Happy Friday, everyone –let’s review what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – The ASF welcomes Dave Fisher as a Director https://s.apache.org/vlu1t
 – Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998
 – *T-11 days* to ApacheCon Europe
    –TRACKS: Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
    –KEYNOTES: European Commission DG DIGIT Director Thomas Gageik; Mastercard EVP for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; writer/political analyst/activist Nanjala Nyabola; and ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik. 
    –SPECIAL EVENTS: BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
    –JOIN US: https://www.apachecon.com/

 – ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.98%. 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 – this week, 402 Apache contributors changed 877,602 lines of code over 2,173 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Krisztián Szűcs, Joel Bernstein, and Jiajun Wang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Arrow 0.15.0 released http://arrow.apache.org/
 – Apache Beam 2.16.0 released https://beam.apache.org
 – Apache HBase 2.1.7 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Content —
 – Apache Allura 1.12.0 released https://allura.apache.org/
 – Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Servers —
 – HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta9 (GA candidate) and HttpComponents Client 5.0 beta6 (GA candidate) released http://hc.apache.org/
 – HTTP Server mod_perl-2.0.11 released https://perl.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), and whose director, Thomas Gageik, will be keynoting the event? https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

 – Did you know that Apache Airflow and Druid (incubating), plus solutions based on Apache Ignite and Spark, won 2019 InfoWorld Bossie Awards? https://infoworld.com/article/3444198/the-best-open-source-software-of-2019.html

 – Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we collaborated with technologist/photographer Peter Adams on "Community Over Code. Code Over Community"? https://blogs.apache.org/press/entry/community-over-code-code-over

Apache Community Notices:

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

 – Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 – ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

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

 – ApacheCon: Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 – ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

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

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