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.

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.