The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 August 2017

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

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

August has simply zipped by —it's hard to believe that it's the last
Friday of the month! Per usual, there seems to be little or no rest with
Apache community at-large:

Support Apache –help ensure that Apache software projects continue to be
freely available to users around the world. Every dollar counts.
http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

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 Annual Report for 2017 Fiscal Year https://s.apache.org/IDn5

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the
ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield assured performance at 91.79% uptime
 http://status.apache.org/

ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 357 Committers changed 679,818 lines
of code over 1,887 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Pei He,
Michael Stack, Andrea Cosentino, Benjamin Mahler, and Ismaël Mejía.

Apache HBase™ –an Open Source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database.
 - Apache HBase 2.0.0-alpha-2 and 1.1.12 released
 https://hbase.apache.org/

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 1.6.4, 1.0.39, and 1.7.6 released
 http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data
and processing resources of Apache Hadoop clusters.
 - Apache Knox 0.13.0 released http://knox.apache.org/

Apache Kylin™ –an Open Source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to
provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Apache
Hadoop, supporting extremely large datasets.
 - Apache Kylin 2.1.0 released https://kylin.apache.org/

Apache MADlib™ –Big Data machine-learning library used for scalable
in-database analytics.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® MADlib™ as a
 Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/BSrW

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java
WebSocket technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat 8.0.46 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Apache Traffic Server™ –a high-performance Web proxy cache that improves
network efficiency and performance by caching frequently-accessed
information at the edge of the network.
 - Apache Traffic Server 6.2.2 released http://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/


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that half of the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders and
 Challengers for Hybrid Cloud Hosting use Apache CloudStack?
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Apache Mesos and Apache Spark are up for JAX
 Innovation Awards? Vote today at https://jaxenter.com/jax-magazine

 - Did you know that Apache RocketMQ (incubating) is the most popular
 distributed messaging and streaming data platform in China?
 http://rocketmq.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 7) Meritocracy. https://s.apache.org/DiEo

 - If you're looking for the ASF on social media, we're @TheASF on
 Twitter and on LinkedIn at
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation
 (follows/re-tweets/shares/likes 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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