PlusOne | Telling the ASF's Stories Menu About PlusOne Tell your story The ASF PlusOne Telling the ASF's Stories Apache Polaris — with Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Yufei Gu July 22, 2026 rbowen Apache Polaris is the open source metadata catalog for the data lakehouse — a vendor-neutral implementation of the Iceberg REST Catalog spec. In this episode, Rich Bowen speaks with PMC members Jean-Baptiste Onofré (Dremio) and Yufei Gu (Snowflake) about how two competing companies came together under Apache governance to build a shared standard, the projects extraordinary release velocity since graduating as a TLP in February 2026, and where the roadmap is headed — including multi-format support, AI use cases, and fine-grained access control. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/polaris-jbo-yufei.mp3 Learn more: https://polaris.apache.org Prefer video? Thats on our YouTube channel. Permalink Apache Geode, with Jinwoo Hwang July 20, 2026 rbowen Rich Bowen speaks with Jinwoo Hwang about Apache Geode, the distributed in-memory data management platform that delivers low-latency, scalable data access for high-performance applications. In a rare story of open source revival, Jinwoo describes how Geode — originally born as GemFire in 2002 and donated to the ASF in 2015 — declined into inactivity by 2023 and was voted for retirement, only to be brought back to life with a major 2.0 release in December 2025. They discuss the massive modernization effort required (Java 21, Spring Framework 6, Jakarta EE), the personal cost of that work, and whats next for the projects security and stability roadmap. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/apache-geode-jinwoo.mp3 Prefer video? Thats on our YouTube channel More about Apache Geode at https://geode.apache.org/ Tags: attic, geode, in-memory, Podcasts • Permalink DataFusion Python, with Tim Saucer July 14, 2026 rbowen Tim Saucer, PMC member and primary maintainer of Apache DataFusions Python bindings, joins PlusOne to talk about how he went from frustrated Spark user to open source maintainer — and how the project is using LLM-powered skills to keep its Python API in full parity with the upstream Rust library. He walks through the three developer-facing skills theyve built (expose new APIs, make them Pythonic, audit the user-facing docs) and shares practical advice for other projects looking to adopt a similar approach: treat your skills like test-driven software, constrain the agent to one shot, and use your existing examples as the ground truth. The conversation also covers whats next for DataFusion Python, including lambda functions on array columns, distributed compute via DataFusion Comet and Ballista, and how a single-line code change can move a local workflow to a distributed cluster. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/datafusion-tim.mp3 Prefer video? Thats on our YouTube channel. More about DataFusion at https://datafusion.apache.org/ Permalink Apache DataFusion, with PMC Chair Andrew Lamb July 6, 2026 rbowen Andrew Lamb, PMC Chair of Apache DataFusion, explains how this open source query engine lets teams build specialized analytic databases without reinventing SQL from scratch. We cover how DataFusion grew out of Apache Arrow, why it split into its own top-level project, how it attracted nearly 1,000 contributors, and what the rise of AI coding agents means for an embeddable database engine. If youve ever wondered what sits under the hood of the modern data stack — and how open source communities form around infrastructure no end user ever sees — this is the conversation. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/datafusion-andrew-lamb.mp3 Prefer video? Thats on our YouTube channel. More about DataFusion: https://datafusion.apache.org/ Tags: arrow, Community, datafusion, query engine, sql • Permalink Emmanuel Lecharny, new board member at the ASF April 10, 2026 rbowen In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. Emmanuel Lecharny has been around the ASF for a long time, but this is his first term on the board. He discusses some of his backstory, and his priorities for this board term. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Emmanuel-Lecharny-Board-of-Directors.mp3 More about the board. Prefer video? Thats on our Youtube channel. Permalink Chris Dutz, new Director at the ASF April 1, 2026 rbowen In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. One of them, Chris Dutz, had served a few terms before. In this interview, he talks about his priorities for the coming year on the board. The ASF Board https://www.apache.org/foundation/leadership Prefer video? Thats on our YouTube channel. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CDutz_Audio.mp3 Permalink Apache Grails: James Fredley and James Daugherty November 10, 2025 rbowen Apache Grails recently graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. But its far from a new project, having been started 20 years ago! James Fredley, and James Daugherty from the Grails PMC talk about why they came to Apache, along with many other topics. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Grails_render.mp3 Links: Grails Release process documentation Prefer video? Thats here: Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:31 Why Apache? 03:45 What are you working on? 06:08 Community building 07:51 New in 7, coming in 8 09:36 The move to Jakarta 10:25 Release/build automation 24:36 Time to upgrade 26:57 Contact us! Permalink Airflow 3.x and beyond October 28, 2025 rbowen A chat with several Airflow community members Amogh Desai, Jarek Potiuk, Jens Scheffler and Rajesh Bishundeo about the Airflow 3.x release, building collaborative community, and working with a broad set of vendors. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Airflow3x.mp3 More about Airflow: https://airflow.apache.org/ Prefer video? Thats on YouTube. Permalink Dave Fisher, VP Tooling September 30, 2025 rbowen In this interview, Dave Fisher talks about the Tooling effort, which he heads, and the specific projects theyll be working on. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DaveFisherTooling.mp3 Prefer video? Thats on YouTube. More info: Tooling: https://tooling.apache.org Apache Trusted Release Platform: https://tooling.apache.org/trusted-release.html Quart: https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfquart Permalink Danny Angus, VP Infrastructure September 23, 2025 rbowen Danny Angus is the new VP of Infrastructure. In this interview he discusses some of the priorities for the coming year. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Danny-Angus-VP-Infra.mp3 Prefer just video? Thats on YouTube. Read more about the ASF Infrastructure team. 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