Mission: The Community Development project creates and provides tools, processes, and advice, to help open source software projects improve their own community health. We are, of course, primarily focused on Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects. However, because we believe that the Apache Way is, in fact, the best way to manage a software project, we strive also to make these artifacts releasable to the open source community as a whole. We do not focus on specific projects here, but rather on the common processes and policies called The Apache Way found in most Apache projects. Our goal is to help you understand how the ASF works and give you the confidence to participate in the specific Apache projects that interest you.