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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 October 2015'
date: '2015-10-09T16:44:47+00:00'
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<p>We've wrapped up another great week! Here's what the Apache Community has been up to:</p>
<p>ASF Board –the ASF Board is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's Bylaws.<br />&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 21 October. Board calendar and minutes available at&nbsp;<a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
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<p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br />&nbsp;- 6M weekly checks yielded a cheery 99.39% uptime over the past week <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a>&nbsp;Check against established SLAs&nbsp;<a href="http://status.apache.org/sla/">http://status.apache.org/sla/</a></p>
<p>Apache Accumulo™ –a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Accumulo 1.6.4 released&nbsp;<a href="http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/">http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/</a></p>
<p>Apache Ignite™ –a comprehensive platform for distributed in-memory computing, including Data Grid and In-Memory Key-Value Store, Compute Grid, Streaming Grid, Service Grid, In-Memory File System, and more.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Ignite 1.4.0 released&nbsp;<a href="https://ignite.apache.org/download">https://ignite.apache.org/download</a></p>
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<p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).<br />&nbsp;- Apache Jackrabbit 2.11.1 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.22 released&nbsp;<a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
<p>Apache Kafka™ –a high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of as a distributed commit log.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Kafka 0.8.2.2 released&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.8.2.2/kafka-0.8.2.2-src.tgz">https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.8.2.2/kafka-0.8.2.2-src.tgz</a></p>
<p>Apache Olingo™ –a Java library which enables developers to implement OData producers and OData consumers.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Olingo 2.0.5 released&nbsp;<a href="http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata2/download.html">http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata2/download.html</a></p>
<p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that new podlings in the Apache Incubator include HAWQ, HORN, MADlib, and Rya?&nbsp;<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">http://incubator.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the top 5 Apache projects by number of Committers are (in order) OpenOffice, Hadoop, CloudStack, Subversion, and Cocoon?&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?number">https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?number</a></p>
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<div>&nbsp;- Did you know that the Otto Group's Business Intelligence Department uses Apache Flink as their stream processing framework?&nbsp;<a href="http://flink.apache.org/">http://flink.apache.org/</a></div>
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<p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
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<div>&nbsp;- The first Apache Flink Conference, Flink Forward, will take place 12-13 October in Berlin <a href="http://flink-forward.org/">http://flink-forward.org</a></div>
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<p>&nbsp;- The next Lucene/Solr Revolution will be held 13-16 October in Austin <a href="http://www.lucenerevolution.org/">http://www.lucenerevolution.org</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- The Apache Roadshow returns to China: Containers/Cloud/Big Data/Incubation &amp; more 24-25 Oct in Beijing&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huodongxing.com/event/9291887966700">http://www.huodongxing.com/event/9291887966700</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache CloudStack will hold a MeetUp in London on 12 November&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-18631038939?aff=es2">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-18631038939?aff=es2</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- The ASF will be at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 6-8 February 2016 <a href="https://fosdem.org/">https://fosdem.org/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- The ASF Operations Summary: First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (May-July 2015) is available at&nbsp;<a href="http://s.apache.org/c2P">http://s.apache.org/c2P</a></p>
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