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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 May 2018' |
| id: d81ed235-0e81-4d13-aea0-f6c9c612e59e |
| date: '2018-05-04 15:51:45 -0400' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - round-up |
| - community |
| - summary |
| - foundation |
| - apache |
| - news |
| - software |
| - weekly |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
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| <p>It's time for our weekly review of the Apache community's activities. Here we go, and "May the 4th" be with you!</p> |
| <p>The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 51 New Members <a href="https://s.apache.org/ysxx">https://s.apache.org/ysxx</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: 16 May. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p>ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series.<br /> - Join us at Apache Roadshow Europe/Berlin 11-14 June/Berlin --register for FOSS Backstage and you're in! <a href="https://foss-backstage.de/">https://foss-backstage.de/</a><br /> - Schedule announced and Registration open for ApacheCon North America 24-27 September/Montreal <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br /> - Save the date: Apache Roadshow and Open Source Job Fair 8 October/Fairfax, VA</p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield polished performance at 99.50% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 515 Apache contributors changed 1,230,970 lines of code over <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3,430</span></font> commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jan van Doorn, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Peng Hui Jiang, James Taylor, and Mark Thomas.</p> |
| <p>Apache Calcite™ Avatica Go –a framework for building database drivers that defines a wire API and serialization mechanism for clients to communicate with a server as a proxy to a database.<br /> - Apache Calcite Avatica Go 3.0.0 released <a href="https://calcite.apache.org/">https://calcite.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Impala™ –a high-performance distributed SQL engine.<br /> - Apache Impala 2.12.0 released <a href="https://impala.apache.org/">https://impala.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache HBase™ –the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, Big Data store.<br /> - Apache HBase 2.0.0 released <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/">https://hbase.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache OpenWebBeans™ –a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) and targets the CDI-1.2 specification (JavaEE 7).<br /> - Apache OpenWebBeans 1.7.5 and 2.0.5 released <a href="http://openwebbeans.apache.org/">http://openwebbeans.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating their anniversaries this month? Apache Forrest and Geronimo (14 years); Apache Tomcat (13 years); Apache OpenJPA, POI, TomEE, and Turbine (11 years); Apache Libcloud (7 years); Apache Giraph, Hama, and ManifoldCF (6 years); Apache Phoenix (4 years); Apache Whimsy (3 years); Apache Bahir, TinkerPop, and Zeppelin (2 years); and Apache SystemML (1 year) --many happy returns!</p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache Drill lets you run SQL queries directly against Amazon S3 data? <a href="http://drill.apache.org/">http://drill.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that the apache.org domain receives 35M collective page views per week? <a href="http://apache.org/">http://apache.org/</a></p> |
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| <div><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></div> |
| <p> - The Apache<span style="font-size: 10.8333px;"> </span>Software Foundation Celebrates 19 Years of Open Source Leadership "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/gK4Q">https://s.apache.org/gK4Q</a></p> |
| <p> - Read "Open – For Business – At the ASF" by Merv Adrian, VP Research at Gartner <a href="https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/">https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/</a></p> |
| <p> - A look at the "Apache at 19" promo at <a href="https://youtu.be/Fqk_rlKiVIs">https://youtu.be/Fqk_rlKiVIs</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement <a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p> |
| <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". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</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<br /></a></p> |
| <p> - Open Expo Europe - 6-7 June 2018 in Madrid <a href="https://openexpoeurope.com/">https://openexpoeurope.com/</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> |
| <p> - We're teaming up the Apache Roadshow Europe with Berlin Buzzwords - 10-12 June 2018 (Apache Lounge dates: 11-12 June) <a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/">https://berlinbuzzwords.de/</a></p> |
| <p> - The 2018 Apache EU Roadshow will be held during FOSS Backstage in Berlin 13-14 June 2018 <a href="https://foss-backstage.de/">https://foss-backstage.de/</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
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| <p> - 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> - ApacheCon North America will be held 24-27 September in Montreal <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - Save the Date: Apache Roadshow DC and Open Source/Government/Cyber/Job Fair - 8 October 2018 in Fairfax, VA <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary: November 2017 - January 2018<a href="https://s.apache.org/UtBD"> https://s.apache.org/UtBD</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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