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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 August 2015' |
| date: '2015-08-07T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>With the Apache footprint covering 7 continents, we seemingly never break for holidays! Here's what happened over the past week:</p>
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| <p>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - Registration open for Apache: Big Data 28-30 September and ApacheCon: Core Europe 1-2 October in Budapest <a href="http://s.apache.org/eg4">http://s.apache.org/eg4</a></p>
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| <div>ASF Board –the ASF Board is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's Bylaws.</div>
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| <div> - Upcoming Board Meeting: 19 August. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></div>
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| <div>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 35,000+ weekly infrastructure checks yielded a fabulous 99.94% uptime over the past week <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></div>
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| <p>Apache Commons™ Pool –Open Source software library provides an object-pooling API and a number of object pool implementations.<br /> - Apache Commons Pool 2.4.2 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/pool/download_pool.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/pool/download_pool.cgi</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –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 Oak 1.0.18 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Logging Services™ –producers of the most used Open Source logging framework ever.<br /> - Apache Logging Services Project Announces Log4j 1 End-Of-Life; Recommends Upgrade to Log4j 2 <a href="http://s.apache.org/Wzn">http://s.apache.org/Wzn</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Mahout™ –an Open Source environment for quickly creating machine learning applications that scale and run on the highest performance parallel computation engines available.<br /> - Apache Mahout 0.10.2 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.10.2/">http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.10.2/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Stratos™ –a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications that can be extended to support many more environments on all major Cloud infrastructures.<br /> - Apache Stratos 4.1.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/stratos">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/stratos</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Syncope™ – an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology.<br /> - Apache Syncope 1.2.5 released <a href="http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html">http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Zeppelin (Incubating) –a Web-based notebook that enables interactive data analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable.<br /> - Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Zest™ –Open Source Composite Oriented Programming platform and tools provides "New Energy For Java".<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache™ Zest™ v2.1 <a href="http://s.apache.org/WMr">http://s.apache.org/WMr</a> </p>
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| <div><b>Did You Know?</b></div>
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| <div> - Did you know that Apache OpenOffice has exceeded 150 Million downloads? <a href="http://s.apache.org/a1R">http://s.apache.org/a1R</a></div>
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| <div> - Did you know that the Apache Roadshow is returning to Asia? See you in Beijing, China 12-14 September 2015!</div>
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| <div> - Did you know that the definitive Apache Community "how-to" guide can be found at <a href="http://community.apache.org/">http://community.apache.org/</a>?</div>
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| <div><b>Apache Community Notices:</b></div>
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| <p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/roller-ui/authoring/-%20The%20list%20of%20Apache%20project-related%20MeetUps%20can%20be%20found%20at%20http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
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| <p> - The Istanbul Spark Meetup will host "Hadoop ile Merhaba Dünya (Workshop)" on 8 August in Istanbul <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Istanbul-Spark-Meetup/events/223599737/">http://www.meetup.com/Istanbul-Spark-Meetup/events/223599737/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Advanced Apache Spark Meetup will feature Apache Spark and Kafka on 10 August in Mountain View <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Advanced-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/223910462/">http://www.meetup.com/Advanced-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/223910462/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Houston Hadoop Meetup Group will feature Apache Solr on 11 August <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/223231943/">http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/223231943/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Boston Area Cloud Foundry Meetup will feature Apache Mesos on 11 August in Cambridge <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/224306788/">http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/224306788/</a></p>
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| <p> - Code.Brew will feature "Enterprise Dataflow with Apache NiFi" on 13 August in Dulles <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Code-Brew/events/223935951/">http://www.meetup.com/Code-Brew/events/223935951/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Seattle JS MeetUp will host "Apache Cordova and Maker.js" on 13 August <a href="http://www.meetup.com/seattlejs/events/220102652/">http://www.meetup.com/seattlejs/events/220102652/</a></p>
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| <p> - The NJ Data Science - Apache Spark MeetUp will present "Spark Streaming" on 13 August in Princeton <a href="http://www.meetup.com/nj-datascience/events/222851584/">http://www.meetup.com/nj-datascience/events/222851584/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Big Data & NoSQL Meetup Hamburg will feature Apache Spark on 13 August <a href="http://www.meetup.com/BDNSHH/events/223963763/">http://www.meetup.com/BDNSHH/events/223963763/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Bay Area Apache Flink Meetup announces a 20% discount code and presentation on Apache Flink at the Big Data Scala By the Bay Conference on 17 August in Oakland <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/224213826/">http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/224213826/</a></p>
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| <p> - Beta Test Apache Cassandra Certification will be held 17 August in Santa Clara <a href="http://www.meetup.com/DataStax-Cassandra-South-Bay-Users/events/224269417/">http://www.meetup.com/DataStax-Cassandra-South-Bay-Users/events/224269417/</a></p>
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| <div> - The second annual MesosCon will be held 20-21 August in Seattle <a href="https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/">https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/</a></div>
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| <p> - ASF Member Joan Touzet will keynote the Texas Linux Fest 21-22 August in San Marcos <a href="https://2015.texaslinuxfest.org/">https://2015.texaslinuxfest.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Big Data Innovation conference will feature an "Apache Innovation" track 9-10 September in Boston <a href="http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston-2015/">http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston-2015/</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe will be held 28 September - 1 October in Budapest <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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| <p><a href="http://apachecon.com/"></a> - The first Apache Flink Conference, Flink Forward, will be held 12-13 October in Berlin <a href="http://flink-forward.org/">http://flink-forward.org</a></p>
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| <p><a href="http://flink-forward.org/"></a> - The next Lucene/Solr Revolution will be held 13-16 October in Austin <a href="http://www.lucenerevolution.org/">http://www.lucenerevolution.org</a></p>
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| <p> - The ASF will be at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 6-8 February 2016 <a href="https://fosdem.org/">https://fosdem.org/</a></p>
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| <div> - The ASF FY 2014-2015 Annual Report is available at <a href="http://s.apache.org/ZVp">http://s.apache.org/ZVp</a></div>
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