The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 January 2016

Posted by Sally General
Huzzah –the Apache Community has just exceeded 5,300 Committers! Here’s what we’ve been up to over the past week:
ASF Board –the ASF Board is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s Bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 6M+ weekly checks yielded a plucky 99.97% uptime over the past week http://status.apache.org/ Check against established SLAs http://status.apache.org/sla/
ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 – Call For Participation: Apache:Big Data North America – Vancouver 9-12 May 2016 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america/program/cfp
 – Call For Participation: ApacheCon:Core North America – Vancouver 11-13 May 2016 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp
 – Applications OPEN: Travel Assistance to ApacheCon North America http://www.apache.org/travel/

Apache Flex™ –a highly productive, open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and TV).
 – Apache Flex 4.15.0 released http://flex.apache.org/download-source.html

Apache SINGA (incubating) –a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep learning models over large datasets.
 – Apache SINGA 0.2.0 released http://singa.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Tomcat™ Native Library –provides portable API for features not found in contemporary JDK’s.
 – Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.4 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi

Did You Know?
 – Did you know that Apache geospatial projects such as SIS support OGC standards, and welcome presentation proposals for ApacheCon? http://s.apache.org/r4

 – Did you know that the re-designed Apache Projects Directory provides a wide array of information on project categories, communities, Committers, languages, podlings undergoing incubation, releases, and timelines? https://projects.apache.org/

 – Did you know that Apache OpenOffice has new Extensions, Templates, Administrative Interface, and Search functionality? http://sourceforge.net/blog/new-apache-openoffice-sites/


Apache Community Notices:

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

 – Apache Spark will be featured at Data Day Texas on 16 January in Austin http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/226622137/

 – The ASF will be participating at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 30-31 January 2016 https://fosdem.org/

 – The next CloudStack European User Group will be held 3 March 2016 in London https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218

 – Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america

 – ApacheCon:Core North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/

 – The ASF Operations Summary: Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (August-October 2015) is available at http://s.apache.org/M0R

 – Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby
 – Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear and http://s.apache.org/landsend –all proceeds benefit the ASF! 
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