Non-Commercial announcements
The Free Software Foundation Europe is collecting signatures for
its Karlsruhe Memorandum on Softwarepatentability.
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Georg Greve, president of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) asks
"everyone to sign up to the Karlsruhe Memorandum on software
patentability preserve your freedom to be creative!" Started last
Saturday during GNU/Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Germany the memorandum was
signed by more than 200 people and 26 companies.."
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Use Perl has
a call
for conference materials from the recent YAPC::NA::2005 event.
"
For the presenters: this is your chance to update your slide show or presentation material that you want to include in the proceedings. It also gives you one last chance to update your photo and biography."
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Commercial announcements
A free trial version of DbWrench Database Design v1.2.0
is available
for the PostgreSQL database.
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DENX Software Engineering has announced the availability of its
Embedded Linux Development Kit in the AMCC PowerPC® 440EP evaluation kit.
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The DENX Embedded Linux Development Kit provides a complete and
powerful software development environment for embedded and real-time
systems. All components of the ELDK are available for free with
complete source code under GPL or other free software licenses."
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Desktop Alert Inc. has
announced Jabcast 2.0 Secure for Linux.
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Desktop Alert Inc.
has released Jabcast 2.0 Secure for Linux which
is based on an open source, secure, ad-free alternative to consumer IM
services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo. Jabcast is a set of streaming XML
protocols and technologies that enable any two entities on the Internet to
exchange messages, presence, and other structured information in close to real
time."
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FSMLabs, Inc. has
announced
the availability of RTLinuxPro development and deployment platform for a
wide array of ARM(R) processors.
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Red Hat, Inc. has announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter
ended May 31, 2005. "
Total revenue for the quarter was $60.8
million, a year-over-year increase of 46% and a sequential increase of
6%. Enterprise subscription revenue was $48.7 million, an increase of 63%
year-over-year and 7% sequentially."
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SGI has
announced the availability of IBM's Entity Analytics Portfolio
on the SGI Altix Server platform.
"
IBM's DB2 EAS portfolio on SGI Altix helps solve identity problems common
in national security, compliance, fraud detection, customer relationship
management, insider threat detection, and other applications. The solution is
designed to bring a new level of accuracy, precision, and fidelity to the
concept of identity recognition and relationship resolution for government and
commercial organizations."
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VA Linux Systems Japan proclaims the VA Linux Business Forum, held last
week in Tokyo, as a success. "
This year the forum sought to explore
the continuing growth of VA Linux as a technology source, present current
business conditions and the directions of VA Linux partner companies as the
core businesses driving the Linux and Open Source movement, as well as
introduce new technologies and solutions essential to the enterprise market
built from the Linux kernel level upward."
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New Books
Addison-Wesley has announced the release of the Second Edition of Advanced
Programming in the UNIX Environment, originally authored by W. Richard
Stevens, and now comprehensively revised and expanded by Stephen A. Rago.
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O'Reilly has published the book
JBoss: A Developer's Notebook
by Norman Richards and Sam Griffith, Jr.
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Contests and Awards
Nominations
are being accepted for a new Perl award.
"
jesse writes "At YAPC::NA, David H. Adler and I announced the creation of a
new set of awards for the perl community: the NJAPHs. These awards recognize
Perl hackers who have made an outstanding technical contribution in the past
year. Nominations are now open, and will be tallied at OSCON, where
information about how to cast your vote will be announced.
The awards will be presented at YAPC::EU.""
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Event Reports
More coverage of the 2005 International Lisp
Conference is available online.
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Upcoming Events
GarageGames will be holding the 4th Annual Indie Games Con
from October 7-9, 2005 in Eugene, Oregon.
"
Indie Games Con (IGC) is a fun, informal and informative community
gathering of independent game developers from around the world. IGC is
designed to be a summit meeting of like-minded developers with the
shared goal to focus on collaboration and building community. Along
with sessions on game art, technology, tools and business, the event
has a central ShowOFF Center where developers can showcase their
current prototypes, demos and newly released games."
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The UKUUG Linux 2005 Conference will be
held in Swansea on August 4-7, 2005. A detailed description
of the event is now available.
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| Date | Event | Location |
| July 7 - 9, 2005 | LSM 2005 Libre Software
Meeting for Medicine | Dijon, France |
| July 7 - 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 14 - 15, 2005 | Free Libre Open Source Software
in Education Conference(FLOSSIE) | (Bolton Technology Innovation Centre)Bolton,
UK |
| 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 29 - 31, 2005 | DefCon 13 | (Alexis Park)Las
Vegas, Nevada |
| 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 | Penguincon
2005 | Israel |
| August 4 - 7, 2005 | Linux
2005 | (University of Wales)Swansea, UK |
| August 8 - 11, 2005 | LinuxWorld Conference and
Expo | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| August 20, 2005 | Free Audio and Video
Event(FAVE) | (Trinity Community and Arts Centre)Bristol, UK |
| August 27 - September 4, 2005 | aKademy
2005 | (University of Málaga)Málaga Spain |
| August 31 - September 2, 2005 | YAPC::EU::2005 | (University of Minho)Braga,
Portugal |
| September 1 - 2, 2005 | Symposium on Security for
Asia Network(SyScAN'05) | (The Dusit Thani Hotel)Bangkok, Thailand |
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Miscellaneous
The KDE Project and Google have
announced the 24 KDE projects
selected for the Summer of Code project. "
The accepted projects span
accessibility work, improvements to the office and personal information
management suites, and innovations to KDE architecture. Much anticipated
projects include one addressing VoIP in KDE, and a unified document viewer
to handle multiple formats with a plugin architecture for third party
vendor extensions."
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MozillaZine
reports on
the list of Mozilla-related projects chosen to be part of Google's Summer Of
Code. "
Selected
projects include an event logger for Firefox, a SIP phone client for
Thunderbird, a Firefox extension installer, a XUL front end for Bugzilla, a
graphical theme builder for Mozilla, a BitTorrent client built with
XUL/XPCOM and localizations for Latvian, Thai, Vietnamese and
Hindi."
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A. M. Kuchling has announced the
project list
for the Python projects that will be mentored by the Python Software
Foundation during the Summer Of Code event.
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