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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 12 May 2017' |
| date: '2017-05-12T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>As members of the Apache community is preparing to convene in Miami for ApacheCon next week, we continue to be productive. Here's what we've been up to:</p>
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| <p>Support Apache –if Apache software has helped you, please consider making a donation, no matter the size. Every dollar counts. <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html">http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html</a></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 /> - Next Board Meeting: 17 May 2017. 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>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield forward performance at 99.82% uptime <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™ –Tomorrow's Technology Today: Big Data, CloudStack, Flex, IoT, Tomcat, and dozens of Apache projects across 200+ sessions, 150+ speakers, 4 subconferences, BarCampApache and more. <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a> Register today!<br /> - Support your favorite Apache projects and communities at ApacheCon by becoming an Apache Community and/or BarCamp Sponsor <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/sponsors/community-sponsor">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/sponsors/community-sponsor</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Arrow™ –columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate Big Data.<br />- Apache Arrow 0.3.0 released <a href="http://arrow.apache.org/">http://arrow.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Directory™ Fortress –a standards-based access management system, written in Java, that provides role-based access control, delegated administration and password policy services with LDAP.<br /> - Apache Fortress 2.0.0-RC2 released <a href="http://directory.apache.org/fortress/">http://directory.apache.org/fortress/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache HttpComponents™ Client –Java library implementing an HTTP client based on HttpCore components.<br />- HttpComponents Client 5.0 alpha2 released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/">http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Ignite™ –In-Memory Data Fabric providing in-memory data caching, partitioning, processing, and querying components.<br /> - Apache Ignite 2.0.0 released <a href="https://ignite.apache.org/">https://ignite.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache OpenWebBeans™ Meecrowave –a light Apache web server based on Tomat and OpenWebBeans (à la microprofile fashion).<br /> - Apache Meecrowave 0.3.1 released <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://openwebbeans.apache.org/meecrowave/">http://openwebbeans.apache.org/meecrowave/</a></span></p>
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| <p>Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.<br /> - Apache NiFi 1.2.0 released <a href="https://nifi.apache.org/">https://nifi.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Qpid™ Proton –a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464, http://www.amqp.org).<br /> -Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.19.0 released <a href="http://qpid.apache.org/">http://qpid.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.<br /> - Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M21 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/">http://tomcat.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Trafodion (incubating) –a Web-scale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or operational workloads on Apache Hadoop.<br /> - Apache Trafodion 2.1.0-incubating released <a href="http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org/index.html">http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org/index.html</a></p>
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| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <p><strong></strong> - Did you know that previews for ApacheCon + Apache: Big Data keynotes and select sessions are available exclusively on Feathercast? <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that over the past quarter, Apache source code has been downloaded more than 2M times? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/statistics.html">https://projects.apache.org/statistics.html</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that RiskCo finacial engineering and risk intelligence group uses Apache Wicket? <a href="http://wicket.apache.org/">http://wicket.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" is a blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". 1) Project Independence <a href="https://s.apache.org/CE0V">https://s.apache.org/CE0V</a> 2) All Carrot and No Stick <a href="https://s.apache.org/ykoG">https://s.apache.org/ykoG</a> 3) Asynchronous Decision Making <a href="https://s.apache.org/PMvk">https://s.apache.org/PMvk</a> 4) Rule of the Makers <a href="https://s.apache.org/yFgQ">https://s.apache.org/yFgQ</a> 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors <a href="https://s.apache.org/4pjM">https://s.apache.org/4pjM</a> 6) Meritocracy and Me <a href="https://s.apache.org/tQQh">https://s.apache.org/tQQh</a></p>
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| <p> - The latest Apache Community Newsletter <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/community-development-news-april-2017">https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/community-development-news-april-2017</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 Apache Phoenix community will be holding PhoenixCon on 13 June in San Francisco <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phoenixcon-2017-tickets-32872245772">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phoenixcon-2017-tickets-32872245772</a></p>
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| <p> - ASF Operations Summary - Q3 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/NKFz">https://s.apache.org/NKFz</a></p>
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| <p> - 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> - 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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| <p> - ApacheCon North America + Apache: BigData, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, FlexJS Summit, Apache: IoT, and TomcatCon will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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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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