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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 October 2016'
date: '2016-10-14T11:56:31+00:00'
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<p>As we're ramping up for ApacheCon and Apache: Big Data next month, the community has been hard at work with the following activities:</p>
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<p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;ASF Operations Summary: May - Aug 2016 <a href="https://s.apache.org/1BsV">https://s.apache.org/1BsV</a><br />&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 19 October 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br />&nbsp;- 7M+ weekly checks yield steady performance at 99.79% uptime&nbsp;<a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://status.apache.org/"></a>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br />&nbsp;- 4 weeks to go: Program, registration, and hotel discounts for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br /></p>
<p>Apache Calcite™ –a dynamic data management framework.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Calcite 1.10.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/calcite/apache-calcite-1.10.0/">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/calcite/apache-calcite-1.10.0/</a></p>
<p>Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Camel 2.18.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://camel.apache.org/download.html">http://camel.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
<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 2.13.4 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.12 released&nbsp;<a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
<p>Apache Kudu™ –an Open Source storage engine for structured data which supports low-latency random access together with efficient analytical access patterns.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Kudu 1.0.1 released&nbsp;<a href="http://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.0.1">http://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.0.1</a></p>
<p>Apache OpenOffice™ –leading Open Source office application and personal productivity suite for Windows, Linux, and Mac.<br />&nbsp;- The Apache OpenOffice Project Announces Apache OpenOffice v4.1.3&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/JiCT">https://s.apache.org/JiCT</a></p>
<p>Apache Pirk&nbsp;(incubating) –a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).<br />&nbsp;- Apache Pirk 0.2.0-incubating released&nbsp;<a href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/pirk/0.2.0-incubating">https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/pirk/0.2.0-incubating</a></p>
<p>Apache PredictionIO (incubating)&nbsp;–an Open Source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning tasks.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating released&nbsp;<a href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/predictionio/0.10.0-incubating/">https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/predictionio/0.10.0-incubating/</a></p>
<p>Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.|<br />&nbsp;- Apache Syncope 1.2.9 released&nbsp;<a href="http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html">http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
<p>Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M11 released&nbsp;<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi</a><br />&nbsp;- Apache Tomcat 8.0.38 and 8.5.6 released&nbsp;<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi</a><br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html"></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the Apache Incubator,&nbsp;the entry path for all new incubating Apache projects, was first founded in October 2002?&nbsp;<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">http://incubator.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Apache project birthdays in October include Xalan &amp; XML Graphics (12 yrs); Mina &amp; Velocity (10 yrs); PDFBox (7 yrs); Thrift (6 yrs); JMeter (5 yrs); Cordova, Isis, OpenOffice (4 yrs); Chukwa and Jclouds (3 yrs); and Calcite (1 yr)?&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Did you know that bourse.societegenerale.fr is powered by Apache Wicket? <a href="https://wicket.apache.org">https://wicket.apache.org</a><br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at&nbsp;<a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with&nbsp;Apache HTTP Server,&nbsp;Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, Zest, and more!&nbsp;<a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain&nbsp;<a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- The ASF Q1 FY2017 Report is available at <a href="https://s.apache.org/1BsV">https://s.apache.org/1BsV</a></p>
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