The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 April 2015

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

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We're excited to head to Austin next week and celebrate our 15th Anniversary with the Apache community at ApacheCon. Here's what we've been working on this week: 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- 130+ sessions, plus trainings, BarCamp Apache, MeetUps, PGP Key Signing, Project Geode Lab, CloudStack Days, Ignite Training, Spark Forum, Traffic Server Summit, events/activities/networking, and more. Join us! http://apachecon.com/ 

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 outstanding 98.88% http://status.apache.org/ 

Apache Commons™ Lang –a package of Java utility classes for the classes that are in java.lang's hierarchy, or are considered to be so standard as to justify existence in java.lang. 
- Apache Commons Lang 3.4 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi 

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283). 
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.8 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 



Did You Know? 

- Did you know that the New York State Senate's Bluebird-CRM v1.5.5 uses Apache Solr for full-text search within attachments? 

- Did you know that there are now 4,734 Apache code Committers? http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html 

- 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 <pr...@apache.org>! 



Apache Community Notices: 

- Call for Speakers for CloudStack Days Tokyo closes on 10 April http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-tokyo 

- Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Mesos, and Storm are up for JAX 2015 Innovation Awards. Voting closes 13 April http://jaxenter.com/jax-awards-2015/submit-your-vote 

- The Women of ASF Luncheon will be held on 14 April at ApacheCon http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/women-asf-luncheon 

- CloudStack Days will take place 16 April during ApacheCon http://cloudstack.apache.org/ 

- Apache Spark Mini-Summit will take place 16 April in tandem with ApacheCon http://s.apache.org/ojh 

- Apache JMeter will be featured at the Drupal Meetup on 16 April in Sydney http://www.meetup.com/drupalsydney/events/220110457/ 

- Apache TrafficServer Spring Summit will take place 16-17 April in Austin https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit 

- 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/ 

- 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 

- 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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