The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 January 2016

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

>> this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/9C1

Huzzah --the Apache Community has just exceeded 5,300 Committers! Here's what we've been up to over the past 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: 20 January 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. 
- 6M+ weekly checks yielded a plucky 99.97% uptime over the past week http://status.apache.org/ Check against established SLAs http://status.apache.org/sla/ 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- Call For Participation: Apache:Big Data North America - Vancouver 9-12 May 2016 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/cfp 
- Call For Participation: ApacheCon:Core North America - Vancouver 11-13 May 2016 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp 
- Applications OPEN: Travel Assistance to ApacheCon North America http://www.apache.org/travel/ 


Apache Flex™ –a highly productive, open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and TV). 
- Apache Flex 4.15.0 released http://flex.apache.org/download-source.html 


Apache SINGA (incubating) –a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep learning models over large datasets. 
- Apache SINGA 0.2.0 released http://singa.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Tomcat™ Native Library –provides portable API for features not found in contemporary JDK's. 
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.4 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that Apache geospatial projects such as SIS support OGC standards, and welcome presentation proposals for ApacheCon? http://s.apache.org/r4 

 - Did you know that the re-designed Apache Projects Directory provides a wide array of information on project categories, communities, Committers, languages, podlings undergoing incubation, releases, and timelines? https://projects.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that Apache OpenOffice has new Extensions, Templates, Administrative Interface, and Search functionality? http://sourceforge.net/blog/new-apache-openoffice-sites/ 


Apache Community Notices: 

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

- Apache Spark will be featured at Data Day Texas on 16 January in Austin http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/226622137/ 

- The ASF will be participating at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 30-31 January 2016 https://fosdem.org/ 

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

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby 

- 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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