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Our ApacheCon week in Austin wraps up today, with countless highlights, 
including celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server with 
some of the original members of the Apache Group 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbowen/16943016807/ and launching a revised 
version of the apache.org homepage with thanks to our friends at Hot Wax 
Systems. Here's what's happened this week: 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- Keynotes from ApacheCon Austin are now online 
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation 
- The City of Austin and Mayor Steve Adler proclaimed 13-16 April "Apache 
Software Foundation Days" 
ASF Fundraising & Sponsorship –the ASF relies on individual donors and 
corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, 
and promote meritocratic, community-driven development "The Apache Way". 
- The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Pivotal as a Platinum-level Sponsor 
http://s.apache.org/UBl 
- New to the ASF Sponsor roster is Bloomberg, who joins Comcast, Hortonworks, 
HP, and IBM at the Gold Level. Welcome! 

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's 
infrastructure running around the clock. 
- Global uptime across all Apache services is a cracking 99.68% 
http://status.apache.org/ 
Apache Directory™ –directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include 
a directory server, which has been certified as LDAP v3 compliant by the Open 
Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools (Apache Directory Studio), and 
a full ANSI RBAC compliant management and enforcement system that builds on 
existing Open Source applications like ApacheDS, OpenLDAP and Apache Tomcat 
(Apache Fortress). 
- Apache Fortress Core 1.0-RC40 released 
http://directory.apache.org/fortress/downloads.html 

Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content 
repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites 
and other demanding content applications. 
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.0 released 
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library 
written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any 
application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. 
- Apache Lucene 5.1.0 released 
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/5.1.0 

Apache Mahout™ –an environment for quickly creating machine learning 
applications that scale and run on the highest performance parallel computation 
engines available. 
- Apache Mahout 0.10.0 released 
https://mahout.apache.org/general/downloads.html 

Apache Solr™ –an Open Source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java 
search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON, Ruby, and Python APIs, hit 
highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration 
interface. 
- Apache Solr 5.1.0 released 
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/5.1.0 

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, 
JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. 
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.61 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that China Telecom's CTCC group (one of the largest Cloud 
Computing service providers in the country) uses Apache Cloudstack? 
- Did you know that one of the largest Apache Cassandra deployments is at 
Apple, with over 75,000 nodes storing over 10 PB of data? 

- Did you know that we're always looking for Apache success stories that we can 
share with the community? Send newsworthy metrics/users/datapoints of Apache 
products to <[email protected]>! 



Apache Community Notices: 

- The next Apache Phoenix MeetUp will be held on 5 May in Santa Clara 
http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/221247399/ 

- HBaseCon, the fourth annual event for the Apache HBase 
contributor/developer/admin/user community, will take place 7 May in San 
Francisco http://hbasecon.com/ 

- A lightning talk on Apache Calcite will take place on 20 May at XLDB in 
Stanford http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2015/ 

- Apache Usergrid will be featured at {CODESHOW}SE on 21 May in Charleston 
https://www.codeshowse.com/ 

- The next Berlin Buzzwords conference will feature Apache projects such as 
Lucene, Spark, Solr and Cassandra and will take place 31 May-3 June in Berlin 
http://berlinbuzzwords.de 

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered 
By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby 



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