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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 November 2019 '
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date: '2019-11-08 09:52:38 -0500'
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<p>Happy Friday: it's time to look back at our activities over the past week:</p></p>
<p>ASF Board &ndash; management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. <br />&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 20 November 2019. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>ApacheCon&trade; &ndash; the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998<br />&nbsp;- ApacheCon 2019 events are complete: catch the latest from Berlin<span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text">, including&nbsp;<br /></span>&nbsp; &nbsp; -- interviews on Feathercast <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; -- session slide decks at <a href="https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions">https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; -- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation">https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; -- photos on ApacheCon <a href="https://photos.apachecon.com/">https://photos.apachecon.com/</a> and Flickr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/">https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/</a></p>
<p>ASF Infrastructure &ndash; our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br />&nbsp;-<br />
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.88%. Performance checks<br />
across 50 different service components spread over more than 250<br />
machines in data centers around the world.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a></p>
<p>Apache<br />
Code Snapshot &ndash; this week, 830 Apache contributors changed 939,092<br />
lines of code<br />
over 3,390 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: <span>Andrea Cosentino, Daniel Sun, Eroma Abeysinghe, Andrew Palumbo, and Mark Thomas.&nbsp;</span> <span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span> </p>
<p>Apache Project Announcements&nbsp;&ndash; the latest updates by category.</p>
<p>Big Data --<br />&nbsp;- Apache <span class="il">NiFi</span> 1.10.0 released <a href="https://nifi.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nifi.apache.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573215207666000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfIyPqSjzotQCeJIWt39Rnn3HQTQ">https://<span class="il">nifi</span>.apache.org/</a> <br />&nbsp;- Apache Kudu 1.11.0 released <a href="https://kudu.apache.org/">https://kudu.apache.org/</a> </p>
<p>IDE -- <br />&nbsp;- Apache <span class="il">NetBeans</span> 11.2 released <a href="http://netbeans.apache.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://netbeans.apache.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573214625558000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGB0Q3omggM-r-8LchAMyVxSP7QrQ">http://<span class="il">netbeans</span>.apache.org/</a> </p>
<p>Machine Learning --<br />&nbsp;- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache&reg; SINGA&trade; as a Top-Level Project <a href="https://s.apache.org/j40py">https://s.apache.org/j40py</a> </p>
<p>Search --<br />
&nbsp;- Apache Lucene <span class="il">Solr</span> 8.3.0 released <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://lucene.apache.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573215342155000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtEYo9XWc9DTEue_kxopUbNwfn_A">http://lucene.apache.org/</a> </p>
<p> Servers -- <br />&nbsp;- Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta10 (GA candidate) released <a href="http://hc.apache.org">http://hc.apache.org</a></p>
<p><a href="http://hc.apache.org"></a><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Ant (17 years); Labs (13 years);&nbsp;HttpComponents (12 years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, Qpid (11 years);&nbsp;Community Development (10 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (9 years); Kafka and Syncope (7 years); Ambari and Marmotta (6 years); BookKeeper, Drill, and MetaModel (5 years); Brooklyn, Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (4 years);&nbsp;Geode (3 years); Guacamole, Impala, and Mnemonic (2 years); Griffin (1 year) --many happy returns!&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a> </p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Apache CouchDB&nbsp;<a href="http://couchdb.apache.org/">http://couchdb.apache.org/</a> powered a vaccination trial software that led to the first Ebola vaccine? Learn more at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/new-builders/database-deep-dives-couchdb">https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/new-builders/database-deep-dives-couchdb</a> </p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the <a href="https://www.apache.org/">apache.org</a> has 35M page views per week?&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/w7bw1">https://s.apache.org/w7bw1</a> </p>
<p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way"&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary">https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Foundation Reports and Statements <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998&nbsp;<a href="http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon">http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ASF Annual Report for FY2019&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Foundation Statement &ndash;Apache Is Open.&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- "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>&nbsp;- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">https://twitter.com/TheASF</a>) 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>&nbsp;- 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>&nbsp;- 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>
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<p>&nbsp;- In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 will be held 13-14 November in <span class="LrzXr">Burlingame&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imcsummit.org/2019/us/">https://www.imcsummit.org/2019/us/</a> <br /></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Find out how you can participate with Apache<br />
community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel,<br />
Apache HTTP Server, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a>
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For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetApache">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</p>
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