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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Firefox hits 1,000,000 downloads in under 100 hours (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports on a new record for Firefox browser downloads. "The site had been hoping for 1 million downloads in 10 days, and has easily surpassed that goal. As of today, they are reporting that there have been just over 1.5 million downloads, and we expect them to hit 2 million by the end of the 10 day campaign."
GNOME Anonymous Voting ReferendumThe GNOME Foundation has announced a new Anonymous Voting Referendum.
LPI Announces HP Sponsorship of LPI-GermanThe Linux Professional Institute has announced the sponsorship of LPI-German by HP. "The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier Linux certification organization world wide together with its affiliate LPI-German, announced that Hewlett-Packard Education Services had become its most recent sponsor. Hewlett-Packard Germany was providing the sponsorship to LPI international to assist with LPI-German marketing and business development activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland."
LPI RFC process for community inputThe Linux Professional Institute has sent out an RFC looking for input from the open-source community. "I have put up a RFC on the LPI wiki with the intent that this be a formal process where people in the community can suggest policies, procedures, technical infrastructure, practices, ideas, ... I am looking for comments on this idea, in general, but specifically, I'm looking for comments on the process RFC itself."
mozdev's 4th Anniversary Pledge Drive (MozillaZine)The mozdev.org folks will be holding a pledge drive. "In the last year, mozdev has incorporated as a non-profit organization and is working on receiving tax-exempt status. The site is now hosting over 150 active projects and receives over 2 million page views a week. "To keep the site growing we are asking the community to help us raise $5000 to pay for ongoing hosting costs, fees associated with incorporating, and other expenses involved with becoming a fully functioning non-profit organization."
MozillaES Launches Spanish mozillaZine (MozillaZine)A new Spanish version of MozillaZine has been launched. "Together with this, they have a whole new portal for Spanish-speaking users including forums, polls, FAQs, downloads, etc., at http://www.mozillaes.org/."
Commercial announcements Amstrad E3 video phone runs LinuxHere's another Linux-powered gadget: according to this MontaVista press release, the Amstrad E3 video phone runs MontaVista Linux. Of course, we would be remiss if we neglected to point out NTK's take on the E3.
ARC Brings Linux to the ARC 700 Configurable CoreARC has announced that they will be supporting Linux on their new ARC 700 configurable processor core. "The ARC 700 is designed to provide customers a high-performance embedded core, which is configurable to deliver very small die size and silicon cost. The GNU tool chain supports the ARC 700's DSP capabilities, while Linux provides process-level protection."
Astaro Promotes Jon Friedman to VP of Product MarketingAstaro has announced the promotion of Jon Friedman to Vice President of Product Marketing. ""Since joining Astaro, Jon has clearly articulated Astaro's value to customers in marketing messages, collateral, sales tools, and Webinars," said Jan Hichert, CEO and co-founder of Astaro. "This has improved our lead generation and sales effectiveness. In his new role, Jon will help Astaro maintain our rapid growth by applying his excellent management and communications skills to expanding our product line and strengthening our partner programs.""
JBoss, Inc. Delivers JBoss Application Server 4.0 to the Enterprise MarketJBoss, Inc. has announced general availability of JBoss Application Server 4.0 for enterprise production deployment.
Mandrakesoft shareholders approve transfer to regulated marketMandrakesoft shareholders have voted to transfer from the unregulated Marché Libre to a regulated market, by December 2005. The shareholders also approved a capital increase of up to 6 million euros at a price of 6 euros per share. The capital increase is to be completed by mid-December 2004. Finally, shareholders approved the acquisition of services company Edge-IT.
PathScale EKO Compiler Suite acceleratesPathScale has announced (PDF) over 1000 downloads for the PathScale EKO Compiler Suite for 64-bit Linux applications.
Red Hat's second quarter resultsRed Hat has sent out a press release with its second quarter results: income of almost $12 million on $46 million in revenue.
New Books "Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing by Andrew M. St. Laurent.
Resources The LDP Weekly NewsThe September 22, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available with the latest new and updated documentation.
CSC releases open source studyComputer Sciences Corporation has announced the release of a study called "Open Source: Open for Business." It is available as a 96-page PDF file. We are just beginning to look at it, but it looks like a comprehensive and highly positive report. "Indeed, open source places the scarce resource of software into everybody's hands, the way the Gutenberg press placed the scarce resource of texts into everybody's hands. The open, collaborative approach levels the playing field, enabling anyone to contribute and defying the big hand of the corporation. Open source is a movement that is technical, political, and sociological."
Contests and Awards Docs Competition - Win O'Reilly Gear (KDE.News)KDE.News mentions a documentation effort that includes prizes. "If you missed out on the writing competition at aKademy, now is your chance to make up for it. The KDE Quality and Documentation teams have got together to offer some great O'Reilly prizes for writing documentation. All you have to do to enter is write a page for the new KDE User Guide within two weeks and we'll send you a prize! Read on for the full details."
Half Price Computer Books Scholarship Winners Optimistic About Open SourceHalf Price Computer Books has announced the winners of their Fall 2004 essay scholarship award. "Congratulations to Matthew Isison (Boxford, MA), Kimberley Liao (Sterling, VA) and David Suozzi (Albuquerque, NM). All three winners choose to discuss the viability of Open Source software as a business concept. Despite the paradoxical nature of profiting from free software, the winners insightfully identified various methods of revenue generation, such as charging for support, tiered licensing, product tie-ins, and advertising."
Upcoming Events EclipseCon 2005 AnnouncedEclipseCon 2005 will be held in Burlingame, CA on February 28 - March 3, 2005. "You'll have the chance to hear the very latest that's new and cool from around the community and you'll have a chance to take tutorials, listen to presentations and participate in a variety of forums with key Eclipse developers and community members. The Program Committee has also released a Call For Papers."
Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze World VisionStreaming media connections will be available for several workshops at the Firenze World Vision conference. The workshops will be held from September 23-25, 2004.
IBM Software Development Technical ConferenceIBM will be holding a Software Development Technical Conference in Strasbourg, France on October 12-15, 2004.
Independent High Performance Computing SeminarThe Independent High Performance Computing Seminar will be held on September 30, 2004 at the National Space Centre in Leicester, UK. "HPC is at a major crossroads. Cluster capabilities are at unprecedented levels and new technologies and applications have led to new challenges. As the former mainstays of the Linux community have become increasingly commercially focussed, it has become vital that academia, government and industry are able to address their HPC strategy with access to the best information."
Linux.conf.au 2005 CFPA call for papers has gone out for the 2005 linux.conf.au. The conference will be held in Canberra, Australia on April 18-23, 2005.
Linux Installfest workshops in Davis - October 9th and 17thThe Linux Users' Group of Davis has announced two more Linux Installfest workshops in Davis, CA on October 9 and 17, 2004.
London Perl Workshop (use Perl)A one day Perl workshop will be held on December 11, 2004 in London, England. "A small group of London Perl Mongers have organised a 1 day Perl Workshop to be held at the Imperial College Union on Saturday, December the 11th. It will have two tracks seperated into Beginners and Advanced (or Scary :) Perl."
Red Hat Announces First-Annual SummitRed Hat, Inc. has announced its first annual summit, the event will take place in New Orleans, LA. "Summit 2005 will be held in New Orleans June 1-3 and will bring together the diverse people that make up the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners. The Summit will blend different views and content into a program useful for attendees building and enabling open source architectures."
YAPC::NA::2005 Venue Chosen (use Perl)The venu for the YAPC::NA::2005 Perl conference has been announced. The event will take place in Toronto, Canada on June 22-24, 2005.
Events: September 23 - November 18, 2004
Web sites SOT opens first Open Source demo serverSOT has announced a new open-source demo site. "SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. has opened the Internet's first centralised demo server for Open Source products. The newly opened website offers product information, specifications and on-line demonstrations for 12 showcase products - a number that will increase to over 20 during the month of September."
Wikipedia Reaches One Million ArticlesThe Wikimedia Foundation has announced the one millionth article in the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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