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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The EFF Endangered Gizmos ListAs a way of demonstrating the cost of overly restrictive intellectual property laws, the EFF has put up an Endangered Gizmos List listing the gadgets which could become illegal - and a few which are already extinct.
Mitchell Baker Returning to Mozilla Full Time (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports that Mitchell Baker will return to Mozilla. "Mitch Kapor, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation and President and Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, has announced that Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker will return to working on the Mozilla project full time. She will continue to be an employee of OSAF and will retain her seat on OSAF's board."
Commercial announcements Black Duck Software joins OSDLBlack Duck Software has announced that it has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). "Black Duck Software helps businesses expand their use of open source software by providing products and services for understanding and safely managing software licensing compliance. The company's protexIPT system brings developers, lawyers, and business decision-makers together and enables enterprises to take advantage of the dramatic cost, quality, and time-to-market benefits that open source provides."
State of Oregon, OSDL, and Others Pledge Support to New Open Technology CenterOSDL CEO Stuart Cohen was joined by Governor Kulongoski of Oregon and others at a press conference to unveil the Open Technology Business Center. "The Open Technology Business Center, created with $1.2 Million from the city of Beaverton, is a first-of-its-kind facility dedicated to supporting the formation, funding and growth of new companies in the Open Technology sector. Programs include an Open Technology executive institute for advisors, educators, consultants and investors. Participating entrepreneurs will have unique access to industry thought leaders and domain experts. Qualified early-stage companies may locate in the center's facility through its "ventures-in-residence" program."
HP, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems Launch Globus ConsortiumHewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems have announced the formation of the Globus Consortium, a new industry group dedicated to the commercial advancement of the Globus Toolkit.
LinuxGenius Launches LinuxCBT SUSE Enterprise EditionLinuxGenius, LLC has announced the release of LinuxCBT SUSE Enterprise Edition. "LinuxCBT SUSE Enterprise is LinuxGenius' ninth comprehensive computer based training course focusing on Linux-based open-source tools and applications. LinuxCBT SUSE Enterprise contains 75 hours of comprehensive, in depth training that focuses entirely on SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 and SUSE Professional 9.2 with Windows 2003, Red Hat Linux, and Cisco PIX Firewall integration."
Linux Magazine Becomes LPI Platinum SponsorLPI has announced that Linux Magazine is now a platinum sponsor. "This increase in Linux Magazine's sponsorship commitment offers further recognition of LPI´s position within the Linux and Open Source community. It demonstrates the value of partnerships, and the important role we all have to play in promoting professional standards to further the cause of open source software."
OpenIB Alliance Linux Software Stack Accepted by Kernel.orgThe OpenIB Alliance has announced the acceptance of its Linux Software Stack by kernel.org. "The OpenIB Alliance, an industry association founded to develop an open software stack for InfiniBand architecture on Linux, today announced the software stack was accepted by the Linux kernel community into the kernel.org repository. This will enable a single InfiniBand open source software environment for Linux customers who require a robust, resilient and manageable infrastructure for data center, grid and high performance computing."An OpenIB Developers Workshop on February 6-9 2005 has also been announced. The event will take place in Sonoma, CA.
Sun's Open Solaris releasesSun has put out two press releases on its "Open Solaris" plans. This one states that Solaris 10 will be made available under Sun's CDDL license; it should be available in the second quarter of 2005. Sun has also released 1600 patents to CDDL licensees. It is not clear from the PR whether the patents will be available for use outside of the Solaris code base. More information and downloads will be available at opensolaris.org.
VA Linux's Mini Kernel Dump now supports x86-64 architecturesVA Linux Systems Japan K.K. has announced x86-64 for its Mini Kernel Dump utility.
Zend Technologies Announces Strategic Investments by Intel and SAP VenturesZend Technologies, Inc. has announced it has received strategic investments from both Intel Capital and SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG. Zend will work with both companies to continue the momentum of open source and PHP solutions for business-critical web applications in enterprise environments. Terms of the investments were not disclosed.
New Books "Google Hacks, Second Edition" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Google Hacks, Second Edition by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest.
"QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook by Chris Adamson.
"Google Hacking for Penetration Testers" Released by SyngressSyngress has published the book Google Hacking for Penetration Testers by Johnny Long.
Resources November/December 2004 LPI NewsletterThe Linux Professional Institute's November/December 2004 Newsletter is online with the latest LPI news.
A Sociological Study of the Samba CommunityThe Samba site mentions a sociological study that looks at the Samba development community. "Nico Earnshaw has completed a thesis on the Samba community as part of his Bachelor of Arts Informatics degree at the University of Sydney. The work is a very fine study of the practices of members of the community, with particular attention paid to Samba Team developers (their motivations, goals, practices, etc.). The general question explored seems to be, how does being a part of the Samba community define a developer?"The paper is available here (pdf).
Contests and Awards KDE SVG Wallpaper Contest Winners (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the winners of the KDE SVG Wallpaper contest. "It was not an easy task as there was so much incredible artwork. The judges sorted through all 86 entries and choose the top four and the winners are..."
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Splashscreen VoteA vote is being held for the OpenOffice.org version 2.0 Splashscreen. "Please help us choose a new splash screen for the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 release. This image will be seen by tens of millions of users around the world every time they start OpenOffice.org. Voting is now open for community members."
Upcoming Events OSCON call for proposals (use Perl)Use Perl has a call for proposals for the 2005 OSCON. "Bjørn Hansen writes "OSCON is headed back to friendly, economical Portland, Oregon during the week of August 1-5, 2005. If you've ever wanted to join the OSCON speaker firmament, now's your chance to submit a proposal (or two) by February 13, 2005.""
OSBC announces line-up for Linux conferenceOSBC, LLC has announced the second annual Open Source Business Conference(TM) (OSBC), the premier event for open source software and business, will be held April 5 and 6 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco with featured keynote speakers from IBM, OSDL, SpikeSource, Sun Microsystems, VA Software, and authors Geoffrey Moore and Lawrence Lessig.
NSA Director Wolf to Keynote Security-Enhanced Linux SymposiumDaniel G. Wolf will be the keynote speaker for the First Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium, the event will be held on March 2-4, 2005 in Silver Spring, Md.
Al Brisard Joins Panel on Future of VoIP and Open SourceAl Brisard of PingTel has joined the Southern California Linux Expo panel discussion on the future of VoIP and Open Source. The expo will be held on February 12-13, 2005 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
YAPC North America 2005 Call-for-Papers (use Perl)A call for papers has gone out for YAPC::NA 2005. "The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location will be in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced, but has been moved to accomodate venue availability.) The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm."
7th German Perl Workshop Schedule and Registration (use Perl)Use Perl has posted an update for the 7th German Perl Workshop. "JStenzel writes "The schedule of the 7th German Perl Workshop, together with the abstracts, is now online. A registration form is provided on the same page. The Workshop will be held in Dresden from 9th to 11th February 2005. Both German and English talks will be presented in the typical workshop atmosphere which inspired me as often as I took part.""
Press Conferences for LinuxWorld Conference and ExpoIDG World Expo has announced a number of press conferences by various IT companies. "IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, today announced the press conference schedule at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R) Boston on February 14-17, 2005 at the Hynes Convention Center. Many of the world's leading IT companies including HP, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and Veritas, will be announcing new products and upgrades for Linux enterprise users at the event."
Events: January 27 - March 24, 2005
Web sites Hungarian MozillaZine Translation Launches (MozillaZine)A Hungarian translation of MozillaZine has been announced. "This brings the total number of localised MozillaZine versions to six."
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