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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 December 2018' |
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| date: '2018-12-14 15:55:38 -0500' |
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| <p>Happy Friday! Let's review what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:</p> |
| <p>Support Apache –help keep Apache software for everyone.<br /> - Two weeks remain to make a tax-deductible donation to the ASF in 2018! 750+ generous contributors donated $80K+ as part of our Individual Giving campaigns. Every dollar counts! <a href="http://donate.apache.org/">http://donate.apache.org</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: 19 December. 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>ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th year.<br /> - CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 <a href="http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html">http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html</a><br /> - Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 2019 will take place 9-13 September in Las Vegas <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</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 grand performance at 99.64% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 469 Apache contributors changed 968,811 lines of code over 2,704 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Robert Miller, Mark Thomas, Andrew Purtell, Andrea Cosentino, and Matteo Merli.</p></p> |
| <p>Apache Beam™ –an Open Source unified programming model to define and execute Big Data processing pipelines.<br /> - Apache Beam 2.9.0 released <a href="https://beam.apache.org/">https://beam.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Calcite™ Avatica –a framework for building database drivers.<br /> - Apache Calcite Avatica 1.13.0 released <a href="https://calcite.apache.org/">https://calcite.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Geode™ –a Big Data management platform that provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.<br /> - Apache Geode 1.8.0 released <a href="http://geode.apache.org/">http://geode.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Griffin™ –Open Source Big Data quality solution.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Griffin™ as a Top-Level Project <a href="https://s.apache.org/n21m">https://s.apache.org/n21m</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Gobblin (incubating) –a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common aspects of Big Data integration.<br /> - Apache Gobblin (incubating) 0.14.0 released <a href="https://gobblin.apache.org/">https://gobblin.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Groovy™ –a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM.<br /> - Apache Groovy 2.4.16 released <a href="http://groovy.apache.org">http://groovy.apache.org</a></p></p> |
| <p>Apache Hivemall (incubating) –a scalable machine learning library implemented as Hive UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs. <br /> - Apache Hivemall 0.5.2-incubating released <a href="http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/">http://hivemall.incubator.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.0 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Log4j™ Audit –a framework for performing audit logging using a predefined catalog of audit events.<br /> - Apache Log4j-Audit 1.0.1 released <a href="http://logging.apache.org/">http://logging.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Apache Portable Runtime/APR (18 years); Logging Services (15 years); Cayenne, OFBiz, and Tiles (12 years); Synapse (11 years); Camel (10 years); Axis, OpenWebBeans, and Pivot (9 years); Aries (8 years); Flex (6 years); Helix (5 years); Falcon and Flink (4 years); Beam and Eagle (2 years); and Trafodion (1 year)? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Jet.com uses Apache TinkerPop Gremlin to enable help center agents to view and edit help center content across all their communication channels? <a href="http://tinkerpop.apache.org/">http://tinkerpop.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Dremio recently donated the Gandiva Initiative code base to Apache Arrow? Improved efficiency and performance for analytics, machine learning, and data science on Arrow data structures! <a href="http://arrow.apache.org/">http://arrow.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
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| <p> - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/d2Fq">https://s.apache.org/d2Fq</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</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> - 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="http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html">http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html</a></p> |
| <p> - Flink Forward China will take place 21-22 December 2018 in Beijing <a href="https://china-2018.flink-forward.org/call-for-presentations-submit-talk/">https://china-2018.flink-forward.org/call-for-presentations-submit-talk/</a></p> |
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| <p> - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam <font color="#bb0000"><a href="https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/">https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/</a></font></p> |
| <p> - Block your calendars for ApacheCon North America: taking place in September 2019; announcing dates and details soon. <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</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, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p> |
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