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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 3 January 2020' |
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| date: '2020-01-03 05:43:00 -0500' |
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| - '2020' |
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| <div>Welcome, 2020! We hope that you have had a festive holiday season<br /> |
| and are excited to kick off the new year. Here's what happened over the<br /> |
| past week:</div> |
| <p>Apache in 2019 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits">https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits</a> </p></p> |
| <p class="entryContent">ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 15 January 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Diversity & Inclusion – newly-formed committee supports<br /> |
| initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across the<br /> |
| greater Apache community.<br /> - FINAL CALL: respond to the 2020 ASF Community Survey before 4 January <a href="https://s.apache.org/pzol5">https://s.apache.org/pzol5</a></p> |
| <p>ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998<br /> - CFP OPEN: Apache Roadshow/DC <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/index.html">https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/index.html</a></p> |
| <p><a href="https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/index.html"></a>ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> -<br /> |
| 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.94%. Performance checks across 50<br /> |
| different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data<br /> |
| centers around the world. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 506 Apache contributors changed 647,823 lines of code over 2,002 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Dan Haywood, Carlos Rovira, and Andrew Wetmore. </p> |
| <p>Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category. </p> |
| <p>Big Data --<br /> - Apache <span class="il">Geode</span> 1.11.0 released <a href="https://geode.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://geode.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1578116219429000&usg=AFQjCNHbzC1mc2-SZwetkKdIRjNdRj-WOg">https://<span class="il">geode</span>.apache.org/</a><br /> - Apache <span class="il">Drill</span> 1.17.0 released <a href="https://drill.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drill.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1578055038100000&usg=AFQjCNH3C1nL3veJST1sYZ23ziSuEDFLow">https://<span class="il">drill</span>.apache.org/<br /></a></p> |
| <p>Cloud Computing --<br /> |
| - Apache <span class="il">Libcloud</span> 2.8.0 released <a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://libcloud.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1578116489504000&usg=AFQjCNEYzF4l0MgGC2eszvL7676_-vINXg">https://<span class="il">libcloud</span>.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Libraries --<br /> - Apache <span class="il">Commons</span> <span class="il">VFS</span> 2.5.0 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/&source=gmail&ust=1578055113173000&usg=AFQjCNEgLO4chNroFKR5Um5__Y2Rx6029A">http://<span class="il">commons</span>.apache.org/<wbr />proper/<span class="il">commons</span>-<span class="il">vfs</span>/</a></p> |
| <p><span class="il">Search</span> --<br /> - Apache <span class="il">Lucene</span> 8.4.0 and <span class="il">Solr</span> 8.4.0 released <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://lucene.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1578055164409000&usg=AFQjCNH59A_Wm2TS6mfgSdA5k99nxq8lCg"> http://<span class="il">lucene</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that the European Commission created its new API Gateway infrastructure using Apache Camel? <a href="https://camel.apache.org/">https://camel.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that NBC Universal uses Apache Tinkerpop's Gremlin to write complicated traversals? <a href="http://tinkerpop.apache.org/">http://tinkerpop.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that blogs.apache.org is powered by Apache Roller? Version 6 just released! <a href="http://roller.apache.org/">http://roller.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success <a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) <a href="https://s.apache.org/2kv2n">https://s.apache.org/2kv2n</a></p> |
| <p> - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary">https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary</a></p> |
| <p> - 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> - Foundation Reports and Statements <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html</a></p> |
| <p> - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 <a href="http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon">http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon</a></p> |
| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport</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> |
| <p> - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit <a href="http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/">http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/</a> </p> |
| <div> |
| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and 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 (<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> - 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> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <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></div> |
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| Apache HTTP Server, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></div> |
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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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