The Apache News Round-up: week ending 12 May 2017

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

[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/CSOg ]

As members of the Apache community is preparing to convene in Miami for
ApacheCon next week, we continue to be productive. Here's what we've
been up to:

Support Apache –if Apache software has helped you, please consider
making a donation, no matter the size. Every dollar counts.
http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 May 2017. Board calendar and minutes
 http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the
ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield forward performance at 99.82% uptime
 http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –Tomorrow's Technology Today: Big Data, CloudStack, Flex,
IoT, Tomcat, and dozens of Apache projects across 200+ sessions, 150+
speakers, 4 subconferences, BarCampApache and more.
http://apachecon.com/ Register today!
 - Support your favorite Apache projects and communities at ApacheCon by
 becoming an Apache Community and/or BarCamp Sponsor
 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/sponsors/community-sponsor

Apache Arrow™ –columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate
Big Data.
- Apache Arrow 0.3.0 released http://arrow.apache.org/

Apache Directory™ Fortress –a standards-based access management system,
written in Java, that provides role-based access control, delegated
administration and password policy services with LDAP.
 - Apache Fortress 2.0.0-RC2 released
 http://directory.apache.org/fortress/

Apache HttpComponents™ Client –Java library implementing an HTTP client
based on HttpCore components.
- HttpComponents Client 5.0 alpha2 released
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/

Apache Ignite™ –In-Memory Data Fabric providing in-memory data caching,
partitioning, processing, and querying components.
 - Apache Ignite 2.0.0 released https://ignite.apache.org/

Apache OpenWebBeans™ Meecrowave –a light Apache web server based on
Tomat and OpenWebBeans (à la microprofile fashion).
 - Apache Meecrowave 0.3.1 released
 http://openwebbeans.apache.org/meecrowave/

Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process
and distribute data.
 - Apache NiFi 1.2.0 released https://nifi.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-J 0.19.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java
WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M21 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Apache Trafodion (incubating) –a Web-scale SQL-on-Hadoop solution
enabling transactional or operational workloads on Apache Hadoop.
 - Apache Trafodion 2.1.0-incubating released
 http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org/index.html


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that previews for ApacheCon + Apache: Big Data keynotes
 and select sessions are available exclusively on Feathercast?
 https://feathercast.apache.org/

 - Did you know that over the past quarter, Apache source code has been
 downloaded more than 2M times?
 https://projects.apache.org/statistics.html

 - Did you know that RiskCo finacial engineering and risk intelligence
 group uses Apache Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices:

 - "Success at Apache" is a blog series that 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/PMvk 4) 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

 - The latest Apache Community Newsletter
 https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/community-development-news-april-2017

 - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page
 https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account
 https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

 - The Apache Phoenix community will be holding PhoenixCon on 13 June in
 San Francisco
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phoenixcon-2017-tickets-32872245772

 - ASF Operations Summary - Q3 FY2017 https://s.apache.org/NKFz

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

 - Find out how you can participate with Apache
 community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP
 Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator,
 OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more!
 https://helpwanted.apache.org/

 - ApacheCon North America + Apache: BigData, CloudStack Collaboration
 Conference, FlexJS Summit, Apache: IoT, and TomcatCon will be held
 16-18 May 2017 in Miami http://apachecon.com/

 - 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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