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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 January 2017' |
| id: 9756a84c-4031-4ee9-8f4a-a28dcbdf1eff |
| date: '2017-01-06 13:21:42 -0500' |
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| - apache |
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| - software |
| - round-up |
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| <p>Happy New Year! The Apache community kicks off 2017 with the following activities:</p> |
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| <p>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 January 2017. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield smashing performance at 99.92% 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 /> - CFP OPEN: Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon North America 16-18 May 2017/Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br /> - 2016/Seville's session recordings continue to be processed and posted at Feathercast <a href="http://feathercast.org/">http://feathercast.org</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Incubator –projects and communities intending to become fully-fledged projects under the auspices of The Apache Software Foundation do so through the Apache Incubator.<br /> - Call for Entries --Apache Incubator Logo <a href="https://s.apache.org/rFii">https://s.apache.org/rFii</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Attic –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.<br /> - Apache DeviceMap retired <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201701.mbox/%3CCALGG8z3wZ3iSii15BdgVx6SnfVwVuNFMQD3mQuVOQCqWi5CG9A%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201701.mbox/%3CCALGG8z3wZ3iSii15BdgVx6SnfVwVuNFMQD3mQuVOQCqWi5CG9A%40mail.gmail.com%3E</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Ant™ –a Java library and command-line tool that helps building software.<br /> - Apache Ant 1.9.8 and 1.10.0 released <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Commons™ JCS –a distributed, versatile caching system.<br /> - Apache Commons JCS 2.0 released <a href="https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jcs/download_jcs.cgi">https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jcs/download_jcs.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Guacamole –a clientless remote desktop gateway that supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.<br /> - Apache Guacamole 0.9.10-incubating released <a href="http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/0.9.10-incubating/">http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/0.9.10-incubating/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache log4net™ –a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.<br /> - Apache log4net 2.0.7 released <a href="https://logging.apache.org/log4net/download_log4net.cgi">https://logging.apache.org/log4net/download_log4net.cgi</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache OpenNLP™ –a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.<br /> - Apache OpenNLP 1.7.0 released <a href="http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi">http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi</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 /> - CVE-2016-8745 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201701.mbox/%3C04ead0cb-c989-1386-0fd1-a51ef80f7b57%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201701.mbox/%3C04ead0cb-c989-1386-0fd1-a51ef80f7b57%40apache.org%3E</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <p><a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html"></a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that in 2016 Apache projects comprised 797 Repositories; 205,167 code commits by 3,314 Committers; and 60,327,418 lines changed. <a href="https://projects.apache.org/">https://projects.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p> - Did you know that over the past year, Apache communities sent 2,003,919 emails by 27,940 authors on 1,127 lists with 789,825 topics. Prolific!</p> |
| <p> - Did you know that ASF Infrastructure have upgraded and improved blogs.apache.org? <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/blogs-a-o-moved-upgraded">https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/blogs-a-o-moved-upgraded</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" is a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". First article: Project Independence <a href="https://s.apache.org/CE0V">https://s.apache.org/CE0V</a></p> |
| <p> - Feedback from The Apache Software Foundation on the Free and Open Source Security Audit (FOSSA) <a href="https://s.apache.org/romf">https://s.apache.org/romf</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Operations Summary - Q2 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/oTOF">https://s.apache.org/oTOF</a></p></p> |
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| <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> - 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, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, Zest, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <p> - ApacheCon North America and Apache:BigData will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/<br /></a></p> |
| <div> - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby">http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby</a></div> |
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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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