The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 December 2019

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/ocm7m ]

Welcome December! --let's take a look back at what the collective
Apache community has been working on over the past week:

Support Apache – help the ASF continue to provide $20B+ worth of
software –at 100% no cost– for the public good
 - Make a tax-deductible, year-end charitable gift to the ASF
https://s.apache.org/fxyz1
 - Shop smarter on Amazon: start at https://smile.amazon.com/ , select
the ASF as your charitable organization, and 0.5% of the purchase
price of eligible products will be donated to the ASF.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes CloudBees as its Newest
Targeted Sponsor at the Platinum Level https://s.apache.org/buq73

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 December 2019. Board calendar and minutes
http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Apache Diversity & Inclusion – newly-formed committee supports
initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across the
greater Apache community.
 - Launch of the 2020 ASF Community Survey https://s.apache.org/pzol5

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - ApacheCon 2019's interviews, presentations, and photos are
available at https://www.apachecon.com/history.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. 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 – this week, 809 Apache contributors changed
2,355,719 lines of code over 3,480 commits. Top 5 contributors, in
order, are: Dan Haywood, Tilman Hausherr, Jimin Wu, Claus Ibsen, and
Sebastian Bazley.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 1.4.12 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache Kafka 2.2.2 released https://kafka.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.18 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.9.0 released http://iotdb.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Olingo 4.7.0 released https://olingo.apache.org/

Machine Learning --
 - Apache TVM (Incubating) 0.6.0 released https://tvm.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Solr 8.3.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts 2.5.22 released https://struts.apache.org/
 - Apache MyFaces Core 2.3.6 released http://myfaces.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the ASF does not pay for code development or
contributions by its Board of Directors, Executive Officers, 765
Individual ASF Members, 205 Apache Project Management Committees,
7,500+ Committers, and countless contributors? 75% of the ASF's budget
supports critical Infrastructure services that 350+ projects and
initiatives rely upon each day. We appreciate your generous
contributions! https://donate.apache.org

 - Did you know that, after 10 years in development, Apache Camel v3
is now available? https://camel.apache.org

 - Did you know that the top 5 most active/visited Apache projects
over the past year are: Hadoop, Kafka, Lucene, POI, ZooKeeper
https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way"
https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

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

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement
https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why
the ASF "just works".
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

 - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on
Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

 - 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://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html

 - Find out how you can participate with Apache
community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel,
Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

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Best regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org