What am I looking at? The above image illustrates the social network of posts and responses to the Apache OpenOffice project's main development mailing list, from when it started in May 2011 until the end of March 2013 when this data was collected. (Click on the image to view a larger version) Each circle represents a... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:54PM Apr 17, 2013 by robweir in General
The Apache Flex team is pleased to announce the availability of the Apache Flex SDK Installer 2.5.4 release. The source distributions and installer binaries can be downloaded here: http://flex.apache.org/installer.html *About the Apache Flex SDK Installer* The Apache Flex SDK Installer AIR application provides an easy, single-click installation of the... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:05PM Apr 11, 2013 by quetwo in General
Once again the Apache Software Foundation is a " mentoring organization " in Google Summer of Code, and the Apache OpenOffice project looks forward to this year's program. We invite students looking to get their hands dirty with real-world code to consider submitting an GSoC application related to OpenOffice. Why... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:19PM Apr 10, 2013 by robweir in General
Apache CouchDB 1.3.0 has been released and is available for download. CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents with your web browser, via HTTP. Query, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You can even serve web... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:30PM Apr 09, 2013 by Noah in Release
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of Open Source community leadership Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev) project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization for the eighth consecutive year. ... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:00PM Apr 09, 2013 by Sally in General
Apache Struts 2 recommended as an elegant Open Source, extensible successor framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– WHO: The Apache Software Foundation's Apache Struts Project, creators of leading Open Source solutions for creating Java web applications. ... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:01PM Apr 09, 2013 by Sally in General
Open Source natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache cTAKES has... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:00PM Apr 09, 2013 by Sally in General
The Apache CloudStack community has been heads-down for the last week working out the remaining bugs for the 4.1.0 release. Chatter on the dev@ mailing list has been a little muted, comparatively, but there's still plenty of interest in this week's roundup of major discussions and CloudStack community activity. This week, we look at the... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:07AM Apr 09, 2013 by jzb in News
The April 2014 deadline Microsoft has announced that they will end support of Office 2003 and Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. What does this mean? As they describe, "After April 8, 2014, there will be no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates." ... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:36PM Apr 08, 2013 by robweir in General
We receive many questions from users looking for a portable version of Apache OpenOffice. "Portable Applications" are software applications designed or adapted to run from portable storage, like a USB memory stick, without requiring an installation. Such applications allow you to bring your applications, settings and documents with... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:12PM Apr 04, 2013 by robweir in General
Apache CouchDB 1.2.2 has been released and is available for download. CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents with your web browser, via HTTP. Query, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You can even serve web... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:01PM Apr 02, 2013 by Noah in Release
Open Source Development Collaboration Tool Provides Intuitive Management of Software Projects and Issue Tracking for Global Organizations of All Sizes Forest Hill, MD –2 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:00PM Apr 02, 2013 by Sally in General
Welcome to the April 1 issue of the Apache CloudStack Weekly News. Don't worry, no foolishness in this issue – just a quick recap of the week's most important events. As you recall, we officially announced that the CloudStack project was graduating from the incubator last week. Though there were no events quite of that magnitude this week,... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:30PM Apr 01, 2013 by jzb in News
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Traffic Server project are pleased to announce the release of Apache Traffic Server v3.3.1-dev. This is our latest development release, and is available from http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads This release includes well over 100 fixes and feature changes since v3.3.0-dev. New features... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:43AM Mar 26, 2013 by jpeach in Releases
Apache CloudStack has graduated from the Apache Incubator! The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board met on Wednesday (March 20) and voted in favor of the project's graduation from the incubator. The official announcement was released on Monday, March 25, 2013 . Of course, that's not all that's happened. in the past week. Work on the... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:15PM Mar 25, 2013 by jzb in News
Mature, open source turn-key platform for delivering scalable, full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Forest Hill, MD – 25 March 2013 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 open source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache CloudStack has... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:00PM Mar 25, 2013 by jzb in News
Mature, Open Source turn-key platform widely used for delivering scalable, full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Forest Hill, MD –25 March 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:00PM Mar 25, 2013 by Sally in General
What is Document Freedom Day? Document Freedom Day, this year on March 27th, is a global celebration of open standards, especially ones that are used in your documents. At Apache OpenOffice, we're strong supporters of open standards and we're pleased to join in this year's celebration. But we're much more than passive... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:25PM Mar 22, 2013 by robweir in General
Big news this week: Apache CloudStack has passed major milestones towards graduation, major progress on bugs against 4.1.0, discussions about integrating the Palo Alto firewall with CloudStack, and getting Eclipse and Maven to play nice for developers. Some interesting posts from members of the Apache CloudStack community as well. Want to keep reading... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:25PM Mar 18, 2013 by jzb in News
