Picture of Apache?
March 25th, 2008 by HenHow does this look? Right, or needs some improvement?
Aside from some nice colour etc. The subject of the Apache structure came up in a session and I thought a single image to answer things would be good.
I have the urge to make it larger and cover PRC, Legal, Security, Infra etc. Any thoughts?
March 26th, 2008 at 1:31 am
The vertical line in the middle looks quite solid… My first impression was that there are two _non-overlapping_ parts to the foundation.
The basic idea of the diagram is good though, but I wonder if it would read better if the two parts were vertically stacked; something like “the foundation supports the community”.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Kinda similar to my slide from my State Of The Feather talk… I didn’t have board “leak” over to the development side, and I had “Officers” as another element on the right hand side.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:41 am
…maybe worth also outlining ‘officers’?
March 28th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Yup, I would stick in an Officers blob too; while some may see it as a minor distinction from other PMC members, they’re the people with the actual corporate power.
Although I like the simplicity of this, I would suggest one of two graphical changes:
- Either: shrink the right-hand side, since it has fewer elements (and since hopefully the corporate/shareholder aspect should be less important in most cases)
- Or: make it partly like a mathematics set diagram, showing that members and board often intersect with PMCs, committers, etc.; also showing that officers are sometimes not members.
Overall, I think the split between the left and the right is appropriate, even if it may feel like a wall to some. The membership - primarily through electing the board, but to a significant degree by direct participation in projects and just general members@ traffic - set strategic direction of the foundation and lay the ground rules for how we should work. The PMCs and committers do everything else - namely, all the actual work of producing software for the public good.
Oh how I wish I had even the slightest bit of graphics-fu myself. Sigh.