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List:       apache-announce
Subject:    The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 November 2015
From:       Sally Khudairi <sk () apache ! org>
Date:       2015-11-27 18:38:09
Message-ID: 140218613.14075203.1448649489283.JavaMail.yahoo () mail ! yahoo ! com
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> > this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/RK2

We appreciate you tuning in to review the activities over the past week at The Apache \
Software Foundation! Here's what happened: 

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. 
- Next Board Meeting: 16 December. 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. 
- 6M weekly checks yielded a grand 99.96% uptime over the past week \
http://status.apache.org/ Check against established SLAs \
http://status.apache.org/sla/ 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- Call For Participation: ApacheCon North America - Vancouver 11-13 May 2016 \
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp 

Apache Brooklyn™ –Open Source framework for modelling, deploying, monitoring, and \
                managing applications. 
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Brooklyn™ as a Top-Level \
Project http://s.apache.org/cZs 

Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known \
                Enterprise Integration Patterns. 
- Apache Camel 2.16.1 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html 

Apache Commons™ NET –library that contains a collection of network utilities and \
                protocol implementations. 
- Apache Commons NET 3.4 released http://commons.apache.org/net/ 

Apache Commons™ Validator –building blocks for both client and server side data \
                validation that may be used standalone or with a framework such as \
                Apache Struts. 
- Apache Commons Validator 1.5.0 released \
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/download_validator.cgi 

Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content \
repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and \
                other demanding content applications. 
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.24 and 1.2.8 released \
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Kafka™ –high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of \
                as a distributed commit log. 
- Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0 released \
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.9.0.0/kafka-0.9.0.0-src.tgz 

Apache Lens™ –Open Source unified analytics platform. 
- Apache Lens 2.4.0-beta released http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html 

Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents. 
- Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 RC2 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/ 

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, \
                JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket \
                technologies. 
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.29 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that you can now map an Apache Phoenix primary key column to the \
native row timestamp of Apache HBase? \
https://blogs.apache.org/phoenix/entry/new_optimization_for_time_series 

- Did you know that Apache Tinkerpop (incubating)'s Gremlin ( graph traversal machine \
and language) is Turing Complete? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tinkerpop.html \


- Did you know that in testing the Apache Project Maturity Model to assess an ASF \
podling's readiness to graduate as an Apache Top-Level Project (TLP), Groovy was used \
as the "guinea pig"? http://groovy.markmail.org/thread/zdbjrbrzip3t2xxy (and yes: it \
graduated!) 


Apache Community Notices: 

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

- "Get to know CouchDB" will be presented 27 November in Hamburg \
http://www.silpion.de/event/externes-silpion-knowhowcamp-no1/ 

- The ASF will be at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 30-31 January 2016 https://fosdem.org/ 

- The next CloudStack European User Group will be held 3 March 2016 in London \
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218 

- ApacheCon North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver \
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/ 

- The ASF Operations Summary: First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (May-July 2015) is \
available at http://s.apache.org/c2P 

- 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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