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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 1 May 2015' |
| date: '2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <div>Here's what the ASF and Apache community at-large have been up to over the past week:</div>
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - Whilst SonarQube Analysis is currently undergoing maintenance, uptime over the past week has been 100% for Apache Web sites in the US, and 99.84% for those in Europe <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Incubator™ –the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.<br />- New Incubator podling: Apache Geode --a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed Cloud architectures. </p>
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| <p>Apache Parquet™ –Open Source storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Parquet™ as a Top-Level Project <a href="http://s.apache.org/L0H">http://s.apache.org/L0H</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Portable Runtime™ –software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations.<br /> - Apache Portable Runtime 1.5.2 released <a href="http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi">http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi</a></p>
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| <p><b><br />Did You Know?</b></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Apache Libcloud can run tests locally on all the supported Python versions using Docker? <a href="https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/504">https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/504</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Apache Phoenix has supported joins for more than a year? <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/phoenix/entry/tpc_in_apache_phoenix">https://blogs.apache.org/phoenix/entry/tpc_in_apache_phoenix</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Apache Solr efficiently powers search in eCommerce, financial services, social, media, government, Big Data, IoT, and other applications?</p>
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| <p><b><br />Apache Community Notices:</b></p>
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| <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 collecting user/developer testimonials based on their experience --contact <press@apache.org> for more information </p>
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| <p> - Presentations from Spark Summit East are available online at <a href="http://spark-summit.org/east/2015">http://spark-summit.org/east/2015</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache Solr will be represented at AngelHack Sydney 2-3 May <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/angelhack-sydney-2015-tickets-15569882939?aff=estw">http://www.eventbrite.com/e/angelhack-sydney-2015-tickets-15569882939?aff=estw</a></p>
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| <p> - The next Apache Phoenix MeetUp will be held on 5 May in Santa Clara <a href="http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/221247399/">http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/221247399/</a></p>
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| <p> - HBaseCon, the fourth annual event for the Apache HBase contributor/developer/admin/user community, will take place 7 May in San Francisco <a href="http://hbasecon.com/">http://hbasecon.com/</a></p>
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| <p> - Proposals for the next Berlin Buzzwords conference close 10 May. Event features Apache projects such as Lucene, Spark, Solr, and Cassandra, and will be held 31 May-3 June in Berlin <a href="http://berlinbuzzwords.de/">http://berlinbuzzwords.de</a></p>
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| <p> - The first Apache Flink MeetUp in Stockholm will be held on 11 May <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Stockholm/events/221701529/">http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Stockholm/events/221701529/</a></p>
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| <div> - A lightning talk on Apache Calcite will take place on 20 May at XLDB in Stanford <a href="http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2015/">http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2015/</a></div>
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| <p> - Apache Usergrid will be featured at {CODESHOW}SE on 21 May in Charleston <a href="https://www.codeshowse.com/">https://www.codeshowse.com/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Apache CloudStack European User Group will be held 21 May in London <a href="http://www.shapeblue.com/events/cloudstack-european-user-group-5/">http://www.shapeblue.com/events/cloudstack-european-user-group-5/</a> </p>
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| <p> - The Apache Drill MeetUp on 26 May will be held in Los Gatos and feature Apache Kylin <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Drill-User-Group/events/221764407/">http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Drill-User-Group/events/221764407/</a></p>
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| <p> - CloudStack Days Seattle will be co-located with LinuxCon: submit your proposal by 12 June <a href="http://clds.co/18hplxk">http://clds.co/18hplxk</a></p>
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| <p> - MesosCon will be held 20-21 August in Seattle <a href="https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/">https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/</a> </p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon Europe will be held 28 September - 1 October in Budapest <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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| <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>
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| <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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