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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 February 2020' |
| date: '2020-02-21T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>It's Friday already! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:</p>
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| <p><strong>Happy 25th Anniversary Apache HTTP Server!</strong> Raise a glass to the project and community that started it all. Hats off for its longevity as the world's most popular Web server for a quarter century. Many happy returns <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">http://httpd.apache.org/</a></p><strong>ASF Board</strong> – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a>
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| <p><strong>ApacheCon™</strong> – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br /> 1) <strong><em>Apache Roadshow/DC</em></strong> --25 March in CHANTILLY, VA. Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Apache Projects & CARE
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| Initiatives (with George Mason University Center for Assurance Research
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| & Engineering); Cybersecurity; and Open Source Software in
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| Start-Ups. <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/">https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/</a><br /> 2) <strong><em>Apache Roadshow/Chicago</em></strong> --18-19 May in CHICAGO, IL. CFP open. Sponsorship opportunities available. <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20/">https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20/</a><br /> 3) <strong><em>Apache Roadshow/Seattle</em></strong> --10-12 June in REDMOND, WA. Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Data and Analytics, ML and
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| AI, Java, Cloud, Containers, Servers, and Web Frameworks. <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20">https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20</a><br /> 4) <strong><em>ApacheCon North America</em></strong> --28 September - 2 October in NEW ORLEANS, LA. CFP open; Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Big Data
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| Integration, Community, IoT, Search, Geospatial, Graphing, Integration,
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| Servers, and more. Apache Project content includes Camel, Cassandra,
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| Cloudstack, Fineract, Flagon, Gobblin, Groovy, HTTP Server, Ignite,
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| Karaf, Observability, Solr/Lucene, Tomcat, and Traffic Server/Traffic
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| Control, among others. <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/">https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/</a></p>
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| <p><strong>ASF Infrastructure</strong> – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> -
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| 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.93%. Performance checks across 50
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| different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data
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| centers around the world. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a></p>
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| <p><strong>Apache Code Snapshot</strong> – this week, 810 Apache contributors changed 4,791,832 lines of code over 3,495 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, Bharath Vissapragadam, and Carlos Rovira. <br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Apache Project Announcements</strong> – the latest updates by category.
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| <p>Big Data --<br /> - Apache Avro 1.9.2 released <a href="https://avro.apache.org">https://avro.apache.org/</a><br /> - Apache HBase 2.1.9 released <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/">https://hbase.apache.org/</a><br /></p></span>
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| <p><span>Content --<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.0 and Oak 1.4.26 released <a href="https://jackrabbit.apache.org">https://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a> <br /> - Apache POI 4.1.2 released <a href="https://poi.apache.org">https://poi.apache.org/</a> </span><span class="il"></span><span class="il"></span> <br /></p>
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| <p>Messaging --<br />
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| - Apache <span class="il">Qpid</span> <span class="il">Broker</span>-J 7.1.8 released <a href="https://qpid.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://qpid.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1582269638268000&usg=AFQjCNEXTpUrMT3x1A2pqBMHYnXPwAUqZQ">https://<span class="il">qpid</span>.apache.org/</a><br /><br />Programming Languages --<br />
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| - Apache Groovy 3.0.1 released <a href="https://groovy.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://groovy.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1582269918441000&usg=AFQjCNHBOuuInEMRNvrW6FNQJKhFa3njFg">https://groovy.apache.org/</a><br /> <br />Servers --<br />
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| - Apache Tomcat 7.0.100 released <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/">https://tomcat.apache.org/</a> <br /> - Apache <span class="il">HttpComponents</span> <span class="il">Core</span> 5.0 GA released <a href="https://hc.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://hc.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1582270028695000&usg=AFQjCNHpXIBOoUiof60DOZ2TMmbluQStXw">https://hc.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 newcomers to Apache are encouraged to get started and learn about The Apache Way with the friendly folks at ASF's Community Development (ComDev) project? <a href="http://community.apache.org/">http://community.apache.org/</a><br /></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Boston Children's Hospital uses Apache cTAKES to link phenotypic and genomic data for the Precision Link Biobank? <a href="http://ctakes.apache.org/">http://ctakes.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Netflix uses Apache Druid to optimize streaming in real time? <a href="http://druid.apache.org/">http://druid.apache.org/</a><br /><br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - Apache Month In Review: January 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community <a href="https://s.apache.org/1bbb1">https://s.apache.org/1bbb1</a> </p>
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| <p> - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at <a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions">https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions</a> </p>
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| <p> - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits">https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits</a> </p>
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| <p> - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success <a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a></p>
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| <p> - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) <a href="https://s.apache.org/2kv2n">https://s.apache.org/2kv2n</a></p>
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| <p> - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary">https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary</a></p>
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| <p> - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on</a></p>
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| <p> - Foundation Reports and Statements <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 <a href="http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon">http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon</a></p>
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| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport</a></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> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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| <p> - Pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit <a href="http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/">http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/</a> </p>
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and 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 (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">https://twitter.com/TheASF</a>) 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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