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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 April 2016' |
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| date: '2016-04-08 13:30:30 -0400' |
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| <p>Apparently with the April Fool's excitement <a href="https://s.apache.org/P1Kk">https://s.apache.org/P1Kk</a> last week's News Round-up never made it online to <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/">blogs.apache.org</a>! So here's what happened over the past two weeks:</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 Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield sunshine-y performance at 99.36% 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 /> - ENDS 10 APRIL: Early Registration for Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon/YVR. Join us! <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
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| <p>Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.<br /> - Apache Camel 2.15.6 and 2.17.0 released <a href="http://camel.apache.org/download.html">http://camel.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Commons™ Compress –library for working with zip, ar, jar, bz2, cpio, tar, gz, dump, pack200, lzma, 7z, arj and xz files.<br /> - Apache Commons Compress 1.11 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/download_compress.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/download_compress.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Commons™ Configuration –a generic configuration interface which enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources.<br /> - Commons Configuration 2.0 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/download_configuration.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/download_configuration.cgi</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Fortress™ –a standards based Access Management System for LDAPv3 compliant systems.<br /> - Apache Fortress 1.0-RC42 released <a href="http://directory.apache.org/fortress/downloads.html">http://directory.apache.org/fortress/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ – a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.10.2, Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.13, and Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.0 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Lens™ –a Unified Analytics interface.<br /> - Apache Lens 2.5.0-beta released <a href="http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html">http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Lucy™ –search engine library provides full-text search for a variety of programming languages.<br /> - Apache Lucy 0.5.0 released <a href="http://lucy.apache.org/download.html">http://lucy.apache.org/download.html</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Lucy™ Clownfish –symbiotic object system pairs with host dynamic language environments and facilitates the development of high performance host language extensions.<br /> - Apache Clownfish 0.5.0 released <a href="http://lucy.apache.org/download.html">http://lucy.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache MyFaces™ Core –a JavaServer Faces 2.0 implementation as specified by JSR-314.<br /> - MyFaces Core v2.1.18 and v2.0.24 released <a href="http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html">http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html</a></p></p> |
| <p>Apache Mynewt (incubating) –a community-driven module OS for constrained, embedded applications.<br /> - Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/incubator/mynewt/apache-mynewt-0.8.0-b2-incubating">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/incubator/mynewt/apache-mynewt-0.8.0-b2-incubating</a></p> |
| <p>Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.<br /> - Apache NiFi 0.6.0 released <a href="http://nifi.apache.org/download.html">http://nifi.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OFBiz™ –an Open Source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications.<br /> - Apache OFBiz 12.04.06 and 13.07.03 released <a href="http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html">http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Olingo™ –a Java library that enables developers to implement OData service providers (server) and consumers (clients) for OData V2 and V4.<br /> - Apache Olingo 4.2.0 released <a href="http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata4/download.html">http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata4/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.<br /> - Apache OpenMeetings 3.1.0 and 3.1.1. released <a href="http://openmeetings.apache.org/downloads.html">http://openmeetings.apache.org/downloads.html</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.<br /> - Apache Syncope 2.0.0-M2 released <a href="http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html">http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Tajo™ –Big Data warehouse that provides distributed and scalable SQL analytical processing on Apache Hadoop.<br /> - Apache Tajo 0.11.2 released <a href="http://tajo.apache.org/downloads.html">http://tajo.apache.org/downloads.html</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 8.0.33 and 8.5.0 BETA available <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache UIMA™ uimaFIT –a library that facilitates the building of Apache UIMA components, the programmatic use of Apache UIMA analysis pipelines, and their testing.<br /> - Apache uimaFIT 2.2.0 released <a href="http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi#Latest%20Official%20Releases">http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi#Latest Official Releases</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Wave (incubating) –a distributed, near-real-time, rich collaboration platform that allows users to work together in new and exciting ways.<br /> - Apache Wave Release 0.4.0-incubating released <a href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/wave/0.4.0-incubating/">https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/wave/0.4.0-incubating/</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that the metadata from 11.5 million Panama Papers was extracted and searched using Apache Tika and Apache Solr? <a href="http://tika.apache.org/">http://tika.apache.org/</a> and <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/">http://lucene.apache.org/solr/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Cisco uses Apache Hadoop and Apache Mahout in security intelligence operations? <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">http://hadoop.apache.org/</a> and <a href="http://mahout.apache.org/">http://mahout.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><a href="http://markmail.org/message/ddx3c3of4h45px3q"></a> - Did you know that Uber uses Apache Kafka, Apache Parquet and Apache Spark to optimize customer experience? <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a> <a href="http://parquet.apache.org/">http://parquet.apache.org/</a> and <a href="http://spark.apache.org/">http://spark.apache.org/</a></p> |
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| <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> - Spark & Hadoop User Group Munich present Spark Kickoff MeetUp on 14 April 2016 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-User-Group-Munich/events/228725964/">http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-User-Group-Munich/events/228725964/</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 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> - 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 --CFP open! <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> |
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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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