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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 June 2015' |
| id: eb92078a-9e1b-4dab-b278-4f7b1c6bf415 |
| date: '2015-06-05 15:37:41 -0400' |
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| - apache |
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| - initiatives |
| - summary |
| - weekly |
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| <p>We've kicked the week off with the release of our first official annual report <a href="http://s.apache.org/ZVp">http://s.apache.org/ZVp</a>, and have been busily tracking numerous activities across the Apache community:</p> |
| <p>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - CFP open for Apache events Europe --Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core-- 28 September - 2 October 2015 in Budapest <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - Uptime over the past week is a kicking 99.51% <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Fundraising & Sponsorship –the ASF relies on individual donors and corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, and promote meritocratic, community-driven development "The Apache Way".<br /> - Welcome new ASF Sponsor PhoenixNAP, joining Bloomberg, Comcast, Hortonworks, HP, and IBM at the Gold Level. <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/thanks">http://apache.org/foundation/thanks</a></p> |
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| <p>Apache Calcite (incubating) – a dynamic data management framework. Its cost-based optimizer converts queries, represented in relational algebra, into executable plans.<br /> - Apache Calcite 1.3.0 (incubating) released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/calcite/apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating/">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/calcite/apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating/</a></p> |
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| <p>Apache Commons™ Pool –Open Source software library provides an object-pooling API and a number of object pool implementations.<br /> - Apache Commons Pool 2.4.1 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/download_pool.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/download_pool.cgi </a></p> |
| <p>Apache cTAKES™ –an Open Source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text.<br /> - Apache cTAKES 3.2.2 released <a href="http://ctakes.apache.org/downloads.cgi">http://ctakes.apache.org/downloads.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Flume™ –a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.<br /> - Apache Flume 1.6.0 released<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://flume.apache.org/download.html">http://flume.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache HttpComponents™ Client – a library for client-side HTTP communication built on HttpCore. It provides connection management, cookie management, and authentication. This is the successor to the widely used Jakarta Commons HttpClient 3.1.<br /> - Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5 GA released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi">http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.8.1 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</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 0.10.1 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.10.1/">http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.10.1/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Olingo™ –a Java library which enables developers to implement OData producers and OData consumers.<br /> - Apache Olingo 2.0.4 released<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata2/download.html">http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata2/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OpenWebBeans™ –a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) and targets the CDI-1.2 specification (JavaEE 7). We pass the standalone CDI TCK and the JavaEE7 WebProfile part of the CDI-TCK (in Apache TomEE-7.0).<br /> - Apache OpenWebBeans 1.6.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans/1.6.0/">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans/1.6.0/</a></p> |
| <div>Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.</div> |
| <p> - End of life for Apache Tomcat 6.0.x <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201506.mbox/%3C556ECB68.2080804%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201506.mbox/%3C556ECB68.2080804%40apache.org%3E</a> </p> |
| <p><b>Did You Know?</b></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that Apache Airavata is a software framework for executing and managing computational jobs and workflows on distributed computing resources in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Computational Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, and other scientific fields?</p> |
| <p> - Did you know that the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses Apache Phoenix to load and query hundreds of billions of records?</p> |
| <p> - Did you know that eHealth Africa uses Apache CouchDB in their efforts to help implement, manage, and evaluate health projects?</p> |
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| <p><b><br />Apache Community Notices:</b></p> |
| <p> - 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! </p> |
| <p> - Reminder: How to Safely Download Apache OpenOffice <a href="http://s.apache.org/a1R">http://s.apache.org/a1R</a></p> |
| <p> - Audio recordings from select tracks from ApacheCon Austin are available at <a href="http://feathercast.apache.org/">http://feathercast.apache.org/</a> includes Cloud, Community, httpd, and Apache HTTP Server Founder's panel!</p> |
| <p> - Presentations from ApacheCon Austin are available online <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/slides">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/slides</a></p> |
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| <p> - Apache CouchDB is seeking design and editorial assistance in English <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/dgvjpwnxie6pji5j">http://markmail.org/thread/dgvjpwnxie6pji5j</a></p> |
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| <p> - Check out the Apache project-related MeetUps listed at <a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p> |
| <p> - Intro to Apache Cassandra MeetUp being held 5 June in Zürich <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Scale-Data-Science-virtual-UserGroup-worldwide/events/221749304/">http://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Scale-Data-Science-virtual-UserGroup-worldwide/events/221749304/</a></p> |
| <p> - The MeetUp/Study Group: EdX Intro to Big Data with Apache Spark will be held 6 June in Perth <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Perth-Data-Science/events/222727686/">http://www.meetup.com/Perth-Data-Science/events/222727686/</a></p> |
| <p> - "Big Data Processing with Apache Spark" MeetUp is being held in Hydrabad 6 June <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Hyderabad/events/221413129/">http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Hyderabad/events/221413129/</a></p> |
| <p> - The Mumbai BigData Half Day MeetUp will be held 6 June <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Aegis-IBM-BIG-DATA/events/222783949/">http://www.meetup.com/Aegis-IBM-BIG-DATA/events/222783949/</a></p> |
| <p> - A MeetUp/Discussion on Apache Geode (incubating) will be taking place 6 June in Pune <a href="http://www.meetup.com/TechNext/events/222608288/">http://www.meetup.com/TechNext/events/222608288/</a></p> |
| <p> - MeetUp/Study Group kick-off on Machine Learning is taking place 7 June in San Diego <a href="http://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoAI/events/222735463/">http://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoAI/events/222735463/</a></p> |
| <p> - Submit your proposal for CloudStack Days Seattle (co-located with LinuxCon) by 12 June <a href="http://clds.co/18hplxk">http://clds.co/18hplxk</a></p> |
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| <p> - The Karlsruhe DevOps Meetup featuring Apache Mesos and Aurora will be held 16 June <a href="http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Karlsruhe-Meetup/events/222465491/">http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Karlsruhe-Meetup/events/222465491/</a></p> |
| <p> - The SF Spark and Friends MeetUp featuring Apache Flink will take place in San Francisco on 16 June <a href="http://www.meetup.com/SF-Spark-and-Friends/">http://www.meetup.com/SF-Spark-and-Friends/</a> </p> |
| <p> - Catch Apache Bigtop, Hadoop, Spark, Geode (Incubating) and Ignite (Incubating) in action at the In-Memory Computing Summit 29-30 June in San Francsico <a href="http://imcsummit.org/">http://imcsummit.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - The Chicago Apache Flink MeetUp will be held 30 June <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Apache-Flink-Meetup/">http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Apache-Flink-Meetup/</a></p> |
| <p> - MesosCon will be held 20-21 August in Seattle <a href="https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/">https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe will be held 28 September - 1 October in Budapest <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - The first Apache Flink Conference, Flink Forward, will be held 12-13 October in Berlin <a href="http://flink-forward.org/">http://flink-forward.org</a></p> |
| <p> - CFP open for Lucene/Solr Revolution, to be held 13-16 October in Austin <a href="http://lucenerevolution.org/">http://www.lucenerevolution.org</a></p> |
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