[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/FuqA ] It's Friday! Here's what the Apache community has been up to over the past week: Success at Apache –the new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - January's post: "All Carrot and No Stick" https://s.apache.org/ykoG Notice: Apache Project Name Change –Apache Zest Renamed to Apache Polygene https://s.apache.org/4Klg ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 18 January 2017. 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. - 7M+ weekly checks yield swift performance at 99.65% uptime http://status.apache.org/ ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. - CFP OPEN: Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon North America 16-18 May 2017/Miami http://apachecon.com/ - 2016/Seville's session recordings are being processed and posted at Feathercast http://feathercast.org Apache Incubator –projects and communities intending to become fully-fledged projects under the auspices of The Apache Software Foundation do so through the Apache Incubator. - Call for Entries --Apache Incubator Logo https://s.apache.org/rFii Apache Beam™ –unified programming model for batch and streaming Big Data processing, handling data of any scale, and providing portability across multiple execution engines and environments. - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Beam as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/u67z Apache Calcite™ –a dynamic data management framework. - Apache Calcite 1.11.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/calcite/apache-calcite-1.11.0/ Apache CloudStack™ –an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud environments. - Apache CloudStack 4.9.2.0 released http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Eagle™ –intelligent Big Data monitoring and alerting solution in use at high volume, high demand Websites, platforms, and organizations such as eBay, PayPal, Dataguise, and YHD.com, among others. - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Eagle as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/lRU1 Apache HttpComponents™ Core – 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 Core 4.4.6 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 2.14.0 and 2.15.0, and Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.17 and 1.2.23 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache MyFaces™ Tobago – a component library for JavaServer Faces (JSF) that allows to write Web applications without the need of coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript. - Apache Tobago 3.0.0 released http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/ Apache OpenJPA™ –a Java persistence project that can be used as a stand-alone POJO persistence layer or integrated into any Java EE compliant container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat and Spring. - Apache OpenJPA 2.4.2 released http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. - Apache OpenMeetings 3.1.4 released http://openmeetings.apache.org/downloads.html
Did You Know? - Did you know that there are hundreds of *new* code contributors to Apache projects each month? https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/819220448625983488 - Did you know that Ippon uses Apache Kafka, Spark, and ZooKeeper to analyze 25 million records per day? http://kafka.apache.org/ , http://spark.apache.org/ , and http://zookeeper.apache.org/ - Did you know that hundreds of thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License, with Web requests from every UN-recognized nation? http://apache.org/licenses/ Apache Community Notices: - "Success at Apache" is a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". First article: Project Independence https://s.apache.org/CE0V - 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, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, Zest, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/ - ApacheCon North America and Apache:BigData will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami http://apachecon.com/ - 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/featherwearand http://s.apache.org/landsend--all proceeds benefit the ASF! = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscr...@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word "Unsubscribe" in the subject line.
