After wrapping up a successful ApacheCon, Hackathons, BarCampApache, MeetUps, PGP keysigning, Project Geode Lab, Ignite Training, CloudStack Days, Spark Forum, Traffic Server Summit, and more, our community accomplished much over the past week! Here's what's happened:

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 - The City of Austin and Mayor Steve Adler proclaimed 13-16 April "Apache Software Foundation Days" http://s.apache.org/vx
 - Presentations from ApacheCon Austin are now online http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/slides
 - Save the Date! ApacheCon Europe will take place 28 September - 1 October in Budapest

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - Global uptime across all Apache services is an excellent 99.94% http://status.apache.org/

Apache Calcite (Incubating) –a dynamic data management framework whose cost-based optimizer converts queries, represented in relational algebra, into executable plans.
 - Apache Calcite 1.2.0 (incubating) released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/calcite/apache-calcite-1.2.0-incubating/

Apache CloudStack™ –mature, easy-to-deploy Open Source Cloud computing software platform.
 - Apache CloudStack v4.4.3 released http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Commons™ Math –a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common problems not available in the Java programming language or Commons Lang.
 - Apache Commons Math 3.5 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/download_math.cgi

Apache HttpComponents™ Client –a library for client-side HTTP communication built on HttpCore. It provides connection management, cookie management, and authentication. This is the successor to the widely used Jakarta Commons HttpClient 3.1.
 - Apache HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient 4.1 GA released http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

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 1.0.13 and 1.2.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache MyFaces™ Core –a JavaServer Faces 2.2 implementation as specified by JSR-344.
 - MyFaces Core v2.2.8 released http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html

Apache Olingo™ –offers libraries in Java and JavaScript that enable developers to implement OData producers and OData consumers.
 - Apache Olingo OData Client 4.0.0 for JavaScript released http://olingo.apache.org/doc/javascript/download.html

Apache OpenWebBeans™ –a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) and targets the CDI-1.2 specification (JavaEE 7).
 - Apache OpenWebBeans-1.5.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans/1.5.0/

Apache Parquet (Incubating) –a set of Java libraries for working with the Parquet column-oriented file format for Apache Hadoop.
 - Apache Parquet MR 1.6.0 (Incubating) released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/parquet/parquet-mr-1.6.0-incubating/

Apache Sentry (Incubating) –a system to enforce fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster.
 - Apache Sentry 1.5.0 (Incubating) released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/sentry

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 Tika™ –a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.
 - Apache Tika 1.8 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/apache-tika-1.8-src.zip

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apple Siri is powered by Apache Mesos?

 - Did you know that DARPA Memex's analytics, distributed programming, infrastructure, and integration are powered by Apache Kafka and Storm? Also, its Deep Web image/text search building blocks use Apache Nutch, Solr, and Tika!

 - 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:

 - Apache Flink will be holding a MeetUp on 29 April in Berlin http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/221748668/

 - The Metroplex Mesos Group will be held on 27 April in Dallas http://www.meetup.com/Metroplex-Mesos-Group/

 - The inaugural Apache Aurora MeetUp will be held on 30 April in the Bay Area/Northern California http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Aurora-Users-Group/events/221219480/

 - Presentations from Spark Summit East are available at http://spark-summit.org/east/2015

 - Apache Solr will be represented at AngelHack Sydney 2-3 May http://www.eventbrite.com/e/angelhack-sydney-2015-tickets-15569882939?aff=estw

 - 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/

 - The first Apache Flink MeetUp in Stockholm will be held on 11 May http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Stockholm/events/221701529/

 - 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

 - CloudStack Days Seattle will be co-located with LinuxCon: submit your proposal by June 12 http://clds.co/18hplxk

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