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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 January 2016' |
| date: '2016-01-08T15:47:30+00:00' |
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| <div>It's the first week into 2016 and we're off to a great start. Here's what we've been up to:</div>
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| <div>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.</div>
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| <div> - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></div>
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| <div>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.</div>
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| <div> - 6M+ weekly checks yielded a stellar 99.97% uptime over the past week <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a> Check against established SLAs <a href="http://status.apache.org/sla/">http://status.apache.org/sla/</a></div>
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| <div>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.</div>
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| <div> - Call For Participation: Apache:Big Data North America - Vancouver 9-12 May 2016 <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/cfp">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/cfp</a></div>
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| <div> - Call For Participation: ApacheCon:Core North America - Vancouver 11-13 May 2016 <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/cfp">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp</a></div>
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| <div> - Applications OPEN: Travel Assistance to ApacheCon North America <a href="http://www.apache.org/travel/">http://www.apache.org/travel/</a></div>
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| <p>Apache Attic™ –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.<br /> - Apache Shindig retired <a href="http://attic.apache.org/projects/shindig.html">http://attic.apache.org/projects/shindig.html</a></p>
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| <div>Apache Directory™ Studio –a complete directory tooling platform intended to be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with ApacheDS.</div>
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| <div> - Apache Directory Studio 2.0-0-M10 released <a href="http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html">http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html</a></div>
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| <div>Apache Commons™ Math –a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common practical problems not immediately available in the Java programming language or commons-lang.</div>
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| <div> - Apache Commons Math 3.6 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/download_math.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/download_math.cgi</a></div>
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| <p>Apache HttpComponents™ –a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint.<br /> - HttpComponents Core 5.0 alpha1 released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi">http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.3.13 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache OODT™ –provides metadata for middleware, and vice versa: transparent access to distributed resources; data discovery and query optimization; distributed processing and virtual archives.<br /> - Apache OODT 0.11 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/oodt">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/oodt</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Turbine™ –a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build secure Web applications.<br /> - Apache Turbine 4.0-M2 released <a href="http://turbine.apache.org/">http://turbine.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <div><b>Did You Know?</b></div>
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| <div> - Did you know that California's non-profit Cal INDEX statewide health information exchange runs on Apache Cassandra? <a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/">http://cassandra.apache.org/</a></div>
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| <div> - Did you know that load testing experience with Apache JMeter is the most in-demand requirement from recruiters over the 4 other most popular leading load tools combined? <a href="http://jmeter.apache.org/">http://jmeter.apache.org/</a></div>
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| <div> - Did you know that you can track Apache Project community activities as well as the personal blogs + tweets of select ASF Committers on @PlanetApache? <a href="https://twitter.com/planetapache">https://twitter.com/planetapache</a></div>
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p><strong></strong> - 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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| <p> - Open Source Analytics will present "Continuous Data Management for Hadoop and Spark – On-Premise or in the Cloud" on 12 January in Boston <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Analytics-Boston/events/226759308/">http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Analytics-Boston/events/226759308/</a></p>
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| <p> - Seattle Data Science will host a JumpStart on Apache Spark on 12 January <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Data-Science/events/226688163/">http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Data-Science/events/226688163/</a></p>
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| <p> - The San Francisco Bay Area Big Data and Scalable Systems will hold an introduction to Apache Tajo on 14 January <a href="http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Big-Data-and-Scalable-Systems/events/227248757/">http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Big-Data-and-Scalable-Systems/events/227248757/</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache Spark will be featured at Data Day Texas on 16 January in Austin <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/226622137/">http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/226622137/</a></p>
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| <p> - The ASF will be participating at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 30-31 January 2016 <a href="https://fosdem.org/">https://fosdem.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - The next CloudStack European User Group will be held 3 March 2016 in London <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon:Core North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/</a></p>
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| <p> - The ASF Operations Summary: Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (August-October 2015) is available at <a href="http://s.apache.org/M0R">http://s.apache.org/M0R</a></p>
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| <div> - Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear">http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear</a> and <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">http://s.apache.org/landsend</a> --all proceeds benefit the ASF! </div>
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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce">Apache-related news</a> by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</a>. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div>
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