## Description:
- Apache Streams unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.
## Issues:
- There are a lot of changes occurring in the APIs of our supported data sources. Due primarily to the EU's GDPR legislation, a user's ability to collect profiles and posts from accounts other than the authenticated account is being limited.
- On the other hand comprehensive data about the authenticated account (sometimes via bulk export not via API) is becoming richer, presenting an opportunity for the project to assist users in awareness of the data collected about them by third-parties, and with data portability between systems using bulk export archives.
- Steve Blackmon presented initial support for social media export archives and Activity Streams 2.0 at ApacheCon NA 2018.
## PMC changes:
## Releases:
- Apache Streams 0.6.0 was released on June 17, 2018
## Upcoming Project Initiatives:
- Continue developing the new providers that source data from export archives of existing data sources (twitter, facebook, google).
- Complete release version that includes binary distribution and official docker container.
- Drop remaining maven dependencies on java SDKs for accessing third-party APIs in favor of HTTP/REST interfaces via Apache Foundation code.
- Reduce disparities between normalized activities and objects of like type collected from various data sources.
- Reduce disparities between the configuration objects that initialize similar providers from various data sources.
- Joint development with complementary projects including Apache Any23, Apache Juneau, and Apache Kibble.
- Refactoring work to support compiling and tests passing on newer JDK versions 9, 10, and 11.