The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 March 2016

Welcome March! Here’s a peek at what’s happened with the Apache community over the past week:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s Bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 16 March 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
 – The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (November 2015 – January 2016) https://s.apache.org/9zLj

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 6M+ weekly checks yield glowing performance at 99.89% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Apache:Big Data + ApacheCon North America – Vancouver will take place 9-13 May 2016 http://apachecon.com/ –Early Registration ends 4 March.
 – Keynotes + Program for Apache:Big Data announced; early registration ends soon https://apachebigdata2016.sched.org/

Apache Accumulo™ –a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system (sorted, distributed key/value store) that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing.
 – Apache Accumulo 1.7.1 released https://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/

Apache Attic –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.
 – Apache Onami retired https://s.apache.org/KITj
 – Apache Rave retired https://s.apache.org/eP3W

Apache HttpComponents™ Client –a HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on HttpCore (a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint).
 – Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.2 GA released http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 – Apache Jackrabbit 2.12.1 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Apache Kudu (incubating) –an Open Source storage engine for structured data which supports low-latency random access together with efficient analytical access patterns.
 – Apache Kudu (incubating) 0.7.0 released http://getkudu.io/releases/0.7.0/

Apache MRQL (incubating) –a query processing and optimization system for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and Flink.
 – Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/mrql

Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.
 – Apache NiFi 0.5.1 released http://nifi.apache.org/download.html

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that all projects in the Apache Incubator, including those newly accepted, can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html ?

 – Did you know that The Groovy Podcast covers topics pertaining to the Apache Groovy programming language and its ecosystem? http://groovypodcast.podbean.com/

 – Did you know that Apache OFBiz integrates with third party eCommerce/Webshop solutions such as eBay, Google Checkout, and Magento, among others? http://ofbiz.apache.org/

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

 – The next HBaseCon will take place 24 May in San Francisco http://hbasecon.com

 – MesosCon will be held 1-2 June 2016 in Denver –CFP open through 9 March http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/

 – Berlin Buzzwords is back 5-7 June 2016 http://berlinbuzzwords.de/