>> this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/RK2

We appreciate you tuning in to review the activities over the past week at The 
Apache Software Foundation! Here's what happened: 

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: 16 December. 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 grand 99.96% 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: ApacheCon North America - Vancouver 11-13 May 2016 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp 

Apache Brooklyn™ –Open Source framework for modelling, deploying, monitoring, 
and managing applications. 
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Brooklyn™ as a Top-Level 
Project http://s.apache.org/cZs 

Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known 
Enterprise Integration Patterns. 
- Apache Camel 2.16.1 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Commons™ NET –library that contains a collection of network utilities 
and protocol implementations. 
- Apache Commons NET 3.4 released http://commons.apache.org/net/ 

Apache Commons™ Validator –building blocks for both client and server side data 
validation that may be used standalone or with a framework such as Apache 
Struts. 
- Apache Commons Validator 1.5.0 released 
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/download_validator.cgi 

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 1.0.24 and 1.2.8 released 
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Kafka™ –high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of 
as a distributed commit log. 
- Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0 released 
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.9.0.0/kafka-0.9.0.0-src.tgz 

Apache Lens™ –Open Source unified analytics platform. 
- Apache Lens 2.4.0-beta released http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html 

Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents. 
- Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 RC2 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/ 

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, 
JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket 
technologies. 
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.29 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that you can now map an Apache Phoenix primary key column to the 
native row timestamp of Apache HBase? 
https://blogs.apache.org/phoenix/entry/new_optimization_for_time_series 

- Did you know that Apache Tinkerpop (incubating)'s Gremlin ( graph traversal 
machine and language) is Turing Complete? 
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tinkerpop.html 

- Did you know that in testing the Apache Project Maturity Model to assess an 
ASF podling's readiness to graduate as an Apache Top-Level Project (TLP), 
Groovy was used as the "guinea pig"? 
http://groovy.markmail.org/thread/zdbjrbrzip3t2xxy (and yes: it graduated!) 


Apache Community Notices: 

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

- "Get to know CouchDB" will be presented 27 November in Hamburg 
http://www.silpion.de/event/externes-silpion-knowhowcamp-no1/ 

- The ASF will be 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
 

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

- The ASF Operations Summary: First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (May-July 2015) 
is available at http://s.apache.org/c2P 

- 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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