The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 January 2019

It’s been a great week! Let’s review the Apache community’s activities:

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Sponsor Case Study –insight from our Sponsors, whose support ensures our 300+ community-driven software products remain available to billions of users around the world at no cost.
 – Apache Software Foundation Gold Sponsor Profile: Bloomberg https://s.apache.org/jKNc

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 20 February. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ –the ASF’s official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
 – Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
 – CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
 – Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.97% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 479 Apache contributors changed 1,041,597 lines of code over 2,850 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Tellier Benoit, Kaxil Naik, Claus Ibsen, and Xiaoyu Yao.

Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Kylin 2.6.0 released https://kylin.apache.org/

Database —
 – Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.16, 1.8.11, and 1.10.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

FinTech —
 – Apache Fineract 1.2.0 released http://fineract.apache.org/

Library —
 – Apache Commons FileUpload 1.4 released http://commons.apache.org/

Web Framework —
 – Apache Struts 2.5.20 GA and 2.3.37 GA released https://struts.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 – Did you know that Twitter uses Apache Hadoop to handle 5B+ sessions a day in real time? http://hadoop.apache.org/

 – Did you know that Apache Tinkerpop Gremlin now offers text based predicates? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/

 – Did you know that members of the Apache JMeter Project Management Committee have published a new book, "Master Apache JMeter: From load testing to DevOps"? https://leanpub.com/master-jmeter-from-load-test-to-devops

Apache Community Notices:

 – Apache in 2018 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits

 – ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 – ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 – The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 – Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

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

 – Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

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

 – The ASF will be at FOSDEM 2-3 February/Brussels https://fosdem.org/2019/

 – The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/

 – Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

 – CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html

 – CFP now open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/

 – Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

 – Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities –opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

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