The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 May 2021

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/1psik ]

Farewell, May --we're wrapping up the month with another great week.
Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 June 2021. Board calendar and minutes
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998. Two events held in 2021 are:
ApacheCon Asia (6-8 August) and ApacheCon@Home (21-23 September).
 - Registration is open for both ApacheCons https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Sponsor ApacheCon
https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.86%. 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 – Over the past week, 372 Apache Committers
changed 2,873,998 lines of code over 3,580 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea
Cosentino, Albumen Kevin, and Hugh Miles.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --
 - Apache APISIX 2.6 released https://apisix.apache.org/

FinTech --
 - Apache Fineract 1.5.0 released http://fineract.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.59.0 and 1.0.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 - Apache Pulsar 2.7.2 released https://pulsar.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that Apache Cassandra powers thousands of nodes,
petabytes of data, and tens of millions of queries per second across
Instagram's five data centers? https://cassandra.apache.org/

- Did you know that Apache NLPCraft (incubating) now supports the new
Intent Definition Language (IDL)? https://nlpcraft.apache.org/

- Did you know that Apache Pinot (incubating) now offers geospatial
support? http://pinot.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: April 2021 https://s.apache.org/Apr2021
and video highlights https://youtu.be/EOA1L1PjCYg

- The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source
Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances
community-led innovation "The Apache Way"
https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021
(November 2020 - January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021 + Video
highlights https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits
+ Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

- ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 +
Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full
feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere"
https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache"
https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation”
https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

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

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

 - All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why
the ASF "just works".
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

 - Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF
infrastructure team --meet
    Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
    Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew
    Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
      ...Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
    Daniel Gruno Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1 and
Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
    Gavin McDonald Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and
Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
    Andrew Wetmore Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew and
Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2
    Chris Lambertus Part I  https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL
and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2

 - ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals
on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift,
among other titles and eBooks
https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

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(https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at
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Best regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org