Friday arrived quickly –happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate! The Apache community has had a productive week; let’s review:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws. 
 – Next Board Meeting: 17 February 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Apache Diversity & Inclusion – initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across the greater Apache community.
 – Call for Apache project proposals and mentors: Outreachy Open Source internship program May-Aug 2021 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7ba52de92d2a31d623aa510573de89c9d8a82ab01e85c87f43a792d4%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.
 – ApacheCon@Home keynotes, plenaries, and presentations on Big Data, Camel/Integration, Cassandra, Community, Content Delivery (Traffic Server/Traffic Control), cTAKES, Fineract/Fintech, Geode, Geospatial, Groovy, HTTP Server (httpd and the Web), Ignite, Incubator, IoT, Jena, Karaf, Machine Learning, Mahout, Multi-lingual tracks (Hindi/German/Mandarin/Spanish), Observability, OpenOffice, Pulsar/Bookkeeper, Royale, Solr/Lucene/Search Learning, Streaming, Tomcat, and more are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/  

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

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 388 Apache Committers changed 2,346,803 lines of code over 4,410 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Bernd Bohmann, Gary Gregory, Tellier Benoit, Andrea Cosentino, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs —
 – Apache APISIX 2.3 released https://apisix.apache.org/

IoT —
 – Apache PLC4X 0.8.0 released https://plc4x.apache.org/

Observability —
 – Apache SkyWalking CLI 0.6.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Servers —
 – Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1 BETA3 released https://hc.apache.org/
 – Apache Tomcat 8.5.63 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Frameworks —
 – Apache MyFaces Core 2.2.14 released http://myfaces.apache.org/ 

Did You Know?

– Did you know that downloads of Apache OpenOffice exceed 1 Million each month? https://openoffice.apache.org/

– Did you know that Airbnb uses Apache Superset for deep data insights, visualizing metrics, and business intelligence at scale? https://superset.apache.org/

– Did you know that the Apache Groovy, Kafka, and Maven communities will be participating at DevNexus online on 17 February? Registration is free and open to all http://devnexus.com

Apache Community Notices

– Apache Month In Review: January 2021 https://s.apache.org/Jan2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/hWMonAbaprU

– The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August – October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

– Apache in 2020 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

– ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020

– ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

– “Trillions and Trillions Served” documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) “Apache Everywhere” https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) “Why Apache” https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation 

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

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

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