Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there’s the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it’s a good thing for society.

I think the most that I’ve learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I’m really not the world’s best programmer, I think it’s a good thing that I’m not touching the code.

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there’s the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it’s a good thing for society.

So that’s my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.