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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 29 April 2016' |
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| display_name: Sally Khudairi |
| login: sk |
| email: sk@haloworldwide.com |
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| author_email: sk@haloworldwide.com |
| id: b0c80f79-4509-4508-b6b8-8285b609b718 |
| date: '2016-04-29 13:04:31 -0400' |
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| - General |
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| - news |
| - round-up |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - apache |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
| - weekly |
| - summary |
| - community |
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| <p>Countdown to ApacheCon --10 days to go for the ASF's official conference + Apache: Big Data! And, as always, the Apache community keeps the wheel turning ... here's what happened over the past week:</p> |
| <div>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></div> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield ongoing splendid performance at 99.71% 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™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - Join us at Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon/YVR <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a> <br /> - Event highlights on FeatherCast <a href="http://feathercast.apache.org/">http://feathercast.apache.org/</a><br /> - Developers share why they attend <a href="https://www.linux.com/blog/5-developers-explain-why-they-attend-apachecon">https://www.linux.com/blog/5-developers-explain-why-they-attend-apachecon</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Apex™ –Open Source enterprise-grade unified Big Data stream and batch processing engine for Apache Hadoop.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Apex as a Top-Level Project <a href="https://s.apache.org/5YzB">https://s.apache.org/5YzB</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Geode (incubating) –data management platform that provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.<br /> - Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M2 released <a href="http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/">http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/</a></p></p> |
| <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 1.2.14 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data and processing resources of Hadoop clusters.<br /> - Apache Knox 0.9.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.9.0">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.9.0<br /></a></p> |
| <p>Apache Lucy™ –search engine library provides full-text search for a variety of programming languages.<br /> - Apache Lucy 0.5.1 and Apache Clownfish 0.5.1 released <a href="http://lucy.apache.org/download.html">http://lucy.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents.<br /> - Apache PDFBox 1.8.12 and 2.0.1 released <a href="http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi">http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache MyFaces™ Tobago –a well designed set of user interface components based on JSF.<br /> - Apache Tobago 3.0.0-alpha-3 released <a href="http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/">http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Solr™ –the popular, blazing fast, Open Source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project.<br /> - Solr Reference Guide for 6.0 released <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-6.0.pdf">https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-6.0.pdf</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Subversion™ –enterprise-class centralized version control for the masses.<br /> - Apache Subversion 1.8.16 and 1.9.4 released <a href="http://subversion.apache.org/download/#supported-releases">http://subversion.apache.org/download/#supported-releases</a> </p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <p> - Did you know that the Apache DeltaSpike has celebrated its 25th release? <a href="http://deltaspike.apache.org/">http://deltaspike.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p> - Did you know that IBM uses graph databases such as Apache Tinkerpop to catch digital con artists in the act? <a href="http://tinkerpop.apache.org/">http://tinkerpop.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p><a href="http://wicket.apache.org/"></a> - Did you know that ASF Brand Management has a new Twitter account for Apache Project trademarks, and other brand-related issues? <a href="https://twitter.com/ASFBrands">https://twitter.com/ASFBrands</a></p> |
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| <div> |
| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| <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> |
| <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> |
| <p><a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html"></a> - DFW Data Science will feature Apache Lucene, Solr, and Mahout on 2 May 2016 in Addison <a href="http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Data-Science/events/228248271/">http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Data-Science/events/228248271/</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache Flink MeetUp to take place 4 May 2016 in London <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-London-Meetup/">http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-London-Meetup/</a> </p> |
| <p> - Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <p> - ApacheCon:Core North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/</a></p> |
| <p> - The Stockholm Hadoop User Group will feature Apache Impala on 11 May <a href="http://www.meetup.com/stockholm-hug/events/228082101/">http://www.meetup.com/stockholm-hug/events/228082101/</a></p> |
| <p> - Big Data Frankfurt v 2.0 will take place on 12 May 2016 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Frankfurt/events/227415048/">http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Frankfurt/events/227415048/</a> </p> |
| <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> |
| <p> - The next HBaseCon will take place 24 May 2016 in San Francisco <a href="http://hbasecon.com/">http://hbasecon.com</a></p> |
| <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> |
| <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> |
| <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> |
| <p> - Berlin Buzzwords is back 5-7 June 2016 <a href="http://berlinbuzzwords.de/">http://berlinbuzzwords.de/</a></p> |
| <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> |
| <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> - 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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