The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 February 2016

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

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We're welcoming February by celebrating 21 years of project birthdays and preparing for the influx of proposals before the ApacheCon CFP closes. Here's what's happened this week: 

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. 
- Next Board Meeting: 17 February 2016. 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. 
- Continued snappy performance continues across 6M+ weekly checks, yielding 99.45% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- UPCOMING DEADLINES: 
--12 February CFP closes for Apache:Big Data + ApacheCon North America - Vancouver http://apachecon.com/ 
--2 March - Travel Assistance http://www.apache.org/travel/ ; 4 March - Early Registration http://apachecon.com/ 

Apache Clownfish –symbiotic object system pairs with host dynamic language environments and facilitates the development of high performance host language extensions. 
- Apache Clownfish 0.4.4 released http://lucy.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Commons™ Weaver –an easy way to enhance compiled Java classes by generating ("weaving") bytecode into those classes. 
- Apache Commons Weaver 1.2 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-weaver/download_weaver.cgi 

Apache Lucy™ –search engine library that provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. 
- Apache Lucy 0.4.4 released http://lucy.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Tajo™ –a Big Data warehouse system on various data sources. 
- Apache Tajo 0.11.1 released http://tajo.apache.org/downloads.html 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that the Apache HTTP Server first debuted 21 years ago? Many happy returns to the most popular Web server on the planet! http://httpd.apache.org/

- Did you know that 18 additional Apache projects are celebrating birthdays this month? Gump and Portals (12 years); Directory, MyFaces, and Xerces (11 years); Tapestry (10 years); Roller (9 years); Continuum (8 years); Cassandra and Subversion (6 years); Chemistry (5 years); BVal and OpenNLP (4 years); Clerezza and Crunch (3 years); Knox, Open Climate Workbench, and Spark (2 years) https://projects.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that the Apache TinkerPop graph computing framework and its Gremlin graph traversal language are the primary interface to IBM's Graph service? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices: 

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

- Big Data Hyderabad will present "Big Data Processing with Apache Spark" on 6 February 2016 http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Hyderabad/events/227853405/ 

- The next CloudStack European User Group will be held 3 March 2016 in London https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218 

- Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america 

- ApacheCon:Core North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/ 

- The next HBaseCon will take place 24 May in San Francisco --CFP and Early Bird Registration now open http://hbasecon.com 

- MesosCon will be held 1-2 June 2016 in Denver --CFP open through 9 March http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/ 

- The ASF Operations Summary: Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (August-October 2015) is available at http://s.apache.org/M0R 

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- Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear and http://s.apache.org/landsend --all proceeds benefit the ASF! 

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