Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

FSFE on Microsoft proposal to European Commission

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) responds to a press release from the European Commission regarding new proposals from Microsoft in the pending antitrust suit. FSFE is participating as a third party and as a representative of the Samba Project. "According to this release, Microsoft wants to ban software developers from publishing Free Software on the basis of the interface information requested. This information is needed for Windows and GNU/Linux-based computers to interoperate in a company network."

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Carrier Grade Linux requirements definition 3.1 published

A new version of the Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definitions has been released. "The latest CGL Requirements Definition, CGL v3.1, is now available for evaluation by developers and Linux distributors and will be discussed at SUPERCOMM. The new Requirements Definition addresses new capabilities, particularly in the areas of clustering, manageability and security."

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Libranet Founder dies

Libranet president and founder Jon Danzig died on June 1, 2005. There are no details on the website. Libranet offices will be closed until June 13, 2005. "During this time emails may not be responded to and delivery of pre-ordered CDs will be delayed." (Thanks to John Amoroso)

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Commercial announcements

ARCHOS Release SDK for PMA400

ARCHOS, Inc. has announced the release of a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Pocket Media Assistant PMA400. "The PMA400 is a 30-gigabyte pocket-sized device and the most versatile portable video recorder and player on the market today, combining full video and audio capabilities with wireless connectivity and a new Linux platform."

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Arkeia Data Protection Solutions Certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Arkeia Corp. has announced the certification of its network backup software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. Certified products include Arkeia Server Backup, Arkeia Network Backup, Arkeia Disaster Recovery, and Arkeia Hot-Backup plug-ins for database applications.

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eLEC Deploys VoIP-Server Clustering Technology

VoX Communications, a subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp, has announced a new Linux-based VoIP-Server Clustering Technology. "VoX's President Mark Richards commented, "Our initial single-cluster deployment in Orlando, Fla. can support 10,000 subscribers, but the technology is now scalable to millions of subscribers."

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Guru Labs Updates Training Courses

Guru Labs, L.C. has updated their GL314 Linux Troubleshooting Course with support for new distributions. "The GL314 is a five day course built around Guru Lab's innovative tsmenu (troubleshooting menu) program. Using tsmenu, students are able to browse problem descriptions, launch a problem to break their system, obtain hints and check for successful resolution. The process of finding an appropriate fix allows students to test their knowledge of Linux while improving troubleshooting skills."

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JBoss and CIGNEX Partner to Extend Reach of Professional Open Source Solutions

CIGNEX Technologies, Inc. has announced a partnership with JBoss, Inc. to expand the worldwide implementation of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), the leading open source middleware platform. As a JBoss Certified Systems Integrator, CIGNEX will work with JBoss to help their joint customers implement Professional Open Source solutions.

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Accounting and Finance Solutions for Linspire

Linspire, Inc. has announced the availability of Appgen Business Software's MyBooks Professional, an accounting and finance package, for the Linspire desktop.

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Mandriva's Academia program

Mandriva has announced its "Academia program," an offering for universities and research labs. "Academia is sold to educational bodies on an unlimited site license basis. Only one license is needed to be able to run Mandriva Linux on all the computers of a given site. This means that there's a single price for an unlimited number of installations. No usage report is thus needed."

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PolyServe Release of File Serving Clustering Software on Linux

PolyServe Inc. has announced the release of its PolyServe File Serving Solution 3.0 on Linux. "Release 3.0 features a new cluster volume manager (CVM) and other expanded storage management capabilities. The PolyServe CVM adds another key piece for superior file serving by enabling higher storage utilization rates and better performance for any brand of storage connected to a storage area network (SAN)."

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rSmart Group teams with IBM on Kuali Project

The rSmart Group has announced a teaming with IBM on the Kuali Project. "Together they will focus on the long term success and market adoption of Kuali -- a powerful combination of open source code, open standards and an open architecture that defines the next generation of administrative applications for higher education".

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Bruce Perens gets a new job

SourceLabs Inc. has announced that it has hired Bruce Perens as "vice president of developer relations and policy." "As a member of SourceLabs' executive team, Perens will continue his work as a leading open source policy advocate, as well as support SourceLabs' mission to ensure open source systems for enterprise IT departments work dependably together and are well-supported." SourceLabs sells support services centered around the Apache/MySQL/PHP software stack.

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TUX Magazine grows to 50K subscribers

SSC Publications Ltd announced the passing of the 50,000 subscriber mark with its TUX Magazine. "TUX Magazine is a controlled-circulation, digital publication that supports the new user of the Linux operating system, from novices through to intermediate-level users. The growth of TUX Magazine is reflective of the rapid growth rate for Linux worldwide."

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New Books

Degunking Linux - Paraglyph's Latest Release

Paraglyph has published the book Degunking Linux by Roderick W. Smith.

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Greasemonkey Continues to Attract Attention (MozillaZine)

Mozillazine mentions a new online book about Greasemonkey. "Greasemonkey, the popular Mozilla Firefox extension that lets users install scripts to change the way various websites work, is continuing to attract attention. Mark Pilgrim, the man who brought you Dive Into Python and Dive Into Accessibility, has written a comprehensive online book about Greasemonkey called Dive Into Greasemonkey. In the guide, Mark describes what Greasemonkey is, explains how to write Greasemonkey user scripts and discusses some Greasemonkey case studies."

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Learning Java, Third Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Learning Java, Third Edition by Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen.

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French Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird Book Published (MozillaZine)

Pascal Chevrel has announced the publication of his book (in French) Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird.

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Performance Tools for Optimizing Linux: Process-Specific CPU

A sample chapter of the book Linux Performance Tools by Phillip Ezolt is available online.

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PloneLive 1.0 Available

The book PloneLive 1.0 has been published. "Plone Live is the result of a year of work, full- and part-time, of the two authors, Michel Pelletier and Munwar Shariff, our technical editor, Jean Jordaan, and our copy editor, Amy Kesic. But this book is more than what you are holding (or reading on the screen), because this book is live; every month, the authors add new content and fix typos, responding to the feedback our readers leave on our site, http://plonelive.com."

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Resources

FSF Europe Newsletter

The June 7, 2005 edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter is online with the latest European free software news.

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The LDP Weekly News

The June 1, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the newest documentation releases and other news.

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The LDP Weekly News

The June 7, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the latest new documentation releases.

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Contests and Awards

FSFE Handheld Computer Raffle

Xtops.DE and the Free Software Foundation Europe will be raffling a Linux-based SL-C1000 handheld computer on June 25. "Berlin based mail order company Xtops.DE has become what FSFE hopes is the first of many hardware vendors to support FSFE's Fellowship program by offering a hardware prize to reward those who join. The SL-C1000 up for grabs runs GNU/Linux on a 416MHz processor, with 64MB RAM and 128MB of Flash memory for the Free Software you want, and has a 3.7-inch full colour screen and QWERTY keyboard for easy use."

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Education and Certification

Python Certification Program

High-Level Certifications is offering a Python language certification program. "This certification seeks to provide the Python community with an up-to-date, platform-neutral, vendor-neutral certification administered in a secure proctored environment. As Python's popularity continues to grow, High-Level Certifications' Python cert provides a way for Python programmers to prove their proficiency at this powerful language. The exams take a "pure programming" approach to Python, emphasizing a thorough understanding of the most important elements of the language."

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Upcoming Events

Firebird Conference 2005

The Firebird Conference 2005 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from November 13-15, 2005. A call for papers has been announced.

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IFIP workshop: Milan

An open-source workshop will be held at the IFIP Technical Committee 2. "A workshop aimed at formulating the proposal of a 'open source software' working group within the IFIP Technical Committee 2, will be held in Milan, italy, on tuesday, june 14."

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Online Forum on Intellectual Property

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is holding an Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society. The forum runs from June 1-15. "The WIPO Online Forum is designed to enable and encourage an open debate on issues related to intellectual property in the information society, and in light of the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This presents a unique opportunity for all to engage in the emerging debate on intellectual property in our day." Thanks to Krishna Pagadala.

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Open Culture Conference, Milan

The Open Culture Conference will be held in Milan, Italy on June 27-29, 2005.

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Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe

A Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe event has been announced. "The Minsk Linux Users Group invites you to take part in "Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe" (LVEE) that will take place on June 30-July 3, 2005. What does this name stand for? Obviously it is a vacation for associates who are involved in Free Software and particularly Linux. We offer to spend 4 unforgettable days on the shore of a lake in a landscape reserve near the old Belarusian city of Hrodna."

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Upcoming PHP Conferences

A number of new PHP conferences have been announced on the PHP web site: php|works (Toronto, Canada, September 14-16, 2005) International PHP Conference 2005 (Frankfurt, Germany, November 6-9, 2005) AFUP (Paris, France, November 8-9, 2005).

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3 weeks until YAPC North America (use Perl)

Use Perl has a reminder for the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America. The event will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on June 27-29, 2005.

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YAPC::EU::2005 Schedule

The schedule for the YAPC::EU::2005 conference is online. The event will be held in Braga, Portugal on August 31 - September 2, 2005.

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Events: June 9 - August 4, 2005

Date	Event	Location
June 9 - 10, 2005	Austrian Perl Workshop	(Kapsch CarrierCom)Vienna, Austria
June 9 - 10, 2005	The French Perl Workshop	(Faculté des Sciences de Luminy)Marseille, France
June 11, 2005	PHP West	Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 15 - 17, 2005	AstriCon Europe 2005	(Auditorium Madrid Hotel)Madrid, Spain
June 17 - 19, 2005	RECON 2005	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 18, 2005	Perl Dag 2005	Copenhagen, Denmark
June 19 - 22, 2005	International Lisp Conference 2005(ILC 2005)	(Stanford University)Palo Alto, CA
June 20 - 21, 2005	Linux Cluster Summit 2005	Walldorf, Germany
June 22 - 25, 2005	LinuxTag 2005	(Kongresszentrum)Karlsruhe, Germany
June 23 - 24, 2005	Italian Perl Workshop 2005	(University of Pisa)Pisa, Italy
June 25, 2005	LugRadio Live 2005	(Molyneux Stadium)Wolverhampton, UK
June 25, 2005	XML Prague 2005	Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
June 27 - 29, 2005	Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC::NA 2005)	(University of Toronto)Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 27 - 29, 2005	EuroPython 2005	Göteborg, Sweden
June 27 - 29, 2005	Open Culture	(Via Festa del Perdono 7)Milan, Italy
June 29 - 30, 2005	Where 2.0 Conference	(Westin St. Francis Hotel)San Francisco, CA
June 30 - July 3, 2005	Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe(LVEE)	Hronda, Belarusia
July 1 - 6, 2005	Linux Desktop Development and KDevelop Developers Conference 2005	Kiev, Ukraine
July 5 - 9, 2005	LSM 2005 Libre Software Meeting for Medicine	Dijon, France
July 6 - 9, 2005	IV Jornades de Programari Lliure	Campus de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
July 10 - 18, 2005	Debconf 5	Helsinki, Finland
July 11, 2005	Evolution of Open-Source Code Bases(EVOSC05)	Genova, Italy
July 11 - 15, 2005	First International Conference on Open Source Systems(OSS2005)	Genova, Italy
July 11 - 14, 2005	GOTO10 workshop	(OKNO)Brussels, Belgium
July 11 - 15, 2005	IEEE International Conference on Web Services(ICWS 2005)	Orlando, Florida
July 17 - 19, 2005	Desktop Developer's Conference	(Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
July 18 - 22, 2005	ApacheCon Europe 2005	Stuttgart, Germany
July 18 - 22, 2005	PostgreSQL Bootcamp	(Big Nerd Ranch)Atlanta, GA
July 20 - 23, 2005	Ottawa Linux Symposium(OLS 2005)	Ottawa, Canada
July 20 - 22, 2005	North American Plone Symposium	(The Astro Crowne Plaza)New Orleans, Louisiana
July 26, 2005	2nd European LISP and Scheme Workshop	Glasgow, Scotland
July 27 - 28, 2005	Black Hat Briefings USA 2005	Las Vegas, NV
July 31 - August 4, 2005	2005 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival	Los Angeles, CA
August 1 - 5, 2005	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	(Oregon Convention Center)Portland, Oregon
August 1 - 5, 2005	CIFS 2005 Conference and Plugfest	(Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, CA
August 4, 2005	Penguicon 2005	Israel
August 4 - 7, 2005	Linux 2005	(University of Wales)Swansea, UK

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Web sites

How to bring new contributors to GNOME (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop has announced a new web site about Getting Involved in GNOME development. "Some ideas: improving the exposure of projects needing help in the gnome.org sites, looking for contributors instead of developers, inviting Windows/Mac users to get a first GNOME experience through GTK applications they can install..."

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Announcing the New KDE-Artist Website (KDE.News)

The new KDE-Artists.org site has been announced. "KDE-Artists.org is a new KDE sister website created specifically for artists and coders to use for reference and direction in creating a high quality consistant user interface. It is also the home of Kollaboration, a new concept created by several people to give dreamers, artists, and coders a place to work together."

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Code Skipper Qt Community Resource Site Launches (KDE.News)

KDE.News has an announcement for the new Code Skipper site. "The Code Skipper, a new free Qt community resource site has been founded to provide our community of developers with a place to meet. This is a site where tutorials and articles that can be found on a range of Qt related subjects including a Programming with Qt tutorial, Building a Universal SQL Client and 3D Programming. The Code Skipper also contains a lot of code that can be easily integrated into your applications. Learn Qt tricks from there and share your own ideas."

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Open KHTML Info Page Launched (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the launch of the khtml.info site. "In an effort to open up their development process the developers of the Konqueror components KHTML, KJS and KSVG have launched the open Web portal KHTML.info. By providing a central contact point and source of information in form of an open Wiki the developers want to promote their work and embrace users and developers from both Open Source as well as commercial environments."

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Miscellaneous

KDE Joins Google's Summer of Code (KDE.News)

KDE has joined the Google Summer of Code program. "If you are a student looking to get into KDE development this is the perfect opportunity. We have a list of rules and suggested projects. The deadline is soon, June 14th, for a completed proposal and you will probably need a week of communication first to ensure a good proposal for Google, so move quickly."

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Samba and Google's Summer of Code

The Samba project has joined the Google Summer of Code program. "If you haven't yet heard, Google recently announced its Summer of Code program. Samba is proud to be involved as a mentor organization, so if you're a student and have some time on your hands..."

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