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So long, August. Let's wrap up the month with a look back at our activities over the past week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 19 September. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th year. - 24-27 September: T-24 days to Montreal. Don't miss 100+ Apache project and community sessions, from CloudStack to Spark to Tomcat to Geospatial to Hackathon, BarCamp, and more. Join us! http://apachecon.com/acna18/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock. - 7M+ weekly checks yield bouncy performance at 96.12% uptime. http://status.apache.org/ ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 288 Apache contributors changed 444,400 lines of code over 1,613 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sijie Guo, Tellier Benoit, Kevin A. McGrail, Shawn McKinney, and Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez. Apache Drill™ –an Apache Open Source SQL query engine for Big Data exploration. - Apache Drill 1.14.0 released https://drill.apache.org/ Apache HttpComponents™ Core –a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint. - HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta3 released http://hc.apache.org/ Apache SystemML™ –a machine learning platform optimal for Big Data. - Apache SystemML 1.2.0 released http://systemml.apache.org/ Apache XMLBeans™ –a tool that allows access to the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. - Apache XMLBeans 3.0.1 released https://xmlbeans.apache.org Did You Know? - Did you know that since Apache Groovy was first announced 15 years ago, the project has had 160+ releases, 320+ contributors and 100M+ downloads? http://groovy.apache.org/ - Did you know that the CFPs for DataWorks Summit (18-21 March 2019/Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019/Washington DC) closes 14 September? https://dataworkssummit.com/ - Did you know that Chick-fil-A uses Apache MXNet (incubating) vision models to alert when their fries sit for too long? http://mxnet.apache.org/ Apache Community Notices: - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 19 Years of Open Source Leadership "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/gK4Q - Read "Open – For Business – At the ASF" by Merv Adrian, VP Research at Gartner https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/ - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3 - Apache in 2017 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/h8do - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html - Catch members of the Apache community at Solutions Hamburg 12-14 September in Hamburg --stop by the Apache booth and say hello! https://solutions.hamburg/ - ApacheCon North America will be held 24-27 September in Montreal http://apachecon.com/ - The Apache Spark community will be presenting at In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2-3 October in San Francicso https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/ - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/ - 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/ - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = 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.
