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UK Free Software Network Launches

The UK Free Software Network has been launched. "UKFSN is an Internet Service Provider with a difference - all of the profits from the operation will be donated to fund Free Software projects in the UK."

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LyX Quickstart (Linux Productivity Magazine)

Linux Productivity Magazine has published a LyX Quickstart, with book authors in mind.

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Translate.org.za October Update

The October Update from Translate.org.za is out. Translate.org.za is working to translate software into the eleven official languages of South Africa.

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Upcoming Events

Mark-Jason Dominus Teaching in Seattle (use Perl)

Mark-Jason Dominus, top-rated speaker at Perl conferences, will be teaching November Perl classes in Seattle, through Consultix. Early Bird tuition discounts expire on October 18, 2002.

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Open Source conference in Washington, DC.

Linux Med News mentions: "The Cyberspace Policy Institute of The George Washington University, in collaboration with the US Department of the Navy, the General Services Administration, and other sponsors TBA is planning to hold a 3-day conference on Open Source in March 2003 in Washington, DC." The event is in the planning stages.

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Sun sponsoring Linux.conf.au 2003 regional delegate program

Sun will be sponsoring the Linux.conf.au 2003 Regional Delegate Program, which will help bring people across Australia to the conference.

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Events: October 17 - December 12, 2002

Date	Event	Location
October 17 - 18, 2002	Open Source for E-Government	Washington, DC
October 17 - 18, 2002	Open Source: A Case for e-Government	(Marvin Center, George Washington University)Washington, D.C.
October 24 - 25, 2002	PHPCon 2002	(The Clarion Hotel SFO)Millbrae, California
October 28 - 31, 2002	International Lisp Conference 2002 - The Art of Lisp	San Francisco, CA
October 30 - 31, 2002	Think-Linux, The Solutions Show	(The Pinnacle)Toledo OH
November 1 - 3, 2002	2nd Annual Ruby Conference(RubyConf 2002)	(Washington State Trade and Convention Center)Seattle, Washington
November 2, 2002	Southern CaliforniA Linux Expo 2002(SCALE)	(Davidson Conference Center, University of Southern California)Los Angeles, CA
November 3 - 6, 2002	International PHP 2002 conference	Frankfurt, Germany
November 3 - 8, 2002	16th System Administration Conference(Lisa '02)	Philadelphia, PA
November 14 - 15, 2002	The Open Source Health Care Alliance(OSHCA)	(UCLA Medical Center)Los Angeles, CA
November 18 - 21, 2002	Embedded Systems Conference, Boston	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass
December 3 - 5, 2002	Linux Bangalore/2002	(J.N.Tata Auditorium)Bangalore, India

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Software announcements

This week's software announcements

Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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Miscellaneous

LWN Text Ads update

Since we began having trouble with our previous credit card bank, the LWN Text Ad payment system has been restricted to paypal only. As of this morning, however, customers may once again purchase text ads with their credit card, through our TrustCommerce payment gateway.

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Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

OpenOffice turned two on Sunday. So today, October 14th they are celebrating the event with a special archive of pages.

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The Perl Journal Lives! (use Perl)

Use Perl mentions that the Perl Journal has received enough subscriptions to continue publishing.

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