The Apache News Round-up: week ending 22 January 2016

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

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With more than 350 projects in development, there's always something happening within the Apache community. Here are this week's activities: 

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: 17 February 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 99.91% 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/ 
- EARLY Registration now OPEN: save $400 through March 6! http://apachecon.com/ 

Apache Apex (incubating) –an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that unifies stream processing and batch processing. 
- Apache Apex Malhar Release 3.3.0-incubating released http://apex.incubator.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache jclouds™ –an Open Source multi-cloud toolkit for the Java platform that gives you the freedom to create applications that are portable across clouds while giving you full control to use cloud-specific features. 
- Apache jclouds 1.9.2 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/jclouds 

Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak – a complementary implementation of the JCR specification. It is an effort to implement a scalable and performant hierarchical content repository for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. 
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.3.14 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Lucy™ –search engine library that provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. 
- Apache Lucy 0.4.3 and Apache Clownfish 0.4.3 released http://lucy.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Nutch™ –a well matured, production ready Web crawler. 
- Apache Nutch 2.3.1 released http://nutch.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents. 
- Apache PDFBox 1.8.11 rand 2.0.0 RC3 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi 

Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology. 
- Apache Syncope 1.2.7 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that Apache Ambari, Kafka, Mesos, and Spark each has won an InfoWorld Technology of the Year 2016 award? http://ambari.apache.org/ http://kafka.apache.org/ http://mesos.apache.org/ http://spark.apache.org/ 


- Did you know that Forrester Research predicts 100% adoption of Apache Hadoop within large enterprises? http://hadoop.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that Apache CouchDB issues a highly detailed newsletter each week? http://blog.couchdb.org/2016/01/21/couchdb-weekly-news-january-21-2016/ 

Apache Community Notices: 

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

- Solr Training for Beginners will take place 23 January 2016 in San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Learn-Solr-Meetup/events/227860008/ 

- Data Science Toolbox & Intro to DS with Spark & Zeppelin will take place 26 January 2016 in Sao Paolo http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Brazil-Sao-Paulo/events/227494723/ 

- Orlando Data Science will feature Apache NiFi on 26 January 2016 http://www.meetup.com/orlandodata/events/227963685/ 

- Big Data for Business Users will present Big Data for the Enterprise- Part 1 on 27 January in San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-for-Business-Users/events/228036200/ 

- Paris Big Data Classes presents Mise en place d'une infrastructure Big Data Hadoop / Mesos on 27 January 2016 http://www.meetup.com/Paris-Big-Data-Classes/events/227882770/ 

- Cloud Budapest 2016/01 featuring Apache Mesos will be held 28 January http://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Budapest/events/227922125/ 

- 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 

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