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.

Behlendorf was an early participant and the chief technology guru for the Burning Man festival and also founded a large online resource devoted to electronic music and related subcultures. Behlendorf is currently the CTO of the World Economic Forum and a Director of CollabNet a company he co-founded with O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) in 1999 to develop tools for enabling collaborative distributed software development.

Behlendorf is currently the CTO of the World Economic Forum and a Director of CollabNet a company he co-founded with O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) in 1999 to develop tools for enabling collaborative distributed software development. Behlendorf served as President of the Foundation for three years. Behlendorf has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003.