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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 March 2018'
date: '2018-03-09T00:00:00+00:00'
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<div>Happy Friday, everyone! We've been rather busy in ApacheLand with the following activities:</div>
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<p>&quot;Success at Apache&quot;&nbsp;–a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF &quot;just works&quot;.<br />&nbsp;- Open Innovation from a Non-native English Country by Von Gosling <a href="https://s.apache.org/lh61">https://s.apache.org/lh61</a></p>
<p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br />&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 21 March. 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.<br />&nbsp;- Travel Assistance applications now being accepted for ApacheCon/Montreal&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apache.org/travel/">https://www.apache.org/travel/</a><br />&nbsp;- CFP is open for ApacheCon 24-29 September in Montreal&nbsp;<a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;ApacheCon and The Open Geospatial Consortium team up to advance the implementation of geospatial data and processing across Apache projects&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/iUM5">https://s.apache.org/iUM5</a></p>
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<p>Apache Community Development –helps newcomers take their first steps towards being a part of the Apache community.<br />&nbsp;- The ASF is a Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization for the 13th consecutive year. Students: roll up sleeves and get started with dozens of Apache projects at <a href="https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html">https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html</a></p>
<p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br />&nbsp;- 7M+ weekly checks yield snapping performance at 99.98% uptime.&nbsp;<a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>ASF Operations Factoid&nbsp;–this week, 545 Apache contributors changed 1,529,153 lines of code over 4,008 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sijie Guo, Duo Zhang, Dan Kirkwood, Andrea Cosentino and Tilman Hausherr.</p>
<p>Apache Groovy a multi-facet programming language for the JVM.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Groovy 2.6.0-alpha-3 released&nbsp;<a href="https://groovy.apache.org/">https://groovy.apache.org/</a></p>
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<p>Apache HBase an Open Source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database.<br />&nbsp;- Apache HBase 2.0.0-beta-2&nbsp;<a href="https://hbase.apache.org/">https://hbase.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Hivemall (incubating) a scalable machine learning library implemented as Hive UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Hivemall 0.5.0-incubating released&nbsp;<a href="http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/">http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/</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 2.6.10 released&nbsp;<a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Kafka a distributed streaming platform. <br />&nbsp;- Apache Kafka 1.0.1&nbsp;<a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Kylin an Open Source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Apache Hadoop, supporting extremely large datasets.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Kylin 2.3.0 released&nbsp;<a href="https://kylin.apache.org/">https://kylin.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Libcloud a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Libcloud 2.3.0 release&nbsp;<a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/">https://libcloud.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Lucene a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Lucene 6.6.3 and Solr 6.6.3 released&nbsp;<a href="http://lucene.apache.org/">http://lucene.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Parquet a general-purpose columnar file format supporting nested data.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Parquet C++ release 1.4.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://parquet.apache.org/">http://parquet.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Qpid a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464, http://www.amqp.org). <br />&nbsp;- Apache Qpid JMS 0.30.0, Apache Qpid Proton 0.21.0, and Qpid Broker-J 7.0.2 released&nbsp;<a href="http://qpid.apache.org/">http://qpid.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Tomcat an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.43 released&nbsp;<a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/">https://tomcat.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache UIMA a component architecture and framework for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data.<br />&nbsp;- Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.0.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://uima.apache.org">http://uima.apache.org</a></p>
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<p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Netflix uses Apache Kafka to scale its architecture across 4,000+ brokers and &gt; 1 trillion messages per day?&nbsp;<a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Apache NetBeans (incubating) seeks programmers to help test its newest release?&nbsp;<a href="http://netbeans.apache.org/">http://netbeans.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that you can keep up to date with the latest developments on the ASF Community Development (ComDev) activities through their monthly blog?&nbsp;<a href="https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/">https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/</a><br /><br /></p>
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<div><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></div>
<p>&nbsp;- The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache in 2017 - By The Digits&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Foundation Statement Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- &quot;Success at Apache&quot; 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> 2) All Carrot and No Stick <a href="https://s.apache.org/ykoG">https://s.apache.org/ykoG</a> 3) Asynchronous Decision Making <a href="https://s.apache.org/PMvk%20">https://s.apache.org/PMvk</a>4) Rule of the Makers <a href="https://s.apache.org/yFgQ">https://s.apache.org/yFgQ</a> 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors <a href="https://s.apache.org/4pjM">https://s.apache.org/4pjM</a> 6) Meritocracy and Me <a href="https://s.apache.org/tQQh">https://s.apache.org/tQQh</a> 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community <a href="https://s.apache.org/x9Be">https://s.apache.org/x9Be</a>&nbsp;8) Meritocracy. <a href="https://s.apache.org/DiEo">https://s.apache.org/DiEo</a>&nbsp;9) Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/dAlg">https://s.apache.org/dAlg</a>&nbsp;10) All My Roads Led to Apache&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/l9OO">https://s.apache.org/l9OO</a>&nbsp;11) Scratch Your Own Itch.&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/7Amk">https://s.apache.org/7Amk</a>&nbsp;12) What a Long Strange (and Great) Trip It's Been&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/gVuN">https://s.apache.org/gVuN</a>&nbsp;13) A Newbie's Narrative <a href="https://s.apache.org/A72H">https://s.apache.org/A72H</a>&nbsp;14)&nbsp;Contributing to Open Source even with a high-pressure job <a href="https://s.apache.org/lM9O">https://s.apache.org/lM9O</a>&nbsp;15) Success at Apache: Open Innovation from a Non-native English Country&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/lh61">https://s.apache.org/lh61</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- 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>
<p>&nbsp;- 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>&nbsp;- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Members of the Apache community will be presenting at DataWorks Summit 16-19 April 2018 in Berlin&nbsp;<a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Open Expo Europe - 6-7 June 2018 in Madrid <a href="https://openexpoeurope.com/">https://openexpoeurope.com/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Meet members of the Apache community at Open Expo Madrid 6-7 June 2018&nbsp;<a href="http://www.openexpo.es/en/">http://www.openexpo.es/en/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- We're teaming up with Berlin Buzzwords - 10-12 June 2018 (Apache Lounge dates: 11-12 June) <a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/">https://berlinbuzzwords.de/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- The 2018 Apache EU Roadshow will be held during FOSS Backstage in Berlin 13-14 June 2018&nbsp;<a href="https://foss-backstage.de/">https://foss-backstage.de/</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- Apache Big Data project communities will be participating at DataWorks Summit 17-21 June 2018 in San Jose <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q2 FY2018&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/j1GJ">https://s.apache.org/j1GJ</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- ASF Annual Report is available at&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport</a></p>
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