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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 3 November 2017' |
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| date: '2017-11-03 11:59:54 -0400' |
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| <div>Enter November! The Apache community has been working on the following over the past week:</div> |
| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 15 November. Board calendar and minutes <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 three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield pert performance at 99.02% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 460 Apache contributors changed 915,743 lines of code over 2,359 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Stephen Mallette, Daniel Templeton, Gary Gregory, Tilman Hausherr, and Paul King.</p> |
| <p>Apache Any23™ –Anything To Triples is a library, a Web service, and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents.<br /> - Apache Any23 2.1 <a href="https://any23.apache.org">https://any23.apache.org</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Geode™ –low latency, high concurrency data management solutions.<br /> - Apache Geode 1.3.0 released <a href="http://geode.apache.org/">http://geode.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Hive™ –Big Data warehouse that facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage.<br /> - CVE-2017-12625 Apache Hive information disclosure vulnerability for column masking <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201710.mbox/%3C3791103E-80D5-4E75-AF23-6F8ED54DDEBE%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201710.mbox/%3C3791103E-80D5-4E75-AF23-6F8ED54DDEBE%40apache.org%3E</a></p></p> |
| <p>Apache Ignite™ –in-memory computing platform that is durable, strongly consistent, and highly available with powerful SQL, key-value and processing APIs.<br /> - Apache Ignite 2.3.0 released <a href="https://ignite.apache.org/">https://ignite.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR).<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.4 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.6 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Juneau™ –Open Source framework for quickly and easily creating Java-based REST microservices and APIs.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Juneau™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/IvJH </p> |
| <p>Apache Kafka™ –Open Source enterprise-grade scalable streaming platform.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Kafka® v1.0.0 <a href="https://s.apache.org/8jww">https://s.apache.org/8jww</a><br /> - Apache Kafka 1.0.0 released <a href="https://kafka.apache.org/">https://kafka.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.<br /> - Solr Reference Guide for Solr 7.1 released <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-7.1.pdf">https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-7.1.pdf</a></p> |
| <p>Apache MXNet (incubating) –a deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.<br /> - Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.12.0 released <a href="http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/">http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OpenNLP™ –a Machine Learning-based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.<br /> - Language Detector Model 1.8.3 released <a href="http://opennlp.apache.org/">http://opennlp.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents.<br /> - Apache PDFBox 2.0.8 released <a href="http://pdfbox.apache.org/">http://pdfbox.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Yetus™ –a collection of libraries and tools that enable contribution and release processes for software projects. <br /> - Apache Yetus 0.6.0 released <a href="https://yetus.apache.org/">https://yetus.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <div> |
| <p> - Did you know that you can learn about Open Source governance, community leadership, open development, and more from dozens of members of the Apache community at FOSS Backstage Micro-Summit in Berlin on 20 November? https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now </p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache Struts has new documentation? <a href="http://struts.apache.org/docs/">http://struts.apache.org/docs/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Yelp runs massively parallel integration tests on Apache Mesos with Task Processing? <a href="http://mesos.apache.org/">http://mesos.apache.org/</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></div> |
| <p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p> |
| <div> |
| <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></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> - Follow 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> (re-tweets/shares/likes most appreciated!)</div> |
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| <p> - Presentations from ApacheCon <a href="https://s.apache.org/Hli7">https://s.apache.org/Hli7</a> and Apache: Big Data <a href="https://s.apache.org/tefE">https://s.apache.org/tefE</a> are available; as well as videos <a href="https://s.apache.org/AE3m">https://s.apache.org/AE3m</a> and audio recordings <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</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><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/"></a></p> |
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| <div> |
| <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> - Apache community members share leadership best practices on Open Source governance, community leadership, open development, and more at FOSS Backstage in Berlin on 20 November 2017 <a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now">https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now</a></p> |
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| <p> - Meet members of the Apache CloudStack community at the CloudStack European User Group on 21 November in Leipzig <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-38657799519?aff=estw">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-38657799519?aff=estw</a> </p> |
| <p> - Members of the Apache community will be out in force at Open Source Summit Paris 6-7 December 2017 <a href="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/">http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q1 FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/cEUm">https://s.apache.org/cEUm</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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