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Ken Coar (born 1960) is an American software developer known for his participation in the creation of The
Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation ( ; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the ...
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Open source

Coar has been active in open software projects, and lectures internationally about open development methodologies and distributed collaboration.
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' He is co-author with David R. Robinson of RFC 3875, the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) specification.


Apache Software Foundation

Coar is a founder of The
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(ASF) and was a director on its board from its incorporation in 1999 through June 2007. He is also the primary contributor to the Apache Pulse project, which provides daily analyses of all of the Apache mailing lists. Coar was responsible for the ApacheCon shows, held in North America and Europe since 2000. He was the initial chair of the
Apache Commons The Apache Commons is a project of the Apache Software Foundation, formerly under the Jakarta Project. The purpose of the Commons is to provide reusable, Open-source software, open source Java (software platform), Java software. The Commons is compo ...
project and helped in the creation of the
Apache Incubator The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan homelands in the north int ...
project.


Publications

Coar is the author of the books ''Apache Server for Dummies'', ''Apache Server Unleashed'', and ''Apache Cookbook'', and has written articles for a number of publications, including Linux Magazine,
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, ''Linux Today'', ''PHPBuilder'', ''EnterpriseIT Planet'', and ''Apache Today''.


See also

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Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation ( ; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the ...
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Open Source Initiative The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a California public benefit corporation "actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software". Governance The ...
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References

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