The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 June 2021

So long, June –let’s review the Apache community’s weekly activities:

Success at Apache – the blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF “just works”.
 – Security in Practice by Jarek Potiuk https://s.apache.org/1upl4

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 21 July 2021. 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. Two events are being held in 2021:
 – ApacheCon@Home (21-23 September) – program and registration are live https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/
 – ApacheCon Asia (6-8 August) – program, registration, keynotes, and sponsors announced https://s.apache.org/ACAsia2021
 – Sponsorship opportunities available for both events https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.72%. 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, 338 Apache Committers changed 2,475,387 lines of code over 2,883 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Jarek Potiuk, Claus Ibsen, Otavio Rodolfo Piske, and Dan Haywood.        

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0-beta released https://shardingsphere.apache.org
 – Apache Arrow 4.0.1 released https://arrow.apache.org/
 – Apache Qpid Broker-J 8.0.5 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 – Apache Kudu 1.15.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/

Integration —

Search —

Did You Know?

– Did you know that the Apache Pinot (incubating) injests with Apache Kafka, Spark, HDFS or Cloud storages, and is ideal for real-time analytics when scaling to billions of records? http://pinot.apache.org/

– Did you know that Apache ECharts has more than three dozen chart types (plus dark mode) to choose from? http://echarts.apache.org/

– Did you know that the Airflow Summit will be held 8-16 July? https://airflow.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

– The Apache Month in Review: May 2021 https://s.apache.org/May2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/ByiPjxGu_Tg

– The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation “The Apache Way” https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay

– The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 – January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M

– Apache in 2020 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

– ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0

– 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 Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

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

 – All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

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