Happy September! Let's take a look at the activities from the Apache community over 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.
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7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.75%. 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, 800 Apache contributors changed 1,666,694 lines of code over 3,132 commits. Top 5 contributors, in
order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Chesnay Schepler.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Myriad 0.4.0 (Incubating) released http://myriad.apache.org

Build Management --
 - Apache Ant 1.10.7 released http://ant.apache.org

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.5 and 2.18.3 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Databases --
 - Apache HBase 2.1.6 released http://hbase.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Juneau 8.1.0 released http://juneau.apache.org
 - Apache Commons Text 1.8 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text
 - Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.12 released http://hc.apache.org


Did You Know?

 -  Did you know that the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous donations of our Sponsors? The ASF is supported by 10 Platinum Sponsors, 9 Gold Sponsors, 11 Silver Sponsors, 25 Bronze Sponsors, and 6 Platinum Targeted Sponsors, 5 Gold Targeted Sponsors, 3 Silver Targeted Sponsors, and 10 Bronze Targeted Sponsors https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

 - Did you know the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many Happy Returns to Apache ServiceMix (12 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (9 years); Airavata, Bigtop, SIS, and Stanbol (7 years); Curator (6 years); Storm (5 years); Yetus (4 years); DRAT, RocketMQ, and Royale (2 years); and Pulsar (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that ApacheCon sponsors and community partners include Aiven, AWS, Comcast. CrowdStrike, DataStax, Google Cloud, IBM, HotWax Systems, Instaclustr, Linode, LinuxMagic, Manning Publications, Red Hat, PCCC, ShapeBlue, SK Telecom, StreamNative, The Last Pickle, and more? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/

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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