Hooray for Friday! It's time to review the activities of the Apache Community over the past week:

FINAL CALL: please share your thoughts on The Apache Way in our quick survey https://s.apache.org/oxTr

Success at Apache –the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - For Love or Money: Volunteer vs. Professional Open Source by Rich Bowen https://s.apache.org/ePHl

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 February. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
 - Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
 - CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
 - Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.98% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 409 Apache contributors changed 780,780(!) lines of code over 2,663 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Sean Busbey, Andrea Cosentino, Duo Zhang, and Mark Thomas.

Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.

BigData -- 
 - Apache BookKeeper 4.9.0 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/

Cloud --
 - Apache jclouds 2.1.2 released https://jclouds.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.1 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache PLC4X (incubating) 0.3.0 released http://plc4x.apache.org

Library --

 - Apache Commons VFS 2.3 released http://commons.apache.org/
 - Apache Groovy (incubating) 2.5.6 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Network/Server --
 - Apache Tomcat 9.0.16 and Tomcat Native 1.2.21 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Framework --
 - Apache MyFaces Core v2.3.3 released http://myfaces.apache.org/
 - Apache Wicket 7.12.0 released https://wicket.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the European Commission's new bug bounty program target projects include Apache Kafka and Apache Tomcat? https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/eur-3000-eur-25000

 - Did you know that you can participate in the Call for Entries for the ASF's 20th Anniversary logo? https://s.apache.org/pK8x

 - Did you know that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services uses Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache in 2018 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

 - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

 - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

 - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html

 - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/

 - Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

 - CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html

 - CFP now open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/

 - Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

 - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

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