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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 17 April 2020' |
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| date: '2020-04-17 07:38:28 -0400' |
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| <p>Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:</p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">ASF Board</span> – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br> - Next Board Meeting: 20 May 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html" target="_blank">https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a><br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">ApacheCon™</span> – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br> - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences <a href="https://s.apache.org/zgm8m" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/zgm8m</a> <br> - CFP EXTENDED for ApacheCon North America: submissions due 1 June <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.apachecon.com/&source=gmail&ust=1586580638108000&usg=AFQjCNHWvI4YD7_WAkITrTu6zUFosJod2Q">https://www.apachecon.com/</a></p> |
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| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">ASF Infrastructure</span> – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br> - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/" target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a><br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Apache Code Snapshot</span> – this week, 952 Apache contributors changed 5,939,295 lines of code over 4,345 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Hervé Boutemy, Andrea Cosentino, <span>Daniel Sun, Paul Davis, and Gary Gregory. </span> </p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Apache Project Announcements</span> – the latest updates by category.</p> |
| <p>Big Data --<br> - Apache Kafka 2.5.0 released <a href="https://kafka.apache.org/" target="_blank">https://kafka.apache.org/</a> <br> - <span style="font-size: 14px;">The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® ShardingSphere™ as a Top-Level Project </span><a href="https://s.apache.org/315iv" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/315iv</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br></p> |
| <p>Cloud Computing --<br> - Apache Libcloud 3.0.0 released <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://libcloud.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Messaging --<br> - Apache Qpid Broker-J 7.0.9 released <a href="http://qpid.apache.org" target="_blank">http://qpid.apache.org</a><br></p> |
| <p>Programming Languages --<br> - Apache Groovy 2.5.11 and 3.0.3 released <a href="http://groovy.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://groovy.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Search --<br> - <span style="font-size: 14px;">Apache Lucene 8.5.1 and Solr 8.5.1 released </span><a href="https://lucene.apache.org/" target="_blank">https://lucene.apache.org/</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p> |
| <p>Servers --<br> - <span style="font-size: 14px;">Apache Traffic Server 8.0.7 and 7.1.10 released </span><a href="http://trafficserver.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://trafficserver.apache.org/</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p> |
| <p><a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html"><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></a><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Did You Know?</span></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache Flink, Kafka, NiFi, and Zeppelin help drive event-driven supply chains for crisis support across medical, retail, transport, and other critical applications? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category" target="_blank">https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category</a><br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> - </span>Did you know that Apache Feathercast --the voice of the ASF-- has new recordings on Apache OFBiz and Sling, as well as interviews with past ApacheCon keynoters and presentations on dozens of Apache projects and incubating podlings? Learn more as <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/" target="_blank">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/" target="_blank"></a> <br></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that, due to COVID-19, Flink Forward (April 22-24) will be making the has become a virtual event, with keynotes and talks available free for all attendees this year? <a href="https://www.flink-forward.org/" target="_blank">https://www.flink-forward.org/</a> </p> |
| <div><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br>Apache Community Notices:</span></div> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak <a href="https://s.apache.org/COVID-19" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/COVID-19</a> </p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership <a href="https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary&source=gmail&ust=1586580638108000&usg=AFQjCNHhBfHrSsg8TFX4Lwsa4GFZdonhcA">https://s.apache.org/21stAnniv<wbr>ersary</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache Month In Review: March 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community <a href="https://s.apache.org/Mar2020" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Mar2020</a><br></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) <a href="https://s.apache.org/r6s5u" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/r6s5u</a> </p> |
| <p> - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at <a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions">https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits">https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits</a></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> - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on</a><br></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> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a><br></p> |
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| <p> - Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet Chris Thistlethwaite <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris&source=gmail&ust=1586580283558000&usg=AFQjCNGN451iFhF1FutB7nKGJ1OYQE-BNw">https://s.apache.org/InsideInf<wbr>ra-Chris</a></p> |
| <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> |
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