The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 August 2015

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

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With the Apache footprint covering 7 continents, we seemingly never break for holidays! Here's what happened over the past week: 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- Registration open for Apache: Big Data 28-30 September and ApacheCon: Core Europe 1-2 October in Budapest http://s.apache.org/eg4 

ASF Board –the ASF Board is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's Bylaws. 
- Upcoming Board Meeting: 19 August. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html 

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock. 
- 35,000+ weekly infrastructure checks yielded a fabulous 99.94% uptime over the past week http://status.apache.org/ 


Apache Commons™ Pool –Open Source software library provides an object-pooling API and a number of object pool implementations. 
- Apache Commons Pool 2.4.2 released http://commons.apache.org/pool/download_pool.cgi 

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

Apache Logging Services™ –producers of the most used Open Source logging framework ever. 
- Apache Logging Services Project Announces Log4j 1 End-Of-Life; Recommends Upgrade to Log4j 2 http://s.apache.org/Wzn 

Apache Mahout™ –an Open Source environment for quickly creating machine learning applications that scale and run on the highest performance parallel computation engines available. 
- Apache Mahout 0.10.2 released http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.10.2/ 

Apache Stratos™ –a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications that can be extended to support many more environments on all major Cloud infrastructures. 
- Apache Stratos 4.1.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/stratos 

Apache Syncope™ – an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. 
- Apache Syncope 1.2.5 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Zeppelin (Incubating) –a Web-based notebook that enables interactive data analytics with many different distributed computing back-end system support, to make data analytics more fun and enjoyable. 
- Apache Zeppelin 0.5.0-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/zeppelin/0.5.0-incubating 

Apache Zest™ –Open Source Composite Oriented Programming platform and tools provides "New Energy For Java". 
- The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache™ Zest™ v2.1 http://s.apache.org/WMr 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that Apache OpenOffice has exceeded 150 Million downloads? http://s.apache.org/a1R 

- Did you know that the Apache Roadshow is returning to Asia? See you in Beijing, China 12-14 September 2015! 

- Did you know that the definitive Apache Community "how-to" guide can be found at http://community.apache.org/? 


Apache Community Notices: 

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

- The Istanbul Spark Meetup will host "Hadoop ile Merhaba Dünya (Workshop)" on 8 August in Istanbul http://www.meetup.com/Istanbul-Spark-Meetup/events/223599737/ 

- The Advanced Apache Spark Meetup will feature Apache Spark and Kafka on 10 August in Mountain View http://www.meetup.com/Advanced-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/223910462/ 

- The Houston Hadoop Meetup Group will feature Apache Solr on 11 August http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/223231943/ 

- The Boston Area Cloud Foundry Meetup will feature Apache Mesos on 11 August in Cambridge http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/224306788/ 

- Code.Brew will feature "Enterprise Dataflow with Apache NiFi" on 13 August in Dulles http://www.meetup.com/Code-Brew/events/223935951/ 

- The Seattle JS MeetUp will host "Apache Cordova and Maker.js" on 13 August http://www.meetup.com/seattlejs/events/220102652/ 

- The NJ Data Science - Apache Spark MeetUp will present "Spark Streaming" on 13 August in Princeton http://www.meetup.com/nj-datascience/events/222851584/ 

- The Big Data & NoSQL Meetup Hamburg will feature Apache Spark on 13 August http://www.meetup.com/BDNSHH/events/223963763/ 

- The Bay Area Apache Flink Meetup announces a 20% discount code and presentation on Apache Flink at the Big Data Scala By the Bay Conference on 17 August in Oakland http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/224213826/ 

- Beta Test Apache Cassandra Certification will be held 17 August in Santa Clara http://www.meetup.com/DataStax-Cassandra-South-Bay-Users/events/224269417/ 

- The second annual MesosCon will be held 20-21 August in Seattle https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/

- ASF Member Joan Touzet will keynote the Texas Linux Fest 21-22 August in San Marcos https://2015.texaslinuxfest.org/ 

- The Big Data Innovation conference will feature an "Apache Innovation" track 9-10 September in Boston http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston-2015/ 

- Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe will be held 28 September - 1 October in Budapest http://apachecon.com/ 

- The first Apache Flink Conference, Flink Forward, will be held 12-13 October in Berlin http://flink-forward.org 

- The next Lucene/Solr Revolution will be held 13-16 October in Austin http://www.lucenerevolution.org 

- The ASF will be at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 6-8 February 2016 https://fosdem.org/ 

- The ASF FY 2014-2015 Annual Report is available at http://s.apache.org/ZVp 

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