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title: 'Apache Month in Review: January 2021'
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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 January:</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 700;">New this month --</span><br>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;a look at the achievements from the Apache Community over the past 12 months.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Summary and stats at <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Video highlights <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid</a><a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ASF Security Report 2020 &ndash; the annual state of security across all Apache<br />
projects&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020</a><br />
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<p>&nbsp;- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success&nbsp; &ndash; Apache is<br />
for Everyone. Every developer has their personal motivations for<br />
building software. We celebrate their right to choose when and how they<br />
build their software, including their right to use a non-open license. <a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a> </p>
<p>&nbsp;- ApacheCon&trade;&nbsp;&ndash; the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Videos of all ApacheCon@Home sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes, are available&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/</a> <br></p>
<p>&nbsp;<span class="il">- Apache</span> Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) <a href="https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- "Inside Infra" &ndash; the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;-- Meet Chris Lambertus --Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL</a> and Part II <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache Month in Review: December 2020 <a href="https://s.apache.org/Dec2020" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Dec2020</a></p>
<p><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">Important Dates --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span>&nbsp; - Next Board Meeting: 17 February 2021. 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><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 January was 99.96%. <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 January, 726 Apache Committers changed 11,011,714 lines of code over 14,708 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Rohit Yadav, Jean-Baptiste Onofr&eacute;, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Mark Thomas.<br><br></p>
<p><b>Project Releases and Updates --</b></p>
<p>New releases from Apache Accumulo (Big Data); Arrow (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Camel (Integration); CloudStack (Cloud Computing); Commons Daemon (Libraries); Flink (Big Data);&nbsp; Guacamole (Network Client); Hadoop (Big Data); Ignite (Big Data); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); JMeter (Testing); Nutch (Web Crawler); OFBiz (Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP); Oak (Content); Rya (Big Data); Qpid Broker (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Skywalking (Application Performance Management);&nbsp;Tika (Big Data);&nbsp;Tomcat (Servers);&nbsp;Traffic Server (Servers).</p></p>
<p>Upcoming Apache Project community events include&nbsp;ESUP Days &amp; Apereo Paris (2 February); Airflow Virtual Meetup (12 February); Joint ASF&ndash;OCG&ndash;OSGeo Code Sprint (17-19 February); and Big Data Technology Warsaw Summit (23 February).</p>
<p>The<br />
Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. New to the Apache Incubator in January: ECharts (Library) and Superset (Big Data). We invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://incubator.apache.org/</a>&nbsp;.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p>
<p># # #</p>
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