The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 August 2019
Greetings all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
- Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- Catch the latest on ApacheCon™, Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 882 Apache contributors changed 1,664,749 lines of code over 3,669 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Shad Storhaug, Tilman Hausherr, Claus Ibsen, Liang Zhang, and Andrea Cosentino.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.4 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
- Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.1.0 released http://uima.apache.org
Databases --
- Apache HBase 2.0.6 released http://hbase.apache.org
- Apache Impala 3.3.0 released http://impala.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Qpid Proton 0.29.0 released http://qpid.apache.org
Templating --
- Apache FreeMarker 2.3.29 released http://freemarker.apache.org
Servers --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.45 and 9.0.24 released http://tomcat.apache.org
- Apache Traffic Server 8.0.5 and 7.1.8 released http://trafficserver.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you know that ASF codebase is conservatively valued at least $20B, using the COCOMO 2 model? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
- Did you know that workshops at ApacheCon North America will include Apache Beam, Apache OpenWhisk, Apache Spark and Scala, as well as the Apache-licensed Ballerina programming language? Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/
- Did you know that "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation, will resume filming at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin https://youtu.be/UvuyBz1qMCE ? Support this project https://s.apache.org/trillions
Apache Community Notices:
- Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary
- ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon
- ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport
- 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 (https://twitter.com/TheASF) 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
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/
- Find out how you can participate with Apache
community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel,
Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
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For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.