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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 August 2018' |
| date: '2018-08-31T13:53:28+00:00' |
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| <p>So long, August. Let's wrap up the month with a look back at our activities over the past week:</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: 19 September. 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, now in its 20th year.<br /> - 24-27 September: T-24 days to Montreal. Don't miss 100+ Apache project and community sessions, from CloudStack to Spark to Tomcat to Geospatial to Hackathon, BarCamp, and more. Join us! <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/">http://apachecon.com/acna18/</a><br /></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 bouncy performance at 96.12% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 288 Apache contributors changed 444,400 lines of code over <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1,613</span></font> commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sijie Guo, Tellier Benoit, Kevin A. McGrail, Shawn McKinney, and Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez.</p>
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| <p>Apache Drill™ –an Apache Open Source SQL query engine for Big Data exploration.<br /> - Apache Drill 1.14.0 released <a href="https://drill.apache.org/">https://drill.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache HttpComponents™ Core –a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint.<br /> - HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta3 released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/">http://hc.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache SystemML™ –a machine learning platform optimal for Big Data.<br /> - Apache SystemML 1.2.0 released <a href="http://systemml.apache.org/">http://systemml.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache XMLBeans™ –a tool that allows access to the full power of XML in a Java friendly way.<br />- Apache XMLBeans 3.0.1 released <a href="https://xmlbeans.apache.org">https://xmlbeans.apache.org</a><br /><br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that since Apache Groovy was first announced 15 years ago, the project has had 160+ releases, 320+ contributors and 100M+ downloads? <a href="http://groovy.apache.org/">http://groovy.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that the CFPs for DataWorks Summit (18-21 March 2019/Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019/Washington DC) closes 14 September? <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Chick-fil-A uses Apache MXNet (incubating) vision models to alert when their fries sit for too long? <a href="http://mxnet.apache.org/">http://mxnet.apache.org/</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> - Catch members of the Apache community at Solutions Hamburg 12-14 September in Hamburg --stop by the Apache booth and say hello! <a href="https://solutions.hamburg/">https://solutions.hamburg/</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><a href="http://apachecon.com/"></a> - The Apache Spark community will be presenting at In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2-3 October in San Francicso <a href="https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/">https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.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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