Rich Bowen

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Lexington, KY

Rich is an Open Source Advocate at AWS. He's a director, member, and VP Conferences, at The Apache Software Foundation.

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How the Big Tent conversation changed OpenStack

Because "cloud" means different things to different people, and because OpenStack tries to be all those things, individual OpenStack deployments can look very different from…

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RTFM? How to write a manual worth reading

Definition: RTFM ( Read The F'ing Manual). Occasionally it is ironically rendered as Read The Fine Manual, a phrase uttered at people who have asked a question that we, the…

Three days of exciting talks at ApacheCon 2015

The Apache Software Foundation is excited to invite you to ApacheCon North America, which we'll be holding in Austin, Texas, April 13th - 16th. TL;DR: Register today! This…

My life in open source, and the mentors who led the way

I have been working on the Apache http server for almost 20 years now. I've written 9 books about httpd, and spoken at more than fifty conferences. I'm a member of the Apache…

Why change is hard for any open source community

A lightning talk recap about how the Apache Foundation has always done things a certain way at ApacheCon Budapest by Rich Bowen. As you know, the Apache Software Foundation…

What's new in OpenStack Juno

OpenStack is on a six-month release cycle, with each release given a code name starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. On October 16th, OpenStack Juno will be…