The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 March 2016

[Sally Khudairi <sk...@apache.org>]

>> this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/rtwV

We've had a great week! Here's what happened: 

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's Bylaws. 
- Next Board Meeting: 16 March 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html 

ASF Membership –from the inaugural membership of 21 individuals, the ASF has grown to 588 individual members and 5,317 Committers collaborating across six continents. 
- Next Members' Meeting: 22 March 2016. Official business + New Member voting http://www.apache.org/foundation/members.html 

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock. 
- Now 7M+ weekly checks yield precision-level performance at 99.99% uptime http://status.apache.org/ 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- Keynotes + Program announced for Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon; early registration ends soon http://apachecon.com/ 

Apache Apex (incubating) Malhar –an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that unifies stream processing and batch processing. 
- Apache Apex Malhar Release 3.3.1-incubating released http://apex.incubator.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Flink™ –advanced Big Data distributed stream processing framework. 
- The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Flink v1.0 https://s.apache.org/1y8d 

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 1.2.12 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Kudu (incubating) –an Open Source storage engine for structured data which supports low-latency random access together with efficient analytical access patterns. 
- Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.7.1 released http://getkudu.io/releases/0.7.1/ 

Apache Mynewt (incubating) –a community-driven module OS for constrained, embedded applications. 
- Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b1-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/incubator/mynewt/apache-mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating 

Apache Phoenix™ –enables OLTP and operational analytics for Hadoop through SQL support and integration with other projects in the ecosystem such as Spark, HBase, Pig, Flume, and MapReduce. 
- Apache Phoenix 4.7 released https://phoenix.apache.org/download.html 

Apache POI™ –a library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Publisher and Outlook. 
- Apache POI 3.14 released http://poi.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Yetus™ –a collection of libraries and tools that enable contribution and release processes for software projects. 
- Apache Yetus 0.2.0 released https://yetus.apache.org/downloads/ 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that the ASF has been accepted as a 2016 Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization? Mentors wanted :-) https://s.apache.org/jzA7 

- Did you know that eBay's fraud detection and prevention system is built on top of Apache Kafka and Samza? http://kafka.apache.org/ and http://samza.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that the ASF is participating in the 2016 Future of Open Source Survey? Your opinion matters! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2016FoOSApacheFoundation 


Apache Community Notices: 

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities https://helpwanted.apache.org/ 

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

- Washington DC Area Apache Spark Interactive will be hosting Apache Spark Proof of Technology by IBM on 15 March 2016 in McLean http://www.meetup.com/Washington-DC-Area-Spark-Interactive/events/229094350/ 

- Docker Guadalajara will hold Clustering con Docker featuring Apache Mesos on 17 March 2016 http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Guadalajara/events/229257781/ 

- Cassandra Day will be held in Atlanta on 17 March 2016 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cassandra-day-atlanta-tickets-20902673459 

- Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america 

- ApacheCon:Core North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/ 

- The next HBaseCon will take place 24 May in San Francisco http://hbasecon.com 

- MesosCon will be held 1-2 June 2016 in Denver --CFP open through 9 March http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/ 

- Berlin Buzzwords is back 5-7 June 2016 http://berlinbuzzwords.de/ 

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (November 2015 - January 2016) is availbable at https://s.apache.org/9zLj 

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby 

- Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear and http://s.apache.org/landsend--all proceeds benefit the ASF! 

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