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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 August 2016' |
| id: f4f23028-ac12-4f3b-b1eb-5c50b5485748 |
| date: '2016-08-05 14:23:33 -0400' |
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| - news |
| - round-up |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - apache |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
| - summary |
| - weekly |
| - community |
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| <p>Welcome August! Whilst many are on holidays, the Apache Community at-large is always productive. Here's what happened over the 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 /> - Next Board Meeting: 17 August 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield fab performance at 99.60% uptime <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™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - CFP and registration open for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Attic –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.<br /> - Apache Tuscany retired <a href="http://attic.apache.org/projects/tuscany.html">http://attic.apache.org/projects/tuscany.html</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 1.5.7 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data and processing resources of Apache Hadoop clusters.<br /> - Apache Knox 0.9.1 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.9.1">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.9.1</a></p> |
| <p><b><br />Did You Know?</b></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Uber uses Apache Aurora, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, Mesos, Spark, Storm, and Thrift at the core of its tech stack? <a href="http://aurora.apache.org/">http://aurora.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/">http://cassandra.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">http://hadoop.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://mesos.apache.org/">http://mesos.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://spark.apache.org/">http://spark.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://storm.apache.org/">http://storm.apache.org/</a>, <a href="http://thrift.apache.org/">http://thrift.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Southwest's OpsSuite uses Apache Geode (incubating) to show real time logistics operational status? 10M messages consumed; 1M schedules optimized in seconds! <a href="http://geode.incubator.apache.org/">http://geode.incubator.apache.org/</a></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that the ASF is an hiring Infrastructure Systems Administrator/Architect? <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/position_available_infrastructure_systems_administrator">https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/position_available_infrastructure_systems_administrator</a></p> |
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| <p> - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a><strong></strong></p> |
| <p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p> |
| <p> - Atlanta Hadoop Users Group present Cutting edge with HBASE on 17 August 2016 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Hadoop-Users-Group/events/230344766/">http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Hadoop-Users-Group/events/230344766/</a></p> |
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| <p> - CFP is open for the next Cassandra Summit 7-9 September 2016 in San Jose <a href="https://cfp.cassandrasummit.org/">https://cfp.cassandrasummit.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - CloudStack Collaboration Conference Brasil will take place 29-30 September 2016 in Sao Paolo <a href="http://cloudstack.usp.br/en/index.php">http://cloudstack.usp.br/en/index.php</a></p> |
| <p> - ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
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| <p> - The second ASF Annual Report is available at <a href="https://s.apache.org/pTMX">https://s.apache.org/pTMX</a></p> |
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| <div> - Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear">http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear</a> and <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">http://s.apache.org/landsend</a>--all proceeds benefit the ASF! </div> |
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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce">Apache-related news</a> by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</a>. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div> |
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