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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 February 2017'
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<p>It's Friday, and here's what has happened with the Apache community this past week:</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 />&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 15 February 2017. Board calendar and minutes available at&nbsp;<a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>Success at Apache&nbsp;–our third installment in the new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF &quot;just works&quot;.<br />&nbsp;- Asynchronous Decision Making by Bertrand Delacretaz&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/PMvk">https://s.apache.org/PMvk</a></p>
<p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br />&nbsp;- 7M+ weekly checks yield bouncy performance at 99.66% uptime&nbsp;<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™ –Tomorrow's Technology Today.&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/F7Hy">https://s.apache.org/F7Hy</a><br />&nbsp;- DEADLINES:<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;- CFPs for all events --ApacheCon core, Apache: Big Data, Apache: IoT, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, Flex JS Summit, TomcatCon and more close 11 February&nbsp;<a href="https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/final-notice-cfp-for-apachecon">https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/final-notice-cfp-for-apachecon</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp;- Travel Assistance applications close 8 March <a href="https://www.apache.org/travel/">https://www.apache.org/travel/</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp;- Early registration and hotel incentives end 12 March&nbsp;<a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp;- Apache Committers: remember to register using your apache.org address + discount code to save even more! <br />&nbsp;- Recordings from ApacheCon Europe 2016 are being uploaded at Feathercast&nbsp;<a href="http://feathercast.org/">http://feathercast.org</a></p>New logos/marks wanted&nbsp;–with the launch of the ASF's new visual identity last year, many Apache projects have been freshening up their looks. Calls are open for:<br />&nbsp;- Apache Incubator&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/rFii">https://s.apache.org/rFii</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apache OpenNLP&nbsp;<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-6">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-6</a>
<p>Apache Ant a Java library and command-line tool that helps building software.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Ant 1.9.9 and 1.10.1 released&nbsp;<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a></p>
<p>Apache Beam a unified programming model for both batch and streaming data processing, enabling efficient execution across diverse distributed execution engines and providing extensibility points for connecting to different technologies and user communities.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Beam 0.5.0 released&nbsp;<a href="https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/">https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/</a></p>
<p>Apache Commons Configuration software library that provides a generic configuration interface which enables a Java application to read configuration data from a variety of sources.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Commons Configuration 2.1.1 released&nbsp;<a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/download_text.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/download_text.cgi</a></p>
<p>Apache Commons JCS a distributed, versatile caching system.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Commons JCS 2.1 released&nbsp;<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 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 />&nbsp;- Apache Jackrabbit 2.6.8 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.13 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
<p>Apache Lucene a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Lucene 6.4.1 released&nbsp;<a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/java/6.4.1">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/java/6.4.1</a><br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Solr 6.4.1 released&nbsp;<a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html">http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html</a></p>
<p>Apache MyFaces Core a JavaServer Faces 2.2 implementation as specified by JSR-344.<br />&nbsp;- Apache MyFaces Core v2.2.12 released&nbsp;<a href="http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html">http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
<p>Apache OpenNLP a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.<br />&nbsp;- Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2 released&nbsp;<a href="http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi">http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi</a></p>
<p>Apache Qpid Proton a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464).<br />&nbsp;- Apache Qpid Proton 0.17.0 and Qpid Proton-J 0.17.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html">http://qpid.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
<p>Apache Ranger Big Data security management framework for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem in use at ING, Protegrity, and Sprint, among other organizations.<br />&nbsp;- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Ranger as a Top-Level Project&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/23CB">https://s.apache.org/23CB</a></p>
<p>Apache Struts an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Struts 2.5.10 GA released&nbsp;<a href="http://struts.apache.org/download.html#struts-ga">http://struts.apache.org/download.html#struts-ga</a></p>
<p>Apache Tomcat the Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers technologies.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Tomcat 8.5.11&nbsp;<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi</a></p>
<p>Apache Zeppelin a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for distributed, general-purpose data processing system such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Zeppelin 0.7.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://zeppelin.apache.org/download.html">http://zeppelin.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
<p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html"></a></p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the new ASF logo, launched one year ago, along with the new Apache feather and &quot;Powered By&quot; graphics are available for all to use? <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/">http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/</a><br />
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that standalone tracks taking place alongside ApacheCon include Apache: Big Data, Flex Project Summit, TomcatCon, Apache: IoT, and CloudStack Collaboration Conference? Join us!&nbsp;<a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the India Goa Directorate of Agriculture uses Apache Wicket?&nbsp;<a href="http://wicket.apache.org/">http://wicket.apache.org/</a></p>
<p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- &quot;Success at Apache&quot; is a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF &quot;just works&quot;. 1) Project Independence <a href="https://s.apache.org/CE0V">https://s.apache.org/CE0V</a>&nbsp;2) All Carrot and No Stick&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/ykoG">https://s.apache.org/ykoG</a>&nbsp;3)&nbsp;Asynchronous Decision Making&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/PMvk">https://s.apache.org/PMvk</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- 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>&nbsp;- ASF Operations Summary - Q2 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/oTOF">https://s.apache.org/oTOF</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at&nbsp;<a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with&nbsp;Apache HTTP Server,&nbsp;Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more!&nbsp;<a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- ApacheCon North America and Apache:BigData will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami&nbsp;<a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/<br /></a></p>
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