The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 October 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: 20 November 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
- *T-4 days* to ApacheCon Europe
--TRACKS: Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
--KEYNOTES: European Commission DG DIGIT Director Thomas Gageik;
Mastercard EVP for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; writer/political
analyst/activist Nanjala Nyabola; and ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht,
Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
--SPECIAL EVENTS: BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
--JOIN US: https://www.apachecon.com/
- ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
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 a rocking 99.99%. 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, 857 Apache contributors changed 2,044,524 lines of code over 3,121 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, Gary Gregory, Tilman Hausherr, and Eric Milles.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Kylin 2.6.4 released http://kylin.apache.org
Blockchain --
- Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.9.0 released http://tuweni.apache.org
Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.18 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
Libraries --
- Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.5.1 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.2 released http://commons.apache.org
Messaging --
- Apache Qpid Broker-J 7.1.5 released http://qpid.apache.org
Servers --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.47 and 9.0.27 released http://tomcat.apache.org
Web Crawler --
- Apache Nutch 1.16 and 2.4 released http://nutch.apache.org
Did You Know?
- Did you
know that the Apache Feather is on its way to Berlin? Be a part of Open
Source history --the community is signing the feather and celebrating 20
years of The Apache Way-- join us next week at ApacheCon Europe! https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/1185016927632183298
- Did you
know that our new "Build a Badge" app lets you adopt the #LoveApache
badge (and the customized version for ApacheCon Europe)? Many people and
projects are jumping on the bandwagon: give it a try! https://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#badges
- Did you know that the top 5 most active/visited Apache projects: Hadoop, Kafka, Lucene, POI, ZooKeeper https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
Apache Community Notices:
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- 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
- 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
- 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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