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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 April 2019' |
| author: |
| display_name: Sally Khudairi |
| login: sk |
| email: sk@haloworldwide.com |
| author_login: sk |
| author_email: sk@haloworldwide.com |
| id: c7fc0f70-c838-4acc-b09c-35eb973b2c58 |
| date: '2019-04-05 13:06:37 -0400' |
| categories: |
| - Newsletter |
| tags: |
| - initiatives |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - round-up |
| - summary |
| - weekly |
| - news |
| - projects |
| - community |
| - apache |
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| permalink: foundation/entry/the-apache-news-round-up117 |
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| <p>Welcome, April! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:</p> |
| <p>Success at Apache –the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".<br /> - "Positively impacting the world one contribution at a time" by Dinesh Joshi <a href="https://s.apache.org/aATd">https://s.apache.org/aATd</a></p></p></p> |
| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 17 April. 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, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br /> - The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Call for Presentations and Registration Open for ApacheCon, its Official Global Conference Series <a href="https://s.apache.org/67tH">https://s.apache.org/67tH</a><br /> - Schedule live - join us! Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 <a href="http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/">http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/</a><br /> - CFP + Registration Open: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br /> - CFP + Registration Open: ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October in Berlin <a href="http://www.apachecon.com/aceu19/">http://www.apachecon.com/aceu19/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.96% uptime. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 466 Apache contributors changed 840,932 lines of code over 2,547 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Akira Ajisaka, Zhang Duo, Matteo Merli, Colm O hEigeartaigh, and Ravindra Pesala.</p> |
| <p>Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.</p></p> |
| <p>Big Data --<br /> - Apache Arrow 0.13.0 released <a href="http://arrow.apache.org/">http://arrow.apache.org/</a><br /> - Apache BookKeeper 4.8.2 released <a href="http://bookkeeper.apache.org/">http://bookkeeper.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Libraries --<br /> - Apache Velocity Engine 2.1 released <a href="https://velocity.apache.org/">https://velocity.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Network-Client --<br /> - Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.8 GA released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/">http://hc.apache.org/</a><br /> - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.32.0 released <a href="http://qpid.apache.org">http://qpid.apache.org</a></p> |
| <p>Servers --<br /> - Apache HTTP Server 2.4.39 released <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">http://httpd.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <div> |
| <p> - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month: Apache CXF (11 years); Avro, HBase, Mahout, Nutch, Tika, Traffic Server (9 years); Creadur and Jena (7 years); DeltaSpike (6 years); ORC and Parquet (4 years); Apex, AsterixDB, and Johnzon (3 yrs); CarbonData, Fineract, and Metron (2 years)? Many happy returns! <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that some of the ASF's original founders shared their thoughts on the Foundation's past 20 years? A great read at <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> |
| <p> - Did you know that whilst The Apache Way is a living, breathing interpretation of one's experience with our community-led development process, it has 5 core tenets that Apache Projects and their communities must adhere to? <a href="https://s.apache.org/TheApacheWay">https://s.apache.org/TheApacheWay</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <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> |
| <p> - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success <a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a></p> |
| <p> - Foundation Reports and Statements <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html</a></p> |
| <p> - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 <a href="http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon">http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon</a> </p> |
| <p> - Apache in 2018 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits">https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/d2Fq">https://s.apache.org/d2Fq</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement <a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p> |
| <p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p> |
| <div> |
| <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> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <p> - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</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> |
| <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> - 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<br /></a></p> |
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| <p> - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit in Washington DC 20-23 May 2019 <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 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> |
| <p> - CFP and Registration open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - CFP and Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <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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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetApache">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div> |
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