>> this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/Y46

Welcome, December! Here's what's happened at The Apache Software Foundation 
over the past week: 

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. 
- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: August-October 2015 
http://s.apache.org/M0R 
- 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 fantastic 99.97% 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: Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon North America - 
Vancouver 9-13 May 2016 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp 

Apache BookKeeper™ –a reliable replicated log service. 
- Apache BookKeeper 4.3.2 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/releases.html 

Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known 
Enterprise Integration Patterns. 
- Apache Camel 2.15.5 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html 

Apache CloudStack™ –Open Source Cloud orchestration software designed to deploy 
and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly 
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. 
- The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.6 
http://s.apache.org/VfP 

Apache Commons™ Collections –a project to develop and maintain collection 
classes based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework. 
- Apache Commons Collections 4.1 released 
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/download_collections.cgi 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that approximately 75% of the ASF's annual budget is dedicated 
to keeping Apache Infrastructure running critical support services around the 
clock with 99%+ uptime over the past year? http://status.apache.org/sla 

- Did you know that the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research 
Council (BBSRC)-funded BioSolr project (developed to significantly advance the 
state of the art with regard to indexing and querying biomedical data with 
freely available open source software) has contributed part of the work back to 
the Apache Solr repository? http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ 

- Did you know that Apache Apex (Incubating) is the industry’s first ever YARN 
native engine that fulfills the disruptive promise of big data? 
http://apex.incubator.apache.org/ 


Apache Community Notices: 

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

- The Spark Bootcamp will take place online and in-person in San Ramon on 5 
December 2015 
http://www.meetup.com/Emerging-Technologies-Conference/events/226246926/ 

- The Kafka Meetup @ LinkedIn will take place 5 December 2015 in Bangalore 
http://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-Apache-Kafka-Group/events/225963923/ 

- 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
 

- Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america 

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

- The ASF Operations Summary: Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (August-October 
2015) is available at http://s.apache.org/M0R 

- 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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