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title: 'Apache Month in Review: September 2020'
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date: '2020-10-01 17:45:22 -0400'
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- september
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- news
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 700;">Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in September:</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 700;">New this month --</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ApacheCon&trade;&nbsp;&ndash; the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br>&nbsp; -- ApacheCon @Home 2020: all 2020 events have been combined and held online (free of charge!) 29 September - 1 October 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://apachecon.com/acah2020" target="_blank">https://apachecon.com/acah2020</a><a href="https://apachecon.com/acah2020" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><br>&nbsp; &nbsp;-- The Apache&reg; Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community Online at ApacheCon@Home <a href="https://s.apache.org/74zbx" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/74zbx</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/74zbx" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><br>&nbsp; &nbsp;-- ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic Medical Records in dedicated track on Apache cTAKES <a href="https://s.apache.org/x1051" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s.apache.org/x1051&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601623776852000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHknyler2jpRVXyNit6ai0p17_PPQ" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://s.apache.org/x1051</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- "Inside Infra" &ndash; a new interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;-- Meet Daniel Gruno --Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache Month in Review: August 2020 <a href="https://s.apache.org/Aug2020" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://s.apache.org/Aug2020</a></p>
<p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 21 October 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html" target="_blank">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020 <a href="https://apachecon.com/acah2020" target="_blank">https://apachecon.com/acah2020</a></p>
<p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Infrastructure --</span></p>
<div>Our<br />
seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our<br />
highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP<br />
Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein.<br />
ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities<br />
across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, 5-6PB in traffic<br />
annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+<br />
lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are available around the clock. The average uptime in September was 100%. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/" target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a><b><br></b></div>
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<div><b>Committer Activity --</b></div>
<p>In September, 808 Apache Committers changed 10,547,457 lines of code over 15,444<br />
commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in<br />
order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Mark Miller, Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, and Jean-Baptiste Onofr&eacute;. <br> <br></p>
<p><b>Project Releases and Updates --</b></p>
<p>New releases from Apache Accumulo (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Commons Codec (Libraries); Commons Daemon (Libraries); Commons IO (Libraries); CouchDB (Big Data); Fineract (FinTech); Flink (Big Data);&nbsp; Geode (Database); HttpComponents Core (Servers); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); Kudu (Big Data);&nbsp;Kylin (Big Data); Libcloud (Cloud Computing); Lucene (Search);&nbsp;MyFaces (Web Frameworks); NetBeans (Integrated Development Environment); Oak (Content); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenJPA (Libraries); OpenWebBeans (Libraries);Proton (Messaging); Ranger (Big Data); Qpid Dispatch (Messaging); Qpid Broker (Messaging); Solr (Search); Syncope (Identity Management); Tomcat (Servers);&nbsp;ZooKeeper (Databases).</p>
<p>The<br />
Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review<br />
the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://incubator.apache.org/</a>&nbsp;. New releases from incubating podlings include: Apache MXNet (Incubating; Libraries). Congratulations to Apache IoTDB&trade;, which graduated as a<span class="il"> Top</span>-<span class="il">Level</span> Project this <span class="il">month</span> <a href="https://s.apache.org/3xv3c" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/3xv3c</a> </p>
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