The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 September 2017

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

[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/fWSb ]

Happy Friday! Let's review what the Apache community has been working on
over the past week:

Success at Apache –the monthly blog series that focuses on the processes
behind why the ASF "just works".
 - Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation by Luke Han
 https://s.apache.org/dAlg

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 September. Board calendar and minutes
 http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
 - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q1 FY2018
 https://s.apache.org/cEUm

ASF Infrastructure –our mighty distributed team on three continents
keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield shazam performance at 99.85% uptime
 http://status.apache.org/

ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 460 Committers changed 1,011,972
lines of code over 2,764 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are:
Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Jian He, Samarth Jain, Francesco Chicchiriccò, and
Claus Ibsen.

Apache Bahir™ –extensions to distributed analytic platforms such as
Apache Spark.
 - Apache Bahir 2.2.0 released http://bahir.apache.org

Apache Chemistry™ cmislib –provides Open Source implementations of the
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification.
 - Apache Chemistry cmislib 0.6.0 released http://chemistry.apache.org/

Apache Commons™ –Commons CSV reads and writes files in variations of the
Comma Separated Value (CSV) format.
 - Apache Commons CSV 1.5 released
 http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/

Apache Groovy™ –a multi-facet programming language for the JVM.
 - Apache Groovy 2.6.0-alpha-1 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Apache HttpComponents™ Core –HTTP transport library including support
for asynchronous execution based on Java NIO.
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 alpha4 released
 http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core/

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 1.4.18 and Jackrabbit 2.6.9 released and
 Jackrabbit 2.4 retired http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
library written entirely in Java.
 - Apache Lucene 6.6.1 and Solr 6.6.1 released
 https://lucene.apache.org/

Apache MXNet (incubating) –a flexible and efficient library for deep
learning.
 - Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.11.0 released
 http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/

Apache Olingo™ –a Java library which enables developers to implement
OData service providers (server) and consumers (clients).
 - Apache Olingo 4.4.0 released http://olingo.apache.org/

Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging,
white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools
using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and
Streaming.
 - Apache OpenMeetings 3.3.1 released http://openmeetings.apache.org

Apache Qpid™ – a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing
Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464, http://www.amqp.org).
 - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.21.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Apache Struts™ –Open Source framework for creating Java Web
applications.
 - Apache Struts 2.3.34 and 2.5.13 General Availability with Security
 Fixes released http://struts.apache.org/

Apache Tomcat™ Native Library –provides portable API for features not
found in contemporary JDKs.
 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.14 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Apache Traffic Server™ –a high performance, scalable HTTP Intermediary
and proxy cache.
 - Apache Traffic Server v7.1.1 released
 https://trafficserver.apache.org/

Apache VCL™ –a self-service system used to dynamically provision and
broker remote access to a dedicated compute environment for an end-user.
 - Apache VCL 2.5 released http://vcl.apache.org/

Apache Wicket™ –an Open Source Java component oriented Web application
framework.
 - Apache Wicket 6.27.1 released http://wicket.apache.org


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Netflix uses Apache Tinkerpop for storing and
 querying highly-interconnected data at scale?
 http://tinkerpop.apache.org/

 - Did you know that The New York Times uses Apache Kafka to store and
 process every article ever published? http://kafka.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Emirates Reit Real Estate Investment Trust uses
 Apache Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices:

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just
 works". 1) Project Independence https://s.apache.org/CE0V 2) All Carrot
 and No Stick https://s.apache.org/ykoG 3) Asynchronous Decision Making
 https://s.apache.org/PMvk4) Rule of the Makers
 https://s.apache.org/yFgQ 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of
 contributors https://s.apache.org/4pjM 6) Meritocracy and Me
 https://s.apache.org/tQQh 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community
 https://s.apache.org/x9Be 8) Meritocracy. https://s.apache.org/DiEo 9)
 Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation https://s.apache.org/dAlg

 - Follow the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
 (re-tweets/shares/likes most appreciated!)
 - Presentations from ApacheCon https://s.apache.org/Hli7 and Apache:
 Big Data https://s.apache.org/tefE are available; as well as videos
 https://s.apache.org/AE3m and audio recordings
 https://feathercast.apache.org/

 - Check out the latest Apache Community Development newsletter
 https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/community-development-news-july-2017

 - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page
 https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account
 https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity
 - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at
 http://apache.org/events/meetups.html

 - TomcatCon will be held 25 September in London
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tomcatcon-london-2017-tickets-36683639754

 - Meet members of the Apache Big Data communities at DataWorks/Hadoop
 Summit 20-21 September in Sydney https://dataworkssummit.com/

 - The Apache community will be at All Things Open --stop by the ASF
 booth and say hello! 23-24 October in Raleigh
 https://allthingsopen.org/

 - Learn about Apache Atlas, AriaTosca (incubating), Hadoop YARN, Kafka,
 ManifoldCF, Ranger, Spot (incubating), Thrift, and more at Open Source
 Summit Europe + ELC Europe 2017 23-26 October in Prague
 https://osseu17.sched.com/

 - Catch the Apache Ignite and Spark communities at the In-Memory
 Computing Summit 24-25 October in San Francisco https://imcsummit.org/

 - ASF Annual Report is available at
 https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport

 - Find out how you can participate with Apache
 community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP
 Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator,
 OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more!
 https://helpwanted.apache.org/

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 "Powered By" logos
 http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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