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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 August 2019 '
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<p>Welcome August!! --let's take a look back at what the collective Apache community has been working on over the past week:</p>
<p>ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 21 August 2019. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998</p>
<p> - Register today for ApacheCon North America and Europe. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin! <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/">https://www.apachecon.com/</a></p>
<p>ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 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. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a></p>
<p>Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 851 Apache contributors changed 7,567,471 lines of code over 3,914 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Etienne Chauchot, Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, and Juan Pan.</p>
<p>Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.</p>
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Cloud -- <br/><br />
- Apache VCL 2.5.1 released <a href="http://vcl.apache.org/"> http://vcl.apache.org/ </a></p>
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Content Management -- <br/><br />
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.16.0 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org"> http://jackrabbit.apache.org </a></p>
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Data Management Platform -- <br/><br />
- Apache Rya (Incubating) 4.0.0 released <a href="http://rya.incubator.apache.org/"> http://rya.incubator.apache.org/ </a></p>
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Libraries -- <br/><br />
- Apache Commons Pool 2.7.0 released <a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/"> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/ </a> <br/><br />
- Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.5.0 released <a href="http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/"> http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/ </a></p>
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Servers -- <br/><br />
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.96 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"> http://tomcat.apache.org/ </a></p></p>
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<strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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- Did you know that new workshops on Apache OpenWhisk and Apache Spark/Scala Hands-on have just been added to the ApacheCon Las Vegas schedule? <a href="https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/s/#/schedule/2019-09-09">https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/s/#/schedule/2019-09-09 </a>
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- Did you know that 11-year-old ApacheCon Las Vegas keynoter Samaira Mehta will be holding “Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code”, a one-hour Hackathon to help kids of all ages (first grade and up) learn how to code? Join us: advanced sign-up required at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-1-billion-kids-can-code-registration-66834093573">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-1-billion-kids-can-code-registration-66834093573 </a>
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- Did you know that ApacheCon Berlin keynoters include Thomas Gageik, Director of Digital Business Solutions at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics; Miguel Gamiño, Executive Vice President Global Cities at Mastercard; and Nanjala Nyabola, noted attorney, writer, and a political analyst? Sign up today <a href="https://aceu19.apachecon.com/">https://aceu19.apachecon.com/ </a>
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<p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
<p> - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary">https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary</a></p>
<p> - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on</a></p>
<p> - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success <a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a></p>
<p> - Foundation Reports and Statements <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html</a></p>
<p> - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 <a href="http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon">http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon</a></p>
<p> - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/d2Fq">https://s.apache.org/d2Fq</a></p>
<p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</a></p>
<p> - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement <a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p>
<p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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<p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a></p>
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<p> - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</a> and on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation">https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation</a></p>
<p> - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/</a>and Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity</a></p>
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<p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html">http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html</a></p>
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<p> - Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
<p> - Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam <font color="#bb0000"><a href="https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/">https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/</a></font></p>
<p> - Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
<p> - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p>
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<div>For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetApache">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div>
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