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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 October 2018' |
| date: '2018-10-19T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>The week certainly feels like it has zipped by...luckily our community has remained steadily productive:</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: 21 November. 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 /> - NOW OPEN: registration for Apache Roadshow DC and Open Source Job Fair! <a href="http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/">http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/</a></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 pert performance at 98.65% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 514 Apache contributors changed 1,282,780 lines of code over 3,434 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Matt Benson, Pedro Boado, Andrea Cosentino, Tilman Hausherr, and Andrzej Kaczmarek.</p>
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| <p>Apache Beam™ –an Open Source unified programming model to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream (continuous) processing.<br /> - Apache Beam 2.7.0 released <a href="https://beam.apache.org/">https://beam.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Commons™ Text –Open Source software library that provides a host of algorithms focused on working with strings and blocks of text.<br /> - Apache Commons Text 1.6 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/">http://commons.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Groovy™ –a multi-facet programming language for the JVM.<br /> - Apache Groovy 2.5.3 released <a href="http://groovy.apache.org">http://groovy.apache.org</a></p>
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| <p>Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.<br /> - Apache OpenMeetings 4.0.6 released <a href="http://openmeetings.apache.org/">http://openmeetings.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Struts™ –an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications.<br /> - Apache Struts 2.3.36 GA and 2.5.18 GA released <a href="https://struts.apache.org/">https://struts.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 JK Connectors 1.2.46 released <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/">https://tomcat.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Velocity™ Tools –a library of template tools and helpers to ease the use of the Apache Velocity template engine in standalone applications and in webapps.<br /> - Apache Velocity Tools 3.0 released <a href="http://velocity.apache.org/">http://velocity.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that you can catch up on dozens of presentations from ApacheCon via Feathercast, the voice of the ASF? <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Pinterest processes over 800 billion events per day using Apache Kafka? <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that, according to the 2018 Snyk/Java Magazine JVM Ecosystem report, Apache Maven "clearly dominates with a 3:1 ratio over its closest rival"? <a href="http://maven.apache.org/">http://maven.apache.org/</a><br /> </p>
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - ASF Operations Summary: Q1 FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/qiKn">https://s.apache.org/qiKn</a></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><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/"></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> - 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> - Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam <font color="#bb0000"><a href="https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/">https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/</a></font></p>
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| <p> - Block your calendars for ApacheCon North America: taking place in September 2019; announcing dates and details soon. <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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