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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 December 2016' |
| id: 0eaeb919-10b5-435b-a2c2-ecaf033ff689 |
| date: '2016-12-30 13:31:30 -0500' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - news |
| - round-up |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - apache |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
| - summary |
| - weekly |
| - community |
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| <p>It's a wrap! The Apache community's final activities of 2016 include:</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: 18 January 2017. 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 "three nines" performance at 99.92% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
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| <div> |
| <p><a href="http://status.apache.org/"></a>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - CFP OPEN: Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon North America 16-18 May 2017/Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br /> - Session recordings are being processed and posted at Feathercast <a href="http://feathercast.org/">http://feathercast.org</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Commons™ Compress –library that defines a Java API for working with ar, cpio, tar, zip, 7z, arj, dump, gzip, pack200, bzip2, lzma, snappy, Z, xz and deflate files.<br /> - Apache Commons Compress 1.13 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/download_compress.cgi">http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/download_compress.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache HttpComponents™ –a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint.<br /> - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 alpha2 released <a href="http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi">http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data and processing resources of Hadoop clusters.<br /> - Apache Knox 0.11.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.11.0">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.11.0</a></p> |
| <p>Apache log4net™ –a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.<br /> - Apache log4net 2.0.6 released https://logging.apache.org/log4net/download_log4net.cgi </p> |
| <p>Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.<br /> - Apache NiFi 1.1.1 released <a href="https://nifi.apache.org/download.html">https://nifi.apache.org/download.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Streams (incubating) –unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.<br /> - Apache Streams 0.4.1-incubating released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/streams/releases/0.4.1-incubating/">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/streams/releases/0.4.1-incubating/</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <p><a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html"></a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that 620 individual Members and 5,934 Committers drive 350+ Apache projects and global operations? All volunteer: no days off! <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html">http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html</a> </p> |
| <p> - Did you know that the top 5 Committers in 2016 were Mark Thomas (3,032 commits), Claus Ibsen (2,890 commits), Gary Gregor (2,004 commits), Colm Ó hÉigeartaigh (1,900 commits), and Jean-Baptiste Onofré (1,825 commits)? <a href="http://community.apache.org/committers/">http://community.apache.org/committers/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache CloudStack powers large-scale Clouds with tens of thousands of nodes in production? <a href="http://cloudstack.apache.org/">http://cloudstack.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <p> - "Success at Apache" is a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". First article: Project Independence <a href="https://s.apache.org/CE0V">https://s.apache.org/CE0V</a></p> |
| <p> - 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> - ASF Operations Summary - Q2 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/oTOF">https://s.apache.org/oTOF</a></p></p> |
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| <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> - 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, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, Zest, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <p> - ApacheCon North America and Apache:BigData will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/<br /></a></p> |
| <div> - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby">http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby</a></div> |
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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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