The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 March 2019

Mid-month: punch the clock! Here’s hoping you had a great week –the Apache Community certainly has:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 20 March. 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/usroadshowdc19/
 – Join us + CFP EXTENDED: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/
 – CFP OPEN! ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/
 – REGISTRATION OPEN: ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October in Berlin http://www.apachecon.com/aceu19/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.99% uptime. Go Mighty Infra! Four nines! http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 485 Apache contributors changed 997,317 lines of code over 2,726 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Guanghao Zhang, Claus Ibsen, Fabio Utzig, and Jean-Baptiste Onofré.

Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache CouchDB 2.3.1 released https://couchdb.apache.org/

Content —
 – Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M2 released http://jspwiki.apache.org/

Databases —
 – Apache Derby 10.15.1.3 released https://db.apache.org/

IoT —
 – Apache PLC4X (incubating) 0.3.1 released http://plc4x.apache.org

Network-Server —
 – Apache MINA 2.0.20 released http://mina.apache.org/

Search —
 – Apache Solr Reference Guide 7.7 released https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_7

Testing —
 – Apache JMeter 5.1.1 released https://jmeter.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 – Did you know that Ericsson, Inuit, and TransUnion are powered by Apache Drill? http://drill.apache.org/

 – Did you know that you can find all Apache Projects listed from their date of becoming a Top-Level Project? https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 – Did you know that the ASF is a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 15th consecutive year?Applications are open http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

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

 – Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

 – 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/

 – Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 will be held 1-2 April. The event is promoting collaboration between Apache projects by inviting 50 Apache Committers to attend for FREE: use "ASFCommitters19" code PLUS your @apache.org email when registering at https://sf-2019.flink-forward.org/register

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

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

 – CFP open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019

 – Save the date: ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 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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