The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 August 2020

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/t6jnl ]

Farewell, August --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 September 2020. 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.
 - Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1
October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
 - Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home
https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.76%. 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, 396 Apache Committers
changed 3,762,638 lines of code over 3,973 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Daniel Klco, Radu Cotescu, Jean-Baptiste
Onofré, Mark Thomas, and Andrea Cosentino.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 2.3.1 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache Calcite 1.25.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.21 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.10.1 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons JCS 3.0 released https://commons.apache.org/jcs/
 - Apache Log4cxx 0.11.0 released https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/
 - Apache CXF 3.4.0 released https://cxf.apache.org

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.0-M4 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home keynoters include Thomas Huang of
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; Camille Fournier of Two Sigma; and Edmon
Begoli of Oak Ridge National Labs? Learn more at
https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/

- Did you know that Shopify is building a new streaming analytics
pipeline powered by Apache Beam, Druid, and Kafka?
https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data

- Did you know that Apache Royale Jewel UI set already provides 60+
components to quickly build Web applications?
https://royale.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020

- 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 Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19
Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source
Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

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

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

 - "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 Christ 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

 - Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online
and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/

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