Why were the Apache Labs established?
Innovation and research follow different lifecycles than incubation, development and maintenance. The firsts are efforts that are mostly done by a few individuals, with a lot of freedom and peace and it’s expected of many of such efforts to fail. The ASF grew around established projects and focused its entire incubation efforts around the concept of nurturing and bootstrapping healthy and diverse open development communities. Unfortunately, it has been duly noted that incubation and innovation can hardly coexist at the same time and that the foundation didn’t contain a place were its own committers can get together and bootstrap new ideas and were forced to go to external locations. Apache Labs was established to provide a place were trusted individuals can innovate without the burden of community building, with the comfort of the apache infrastructure and remaining close to their peers, making it easier to get feedback and seeding new potential incubator podlings.
