Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in February:

New this month --

 - Call for Apache project proposals and mentors: Outreachy Open Source internship program May-Aug 2021 https://s.apache.org/s7tz2

 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® DataSketches™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/jhvqu

 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Gobblin™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/df92k

 - The
Apache® Software Foundation Sustains its Mission of Providing Software
for the Public Good through Corporate Sponsorships and Charitable Giving
https://s.apache.org/8foo2

 - Apache Month in Review: January 2021 https://s.apache.org/Jan2021


Important Dates --

  - Next Board Meeting: 17 March 2021. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html


Infrastructure --

Our
seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our
highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP
Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein.
ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities
across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, 5-6PB in traffic
annually, ~75M downloads per month, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+
lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are available around the clock. The average uptime in February was 99.97%. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Committer Activity --

In February, 718 Apache Committers changed 8,293,634 lines of code over 13,685 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, and Benoit Tellier.

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Airflow (Big Data); APISIX (API); Beam (Big Data); BookKeeper (Big Data); Camel (Integration); Commons NET (Libraries); Directory Studio (Network Client / Server); Druid (Big Data); Flink (Big Data); FreeMarker (Templating); HttpComponents (Servers); Lucene (Search); MyFaces (Web Frameworks); NiFi (Big Data); NLPCraft (Incubating; Natural Language Processing); PLC4X (IoT); Qpid Broker (Messaging); Qpid Dispatch (Messaging); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Tomcat (Servers).

The
Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. EventMesh entered the Apache Incubator as a new podling this month. We invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/ .

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