The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 September 2020

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/73kif ]

Farewell, September --we're wrapping up the month with another great
week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's
activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 October 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
 - The Apache® Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community
Online at ApacheCon@Home https://s.apache.org/74zbx
 - ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic
Medical Records in dedicated track on Apache cTAKES
https://s.apache.org/x1051

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. 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, 397 Apache Committers
changed 2,254,525 lines of code over 3,335 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Andi
Huber, Claus Ibsen, and Duo Zhang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache CouchDB 3.1.1 released https://couchdb.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.24.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache Kudu 1.13.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache Libcloud 3.2.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org/

FinTech --
 - Apache Fineract 1.4.0 released http://fineract.apache.org/

IoT --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® IoTDB™ as a
Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/3xv3c

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.9 and J 8.0.1 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1 BETA1 released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.106 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.1 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/


Did You Know?

-  Did you know that select ApacheCon@Home sessions will be presented
in German, Hindi, Mandarin, and Spanish?
https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/

- Did you know that you can download and use a variety of ASF
Templates and Badges for personal, project, and corporate promotions?
http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#template-and-usage

- Did you know that you can help Apache Struts with its vote on
v2.5.25? https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re0ca300288262ab797ec0303c3b61daf2b1c9442222b92987a39ae88%40%3Cdev.struts.apache.org%3E


Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020

- 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 | Daniel Gruno --Part I
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1

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