'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 July 2015'

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List:       apache-announce
Subject:    The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 July 2015
From:       Sally Khudairi <sk () apache ! org>
Date:       2015-07-31 18:58:16
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We've had quite a productive week in ApacheLand --here's what happened: 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- Announcing Program for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe –EARLY \
REGISTRATION INCENTIVES END 1 AUGUST! http://s.apache.org/eg4 

ASF Board –the ASF Board is responsible for management and oversight of the \
                business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the \
                Foundation's Bylaws. 
- Upcoming Board Meeting: 19 August. 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. 
- 35,000+ weekly infrastructure checks yielded an awesome 99.91% uptime over the past \
week http://status.apache.org/ 


Apache NiFi™ –Big Data automation system acquires and delivers data easily, \
                securely, and reliably across enterprise systems in real time. 
- Apache NiFi 0.2.1 released http://nifi.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Portals™ Jetspeed –an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Information \
Portal, written entirely in Open Source under the Apache license in Java and XML and \
                based on open standards. 
- Apache Portals Jetspeed 2.3.0 released \
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html 

Apache SAMOA (Incubating) –a platform for mining Big Data streams. 
- Apache SAMOA 0.3.0-incubating released \
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/samoa/0.3.0-incubating/ 

Apache Wicket™ –with proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a \
refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing Web-apps simple and enjoyable \
                again. 
- Apache Wicket v7.0 released https://wicket.apache.org 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that discontinued, abandoned, or retired codebases/projects are stored \
in the Apache Attic? The information is preserved at http://attic.apache.org/ for \
posterity, reference, and potential future re-activation, while keeping it clearly \
distinct from active work. 

- Did you know that in addition to excellent sessions and networking opportunities \
those attending Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core in Budapest have much to enjoy \
in the city as well? http://www.corinthia.com/insider/2015/jul/24-hours-in-budapest 

- Did you know that the newly-designed Apache Projects page at \
https://projects.apache.org/ documents the evolution of the ASF's more than 300 \
projects, From Abdera to ZooKeeper, including charts, PMCs, languages, contributor \
trends, and more? 


Apache Community Notices:

- RIP, ASF Member Nóirín Plunkett https://www.apache.org/memorials/noirin.html 

- The updated list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at \
http://apache.org/events/meetups.html 

- The Bangalore Apache Spark Meetup will be held 1 August in Bangalore \
http://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/223706897/ 

- Data+Visualization Detroit will hold BIG Data Analytics via Hadoop Hive Webinar on \
1 August http://www.meetup.com/Data-Visualization-Detroit/events/223488118/ 

- The Hands on Spark MeetUp will be held 2 August in Sunnyvale \
http://www.meetup.com/Hands-On-Hadoop-Hive-and-Apache-Pig-Learning/events/224252053/ 

- Apache Spark will be featured in the Machine Learning Study Group on 2 August in \
San Diego http://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoAI/events/223988723/ 

- "Apache Spark: Spark Streaming, Dataframes, Zeppelin and more" will be held 3 \
August in Tel Aviv-Yafo http://www.meetup.com/israel-spark-users/events/224140512/ 

- The Cassandra MSP Meetup will be held 3 August in Minneapolis \
http://www.meetup.com/Minneapolis-St-Paul-Cassandra-Meetup/events/222802981/ 

- "Intro to Data Base Columnation with Apache Parquet" will be held 3 August in \
Addison http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Data-Science/events/223517154/ 

- The Summer CouchDB Meetup will be held 4 August in Boston \
http://www.meetup.com/CouchDB-Boston/events/223514352/ 

- The Apache Flink Crash Course will be held 4 August in Chicago \
http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/223983664/ 

- The CloudStack Silicon Valley MeetUp will be held 4 August in Santa Clara \
http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-Silicon-Valley-User-Group/events/223921012/ 

- "Hands on Introduction to Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Ambari & Pig: Part 1" will be held 4 \
August in Santa Clara \
http://www.meetup.com/HSquared-Hadoop-Hortonworks-User-Group/events/224152083/ 

- Apache Samza will be featured at the Hadoop Users Group UK MeetUp on 5 August in \
London http://www.meetup.com/hadoop-users-group-uk/events/223836730/ 

- Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark will be featured at the Phoenix Hadoop User Group \
on 5 August in Tempe \
http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Hadoop-User-Group/events/223611800/ 

- "Intro to Apache Spark for the Business Analyst" will be held 5 August in \
Washington, D.C. http://www.meetup.com/DC-Analytics-Meetup/events/223896875/ 

- The Brighton Java MeetUp will feature "So why would I use a distributed database \
like Apache Cassandra?" on 5 August \
http://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Java/events/223867043/ 

- The Berliner Apache Cordova Network will host the Hybrid Cordova Network on 5 \
August in Berlin http://www.meetup.com/Berliner-Apache-Cordova-Network/events/224231539/ \


- The Tampa Bay Hadoop Users Group will present "Apache Spark - what is all the hype \
about?" on 6 August in St. Petersburg \
http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/222808783/ 

- The Tokyo Spark Meetup will be held 6 August in Tokyo \
http://www.meetup.com/Tokyo-Spark-Meetup/events/223961183/ 

- The Istanbul Spark Meetup will host "Hadoop ile Merhaba Dünya (Workshop)" on 8 \
August in Istanbul http://www.meetup.com/Istanbul-Spark-Meetup/events/223599737/ 

- The Advanced Apache Spark Meetup will feature Apache Spark and Kafka on 10 August \
in Mountain View http://www.meetup.com/Advanced-Apache-Spark-Meetup/events/223910462/ \


- The Houston Hadoop Meetup Group will feature Apache Solr on 11 August \
http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/223231943/ 

- The Boston Area Cloud Foundry Meetup will feature Apache Mesos on 11 August in \
Cambridge http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/224306788/ 

- Code.Brew will feature "Enterprise Dataflow with Apache NiFi" on 13 August in \
Dulles http://www.meetup.com/Code-Brew/events/223935951/ 

- The Seattle JS MeetUp will host "Apache Cordova and Maker.js" on 13 August \
http://www.meetup.com/seattlejs/events/220102652/ 

- The NJ Data Science - Apache Spark MeetUp will present "Spark Streaming" on 13 \
August in Princeton http://www.meetup.com/nj-datascience/events/222851584/ 

- The Big Data & NoSQL Meetup Hamburg will feature Apache Spark on 13 August \
http://www.meetup.com/BDNSHH/events/223963763/ 

- The Bay Area Apache Flink Meetup announces a 20% discount code and presentation on \
Apache Flink at the Big Data Scala By the Bay Conference on 17 August in Oakland \
http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/224213826/ 

- Beta Test Apache Cassandra Certification will be held 17 August in Santa Clara \
http://www.meetup.com/DataStax-Cassandra-South-Bay-Users/events/224269417/ 

- The second annual MesosCon will be held 20-21 August in Seattle \
https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/ 

 - ASF Member Joan Touzet will keynote the Texas Linux Fest 21-22 August in San \
Marcos https://2015.texaslinuxfest.org/ 

- The Big Data Innovation conference will feature an "Apache Innovation" track 9-10 \
September in Boston http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston-2015/ \


- Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe will be held 28 September - 1 October \
in Budapest http://apachecon.com/ 

- The first Apache Flink Conference, Flink Forward, will be held 12-13 October in \
Berlin http://flink-forward.org 

- CFP open for Lucene/Solr Revolution, to be held 13-16 October in Austin \
http://www.lucenerevolution.org 

- The ASF FY 2014-2015 Annual Report is available at http://s.apache.org/ZVp 

- 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/featherwear and http://s.apache.org/landsend --all proceeds \
benefit the ASF! 

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