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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 March 2016' |
| id: d2730e36-f302-48a6-8878-c6eed8c9d5dd |
| date: '2016-03-18 14:42:08 -0400' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - news |
| - round-up |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - apache |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
| - summary |
| - weekly |
| - community |
| permalink: foundation/entry/the_apache_news_round_up78 |
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| <p>With 5,423 committers innovating, developing, and maintaining nearly 350 projects and intiatives, the collective Apache community is continually productive. Let's take a look at this past week's achievements:</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: 20 April 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 Membership –from the inaugural membership of 21 individuals, the ASF has grown to 588 individual members and 5,317 Committers collaborating across six continents.<br /> - Next Members' Meeting: 22 March 2016. Official business + New Member voting <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/members.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/members.html</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 /> - Now 7M+ weekly checks yield precision-level performance at 99.99% 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 /> - Keynotes + Program announced for Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon; early registration ends soon <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
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| <p>Apache Hama™ –a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.<br /> - Apache Hama 0.7.1 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/hama/">http://www.apache.org/dist/hama/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Kylin™ –Open Source petabyte-scale Big Data distributed analytics engine.<br /> - Apache Kylin 1.3.0 released <a href="https://kylin.apache.org/download/">https://kylin.apache.org/download/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Mahout™ –an environment for quickly creating machine learning applications that scale and run on the highest performance parallel computation engines available.<br /> - Apache Mahout 0.11.2 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.11.2/">http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.11.2/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Taverna (incubating) – a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute data-driven workflows.<br /> - Apache Taverna Language 0.15.1-incubating and Apache Taverna OSGi 0.2.1-incubating <a href="https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/download/language/">https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/download/language/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Tomcat™ –a Web server that is an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.<br /> - Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M4 available <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <div> |
| <p> - Did you know that the ASF has been accepted as a 2016 Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization? Both Students and Mentors wanted <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ddx3c3of4h45px3q">http://markmail.org/message/ddx3c3of4h45px3q</a></p> |
| <p><a href="http://markmail.org/message/ddx3c3of4h45px3q"></a> - Did you know that you can help Apache JMeter v3.0 with nightly build testing and reporting any issues? <a href="https://builds.apache.org/job/JMeter-trunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/dist/">https://builds.apache.org/job/JMeter-trunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/dist/</a></p> |
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| <div> - Did you know that Apache Struts v2.3.25 is ready for testing? Every little helps! <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/6w52fajtccj5d2h7">http://markmail.org/thread/6w52fajtccj5d2h7</a></div> |
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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><b></b></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> - 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> |
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| <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 next HBaseCon will take place 24 May in San Francisco <a href="http://hbasecon.com/">http://hbasecon.com</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> - 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> |
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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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| <div> - Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear">http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear</a> and <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">http://s.apache.org/landsend</a>--all proceeds benefit the ASF! </div> |
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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce">Apache-related news</a> by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</a>. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">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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