Monday November 04, 2019

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® SINGA™ as a Top-Level Project

Open Source machine learning library in use at Citigroup, NetEase, and Singapore General Hospital, among others.

Wakefield, MA —4 November 2019— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® SINGA™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP).

Apache SINGA is an Open Source distributed, scalable machine learning library. The project was originally developed in 2014 at the National University of Singapore, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator in March 2015.

"We are excited that SINGA has graduated from the Apache Incubator," said Wei Wang, Vice President of Apache SINGA and Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. "The SINGA project started at the National University of Singapore, in collaboration with Zhejiang University, focusing on scalable distributed deep learning. In addition to scalability, during the incubation process, built multiple versions to improve the project’s usability and efficiency. Incubating SINGA at the ASF brought opportunities to collaborate, grew our community, standardize the development process, and more."

Apache SINGA is a distributed machine learning library that facilitates the training of large-scale machine learning (especially deep learning) models over a cluster of machines. Various optimizations on efficiency, memory, communication and synchronization are implemented to speed it up and scale it out. Currently, the Apache SINGA project is working on SINGA-lite for deep learning on edge devices with 5G, and SINGA-easy for making AI usable by domain experts (without deep AI background).

Apache SINGA is in use at organizations such as Carnegie Technologies, CBRE, Citigroup, JurongHealth Hospital, National University of Singapore, National University Hospital, NetEase, Noblis, Shentilium Technologies, Singapore General Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, YZBigData, and others. Apache SINGA is used across applications in banking, education, finance, healthcare, real estate, software development, and other categories.

"So glad to see the first Apache project focusing on distributed deep learning become a Top-Level Project," said Beng Chin Ooi, Distinguished Professor of National University of Singapore who initialized the SINGA project, and a member of the Apache SINGA Project Management Committee. "It is essential to scale deep learning via distributed computing as the deep learning models are typically large and trained over big datasets, which may take hundreds of days using a single GPU."

"I am glad to witness the graduation of Apache SINGA as a TLP," said Gang Chen, Professor and Dean of Zhejiang University and Dean of ZJU-NetEase research lab. "We will continue to contribute to the development and use it for industry applications such as smart fabric printing, e-commerce recommendation and smart cities."

"Apache SINGA has a flexible distributed training framework," said Sheng Wang, Research Scientist at the DAMO Academy of Alibaba and a member of the Apache SINGA Project Management Committee. "SINGA can implement multiple popular distributed training strategies, including synchronous and asynchronous training. It achieved excellent scalability in comparison with other deep learning platforms."

"Apache SINGA has been applied to support many different healthcare applications at MZH Technologies," said Zhongle Xie, CTO of Hangzhou MZH Technologies and a member of the Apache SINGA Project Management Committee. "The performance of disease diagnoses based on X-Ray images could even pass the radiologists. We also built a food recognition app using SINGA to help patients monitor their food intake and log the nutrition automatically."

"We are working with cardiologists in Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China, to develop a machine learning/deep learning cardiovascular disease prediction model, using cardiovascular risk factors and other indirect factors such as diet and exercise," said MZH Technologies co-founder and Beijing Institute of Technology Professor, Meihui Zhang. "We are also using Apache SINGA for data cleaning and integration."

"Besides scalability, SINGA team is continuously improving the library by adding new features to make it easier to use," said Moaz Reyad, Postdoctoral Researcher at Université Grenoble Alpes, and a member of the Apache SINGA Project Management Committee. "For example, SINGA has a sub-component called SINGA-auto (original name is Rafiki), which provides AutoML features like automatic hyper-parameter tuning."

"We would like to thank all our mentors for guiding the project and all contributors for helping on this project from incubation to graduation," added Wang. "Deep learning and other AI technologies are changing the world from many aspects. We welcome newcomers to join our community to make contributions to this exciting field!"

Availability and Oversight

Apache SINGA software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache SINGA, visit http://singa.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheSINGA

About the Apache Incubator

The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects enter the ASF through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 730 individual Members and 7,000 Committers across six continents successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Anonymous, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, Leaseweb, Microsoft, ODPi, Pineapple Fund, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Workday, and Verizon Media. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "SINGA", "Apache SINGA", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Posted at 01:00PM Nov 04, 2019 by Sally in General | |

Friday November 01, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 1 November 2019

Welcome, November! 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: 20 November 2019. 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
- ApacheCon 2019 events are complete: catch the latest from Berlin, including
-- interviews on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
-- session slide decks at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions
-- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
-- photos on ApacheCon https://photos.apachecon.com/ and Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 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, 886 Apache contributors changed 3,674,625 lines of code over 3,745 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Etienne Chauchot, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Till Rohrmann, Oleh Martushevskyi, and Eric Milles.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache HBase 1.3.6, 1.4.11, and 2.2.2 released https://hbase.apache.org/
- Apache Kafka 2.3.1 released https://kafka.apache.org/

Build Management --
- Apache Ivy 2.5.0 released https://ant.apache.org/ivy

Databases --
- Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.8.1 released http://iotdb.apache.org

Libraries --
- Apache Groovy 3.0.0-rc-1 released http://groovy.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that you can add your photos from ApacheCon to https://photos.apachecon.com/ ? Register at http://s.apache.org/photos and share!

- Did you know that you can stream analytics and scoring to deliver customizable insights based on billions of data points in real-time using Apache Flink, Cassandra, and Druid (incubating)? https://flink.apache.org/ https://cassandra.apache.org/ https://druid.apache.org/

- Did you know that the top 5 Apache repositories by lines of code are: NetBeans, OpenOffice, Flex (combined), Mynewt (combined), and Trafodion? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 will be held 13-14 November in Burlingame https://www.imcsummit.org/2019/us/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 06:24AM Nov 01, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Friday October 25, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 October 2019

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: 20 November 2019. 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
- ApacheCon Europe has wrapped: catch the latest from Berlin, including
-- interviews on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
-- session slide decks at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions
-- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
-- photos on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.38%. 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, 857 Apache contributors changed 8,355,896 lines of code over 3,516 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Etienne Chauchot, Mark Robert Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Jean-Baptiste Onofré.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Blockchain --
- Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.9.0 released http://tuweni.apache.org

Content --
- Apache POI 4.1.1 released https://poi.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
- Apache MyFaces Core 2.3.5 released http://myfaces.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that, 16 years ago, the European Commission ran their first Apache Web Server for internal use, and today are using numerous Apache projects for various public services, including 1,500 Tomcat servers, nearly 1,000 Apache HTTP Servers, and approximately 300 Lucene search engines in their data centers? https://youtu.be/2EvCF4XKLso

- Did you know that ApacheCon Media Partner Manning Books are offering 40% off all books and videos online using discount code ctwapacheconeu19 ? Shop at https://manning.com

- Did you know that the top 5 Apache repositories by number of commits are: Camel, Hadoop, HBase, Beam, and Flink? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 will be held 13-14 November in Burlingame https://www.imcsummit.org/2019/us/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 06:47AM Oct 25, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Friday October 18, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 October 2019

Greetings all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from 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: 20 November 2019. 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
- *T-4 days* to ApacheCon Europe
--TRACKS: Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
--KEYNOTES: European Commission DG DIGIT Director Thomas Gageik; Mastercard EVP for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; writer/political analyst/activist Nanjala Nyabola; and ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
--SPECIAL EVENTS: BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
--JOIN US: https://www.apachecon.com/

- ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 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, 857 Apache contributors changed 2,044,524 lines of code over 3,121 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, Gary Gregory, Tilman Hausherr, and Eric Milles.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Kylin 2.6.4 released http://kylin.apache.org

Blockchain --
- Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.9.0 released http://tuweni.apache.org

Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.18 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Libraries --
- Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.5.1 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.2 released http://commons.apache.org

Messaging --
- Apache Qpid Broker-J 7.1.5 released http://qpid.apache.org

Servers --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.47 and 9.0.27 released http://tomcat.apache.org

Web Crawler --
- Apache Nutch 1.16 and 2.4 released http://nutch.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the Apache Feather is on its way to Berlin? Be a part of Open Source history --the community is signing the feather and celebrating 20 years of The Apache Way-- join us next week at ApacheCon Europe! https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/1185016927632183298

- Did you know that our new "Build a Badge" app lets you adopt the #LoveApache badge (and the customized version for ApacheCon Europe)? Many people and projects are jumping on the bandwagon: give it a try! https://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#badges

- Did you know that the top 5 most active/visited Apache projects: Hadoop, Kafka, Lucene, POI, ZooKeeper https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 06:02AM Oct 18, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Friday October 11, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 October 2019

Happy Friday, everyone --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.
- The ASF welcomes Dave Fisher as a Director https://s.apache.org/vlu1t
- Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. 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
- *T-11 days* to ApacheCon Europe
--TRACKS: Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
--KEYNOTES: European Commission DG DIGIT Director Thomas Gageik; Mastercard EVP for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; writer/political analyst/activist Nanjala Nyabola; and ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
--SPECIAL EVENTS: BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
--JOIN US: https://www.apachecon.com/

- ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 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, 402 Apache contributors changed 877,602 lines of code over 2,173 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Krisztián Szűcs, Joel Bernstein, and Jiajun Wang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Arrow 0.15.0 released http://arrow.apache.org/
- Apache Beam 2.16.0 released https://beam.apache.org
- Apache HBase 2.1.7 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Content --
- Apache Allura 1.12.0 released https://allura.apache.org/
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Servers --
- HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta9 (GA candidate) and HttpComponents Client 5.0 beta6 (GA candidate) released http://hc.apache.org/
- HTTP Server mod_perl-2.0.11 released https://perl.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), and whose director, Thomas Gageik, will be keynoting the event? https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

- Did you know that Apache Airflow and Druid (incubating), plus solutions based on Apache Ignite and Spark, won 2019 InfoWorld Bossie Awards? https://infoworld.com/article/3444198/the-best-open-source-software-of-2019.html

- Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we collaborated with technologist/photographer Peter Adams on "Community Over Code. Code Over Community"? https://blogs.apache.org/press/entry/community-over-code-code-over

Apache Community Notices:

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 02:01PM Oct 11, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter | |

Saturday October 05, 2019

The ASF welcomes Dave Fisher as a Director

The Apache Software Foundation today announced the appointment of Dave Fisher to its Board of Directors.

Fisher has been an Apache Committer since 2008 and was elected an ASF Member in 2012. He is a member of several Project Management Committees (PMCs) and is an active Apache Incubator mentor.

Fisher replaces Joan Touzet, who resigned. The Foundation thanks Touzet for her service and contribution during her tenure during the 2020 fiscal year.

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Posted at 06:15PM Oct 05, 2019 by Sally in General | |

Friday October 04, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 October 2019

Well hello, October --we're off to a great start with the latest from the Apache community:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. 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
- *T-18 days* to ApacheCon Europe
--TRACKS in Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
--KEYNOTES by European Commission Director for Digital Business Solutions at the Directorate-General for Informatics (DG DIGIT) Thomas Gageik; Mastercard Executive Vice President for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; and writer, political analyst, and activist Nanjala Nyabola. Plus special keynote panel with ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
--SPECIAL EVENTS include BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
--REGISTER TODAY and SAVE: EARLY REGISTRATION ends soon! Group rates available too :-) https://www.apachecon.com/

- ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation

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, 385 Apache contributors changed 527,624 lines of code over 2,168 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Dan Haywood, Wei-Chiu Chuang, and Mark Thomas.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.18.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Geospatial --
- Apache SIS 1.0 released http://sis.apache.org/

Libraries --
- Apache Commons BCEL Version 6.4.1 released https://commons.apache.org/

Messaging --
- Apache Qpid JMS 0.46.0 released http://qpid.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), and whose director, Thomas Gageik, will be keynoting the event? https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

- Did you know that during ApacheCon/Las Vegas, Apache projects added 406 new committers, and Apache Calcite, Camel, Flink, Maven, SkyWalking,Syncope, Tapestry, and Wicket issued new releases? https://projects.apache.org

- Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we resumed principal photography on "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation that first began 10 years ago. Filming will continue at ApacheCon in Berlin --https://s.apache.org/ek3h8

Apache Community Notices:

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 01:22PM Oct 04, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter | |

Friday September 27, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 September 2019

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

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
- "Why you'd want to become an Apache Committer" by Dmitriy Pavlov https://s.apache.org/iflt2
- "Mentor Your Mentor" by Patricia Shanahan https://s.apache.org/orco1

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. 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
- *T-26 days* to ApacheCon Europe --register TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- The Apache^® Software Foundation Announces Program Highlights for ApacheCon™ Europe https://s.apache.org/0ovfn
- ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/

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, 803 Apache contributors changed 9,613,292 lines of code over 3,213 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Till Rohrmann, Andrea Cosentino, Stephen Mallette, Tellier Benoit, and Mark Thomas.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Rya™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/0xc4g
- Apache Ignite 2.7.6 released http://ignite.apache.org/

Content --
- Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M5 released https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/
- Apache PDFBox 2.0.17 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/
- Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 released http://openoffice.apache.org/

Database --
- Apache Druid (Incubating) 0.16.0 released http://druid.incubator.apache.org
- Apache Geode 1.10.0 released http://geode.apache.org/

Libraries --
- Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.8.2 released http://tuweni.incubator.apache.org/
- Apache Juneau 8.1.1 released http://juneau.apache.org
- Apache Commons BCEL 6.4.0 released http://commons.apache.org/
- Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.9.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.46 and 9.0.26 released http://tomcat.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) and the Open Source Design community? Join us and connect! https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

- Did you know that the ApacheCon Europe team have evolved our #LoveApache badges and created an awesome icon generator so you can easily customize your own? Give it a try https://aceu19.apachecon.com/enhance-your-social-media-avatar

- Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we shot "Community Over Code. Code Over Community", a special project in collaboration with technologist/photographer Peter Adams in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of The ASF? https://s.apache.org/fo9n2

Apache Community Notices:

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 09:16AM Sep 27, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Tuesday September 24, 2019

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Rya® as a Top-Level Project

Scalable Open Source Big Data database processes queries in milliseconds; used in autonomous drones, federated situation-aware access control systems, and petabyte-scale graphs modeling, among many other applications.

Wakefield, MA —24 September 2019— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache^® Rya^® as a Top-Level Project (TLP).

Apache Rya (pronounced "ree-uh") is a Cloud-based Big Data triple store (subject-predicate-object) database used to process queries in milliseconds. The project was originally developed at the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator in September 2015.

"We are very excited to reach this important milestone showing the maturity of the project and of the community around it," said Dr. Adina Crainiceanu, Vice President of Apache Rya and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the U.S. Naval Academy. "RDF (Resource Description Framework) triple data format is simple and flexible, making it easy to express diverse datasets such as connections between users on social media, financial data and transactions, medical data, and many others. Rya provides a scalable solution to store and query such data. The publication of the first research article about Rya garnered interest from industry, academia, and several government agencies. Bringing the project to ASF allowed collaboration and increased pace of development."

With its ability to store billions of linked information sets and return answers to most computer-based questions in under a second, Rya's scalable RDF data management system is built on top of Apache Accumulo® to support SPARQL queries for RDF data. A MongoDB back-end is also implemented. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes.

Rya is in use at organizations such as Enlighten IT Consulting, Modus Operandi, Parsons Corporation, Semantic Arts, Semantic Web Company, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and U.S. Department of Defense agencies. Apache Rya is recognized as one of the most advanced database projects in the United States Department of the Navy, powering a new generation of drones, advanced tactical communications through manned-unmanned teaming, and supporting autonomous swarms of smaller robots, among numerous other applications. In addition, Apache Rya is being used for artificial intelligence projects involving semi-autonomous content production operations.

"I would like to thank our mentors for their guidance and recognize the Apache Rya founders for making their project available for all to use and further extend," said Jennifer Brown, Project Manager for Semantic Technologies at Parsons Corporation, and member of the Apache Rya Project Management Committee. "In 2012 the founders introduced an RDF store backed by Apache Accumulo that was capable of basic inferencing, scaling to billions of triples, and providing millisecond query times. Our Semantic Technologies team at Parsons Corporation has enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with the Apache Rya community to contribute new indexing strategies, query planner optimizations, additional inference capabilities, alerting extensions, native support for popular graph processing frameworks, and more."

"It's great to see Apache Rya has matured into a Top-Level Project. Rya is a very innovative and Open Source RDF data management system based on Big Data technology," said Dr. Zhiyuan Chen, Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County. "We have used Apache Rya in a variety of research projects ranging from more efficient query processing techniques over geographically distributed RDF data to situation-aware access control in federated systems. We found Rya very easy to use, easy to extend, and extremely efficient."

"Apache Rya has the potential to become one of the most scalable RDF data management systems on the market," said Andreas Blumauer, Founder and CEO, Semantic Web Company GmbH and Director, PoolParty Software Ltd.

"Our technology helps organizations discover the rare and hidden patterns with applied semantics enhancements and AI/ML analytics, to develop Living Intelligence in a data domain," said Kim Ziehlke, Principal Software Engineer at Modus Operandi. "Patterns are used to predict potential opportunities and threats and as a result, our clients can take preventative action, or take leading-edge advantage in complex decisions. Modus Operandi has achieved 2+ BILLION triples, sub-second queries, thousands of unstructured docs processed per second all backed by the Apache Rya triple store."

"Apache Rya is a foundational piece of technology on our projects," said Roshan Punnose, Technical Director at Enlighten IT Consulting and member of the Apache Rya Project Management Committee. "We use Rya to model graphs and entities at petabyte scale. It is the only technology that we have found to scale this type of information with field level visibilities, which allow data protections required on our projects. We have worked with Rya for 7 years and have benefitted from the work the Apache Rya team has done to help increase performance. We would like to thank all the contributors for their diligence and hard work in making Rya a first class citizen of the Apache community."

"Apache Rya is a very exciting project at The Apache Software Foundation that combines the world of 'Semantic Data' with that of 'Big Data'," said Christopher Tubbs, ASF Member and Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Accumulo and Apache Fluo. "Implementing anything at scale can pose a challenge, but making semantic data searchable using familiar standards, such as SPARQL, and optimizing it at scale is really quite an amazing feat. Yet, that's precisely what the Rya community has done. Building on highly scalable platforms such as Apache Accumulo, the Rya community has produced an impressive platform for storing and querying very large semantic data sets. Apache Rya is something that every data scientist should get to know, because it's pretty cool."

"Apache Rya is an amazing project that enables users to execute SPARQL against large RDF data sets," said Keith Turner, Principal Software Engineer at Peterson Technologies, Vice President of Apache Fluo, member of the Apache Accumulo Project Management Committee, and ASF Member. "I had the pleasure to work with the Rya community when they asked for advice on using Apache Fluo for pre-computed joins. During our discussions, I found the folks working on Rya didn't need much assistance because they already had a thorough understanding of the complex issues surrounding distributed consistency. When considering using a piece of software that solves a hard problem for you, it’s comforting to know great minds stand behind it. With great software and wonderful community, what are you waiting for? Give Rya a try. Also, as an extra bonus Rya is an Apache community and all are welcome to participate in shaping the future of Rya."

"We are grateful for the mentorship provided by the Apache Incubator in building a diverse and open community and learning the Apache Way," added Crainiceanu. "We are looking forward to continuing our journey as a Top-Level Project."

Availability and Oversight

Apache Rya software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Rya, visit http://rya.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/apacherya

About the Apache Incubator

The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects enter the ASF through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 760 individual Members and 7,300 Committers across six continents successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Anonymous, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, Leaseweb, Microsoft, ODPi, Pineapple Fund, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Workday, and Verizon Media. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Fluo", "Apache Fluo","Rya", "Apache Rya", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Posted at 12:59PM Sep 24, 2019 by Sally in General | |

Monday September 23, 2019

Success At Apache: "Mentor Your Mentor"

By Patricia Shanahan

After retiring, I wanted to continue programming but without the pressure and constraints of a job, so I started contributing to Apache. Open software development the Apache way is a great retirement hobby, offering social contacts, intellectual challenge, continuous learning, and the pleasant feeling of making a contribution.

I just got back from having a wonderful time at ApacheCon NA 2019 in Las Vegas. While there, I met relatively young people, and older people who had been involved in Apache for up to 20 years, but joining as a retiree seemed to be unusual.

Encouraging retirees could benefit Apache in many ways.

Often, a retiree has a range of experience and skills that take time to accumulate. I have worked, for several years each, on applications, operating systems, compilers, system performance, and architecture of servers with dozens of processors. People like me who were programming in the 1970's have experience surmounting memory limitations, a skill that may be useful again for Internet of Things projects. I can imagine several reasons for a lack of retiree recruits. The most basic is that the computing profession was relatively small when a 2019 retiree would have started their career. That is a good reason to develop ways of helping retirees join Apache, so we will benefit from increasing numbers over the next few decades.

Some retirees already have plans that will take all their time and energy, and have zero interest in another hobby. Among those who might choose Apache as a hobby, there are several possible blocks, such as just not thinking of it, lack of confidence in returning to doing after a period of managing, outdated skills, and skills that may have atrophied through disuse.

The concept behind "Mentor your Mentor" is that someone who is active in Apache should watch for opportunities to bring the idea of open source as a retirement hobby to the attention of a retiring colleague, even if the retiree has been their mentor, and no matter how senior the retiree.

If the retiree is interested, the Apache contributor can offer various forms of help and support such as:

• Introduction to how Apache operates

• Encouragement

• Help selecting a project

• Help identifying resources for technical learning and relearning

In summary, the Apache contributor would do for the retiree the things a good mentor would do for someone new to IT.

If you are an Apache contributor reading this blog, ask yourself: who in your network has retired from the computing profession? Reach out to them! Apache projects are a great opportunity for retirees to reconnect with innovation in computing. If you are a retiree and do not have an Apache mentor, don't let that stop you. Begin at http://community.apache.org/newcomers/.

Patricia Shanahan worked from 1970 to 2002 in various programming and computer architecture roles for NCR, Celerity Computing, FPS, Cray Research, and Sun Microsystems. She then went to UCSD as a graduate student, receiving a PhD in computer science in 2009, after which she retired.

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Posted at 05:47PM Sep 23, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache | |

Saturday September 21, 2019

Success at Apache: Why you'd want to become an Apache Committer

by Dmitriy Pavlov

All newbies in Open Source communities may sometimes think that they’ll never be able to become Committers. Many treat this role as a prestigious one, granted only for special feats, and after having written a ton of code. But not all things are so simple, and I hope my story will help you.

Election as Apache Committer

My journey with The Apache Software Foundation began relatively recently, in 2015. I was working for Openway Group, and was enthusiastic about in-memory computing. I got to know about Apache Ignite at a local developers conference. I implemented the POC of a backend system based on Apache Ignite. I was so impressed with the clear API and documentation, and it was also very convenient that I could start prototyping without passing through the approval process. I suggested using the Apache product instead of a source-available solution. I met Konstantin Boudnik (cos), who helped me to understand the difference between Apache projects and source-available/closely-governed products.

Luckily for me, GridGain, the company that initially donated Ignite to the Apache Incubator, has a development center in my city (Saint Petersburg, Russia). I joined the GridGain team in 2017.

As part of my day job, I provide patches to the product. I actively joined the dev.list discussions (some fellows sometimes say “too actively”). I’ve created a number of wiki pages - ‘Apache Ignite-Under the hood’ to help developers understand product internals. Also, I developed ‘Direct IO’ plugin. I was elected as a Committer.

In 2018 I was concerned about reviews of patches from members of the community not affiliated with GridGain. Since I had a commit-bit now, I’ve started to review patches and ask others to review them, too. I don’t know for sure, but I suppose - these social achievements in the community development were a basis for me being elected as Project Management Committee (PMC) member.

I asked several questions about The Apache Way on the Community Development (“ComDev”) dev list. I was very impressed by how friendly and welcoming they are. I very much like such a positive atmosphere, and feel it influences the success of Apache projects. Now I’ve also joined Apache Training (incubating) community as Committer and PPMC (Podling Project Management Committee) member.

Quite funny for a software developer with 17 years of experience… being elected as a Committer, that is to say, because of the social aspects and documentation.

Who is a typical Committer and where does his or her strength lie?

When creating an Open Source product, we always let the users explore it in action -- as well as allow them to modify it and distribute modified copies. But when such modified copies are replicated in an unsupervised manner, we don’t get contributions into the main codebase and the project stalls. It’s here where we need exactly such a person – the Committer – someone who is authorized to merge user contributions into the project.

Why should you become a Committer?

First of all, being assigned to a Committer role is extremely motivating. The professional community acknowledges you and your work, and you clearly see the results of your work in action.

How different is that from some enterprise project -- where you have no idea why you must continually keep shuffling various XML fields?

The second pure advantage of being a Committer is an opportunity to connect with top professionals and also pull some cool ideas from Open Source into your own project. But, if you aren’t one of the top professionals, certainly don’t be afraid to join -- the community has various tasks for different folks.

Besides, being a Committer is a jewel in your CV --and even a greater plus for junior programmers, because at interviews you are often asked to show code samples. If you know an Open Source project well, a company supporting or using it will be happy to hire you. There are some people who will tell you that great positions are unreachable without first committing in Open Source.

There are some bonus goodies, too! For example, Apache Committers get an IntelliJ Idea Ultimate license for free (albeit with some limitations).

How do you become a Committer?

You should be committed to the project --it’s just that simple. Development, writing tests and documentation, and simply answering questions on lists are also good ways to start working towards committership.

Yeah, the contributions of QA engineers and technical writers in the community are valued no less than the developers’ contributions.

If you think there are no tasks for you on some project, you are wrong. Just join the community you are interested in and start working on its tasks.

The Apache Software Foundation has this dedicated page that lists what contributions are needed.

Committer — to be or not to be?

Committer activity is a good and useful endeavor, but one shouldn’t strive to become a committer per se. This status can be granted not only for code and it doesn’t justify your proficiency.

Find a project you may be interested in: it will probably be a project whose software you already use. Dive into its code and say hi to the community; offer help, improve docs, complete a newbie ticket or answer to a user. You may just be surprised how welcoming and open folks are there.

Strive to gain the expertise (knowledge and experience) while researching the project, tweaking it and helping others to solve their problems, and, hopefully, enjoying collaborative development in an Open Source project.

Getting started at http://community.apache.org/ will help you on your way.

Dmitriy Pavlov is a Java developer enthusiastic about Open Source and in-memory computing. He is interested in system performance, information security, and cryptography. He created and donated utility for monitoring tests for Apache Ignite, and is a former Community Manager for Apache Ignite at GridGain. Dmitriy represents the Apache Ignite Project Management Committee (PMC) at local meetups in Russia. He runs workshops and training for Apache Ignite developers and users, and is a frequent speaker at meetups and conferences.

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Posted at 11:48PM Sep 21, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache | |

Friday September 20, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 September 2019

Happy Friday, everyone. Let's take a look at how the past week has progressed:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. 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
- Countdown to ApacheCon Europe --REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- NEW! The latest presentations from ApacheCon/Las Vegas exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/

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, 825 Apache contributors changed 2,115,070 lines of code over 2,959 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Robert Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Stephen Mallette, Mark Thomas, and Daniel Keir Haywood.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.8 and Oak 1.8.17, 1.10.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Identity Management --
- Apache Syncope 2.0.14 and 2.1.5 released http://syncope.apache.org

Libraries --
- Apache Commons Configuration 2.6 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration

Web Frameworks --
- Apache Wicket 8.6.1 and 9.0.0-M3 released http://wicket.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the Open Source Design community (ApacheCon Europe Community Partners) are holding a FREE workshop on October 25th (immediately following ApacheCon)? Register today, as space is limited! https://aceu19.apachecon.com/open-source-design-workshop

- Did you know the four things "Father of Java" James Gosling loves about Apache? Learn more in "My personal journey to Open Source", James's keynote at ApacheCon North America https://s.apache.org/0q20b

- Did you know that the ASF exceeded 7,000 code Committers https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 08:51AM Sep 20, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Friday September 13, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 September 2019

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: 18 September 2019. 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
- Countdown to ApacheCon Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- NEW! Catch the latest presentations from ApacheCon/Las Vegas exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. 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, 857 Apache contributors changed 4,388,161 lines of code over 3,161 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, and Michael Stack.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Calcite 1.21.0 released http://calcite.apache.org/

Build Management --
- Apache Maven 3.6.2 released http://maven.apache.org

Content --
- Apache Traffic Control 3.0.2 released http://trafficcontrol.apache.org

Data Management Platform --
- Apache Geode 1.9.1 released http://geode.apache.org

Enterprise Processes Automation
- Apache OFBiz 16.11.06 released http://ofbiz.apache.org

Libraries --
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org
- Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.10 GA released http://hc.apache.org
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.1 released http://commons.apache.org
- Apache Milagro Crypto C & JS Libraries (Incubating) 1.0.0 released http://milagro.apache.org

Messaging Platform --
- Apache Pulsar 2.4.1 released http://pulsar.apache.org

Web Frameworks --
- Apache Wicket 7.15.0 and 8.6.0 released http://wicket.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that Apple have been successfully using Apache CloudStack for the past 6 years to power their virtual machine service for hundreds of mission-critical internal and external applications? http://cloudstack.apache.org/

- Did you know that during this week's ApacheCon, Apache projects added 406 new committers, and Apache Calcite, Camel, Flink, Maven, SkyWalking, Syncope, Tapestry, and Wicket issued new releases? https://projects.apache.org/

- Did you know that 35 new individual ASF Members elected, totaling 766 https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 03:43PM Sep 13, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Friday September 06, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 September 2019

Happy September! Let's take a look at the activities from the Apache community 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: 18 September 2019. 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
- Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- Catch the latest on ApacheCon™, Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.75%. 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, 800 Apache contributors changed 1,666,694 lines of code over 3,132 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Chesnay Schepler.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Myriad 0.4.0 (Incubating) released http://myriad.apache.org

Build Management --
- Apache Ant 1.10.7 released http://ant.apache.org

Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.5 and 2.18.3 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Databases --
- Apache HBase 2.1.6 released http://hbase.apache.org

Libraries --
- Apache Juneau 8.1.0 released http://juneau.apache.org
- Apache Commons Text 1.8 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org

Servers --
- Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.12 released http://hc.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous donations of our Sponsors? The ASF is supported by 10 Platinum Sponsors, 9 Gold Sponsors, 11 Silver Sponsors, 25 Bronze Sponsors, and 6 Platinum Targeted Sponsors, 5 Gold Targeted Sponsors, 3 Silver Targeted Sponsors, and 10 Bronze Targeted Sponsors https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

- Did you know the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many Happy Returns to Apache ServiceMix (12 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (9 years); Airavata, Bigtop, SIS, and Stanbol (7 years); Curator (6 years); Storm (5 years); Yetus (4 years); DRAT, RocketMQ, and Royale (2 years); and Pulsar (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

- Did you know that ApacheCon sponsors and community partners include Aiven, AWS, Comcast. CrowdStrike, DataStax, Google Cloud, IBM, HotWax Systems, Instaclustr, Linode, LinuxMagic, Manning Publications, Red Hat, PCCC, ShapeBlue, SK Telecom, StreamNative, The Last Pickle, and more? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/

Apache Community Notices:

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 06:05AM Sep 06, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

Friday August 30, 2019

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 August 2019

Farewell, August --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are updates on 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: 18 September 2019. 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
- Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- Catch the latest on ApacheCon™, Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.97%. 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, 923 Apache contributors changed 13,694,508 lines of code over 3,419 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Tilman Hausherr, Jun Zhao, Radu Cotescu, Christofer Dutz, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Flink 1.9.0 released http://flink.apache.org
- Apache NiFi Registry 0.5.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/registry

Content --
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.4 and Oak 1.8.16 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Databases --
- Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.8.0 released http://iotdb.apache.org

Libraries --
- Apache Qpid JMS 0.45.0 released http://qpid.apache.org
- Apache Libcloud 2.6.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org
- Apache ServiceComb 0.5.0 released http://servicecomb.apache.org

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the ASF continued guardianship of 190M+ lines of code in the Apache repositories https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

- Did you know that ApacheCon North America is featuring 19 Tracks overseen by Apache Projects and their communities? From Big Data, Community, Content Delivery, Geospatial, Graphs, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile, Observability, Streaming, Servers & more --plus Apache project events such as Beam Summit, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and special workshops-- there's Apache goodness for everyone. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/

- Did you know that "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation, will resume filming at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin https://youtu.be/UvuyBz1qMCE ? Support this project https://s.apache.org/trillions

Apache Community Notices:

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

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

- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

- Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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Posted at 06:03AM Aug 30, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |

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