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It's the last Friday in February, and we've had another smashing week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: rescheduled to 27 February 2017. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html Community over Code --we have passed the 6,000 Apache Committer mark! https://projects.apache.org/timelines.html Apache Incubator --the hub of innovation for projects and communities intending to become fully-fledged projects under the auspices of the ASF. - Welcome new podlings --http://incubator.apache.org/ - Gobblin: a distributed data integration framework that simplifies common aspects of Big Data integration such as data ingestion, replication, organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data ecosystems. - MXNet: a Flexible and Efficient Library for deep learning. - Ratis: a Java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol. - Community Voting now underway for new Incubator logo http://incubator.apache.org/2017-logo-contest.html ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock. - 7M+ weekly checks yield solid performance at 99.85% uptime http://status.apache.org/ ApacheCon™ –Tomorrow's Technology Today. https://s.apache.org/F7Hy - North America/MIA overview: 15 May - BarCamp Apache | 16-18 May - ApacheCon Core (DevOps, Servers, Web Frameworks, etc.) + Apache: Big Data, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, FlexJS Summit, Apache: IoT, TomcatCon, and more http://apachecon.com/ - Travel Assistance applications close 8 March https://www.apache.org/travel/ - Early registration and hotel incentives end 12 March http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america | Apache Committers: register using your apache.org email + discount code to save even more. - Recordings from ApacheCon Europe 2016 are being uploaded at Feathercast http://feathercast.org Apache Attic –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life. - Apache Stratos retired http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201702.mbox/%3CCALGG8z3ZAD6jO%3D_X5atr0E5DPbPYeSgZh8pG3u_Kcae4oPv%2Bmw%40mail.gmail.com%3E Apache Arrow™ –a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate Big Data. - Apache Arrow 0.2.0 released https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/arrow/ Apache Bahir™ –extensions to distributed analytic platforms such as Apache Spark. - Apache Bahir 2.1.0 released http://bahir.apache.org Apache Commons™ Validator –provides the building blocks for both client side validation and server side data validation. - Apache Commons Validator 1.6 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/download_validator.cgi Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283). - Apache Jackrabbit 2.8.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Kafka™ –a distributed, fault tolerant, publish-subscribe messaging. - Apache Kafka 0.10.2.0 released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.10.2.0/kafka-0.10.2.0-src.tgz Apache Lucene™ Solr –the popular, blazing-fast, open source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. - Apache Solr Reference Guide for Solr 6.4 released https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-6.4.pdf Apache Mynewt (incubating) –a community-driven module OS for constrained, embedded applications. - Apache Mynewt 1.0.0-b2-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/incubator/mynewt/apache-mynewt-1.0.0-b2-incubating Apache RocketMQ (incubating) –a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to use message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of streaming data. - Apache RocketMQ 4.0.0 incubating released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=incubator/rocketmq/4.0.0-incubating Did You Know? - Did you know that over the past week 7% of all Apache code contributions were made by someone new to the ASF? http://community.apache.org/ - Did you know that British Gas Connected Home manages its IoT data using Apache Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark? http://cassandra.apache.org/, http://kafka.apache.org/, http://spark.apache.org - Did you know that we'd love to hear how you #LoveApache? Feedback welcome! https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/831134005105979396 Apache Community Notices: - "Success at Apache" is a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". 1) Project Independence https://s.apache.org/CE0V 2) All Carrot and No Stick https://s.apache.org/ykoG 3) Asynchronous Decision Making https://s.apache.org/PMvk - Feedback from The Apache Software Foundation on the Free and Open Source Security Audit (FOSSA) https://s.apache.org/romf - ASF Operations Summary - Q2 FY2017 https://s.apache.org/oTOF - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://apache.org/events/meetups.html - 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/ - ApacheCon North America + Apache: BigData, CloudStack Collaboration Conferenxe, FlexJS Summit, Apache: IoT, and TomcatCon will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami http://apachecon.com/ - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? 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