it is possible. For the last two decades, ASF has been crafting a model called the Apache Way--a way of organizing and leading tech open source projects. Due to this approach, which is strongly based on the "community over code" motto, we can enjoy such awesome projects like Apache Spark, Flink, Beam, or Airflow (and many more). After this year's ApacheCon, Polidea's engineers talked with Committers of Apache projects, such as--Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy, Felix Uellendall, and Fokko Driesprong--about insights to what makes the ASF such an amazing organization. You can read the insights after the ApacheCon 2019.