Hello, Friday. Let's review the Apache community's activities from over the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors https://s.apache.org/NewBoard2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 March 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - CFP open for ApacheCon@Home 2021: proposals now accepted for 20 tracks that include API/Microservices, Big Data, Cassandra, Content Delivery & Management, Community, Drill, Fineract/Fintech, Geospatial, Groovy, Incubator, Integration, IoT, Karaf, Observability, Royale, RDF/Linked Data, Search, Social Data, Tomcat, and more. https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/cfp.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. 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 – Over the past week, 389 Apache Committers changed 3,798,169 lines of
code over 3,471 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Daan Hoogland, Gary Gregory, Claus Ibsen, and Tilman Hausherr.                    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --

 - Apache APISIX 2.4 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Flink 1.12.2 released https://flink.apache.org/

Content --
 -  Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IDE --

 - Apache NetBeans 12.3 released http://netbeans.apache.org/

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.7.3 released https://camel.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Lang 3.12 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/
 - Apache Velocity Engine 2.3 and Tools 3.1 released https://velocity.apache.org/
 - Apache Velocity CVE-2020-13936: Velocity Sandbox Bypass https://s.apache.org/qmlqf
   and CVE-2020-13959: Tools XSS Vulnerability https://s.apache.org/iaoq5

Servers --

 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.64, 9.0.44, and 10.0.4 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --

 - Apache OpenMeetings 6.0.0 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/


Did You Know?

- Did you know that the ASF has been chosen to be a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization for the 16th consecutive year? https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html 

- Did you know that Facebook and Uber build streaming SQL applications for unified processing using Apache Flink and Pulsar? Learn more at https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/276579450/

- Did you know that the Airflow Summit is accepting submissions through 12 April? https://airflowsummit.org/


Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: February 2021 https://s.apache.org/Feb2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/6TMuYglu2Cc

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

- ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation 

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

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

 - Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet 
    Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
    Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew
    Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
      ...Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
    Daniel Gruno Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1 and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
    Gavin McDonald Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
    Andrew Wetmore Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2
    Chris Lambertus Part I  https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL  and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2

 - ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift, among other titles and eBooks https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

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