The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 August 2020

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/0ff4b ]

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been
up to over the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 September 2020. Board calendar and minutes
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1
October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
 - Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home
https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.76%. 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 – Over the past week, 233 Apache Committers
changed 1,491,530 lines of code over 1,662 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Luca Burgazzoli, Kaxil Naik, Liang Zhang,
Nick Vatamaniuc, and Boris Zhu.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX Dashboard 1.5 (Incubating) released https://apisix.apache.org/

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking Chart 3.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.0-alpha released
https://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
 - Apache NiFi 1.12.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.54.0 and Dispatch 1.13.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.6.1 and Solr 8.6.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/


Did You Know?

- Did you know that Apache projects' ongoing sustainability is ensured
through the generosity of our Sponsors and individual donors, whose
support helps ensure that the ASF continues to steward 227M+ lines of
code and provide more than $20B worth of software to the
public-at-large at 100% no cost? http://donate.apache.org

- Did you know that you can learn about Apache Beam, Calcite, Camel,
CarbonData, Groovy, Hadoop, Karaf, Labs, NetBeans, OFBiz, OpenOffice,
PLC4X, Rya, Spark, Tomcat, Unomi, and more in the "Apache Innovation"
short segment of the "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary?
https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

- Did you know that projects undergoing development in the Apache
Incubator are in a variety of categories that include AI, Annotation,
Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptography, Data Visualization, Distributed
Computing, Email, Embedded Systems, Geospatial Data, Graphing,
Hardware Acceleration, IoT, Messaging, Monitoring, Natural Language
Processing, Scheduling, Streaming, Training, Usability Testing, and
more? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/


Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full
feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere"
https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache"
https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation”
https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19
Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source
Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

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

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

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

 - Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF
infrastructure team --meet Christ Thistlethwaite
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris | Drew Foulks
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew | Greg Stein Part I
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg , Part II
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3

 - Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online
and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/

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Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at
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Best regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org