Jim Jagielski
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Jim Jagielski (born March 11, 1961) is a leading expert in Web and Open Source Technologies. He is best known as co-founder, member and director of The Apache Software Foundation and a core developer on several ASF projects, including the Apache HTTP Server, APR and Tomcat. His first recognition on the 'Net was as the A/UX Guru, being Editor of the FAQ and the administrator for jagubox.
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[edit] Background
Jim graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1983 with a BES in Electrical/Computer Engineering. He was hired by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center immediately after graduation.
In 1994 Jim founded jaguNET Access Services, a Web Host and ISP. He has served as CTO for Zend Technologies and currently serves as CTO for Covalent Technologies. In addition to speaking at various conferences and seminars and writing on numerous topics, in the past Jim was also the Editor of the Apache Section on Slashdot.
[edit] Open Source
Jim has been very active in open source since before it was even called that. In addition to his deep involvement with the ASF, he has also made at least minor patches to several of the core technologies powering the web.
[edit] Apache Software Foundation
Jim is one of the founding members of The Apache Software Foundation after having been an almost charter member of the original 8-member Apache Group. Jim has served as Director on the ASF's board, as well as Executive Vice President and Secretary since its incorporation in 1999.
Other foundation level responsibilities include serving as Chair for the ASF's Public Relations committee. Jim was the first Chair of the Apache Incubator project, in which he is still involved with to this day. He was one of the original co-Mentors for the Geronimo project, and he also Mentors the following Incubator podlings: mod_ftp, CXF and Cayenne.
Uniquely though, Jim is still a very active developer on many ASF projects. After doing some development on the NCSA_HTTPd web server, he started with Apache in early-to-mid 1995, making him likely the longest active contributor within the ASF. A complete and current listing of Apache projects in which he is involved is available here: Apache Committers.
[edit] Open Source Software Initiative
In 2005 Jim was asked to serve on the Advisory Board of the Open Source Software Institute. Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization comprised of corporate, government and academic representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. federal, state and municipal government agencies and academic entities.
[edit] Other Open Software Projects
As noted above, Jim has also contributed to several other Open Source projects, such as Sendmail, xntpd, BIND, PHP, Perl and FreeBSD.
[edit] Languages
Although he cut his teeth on C (as well as Basic Plus), Jim has a deep affinity for scripting languages. In fact, most of the original shell scripts for the Apache build environment were written by Jim. Today, though, he focuses on Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl.
Although not a scripting language per se, he's also been known to do serious coding in Java as well.
[edit] Other Activities
A voracious reader, Jim is also an accomplished woodworker. Additionally, he is very involved with The Maryland State Boychoir where he's on the board of directors and serves as proctor.
