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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 May 2016' |
| date: '2016-05-13T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>We're wrapping a great week at ApacheCon and Apache: Big Data more educated, enlightened, and with 50% more new attendees! And as anticipated, the Apache community has been hard at work around the globe as well. Here's what's happened:</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: 18 May 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
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| <p><a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html"></a>ASF Fundraising & Sponsorship –the ASF relies on individual donors and corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, and promote meritocratic, community-driven development "The Apache Way".<br /> - Welcome to LeaseWeb as a Platinum Sponsor, and ODPi as a Gold Sponsor <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/thanks">http://apache.org/foundation/thanks</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 /> - Even whilst offsite at ApacheCon, 7M+ weekly checks yield top shelf performance at 99.80% uptime. Well done, Mighty Infra! <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™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - Recordings of sessions and keynotes will be announced soon. Watch this space.<br /> - Next up: Europe! 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain. Details forthcoming at <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Apex™ –an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that unifies stream and batch processing.<br /> - Apache Apex Core 3.4.0 released <a href="http://apex.apache.org/downloads.html">http://apex.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Attic™ –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.<br /> - Apache MRUnit retired <a href="http://attic.apache.org/projects/mrunit.html">http://attic.apache.org/projects/mrunit.html</a> </p>
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| <p>Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.<br /> - Apache Camel 2.17.1 released <a href="http://camel.apache.org/download.html">http://camel.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Commons™ Crypto –a cryptographic library optimized with AES-NI (Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions).<br /> - Apache Commons Crypto component established <a href="http://commons.apache.org/crypto">http://commons.apache.org/crypto</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Commons™ CSV –library that provides a simple interface for reading and writing CSV files of various types.<br /> - Apache Commons CSV 1.3 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/download_csv.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/download_csv.cgi</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.10.3 and Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.2 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Portals™ –a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available Portal related software on a wide variety of platforms and programming languages.<br /> - Apache Portals Jetspeed 2.3.1 released <a href="http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html">http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Storm™ –a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data.<br /> - Apache Storm 0.10.1 and 1.0.1 released <a href="http://storm.apache.org/downloads.html">http://storm.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Struts™ –an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications.<br /> - Apache Struts 2.5 GA released <a href="http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi#struts-ga">http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi#struts-ga</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Tomcat™ Native Library –provides portable API for features not found in contemporary JDK's.<br /> - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.7 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Wicket™ –an Open Source Java component oriented Web application framework that powers thousands of Web applications and Web sites for governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, email providers, and more.<br /> - Apache Wicket 6.23.0 and 7.3.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/6.23.0">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/6.23.0</a> and <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/7.3.0">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/7.3.0</a><br /><br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that you can search through the full Apache archives --30M+ emails across 21 years-- with the new <a href="https://lists.apache.org/">https://lists.apache.org/</a> service?</p>
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| <p> - Did you know that China Rail (the world's largest nationalized railway system) process 40K transactions per second using Apache Geode (incubating)? <a href="http://geode.apache.org/">http://geode.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p><a href="http://wicket.apache.org/"></a> - Did you know that we're always looking for great ways to highlight Apache projects in our "Did You Know" campaigns? Send your success stories to <press@apache.org>!</p>
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a><strong></strong></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> - The In-Memory Computing Summit will take place 23-24 May 2016 in San Franciscso <a href="http://imcsummit.org/">http://imcsummit.org</a></p>
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| <p> - The next HBaseCon will take place 24 May 2016 in San Francisco <a href="http://hbasecon.com/">http://hbasecon.com</a></p>
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| <p> - The SF Bay Area Apache Phoenix MeetUp will hold the first-ever PhoenixCon on 25 May 2016 in San Francisco <a href="http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/">http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/</a></p>
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| <p> - MesosCon will be held 1-2 June 2016 in Denver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/</a></p>
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| <p> - The next CloudStack Collaboration Conference will take place 1-3 June 2016 in Montreal <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/apache-cloudstacktm-conference-montreal-2016-tickets-23815552960">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/apache-cloudstacktm-conference-montreal-2016-tickets-23815552960</a></p>
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| <p> - Berlin Buzzwords is back 5-7 June 2016 <a href="http://berlinbuzzwords.de/">http://berlinbuzzwords.de/</a></p>
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| <p> - CFP is open for the next Cassandra Summit 7-9 September 2016 in San Jose <a href="https://cfp.cassandrasummit.org/">https://cfp.cassandrasummit.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - CloudStack Collaboration Conference Brasil will take place 29-30 September 2016 in Sao Paolo <a href="http://cloudstack.usp.br/en/index.php">http://cloudstack.usp.br/en/index.php</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a> </p>
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| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (November 2015 - January 2016) is availbable at <a href="https://s.apache.org/9zLj">https://s.apache.org/9zLj</a></p>
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