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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 January 2018' |
| id: 5dcb871e-643a-48d2-9775-85670ae66545 |
| date: '2018-01-19 15:01:32 -0500' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - community |
| - initiatives |
| - round-up |
| - software |
| - news |
| - foundation |
| - apache |
| - weekly |
| - summary |
| - projects |
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| <div>Happy Friday --we've had quite a week! Let's take a look at what happened:</div> |
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| <p>Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses. Every dollar counts.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Receives Bitcoin Donation from Pineapple Fund Valued at $1M <a href="https://s.apache.org/udGT">https://s.apache.org/udGT</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 21 February. 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>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield clever performance at 99.70% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 441 Apache contributors changed 1,279,610 lines of code over 2,700 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Alex Harui, Thiago Veronezi, Duo Zhang, Mark Thomas, and Gary Gregory.</p> |
| <p>Apache HBase™ –an Open Source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database.<br /> - Apache HBase 2.0.0-beta-1 released <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/">https://hbase.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache HttpComponents™ –a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint.<br /> - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta2 and HttpComponents Client 5.0 beta1 released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/">http://hc.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Impala™ –a high-performance distributed SQL engine.<br /> - Apache Impala 2.11.0 released <a href="https://impala.apache.org/">https://impala.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –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 Oak 1.6.8 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.<br /> - Apache Lucene 7.2.1 and Apache Solr 7.2.1 released <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/">http://lucene.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.<br /> - Apache NiFi 1.5.0 release<span style="white-space: pre;">d <a href="https://nifi.apache.org/">https://nifi.apache.org/</a></span></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 /> - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.25.0 released <a href="http://qpid.apache.org/">http://qpid.apache.org/</a></p> |
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| <p>Apache Traffic Server™ –a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server.<br /> - Apache Traffic Server v7.1.2 released <a href="https://trafficserver.apache.org/">https://trafficserver.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that in 2017 the Top 5 Apache Project Repositories by Size (Lines of Code) were: OpenOffice (6,375,345); Netbeans (5,536,881); Flex (whiteboard: 5,164,279; SDK 3,919,006); Trafodion (3,077,781); and Mynewt (core: 2,748.040)? <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache OFBiz offers a full range of Open Source ERP solutions, including advanced eCommerce, catalog management, manufacturing and POS modules, and accounting functions for Windows, Mac, and Linux? <a href="http://ofbiz.apache.org/">http://ofbiz.apache.org</a></p> |
| <p>- Did you know that the Apache community will be at Berlin Buzzwords again this year? We'll see you there! <a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/">https://berlinbuzzwords.de/</a></p> |
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| <div><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></div> |
| <p> - Apache in 2017 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p> |
| <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". 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> 8) Meritocracy. <a href="https://s.apache.org/DiEo">https://s.apache.org/DiEo</a> 9) Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation <a href="https://s.apache.org/dAlg">https://s.apache.org/dAlg</a> 10) All My Roads Led to Apache <a href="https://s.apache.org/l9OO">https://s.apache.org/l9OO</a> 11) Scratch Your Own Itch. <a href="https://s.apache.org/7Amk">https://s.apache.org/7Amk</a> 12) What a Long Strange (and Great) Trip It's Been <a href="https://s.apache.org/gVuN">https://s.apache.org/gVuN</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> |
| <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="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Wicket community will be holding a MeetUp on 24 January in Hydrabad <a href="https://www.meetup.com/jughyderabad/events/246743640/?_cookie-check=sA8sdSu69o0Dk0zY">https://www.meetup.com/jughyderabad/events/246743640/?_cookie-check=sA8sdSu69o0Dk0zY</a></p> |
| <p> - The ASF will be back at FOSDEM in Brussels 3-5 February 2018. We'll see you there! <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/">https://fosdem.org/2018/</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Tinkerpop community will be holding a MeetUp on Gremlin on 21 February in New York <a href="https://www.meetup.com/DataStax-UserGroup-NewYork/events/246762770/">https://www.meetup.com/DataStax-UserGroup-NewYork/events/246762770/</a> </p> |
| <p> - Meet members of the Apache community at Open Expo Madrid 6-7 June 2018 <a href="http://www.openexpo.es/en/">http://www.openexpo.es/en/</a></p> |
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| <p> - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q2 FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/j1GJ">https://s.apache.org/j1GJ</a></p> |
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| <p> - ASF Annual Report is available at <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport</a></p> |
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| <div> - 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></div> |
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