The history of Infra

DRAFT

We want to assemble a history that has two parts: a timeline that notes the significant changes and when they happened, and anecdotes, tales, stories that will give the flavour of Infra through the years.

Timeline Notes

• 1995: Apache was run from a computer under Brian Behlendorf's desk. 
• 19??: Creation of the Infra Committee, on the model of other ASF committees.
• 1995-??: Infra team as a loose collection of volunteers, rather like a PMC. Strengths? Challenges? "Infra tax"
• 19??: Joe Schaefer hired as a contractor to work on infrastructure.
• 2001: Greg: "When I was elected as a Director in 2001, we had like 4 PMCs. Now we have 200"
• 2010: CMS system
• ????: First VP-Infra. Before that, did the Infra Committee report directly to the president?
• September, ????, Greg Stein became the first Infra-Admin. End of the ASF Committee.

Staff growth chart notes:

19?? 1 contractor

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2019 1 admin, 5 sysadmins, .5 editor/writer

Story notes

The time we almost deleted the database. The time the Russian hackers were fixing our code for us. That other time when X got lost at ApacheCon and could not find the hotel and so missed a vital download...