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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 September 2018' |
| date: '2018-09-07T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>Welcome, September. Here's what the Apache community has been working on over the past week:</p>
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| <p>Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works".<br /> - 赢在 Apache: If it helps others, all the better. by Sally Khudairi <a href="https://s.apache.org/Et2y">https://s.apache.org/Et2y</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 19 September. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
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| <p>ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th year.<br /> - 24-27 September: T-17 days to Montreal. Don't miss 100+ Apache project and community sessions, from CloudStack to Spark to Tomcat to Geospatial to Hackathon, BarCamp, and more. Join us! <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/">http://apachecon.com/acna18/</a><br /> - NEW DATE: 4 December: Apache Roadshow DC and Open Source Job Fair. CFP open through 15 October <a href="http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/">http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield snazzy performance at 99.43% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 313 Apache contributors changed 391,173 lines of code over <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1,733</span></font> commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Harbs, Andrea Cosentino, Raphael Luta, Jonathan Hung, and Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez.</p>
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| <p>Apache BookKeeper™ –a reliable replicated log service.<br /> - Apache BookKeeper 4.7.2 released <a href="https://bookkeeper.apache.org/">https://bookkeeper.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Daffodil (incubating) –an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and XML/JSON.<br /> - Apache Daffodil (incubating) 2.2.0 released <a href="https://daffodil.apache.org/">https://daffodil.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Directory™ –provides directory solutions entirely written in Java.<br /> - Apache Directory LDAP API 2.0.0.AM2 released <a href="%20http://directory.apache.org/">http://directory.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache HBase™ –the Hadoop database; a distributed, scalable, Big Data store.<br /> - Apache HBase 2.0.2 released <a href="http://hbase.apache.org">http://hbase.apache.org</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.6 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.7 and 1.9.8 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache JSPWiki™ –a feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard JEE components (Java, servlets, JSP).<br /> - Apache JSPWiki 2.10.5 released <a href="https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/">https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools.<br /> - Apache OpenMeetings 4.0.5 is released <a href="http://openmeetings.apache.org">http://openmeetings.apache.org</a></p>
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| <p>Apache OpenWebBeans™ –an ALv2-licensed implementation of the "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specification which is defined as JSR-299.<br /> - Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.7 CDI container released <a href="http://openwebbeans.apache.org">http://openwebbeans.apache.org</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Qpid™ –implements the latest AMQP specification, the first open standard for enterprise messaging.<br /> - Apache Qpid for Java 6.1.7 released <a href="https://qpid.apache.org/">https://qpid.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache SystemML™ –a machine learning platform optimal for Big Data.<br /> - Apache SystemML 1.2.0 released <a href="http://systemml.apache.org/">http://systemml.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Tomcat™ Connectors –an Open Source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.<br />- Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.44 released <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/">https://tomcat.apache.org/</a><br /><br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Apache ServiceMix (11 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (8 years); Airavata, Bigtop, SIS, and Stanbol (6 years); Curator (5 years); Storm (4 years); Yetus (3 years); DRAT, RocketMQ, and Royale (2 years). Many happy returns! <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that during FY2018 ASF project contributors have added $624,946,835 worth of code? <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces37">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces37</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Lufthansa uses Apache Wicket for its pre-flight eShop? <a href="http://wicket.apache.org/">http://wicket.apache.org/</a><br /><br /></p>
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| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</a></p>
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| <p> - The Apache<span style="font-size: 10.8333px;"> </span>Software Foundation Celebrates 19 Years of Open Source Leadership "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/gK4Q">https://s.apache.org/gK4Q</a></p>
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| <p> - Read "Open – For Business – At the ASF" by Merv Adrian, VP Research at Gartner <a href="https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/">https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/</a><br /></p>
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| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement <a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache in 2017 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p>
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| <p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a></p>
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| <p> - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation">https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation</a></p>
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| <p> - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/</a>and Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity</a></p>
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| <p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html">http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html</a></p>
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| <p> - Catch members of the Apache community at Solutions Hamburg 12-14 September in Hamburg --stop by the Apache booth and say hello! <a href="https://solutions.hamburg/">https://solutions.hamburg/</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon North America will be held 24-27 September in Montreal <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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| <p><a href="http://apachecon.com/"></a> - The Apache Spark community will be presenting at In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2-3 October in San Francicso <a href="https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/">https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p>
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| <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, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p>
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