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| <p>Welcome, August! We hope you have had a great week. Let's take a peek at what the Apache community has been up to:<br /></p>
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| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 15 August. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
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| <p>ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series. Join us!<br /> - 24-27 September: Register for ApacheCon/Montreal today! Discounted sleeping room rates are available through 24 August, but are filling quickly <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/">http://apachecon.com/acna18/</a><br /> + event updates <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-north-america-2018-announcements">https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-north-america-2018-announcements</a><br /> - 8 October: Apache Roadshow and Open Source Job Fair/Fairfax, VA --Save The Date!<br /> - Media and Community Partner opportunities available for *all* official Apache events: drop us a note at press@apache.org to help.</p>
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield hootin' performance at 96.35% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 843 Apache contributors changed 1,072,661 lines of code over <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3,759</span></font> commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Stephen Mallette, Masaori Koshiba, mxnet-ci, Gary Gregory, and Chris Brody.<br /></p>
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| <p>Apache Flink™ –an Open Source stream processing framework for distributed, high-performing, always-available, and accurate data streaming applications.<br /> - Apache Flink 1.5.2 released <a href="https://flink.apache.org/">https://flink.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –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 2.17.5 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.13 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Kafka™ –distributed, fault tolerant, publish-subscribe messaging.<br /> - Apache Kafka 2.0.0 released <a href="https://kafka.apache.org/">https://kafka.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Knox™ –a REST API gateway for interacting with Apache Hadoop clusters.<br /> - Apache Knox 1.1.0 released <a href="http://knox.apache.org/">http://knox.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache NetBeans (incubating) –a development environment, tooling platform and application framework.<br /> - Apache NetBeans 9.0 released <a href="https://netbeans.apache.org/">https://netbeans.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? jUDDI (8 years); Any23, Lucene.Net, and Oozie (6 years); Ignite, Lens, Serf, and Usergrid (6 years) --many happy returns! <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that you can easily help promote ApacheCon? <a href="http://www.apachecon.com/acna18/banners/">http://www.apachecon.com/acna18/banners/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, and many others are holding community events this week? <a href="http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html">http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html</a><br /><br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</a></p>
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| <p> - The Apache<span style="font-size: 10.8333px;"> </span>Software Foundation Celebrates 19 Years of Open Source Leadership "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/gK4Q">https://s.apache.org/gK4Q</a></p>
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| <p> - Read "Open – For Business – At the ASF" by Merv Adrian, VP Research at Gartner <a href="https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/">https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/</a><br /></p>
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| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement <a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache in 2017 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p>
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| <p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a></p>
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| <p> - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation">https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation</a></p>
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| <p> - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/</a>and Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity</a></p>
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| <p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html">http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon North America will be held 24-27 September in Montreal <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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| <p> - Save the Date: Apache Roadshow DC and Open Source/Government/Cyber/Job Fair - 8 October 2018 in Fairfax, VA <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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| <p> - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p>
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