This is our final Round-up of 2017 --let's review what we've been up to over the past week:

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ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 January. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield happy performance at 99.26% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 65 Apache contributors changed 83,360 lines of code over 246 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andreas Veithen, Tellier Benoit, Gintas Grigelionis, Xing Zhang, and Stefan Fuhrmann.

Apache BookKeeper™ –a scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency storage service optimized for real-time workloads. 
 - Apache BookKeeper 4.6.0 released https://bookkeeper.apache.org/

Apache Commons™ DBCP –implements Database Connection Pooling. 
 - Apache Apache Commons DBCP 2.2.0 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/

Apache Commons™ RDF –aims to provide a common library for RDF 1.1 that could be implemented by systems on the Java Virtual Machine.
 - Apache Commons RDF 0.5.0 released https://commons.apache.org/rdf

Apache Lucene™ Solr –the popular, blazing-fast, Open Source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene.
 - Apache Solr Reference Guide for 7.2 released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-7.2.pdf

Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.
 - Apache NiFi 0.3.0 released https://nifi.apache.org/

Apache Nutch™ –a well matured, production ready Web crawler.
 - Apache Nutch 1.14 released http://nutch.apache.org/

Apache OpenNLP™ –a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.
 - Apache OpenNLP 1.8.4 released http://opennlp.apache.org/

Apache OpenWebBeans™ –a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) and targets the CDI-2.0 specification (JavaEE 8).
 - Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.3 CDI container and Apache Meecrowave-1.2.0 released http://openwebbeans.apache.org

Apache Qpid™ Proton –a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464, http://www.amqp.org).
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.19.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.
 - Apache Syncope 2.0.7 released http://syncope.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Apache Cordova@8 tools are now available? https://cordova.apache.org/

- Did you know that the latest update on Apache NetBeans (incubating) is available at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b64f50b57ef74338155c3e365d4c8c8e44688f1b06bdf9d0a00aecc@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E ?

- Did you know that Alibaba, Bouygues Telecom, Capital One, and Ericsson are powered by Apache Flink? http://flink.apache.org/


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

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". 1) Project Independence https://s.apache.org/CE0V 2) All Carrot and No Stick https://s.apache.org/ykoG 3) Asynchronous Decision Making https://s.apache.org/PMvk4) Rule of the Makers https://s.apache.org/yFgQ 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors https://s.apache.org/4pjM 6) Meritocracy and Me https://s.apache.org/tQQh 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community https://s.apache.org/x9Be 8) Meritocracy. https://s.apache.org/DiEo 9) Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation https://s.apache.org/dAlg 10) All My Roads Led to Apache https://s.apache.org/l9OO 11) Scratch Your Own Itch. https://s.apache.org/7Amk 12) What a Long Strange (and Great) Trip It's Been https://s.apache.org/gVuN

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

 - Meet members of the Apache community at Open Expo Madrid 6-7 June 2018 http://www.openexpo.es/en/

 - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q2 FY2018 https://s.apache.org/j1GJ

 - ASF Annual Report is available at https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport

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