[ANNOUNCE] Apache ZooKeeper 3.3.5
The Apache ZooKeeper team is proud to announce Apache ZooKeeper version 3.3.5 ZooKeeper is a high-performance coordination service for distributed applications. It exposes common services - such as naming, configuration management, synchronization, and group services - in a simple interface so you don't have to write them from scratch. You can use it off-the-shelf to implement consensus, group management, leader election, and presence protocols. And you can build on it for your own, specific needs. For ZooKeeper release details and downloads, visit: http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html ZooKeeper 3.3.5 Release Notes are at: http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.3.5/releasenotes.html We would like to thank the contributors that made the release possible. Regards, The ZooKeeper Team
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Rave 0.9-INCUBATING Release
The Apache Rave (Incubating) team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Rave 0.9-INCUBATING Alpha release. Apache Rave is a new web and social mashup engine. It will provide an out-of-the-box, as well as extendible, lightweight Java platform to host, serve and manage OpenSocial, W3C and other web widgets. Rave is targeted as an engine for internet and intranet portals and as a building block to provide context-aware personalization and collaboration features for multi-site/multi-channel (mobile) oriented and content driven websites. The release can be obtained from the Apache Rave download page (http://incubator.apache.org/rave/downloads.html). Release Notes for this release are available at http://s.apache.org/nP0.
[announce] The ASF is Participating in Google Summer of Code 2012 as a Mentoring Organization
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/9VB] The Apache Software Foundation will be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year as a mentoring organization. Google Summer of Code is a program where students work on open source projects backed by a stipend granted by Google. The Apache Software Foundation has been participating in the program since its inception in 2005. Each year, 30-40 students are guided by volunteer mentors from various Apache communities. During the summer they learn what it means to participate in a diverse open source community and develop open source software The Apache Way. Many of past students are now active contributors to our projects. This year we hope to build on our previous successes and again build student interest and enthusiasm in The Apache Software Foundation. Our list of project ideas (at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks) already contains over 100 ideas spanning more than 25 Apache projects. But that's only what we have come up with. A lot of students have their very own itch to scratch and approach our projects with their own ideas. If you are enrolled as a university student and always wanted to get involved with Apache, here's is your chance. Browse our ideas list, approach the projects you are most interested in, discuss your ideas, get involved, code the summer away, and at the end, get a nice paycheck from Google! # # #
