Community Over Code is a very community oriented conference, and the 2025 edition was no exception. It is by and for the ASF committers and projects. The usual greeting phrase is not “What is your name?” , “Where are you from?” ,or “Where do you work?”, but rather “What (Apache) project are you involved in?”.
The new logo for The Apache Software Foundation was launched in the opening keynote. The feather is now replaced by an oak leaf. You can read all about why an oak leaf was chosen in the blog post Introducing The ASF’s new Logo.
This was my third time speaking at Community Over Code. This year, my presentation The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java with The ASF in the Middle gathered a pretty full room. The conference is not the biggest with its ~200 registered attendees (not all necessarily showing up each day), and with six parallel tracks, having 20 people in the room is fairly good.
The morning before the conference, we went for a morning run in a nearby park. This is a tradition at every Community Over Code. I also had the pleasure of meeting up with Kevin and Jared for dinner on Friday. Kevin also attended the entire conference day. His retirement hasn’t made him rusty as he was able to spot the mistake I did when I got a deployment error in one of my demos during my talk.
