The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 August 2019

[Swapnil M Mane <sw...@apache.org>]

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/34wd0]

Happy Friday! Let's take a look back on our activities over the past week:

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and
processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "The Path To Berlin" by Isabel Drost-Fromm https://s.apache.org/aq48m


ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 August 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
 - Register today for ApacheCon North America and Europe. We look forward
to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin! https://www.apachecon.com/


ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the
ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. 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, 830 Apache contributors changed 1,165,840
lines of code over 3,701 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel
Gruno, Etienne Chauchot, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Tilman Hausherr.


Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Accumulo 2.0.0 released http://accumulo.apache.org/
 - Apache Ranger 2.0.0 released http://ranger.apache.org/

Embedded OS --
 - Apache Mynewt 1.7.0 and Apache NimBLE 1.2.0 released
http://mynewt.apache.org/


Libraries --
 - Apache Tika 1.22 released http://tika.apache.org/
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.8.1 released
http://tuweni.incubator.apache.org/

 - Apache Commons DBCP 2.7.0 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/
 - Apache Groovy 2.5.8 and 3.0.0-beta-3 released http://groovy.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Geospatial Track at ApacheCon North America is
organized in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium?
Learn more at https://feathercast.apache.org/2019/07/31/apachecon-qa-with-geospatial-software-track-leader-george-percivall-of-open-geospatial-consortium/


 - Did you know that 11-year-old ApacheCon keynoter Samaira Mehta will hold
a "Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code" Hackathon to help kids (first grade and
up) to learn how to code? Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-1-billion-kids-can-code-registration-66834093573

 - Did you know that you can have swag from your favorite Apache project
added to the ComDev store on RedBubble
https://www.redbubble.com/people/comdev ? Grab the project logo from
http://www.apache.org/logos/ and request it be added by emailing
dev@community.apache.org


Apache Community Notices:

 - 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

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

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

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 - 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

 - Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019
http://apachecon.com/

 - Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam
https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

 - Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019
http://apachecon.com/

 - 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/
 - 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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Thanks to Sally Khudairi and Daniel Gruno for their support in the blog.

Best Regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org