Our ApacheCon week in Austin wraps up today, with countless highlights, including celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server with some of the original members of the Apache Group, and launching a revised version of the apache.org homepage with thanks to our friends at Hot Wax Systems. Here's what's happened this week:
ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 - Keynotes from ApacheCon Austin are now online https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
 - The City of Austin and Mayor Steve Adler proclaimed 13-16 April "Apache Software Foundation Days"

ASF Fundraising & Sponsorship –the ASF relies on individual donors and corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, and promote meritocratic, community-driven development "The Apache Way".
 - The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Pivotal as a Platinum-level Sponsor http://s.apache.org/UBl
 - New to the ASF Sponsor roster is Bloomberg, who joins Comcast, Hortonworks, HP, and IBM at the Gold Level. Welcome!

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- Global uptime across all Apache services is a cracking 99.68% http://status.apache.org/

Apache Directory™ –directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAP v3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools (Apache Directory Studio), and a full ANSI RBAC compliant management and enforcement system that builds on existing Open Source applications like ApacheDS, OpenLDAP and Apache Tomcat (Apache Fortress).
 - Apache Fortress Core 1.0-RC40 released http://directory.apache.org/fortress/downloads.html

Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
 - Apache Lucene 5.1.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/5.1.0

Apache Mahout™ –an environment for quickly creating machine learning applications that scale and run on the highest performance parallel computation engines available.
 - Apache Mahout 0.10.0 released https://mahout.apache.org/general/downloads.html

Apache Solr™ –an Open Source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON, Ruby, and Python APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface.
 - Apache Solr 5.1.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/5.1.0

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.61 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that China Telecom's CTCC group (one of the largest Cloud Computing service providers in the country) uses Apache Cloudstack?

 - Did you know that one of the largest Apache Cassandra deployments is at Apple, with over 75,000 nodes storing over 10 PB of data?

 - Did you know that we're always looking for Apache success stories that we can share with the community? Send newsworthy metrics/users/datapoints of Apache products to !

Apache Community Notices:
 - The next Apache Phoenix MeetUp will be held on 5 May in Santa Clara http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/221247399/
 - HBaseCon, the fourth annual event for the Apache HBase contributor/developer/admin/user community, will take place 7 May in San Francisco http://hbasecon.com/
 - A lightning talk on Apache Calcite will take place on 20 May at XLDB in Stanford http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2015/
 - Apache Usergrid will be featured at {CODESHOW}SE on 21 May in Charleston https://www.codeshowse.com/
 - The next Berlin Buzzwords conference will feature Apache projects such as Lucene, Spark, Solr and Cassandra and will take place 31 May-3 June in Berlin http://berlinbuzzwords.de
 - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby
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