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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 March 2020

Farewell, March --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:

Break out the cake, balloons, and streamers! The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary 

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 April 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Event status details posted at: Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 881 Apache contributors changed 1,209,097 lines of code over 3,932 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Carlos Rovira, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andi Huber, Claus Ibsen, and Garren Smith.         

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Management --
 - Apache SkyWalking 7.0.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.11.4 released https://nifi.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.21 and 1.26.0 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.11.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/ 

Search --
 -  Apache Lucene 8.5.0 and Solr 8.5.0 released https://lucene.apache.org/   

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Chinese courier company Yunda Express uses Apache SkyWalking to ship critical supplies (masks, protective suits, medicine, and food) to those battling the COVID-19 coronavirus? http://skywalking.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that Apache Kudu has benchmarked ingesting 100B time series points per day? http://kudu.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rondônia, Brazil, offers free courses on Web development that include Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices:

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - Apache Month In Review: February 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Feb2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 07:30AM Mar 27, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 March 2020

Greetings everyone --let's review what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

In case you missed it: The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19 

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 April 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Event status details posted at: Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

Apache Community Development  – the committee that welcomes new participants to the Apache community and mentors them in "The Apache Way".
 - Warsaw, Poland, joins Indore, India and Beijing, China as the latest Apache Local Community (ALC) Chapter https://s.apache.org/o3ixu
 - About the Apache Local Community program https://s.apache.org/alc

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.95%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 910 Apache contributors changed 1,815,364 lines of code over 3,659 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Dan Haywood, Claus Ibsen, Julian Reschke, and Colm O hEigeartaigh.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.22.2 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
 - Apache Tika 1.24 released https://tika.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.50.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.103, 8.5.53, 9.0.33, and 10.0.0-M3 released https://tomcat.apache.org/   

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that more than 60% of Apache projects use Apache Maven for build management? https://maven.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that you can help the Apache Fluo project? Find out how at https://helpwanted.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that you can purchase swag (stickers, clothing, mugs, wall art, and more) for your favorite Apache projects at https://www.redbubble.com/people/comdev/shop ? Email dev@community.apache.org to have new projects added to the group!

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: February 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Feb2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 11:34AM Mar 20, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 March 2020

Greetings everyone --it's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:

The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19

Apache Month In Review – a summary of what the Apache community has been up to in February https://s.apache.org/Feb2020

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.66%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 861 Apache contributors changed 9,213,465 lines of code over 3,428 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Luca Burgazzoli, Mark Thomas, Jialin Qiao, and Carlos Rovira.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Calcite 1.22.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 - Apache Kafka 2.4.1 released https://kafka.apache.org/ 

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.18.5 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 17.12.01 released https://ofbiz.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Configuration 2.7 released https://commons.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker-J 8.0.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 2.5.10 and 3.0.2 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.48 released https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/  
 -  Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.12 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Templating --
 - Apache FreeMarker 2.3.30 released https://freemarker.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Apache mod_perl (20 years); Maven (17 years), Jackrabbit (14 years); Felix (13 years); Archiva (12 years); UIMA (10 years); Accumulo and Sqoop (8 years); Bloodhound, CloudStack, and cTAKES (7 years); Allura, Olingo, Tajo (6 years); Sentry (4 years); and FreeMarker (2 years). Many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that you can participate in the second annual Apache Druid community survey? https://surveymonkey.com/r/XGWX2BL

 - Did you know that Apache Brooklyn v1.0 implements the OASIS CAMP (Cloud Application Management for Platforms) and TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) standards? https://brooklyn.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: February 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Feb2020

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - Pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 05:12AM Mar 13, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 March 2020

Welcome, March! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "Google Summer of Code Mentorship --inside the GSoC 2019 Mentor Summit" by Sanyam Goel and Kevin A. McGrail https://s.apache.org/ejj5q   

Apache Month In Review – a summary what the Apache community has been up to in February 2020 https://s.apache.org/Feb2020

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

Apache Community Development  – the committee that welcomes new participants to the Apache community and mentors them in "The Apache Way".

 - Beijing, China, joins Indore, India, as the latest Apache Local Community (ALC) Chapter https://s.apache.org/t4m3x
 - About the Apache Local Community program https://s.apache.org/alc

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.87%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 824 Apache contributors changed 2,401,358 lines of code over 3,496 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, Paul J. Davis, and Tomaz Muraus.   

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache CouchDB 3.0.0 released https://couchdb.apache.org/
 - Apache HBase 1.4.13 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Cloud Computing --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache^® Brooklyn^TM v1.0 https://s.apache.org/ladi7

Databases --
 - Apache Derby 10.15.2.0 released https://db.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache PLC4X 0.6.0 released https://plc4x.apache.org/  

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.13.1 released https://logging.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.49.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 - Apache Curator 4.3.0 released https://curator.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 2.4.19 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Traffic Server 8.0.6 and 7.1.9 released https://trafficserver.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Netflix uses Apache Druid to manage its 1.5 trillion-row data warehouse requirements that include what users see when tapping the Netflix icon or logging in from a browser across platforms? http://druid.apache.org/

 - Did you know that the Apache Airflow community will be at Airflow Summit, 3-5 June in Mountain View? http://airflow.apache.org/

 - Did you know that WIRIS Math and Science uses ApacheMXNet to power MathType for Handwritten Math Recognition? https://mxnet.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: February 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Feb2020

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - Pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 05:06AM Mar 06, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Success at Apache: Google Summer of Code Mentorship --inside the GSoC 2019 Mentor Summit

by Sanyam Goel & Kevin A. McGrail

Sanyam first came to the ASF as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student in 2017; since then he has become a committer and contributor to Apache Fineract and active participant with Apache community initiatives. Sanyam, along with Kevin (a.k.a. “KAM”), a long-time  ASF Member involved with the Apache Incubator and SpamAssassin projects, were selected to represent the Apache Software Foundation at GSoC’s 2019 Mentor Summit.

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their break from university.

Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together 15,000+ student participants and 25,000+ mentors from over 118 countries worldwide. Google Summer of Code has produced 36,000,000+ lines of code for 686 open source organizations.

As a part of Google Summer of Code, student participants are paired with a mentor from the participating organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development and techniques. Students have the opportunity to spend the break between their school semesters earning a stipend while working in areas related to their interests.

About the ASF and GSOoC: “The Apache Software Foundation has been a GSoC mentoring organization every year since the program’s inception. As a mentoring organization, the ASF is able to draw attention and new talent to many of its projects; Apache projects benefit from contributions and galvanize new community members by mentoring students; and students have an invaluable opportunity to gain experience by working directly with the individuals behind Apache projects. This, in turn, enriches the Apache community as a whole, and furthers the ASF’s mission of providing software for the public good.”

At the ASF, GSoC is overseen by Apache Community Development (“ComDev”), the committee that welcomes new participants to the Apache community and mentors them in “The Apache Way”. Former ComDev VP and Google Summer of Code administrator Ulrich Stärk, along with Apache OpenMeetings VP and GSoC mentor, Maxim Solodovnik, helped lead the ASF’s participation in GSoC this year, with the support of numerous Apache community members.

The ASF provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process known as “The Apache Way”, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.

As we gear up for Google Summer of Code 2020, we wanted to take a moment and share some of the experiences from last year’s GSOC!

In Google Summer of Code 2019, 23 students were selected by a careful analysis and ranking.  17 students successfully completed their Google Summer of Code projects with the support of 45 mentors spread across dozens of Apache projects that include Allura, AsterixDB, Beam, Camel, Fineract, Gora, Kudu, Mnemonic, Nemo (Incubating), OODT, SpamAssassin, and more.

Quick Report on the GSoC 2019 Numbers for Apache.org:

Accepted projects: 23

1st evaluation: 22 passed, 1 failed

2nd evaluation: 17 passed, 5 failed

3rd evaluation: all passed

Total Apache Mentors: 45

Sanyam and KAM were lucky enough to be selected as the delegates of the Apache Software Foundation for the GSoC Mentor Summit & the 15th GSoC anniversary.

On 10th March 2019 we got our invitations from Google: “You have been invited to be a Mentor for The Apache Software Foundation in Google Summer of Code 2019”.

With this invitation, there comes a huge pool of responsibilities to mentor students.  For Sanyam, it was his first time to provide mentorship at such a great level and to drive the complete project with the college student.

Sanyam: “By providing the complete guidance throughout the GSoC Period at the same time, though I had provided mentorship to at the university level to juniors in college. I also learned to manage the project and how to play the role of project lead to fulfill the project with the timelines with the student.

I was really excited to meet Google Open Source team in person and Kevin A. Mc Grail (KAM) along with 332 mentors from 162 organizations and 42 countries to share their ideas about open source and to discuss their experience of GSoC 2019. I would like to thank Ulrich Stärk and Maxim Solodovnik for serving as an organization admin for the ASF community.”

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Day 1: Thursday | Munich, Germany - Marriott München

Day 1 of the summit is started by checkin into the Marriott Hotel, where we met the Google OPSO team just near the entrance and reception of the hotel.

Google OPSO team was very welcoming and welcomed every mentor by providing a Goodie bag along with a mouth watering sweet.

At the reception, we met Mario Behling from FOSSASIA community along with mentors from various organisations like Mifos Initiative, SCoRE Labs and DBpedia where we talked about the pocket science project. 

Then we all headed to lunch, where we met dove into the discussions about the OSS and how umbrella organisation manages the student applications to select the students for Google Summer of Code.

GSoC Mentor Summit started with the opening reception dinner along with opening notes from the Google OPSO team which lead to a small game named as person scavenger hunt which had a sole purpose to connect and meet the mentors from different organisations and to interact with them to discuss more about open source with some drinks and food.

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Day 2: Friday | Munich, Germany - Fun Day (City Scavenger hunt / Castle Tour)

On the celebration of the 15th anniversary of GSoC, Google allocated an extra day this year at the mentor summit for fun activities like Castle tour and City Scavenger hunt.

Sanyam participated in the Scavenger hunt where some group of mentors had to explore the city on their own to find the clues and the top 2 teams got the prize. Sanyam was lucky enough to be with the winners team. And some mentors like KAM went for a really nice castle tour thanks to our host, Google.

The day ended up with informal conversations among the mentors over dinner and games in the ballroom of the Marriott.

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Day 3: Saturday | Munich, Germany - Unconferences (Yay!!)

Day 3 was one of the most exciting days at the event. We had a lot of sessions organized by different organisations in the form of an unconference, which is “a loosely structured conference emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured programme of events.”

Mentors organized the unconference sessions on Saturday and Sunday. The unconference slots were planned with two rounds of lightning talks but ended with three rounds of lightning talks :-). A lightning talk is a platform for organisations to present on the work of their GSoC 2019 and GCI 2018 for 3 minutes. KAM also presented a lightning talk for ASF and Apache SpamAssassin on Saturday morning.

After lunch, all the mentors and the Google OPSO team gathered in a lawn just outside the Marriott for a group photograph.

[“GSoC 2019 Mentors Photo”]

We were involved in various unconferences sessions like:

How to get more Women interested in FOSS

The Fundraising Session (Presented by Kevin A. McGrail)

Source code preservation

Google Season of Docs (GSoD)

Intro to licenses and why we need them

After attending all the talks, we also discussed how to retain students after the completion of the GSoC period.

After the last lightning talk we all managed to spend some more time together to enjoy dinner, playing foosball, making funny poses on the photo booth along with enjoying the famous chocolate room (Oh, did we forget to mention about the famous chocolate table? This year, Google managed to have a complete room of chocolates!) where mentors across the globe shared the local country chocolates with each other!

Day 4: Sunday | Munich, Germany - Final day  :( 

Unfortunately, it was the last day of the mentor summit. The day started with continuation of lightning talks where Sanyam and KAM almost managed to attend all the lightning talks and got to know more about the other GSoC organisations and their amazing projects from GSoC 2019.

We attended some more unconference sessions on the following topics

GCI Info & Feedback with Google

GSoC Feedback session

Breaking the barrier for the newcomers

Interviews at Silicon Valley

Then we all headed for the final lunch of the summit.  By this point, most of us knew each other and some are planning to extend the trip by visiting some other cities, or some are planning to return back to their home countries. We all gathered for the closing session and all mentors had made a great network of cool people in the open source community!

We have also met a lot of mentors who were previously GSoC students. We had a lot of discussions about the experiences of being a student as well as a mentor, what motivated them to become a mentor and how they're contributing to their community.

Left to Right: Joey Schlichting, Sanyam Goel & Kevin A. McGrail

Overall, it was one of the lifetime experiences for every representative. The trip was full of memories and we got to learn so much, we also made new and special friends throughout the summit.

The GSoC Mentor Summit-2019 was a wonderful experience and we would like to thank the Google, The Apache Software Foundation, and once again, the ASF GSoC Organisation Admins, Ulrich Stärk and Maxim Solodovnik and the event hosts from the Google Open Source Team.

GSoC 2020 is underway now and we are just gathering project ideas and mentors.  Students looking to get involved, please see http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

Sanyam Goel started his journey with ASF by participating in GSoC 2017 as a student and continued contributing actively to OSS, currently serving as a committer of Apache Fineract. He also participated as a mentor in Google Code In and Outreachy programs for Mifos Initiative and DIAL community and always keen to spread the word about OSS to create an impact around the globe and focus on reducing the barriers for newcomers into OSS.

Kevin A. McGrail, better known as KAM, is a VP emeritus of the Apache SpamAssassin project where he has battled spammers for years.  In addition to helping the SpamAssassin project, he has served as in the office of treasurer and fundraising for the Apache Software Foundation.  He is also a member of the Apache Incubator project where he mentors new projects at the ASF including echarts, IoTDB & brpc. In his $dayjob, he works at InfraShield.com doing cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.

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"Success at Apache" is a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works" https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache 

Posted at 12:42AM Mar 04, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: February 2020

Welcome to the second monthly overview of events from the Apache community, brought to you by the just-released Apache Roller, v.6.0 (Roller is our blogging software that we use every day). Here's a summary of what happened in February:

New this month --

 - Happy 25th Anniversary, Apache HTTP Server! http://httpd.apache.org/

 - Happy 20th Anniversary, Apache Subversion! https://s.apache.org/ApacheSVN20

 - "Success at Apache: Literally" by Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/xjcrj

 - Apache Month in Review: January 2020 https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20200205

Important Dates --

 - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

 - Apache Roadshow/DC 25 March --Registration Open; Sponsorships available-- topics include Apache Projects and CARE Initiatives, Cybersecurity, and Start‑Ups. Held in partnership with George Mason University https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/

 - Apache Roadshow/Chicago 18-19 May --CFP Open; Sponsorships available-- https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20

 - Apache Roadhshow/Seattle 10-12 June --Sponsorships available https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20

 - ApacheCon North America/New Orleans 28 September-2 October --CFP Open; Sponsorships available-- tracks include Big Data, Cloud, Community, Content Delivery, FinTech, Geospatial, Graphing, IoT, Observability, Search, Servers, and more. https://www.apachecon.com/

Infrastructure --

Our seven-member Infrastructure team on three continents oversees our highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein. ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, more than half a petabyte of software source releases, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+ lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are available around the clock. The average uptime in February was 99.91%.

Committer Activity --

New releases from Apache Arrow (Big Data); Avro (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Commons (Libraries); DeltaSpike (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); Groovy (Programming Languages); Guacamole (Network-Client); HBase (Big Data); HttpComponents (Servers); Jackrabbit (Content); Kylin (Big Data); NiFi (Big Data); OFBiz (ERP); PDFBox (Content); POI (Content); Qpid (Messaging); Tomcat (Servers); Velocity (Libraries).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. Releases from incubating podlings include APISIX (Cloud-native microservices API gateway) and Milagro (Cryptography) ...also, welcome NLPCraft (Java API for NLU apps) as the latest podling undergoing development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/

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Posted at 11:58PM Mar 01, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 February 2020

Farewell, February --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:

Happy 20th Anniversary Apache Subversion! Huzzah to the community-led version control software and source code management tool https://s.apache.org/ApacheSVN20

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 1) Apache Roadshow/DC --25 March in CHANTILLY, VA. Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Apache Projects & CARE Initiatives (with George Mason University Center for Assurance Research & Engineering); Cybersecurity; and Open Source Software in Start-Ups. https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/
 2) Apache Roadshow/Chicago --18-19 May in CHICAGO, IL. CFP open. Sponsorship opportunities available. https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20/
 3) Apache Roadshow/Seattle --10-12 June in REDMOND, WA. Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Data and Analytics, ML and AI, Java, Cloud, Containers, Servers, and Web Frameworks. https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20
 4) ApacheCon North America --28 September - 2 October in NEW ORLEANS, LA. CFP open; Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Big Data Integration, Community, IoT, Search, Geospatial, Graphing, Integration, Servers, and more. Apache Project content includes Camel, Cassandra, Cloudstack, Fineract, Flagon, Gobblin, Groovy, HTTP Server, Ignite, Karaf, Observability, Solr/Lucene, Tomcat, and Traffic Server/Traffic Control, among others. https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 908 Apache contributors changed 12,988,552 lines of code over 3,974 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Paul Davis, Nick Vatamaniuc, Carlos Rovira, Andrea Cosentino, and Nicola Ferraro. 

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX 1.1 and Dashboard 1.0 (Incubating) released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.11.2 and 1.11.3 released https://nifi.apache.org/
 - Apache Kylin 2.6.5 and 3.0.1 released https://kylin.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.19 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 5.0 GA released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that new podlings undergoing development in the Apache Incubator include NLPCraft (natural language processing resource scheduler), NuttX (real-time embedded operating system), and YuniKorn (standalone Big Data resource scheduler)?http://incubator.apache.org/projects/#current

 - Did you know that Target uses Apache Druid for their enterprise-scale dashboarding/analytics platform? http://druid.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Apache Open Office has a new English dictionaries extension release? http://openoffice.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: January 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/1bbb1

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - Pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 07:01AM Feb 28, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 February 2020

It's Friday already! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:

Happy 25th Anniversary Apache HTTP Server! Raise a glass to the project and community that started it all. Hats off for its longevity as the world's most popular Web server for a quarter century. Many happy returns http://httpd.apache.org/

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 1) Apache Roadshow/DC --25 March in CHANTILLY, VA. Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Apache Projects & CARE Initiatives (with George Mason University Center for Assurance Research & Engineering); Cybersecurity; and Open Source Software in Start-Ups. https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/
 2) Apache Roadshow/Chicago --18-19 May in CHICAGO, IL. CFP open. Sponsorship opportunities available. https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20/
 3) Apache Roadshow/Seattle --10-12 June in REDMOND, WA. Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Data and Analytics, ML and AI, Java, Cloud, Containers, Servers, and Web Frameworks. https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20
 4) ApacheCon North America --28 September - 2 October in NEW ORLEANS, LA. CFP open; Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Big Data Integration, Community, IoT, Search, Geospatial, Graphing, Integration, Servers, and more. Apache Project content includes Camel, Cassandra, Cloudstack, Fineract, Flagon, Gobblin, Groovy, HTTP Server, Ignite, Karaf, Observability, Solr/Lucene, Tomcat, and Traffic Server/Traffic Control, among others. https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.93%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 810 Apache contributors changed 4,791,832 lines of code over 3,495 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, Bharath Vissapragadam, and Carlos Rovira.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Avro 1.9.2 released https://avro.apache.org/
 - Apache HBase 2.1.9 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.0 and Oak 1.4.26 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
 - Apache POI 4.1.2 released https://poi.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker-J 7.1.8 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 3.0.1 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.100 released https://tomcat.apache.org/
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that newcomers to Apache are encouraged to get started and learn about The Apache Way with the friendly folks at ASF's Community Development (ComDev) project? http://community.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Boston Children's Hospital uses Apache cTAKES to link phenotypic and genomic data for the Precision Link Biobank? http://ctakes.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Netflix uses Apache Druid to optimize streaming in real time? http://druid.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: January 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/1bbb1

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - Pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 06:18AM Feb 21, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 February 2020

Happy Friday (and Valentine's Day for those who celebrate) --let's review what the Apache community has been up to 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 February 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 1) Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available: Apache Roadshow/DC --25 March in CHANTILLY, VA. Topics include Apache Projects & CARE Initiatives (with  George Mason University Center for Assurance Research & Engineering); Cybersecurity; and Open Source Software in Start-Ups. https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/
 2) CFP open. Sponsorship opportunities available: Apache Roadshow/Chicago --18-19 May in CHICAGO, IL. https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20/
 3) Sponsorship opportunities available. Apache Roadshow/Seattle --10-12 June in REDMOND, WA. Topics include Data and Analytics, ML and AI, Java, Cloud, Containers, Servers, and Web Frameworks. https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20
 4) CFP open; Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available: ApacheCon North America --28 September - 2 October in NEW ORLEANS, LA. Topics include Big Data Integration, Community, IoT, Search, Geospatial, Graphing, Integration, Servers, and more. Apache Project content includes Camel, Cassandra, Cloudstack, Fineract, Flagon, Gobblin, Groovy, HTTP Server, Ignite, Karaf, Observability, Solr/Lucene, Tomcat, and Traffic Server/Traffic Control, among others. https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.85%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 943 Apache contributors changed 3,276,658 lines of code over 3,818 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Tarocchi, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Lukasz Lenart, and Duo Zhang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Arrow 0.16.0 released https://arrow.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.22.1 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Cryptography
 - Apache Milagro (Incubating) Crypto-C V2.0.1 released https://milagro.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Compress 1.20 released https://commons.apache.org/compress/
 - Apache Commons CSV 1.8 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 3.0.0 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.51 and 9.0.31 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache Impala now supports Apache Hudi (incubating), Hive, and ORC? http://impala.apache.org/

 - Did you know that the Apache NetBeans C/C++ donation by Oracle is nearing completion? Review and final stage countdown is on https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc62f519d5a203d1624cbc5116e0db399fed8ce7560bc7594a93e6fd8%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E

 - Did you know that you can access your favorite Apache project logos at http://apache.org/logos/ ?

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: January 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/1bbb1

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 05:44AM Feb 14, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 February 2020

Welcome, February! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:

ASF Security Report 2019 – the state of security across all Apache projects with key metrics, specific vulnerabilities, and the most common ways users of ASF projects were affected by security issues https://s.apache.org/tbyxg

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "Success at Apache: Literally" by Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/xjcrj

Apache Month In Review: January 2020 – a new monthly overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/1bbb1

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 February 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - CFP Open: ApacheCon North America - 28 September - 2 October - tracks include Big Data, Cloud, Community, Content Delivery, FinTech, Geospatial, Graphing, IoT, Observability, Search, Servers, and more. https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Registration Open: Apache Roadshow/DC - 25 March - topics include Apache projects in CARE initiatives, cybersecurity, start-ups, and more. https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.89%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 879 Apache contributors changed 2,008,768 lines of code over 3,559 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, and Tilman Hausherr.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Flink 1.9.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.19.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache NiFi 1.11.1 released https://nifi.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.20 and 1.8.20 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 16.11.07 released https://ofbiz.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Velocity Engine 2.2 released https://velocity.apache.org/
 - Apache DeltaSpike 1.9.3 released https://deltaspike.apache.org/

Network Client --
 - Apache Guacamole 1.1.0 released https://guacamole.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating their anniversaries this month? Many happy returns to Apache HTTP Server (25 years!); Gump and Portals (16 years); Directory, MyFaces, and Xerces (15 years); Tapestry (14 years); Roller (13 years); Cassandra and Subversion (10 years); Chemistry (9 years); BVal and OpenNLP (8 years); Clerezza and Crunch (7 years); Knox, Open Climate Workbench, and Spark (6 years); DataFu (2 years); and Unomi (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that, over past year, the ASF processed 759 Individual Contributor License Agreements, 34 Corporate Contributor License Agreements, and 40 Software Grants? https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - Did you know that Apache Airflow is having its first MeetUp in Bangalore? http://airflow.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 05:20AM Feb 07, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: January 2020

We're pleased to introduce a new monthly overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community. Below is the wrap-up of our activities in January:

New this month --

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - Apache Software Foundation 2019 Security Report https://s.apache.org/tbyxg

 - Launch of 2020 ASF Community Survey https://s.apache.org/pzol5

 - Update on "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

Important Dates --

 - Registration open: Apache Roadshow/DC 25 March --tracks include Apache Projects and CARE Initiatives, Cybersecurity, and Start‑Ups. https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/

 - Now open: CFP for ApacheCon North America --tracks include Big Data, Cloud, Community, Content Delivery, FinTech, Geospatial, Graphing, IoT, Observability, Search, Servers, and more. https://www.apachecon.com/

 - Next Board Meeting: 19 February 2020. http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Infrastructure --

The ASF's distributed, seven-member Infrastructure team oversees our highly-reliable, distributed network under the leadership of VP Infrastructure David Nalley and Infrastructure Administrator Greg Stein. ASF Infrastructure supports 300+ Apache projects and their communities across ~200 individual machines, 1,400+ repositories, more than half a petabyte of software source releases, and 2-3M daily emails on 2,000+ lists. ASF Infra performs 7M+ weekly checks to ensure services are available around the clock. The average uptime in January was 99.94%.

Committer Activity --

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Beam (Big Data), Commons Codec (Libraries), Commons VFS (Libraries), Crail (incubating; Libraries), Daffodil (incubating; Libraries), Drill (Big Data), Druid (Big Data), Geode (Big Data), Groovy (Programming Languages), HttpComponents (4 releases; Servers), IoTDB (incubating; IoT); Jackrabbit (5 releases; Content), Juneau (Libraries), Libcloud (2 releases; Cloud Computing), Lucene/Solr (2 releases; Search), NiFi (Big Data), OpenNLP (Machine Learning), OpenWebBeans (Libraries), Parquet (Big Data), Pulsar (Messaging), Qpid (Messaging), SpamAssassin (Mail), and Wicket (2 releases; Web Frameworks).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. YuniKorn (Resource Scheduler) is the latest podling undergoing development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/

The Apache Attic provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life. Apache ODE (Orchestration) has retired to the Attic https://attic.apache.org/

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Posted at 06:58PM Feb 05, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 January 2020

Farewell, January --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 February 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - CFPs OPEN: Apache Roadshow/DC and ApacheCon North America https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 746 Apache contributors changed 1,854,769 lines of code over 3,280 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Dan Haywood, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Jarek Potiuk.     

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Druid 0.17.0 released http://druid.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.18.0 released http://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache NiFi 1.11.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache Libcloud 3.0.0-rc1 released https://libcloud.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.8 and 1.24.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.14 released http://openwebbeans.apache.org/

Mail --
 - Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.4 released http://spamassassin.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 5.0 beta7 (GA candidate) released https://hc.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache Flink supports schema migration on its state so that application changes can be made without having to start from square one? https://flink.apache.org/

 - Did you know that tracks for ApacheCon North America include Big Data integration/Gobblin (incubating), Apache Camel/Integration, Cassandra, CloudStack, Community, Content Delivery, Fineract, Flagon (incubating), Geospatial, Graph, Groovy, HTTP Server/Web, Ignite, Internet of Things, Karaf, Observability, Solr/Lucene/Search, and Tomcat? https://s.apache.org/cfp2020

 - Did you know that Amazon, DataStax, IBM, Microsoft, Neo4j, and many others use Apache Tinkerpop? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/providers.html

Apache Community Notices:

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 06:01AM Jan 31, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 24 January 2020

Happy Friday! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 February 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - CFPs OPEN: Apache Roadshow/DC and ApacheCon North America https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 860 Apache contributors changed 3,062,286 lines of code over 3,401 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Dan Haywood, Andi Huber, Jarek Potiuk, Andrea Cosentino, and Kaxil Naik.

Apache Incubator – the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation.
 - Welcome APISIX, NuttX, StreamPipes, and TubeMQ as new podlings undergoing development http://incubator.apache.org/

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.25 and 1.8.19 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Juneau 8.1.3 released http://juneau.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Pulsar 2.5.0 released http://pulsar.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.11 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that ASF Conferences has 6 events planned this year: Apache Roadshows in Washington DC, Chicago, and Seattle, plus Europe and China, as well as ApacheCon in New Orleans? https://www.apachecon.com/

 - Did you know that in 2019 the Top 5 Apache Project repositories by commits, in order, were: Camel, HBase, Flink, Beam, and Hadoop? https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - Did you know that the German virtual coaching app Dranbleiben is powered by Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 10:22AM Jan 24, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 17 January 2020

Greetings everyone --it's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:

Watch the first teaser for "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation, which resumed filming during ApacheCon 2019 https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 February 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - CFP OPEN: Apache Roadshow/DC https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/index.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.83%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 903 Apache contributors changed 2,766,467 lines of code over 3,961 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Dan Haywood, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Thomas, Andi Huber, and Daniel Sun.   

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Attic --
 - Apache ODE retired https://attic.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Parquet Format 2.8.0 released https://parquet.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Jackrabbit Oak 1.22.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.9.1 released http://iotdb.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Daffodil (Incubating) 2.5.0 https://daffodil.apache.org/
 - Apache Crail (Incubating) 1.2 released https://crail.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker-J 7.1.7 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 3.0.0-rc-3 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.4.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.13 released https://hc.apache.org/

Web Framework --
 - Apache Wicket 9.0.0-M4 released https://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that new podlings undergoing development in the Apache Incubator include projects in microservices, embedded operating systems, IoT data streams, messaging queues, transactional frameworks, and batch implementations? http://incubator.apache.org/

 - Did you know that, in 2019, more than 75% of contributors were new to Apache? https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - Did you know that 2019's Top 5 Apache Project repositories by size (Lines of Code) were: NetBeans (8,354,466); OpenOffice (7,828,646); Flex (whiteboard: 5,233,277); Mynewt (core: 4,108.323); Flex (SDK: 3,933,522)? https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 12:23PM Jan 17, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 January 2020

Happy Friday, everyone --let's review what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 January 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - CFP OPEN: Apache Roadshow/DC https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/index.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 886 Apache contributors changed 1,134,112 lines of code over 3,651 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Michał Narajowski, Dan Haywood, Andrea Cosentino, and Andi Huber.           

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.20.0 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Codec 1.14 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/

Machine Learning --
 - Apache OpenNLP 1.9.2 released https://opennlp.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta11 (GA candidate) released https://hc.apache.org

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 7.16.0 and 8.7.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that 200M+ lines of Apache code are stewarded by the ASF's all-volunteer community, comprising 765 individual Members, 206 Apache Project Management Committees (PMCs), and more than 7,200 Committers? https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Apache Cocoon, James, and Web Services (17 years); Lucene (15 years); ActiveMQ (13 years); Hadoop (12 years); River (9 years); Empire-db and Gora (7 years); OpenMeetings (7 years); Samza (5 years); Arrow (4 years); Ranger (3 years). Many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that new entries in the Apache Incubator include projects in IIoT data analytics; real-time embedded operating systems; and distributed messaging queues? http://incubator.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - CFP and pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

Posted at 09:12AM Jan 10, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   |