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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements European Parliament says no to software patents, yes to innovation The FFII congratulates the European Parliament on its clear "no" to bad legislative proposals and procedures in this press release (click below).
OSDL Appoints New Director to Lead Efforts in Europe Open Source Development Labs has appointed Claude Beullens as director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "Beullens brings nearly 30 years of experience in enterprise computing, sales and marketing to lead OSDL's efforts and initiatives throughout the region."
Open Source NHIN RFP Set-Aside (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews reports on a funding source for open-source software development by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS). "HHS, in a July 1 amendment to its request for proposals for the NHIN, said it will set aside one unrestricted award for open-source software which meets the following criteria: free redistribution, inclusion of source code, permission for modifications and non-specific licensing."
Software Freedom Law Center Announces Plone as Newest Client The Software Freedom Law Center has announced its newest client, the Plone Foundation. "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), today announced it will represent the Plone Foundation. The Foundation, based in Houston, Texas, supports the development and promotion of the open source content management system, Plone, and its developer community."
Commercial announcements Excel Software Updates Linux Development Tools Excel Software has announced the availability of new Linux development tools. "QuickUML 1.1.1 and QuickBugs 1.0.4 include an updated installer and many user interface enhancements. QuickBugs now has the ability to associate files or a zipped archive of files to bug reports, shortcuts for navigating or processing each bug and additions to the scriptable report generator. QuickCRC is a software design tool for discovering objects and related information for an object-oriented software development project."
Fujitsu and Novell Deliver Linux for High-Performance Servers Novell, Inc. has announced an agreement with Fujitsu to provide Linux-based server support. "As part of the agreement, Fujitsu will offer support services for Novell's SUSE(TM) LINUX Enterprise Server, which will soon be available worldwide on Fujitsu's mission-critical PRIMEQUEST(TM) and PRIMERGY(TM) servers."
Mathematica 5.2 adds 64-Bit Support Wolfram Research has announced the release of Mathematica 5.2, a mathematical simulation package. "Hot on the heels of Mathematica 5.1, itself released just eight months ago, 5.2 brings 64-bit technology to all supported platforms-an industry first. More than 4.3GB of memory (the 32-bit address limit) can now be addressed, and high-precision or large numbers are processed in 64-bit rather than 32-bit digit chunks for faster computation."
OpenLogic Launches BlueGlue 3.2 management suite OpenLogic has launched version 3.2 of its BlueGlue management suite. "At JavaOne, OpenLogic introduced BlueGlue 3.2, an Open Source management suite that can tie together, in any combination, 120 of the most popular Open Source software applications available today. Developers can get a stack working in minutes and BlueGlue will test, update and validate the project constantly."
Opera technical preview adds BitTorrent support Opera Software has announced a technical preview of the Opera browser with support for the BitTorrent file-downloading technology. "With BitTorrent, Opera hopes to make it easier for users to download the large amount of legal material available, such as Linux software and computer game demos. The Opera browser will also be offered for download as a torrent file."
PloneLive 1.0 Released Version 1.0 of PloneLive, an online book describing the Plone content management system, has been announced. " PloneLive 1.0 is a "live" book, meaning that it is updated every month with new material and corrections. Over the next year, we will be updated the book 12 times, tracking the changes and newest trends in Plone and covering new, as yet unreleased versions of Plone. The subscription cost is 29.95, this will get you access to an online repository of the full book and any of its more recent updates."
Systemax Releases Custom-Build PCs with Linux Linspire, Inc. and Systemax, Inc. have announced a customizable Systemax desktop PC pre-installed with Linspire Linux. "The Systemax Venture L335 System is outfitted with top-quality components, including an Intel Celeron D processor, 40GB hard drive, CD-ROM and 256MB of RAM, plus keyboard, speakers and mouse. The Systemax Venture L335 is available for $299.99 direct to consumers at TigerDirect.com and GlobalComputer.com."
Zend Core for IBM Released IBM and Zend have announced the Zend Core project. "IBM and Zend today announced the availability of Zend Core for IBM, the industry's first integrated solution specifically designed to help developers deploy database applications and services based on the popular PHP Web language. IBM and Zend also announced that they are jointly working on furthering PHP technology to include improved high-level database integration frameworks and enhanced PHP Web services standards."
New Books Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release O'Reilly has published the book Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition by Simon Cozens.
"Talk is Cheap" - O'Reilly's Latest Release O'Reilly has published the book Talk is Cheap by James E. Gaskin.
Resources FSF Europe Newsletter The July 8, 2005 edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter is online with the latest FSFE news.
Linux Gazette #116 The Linux Gazette for July 2005 is out. In addition to the usual features this issue has articles on Automatic creation of an Impress presentation from a series of images, Booting Knoppix from a USB Pendrive via Floppy, Introduction to Shell Scripting, part 6, User-Centered Design, and more.
Contests and Awards Bug 300000 Sweepstake Results Announced (MozillaZine) MozillaZine has announced the winner of the Bug 300000 Sweepstake. "Gervase Markham has announced the results of the Bug 300000 Sweepstake. Gerv writes: "bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 300,000 was filed on 2005-07-07 at 13:54 ZST by long-time Mozilla contributor 'timeless'. Of all the entrants in the 300,000 bug sweepstake, the person who guessed closest was Takeshi Nishimura, who guessed 2005-07-07 07:06 - over a period of nearly 4 months, he was only 6 hours, 48 minutes out!""
Upcoming Events GUADEC 2006 Slated For Barcelona The initial press release for GUADEC 2006 has been posted. The event will take place in Barcelona, Spain in May 2006.
Linux Bangalore Planning A planning announcement has gone out for the next Linux Bangalore event. There is a request for: "More suggestions from you, more recommendations, more comments."
linux.conf.au 2006 - Call For Papers A call for papers has gone out for the 2005 linux.conf.au event. The conference will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand in January, 2006. Papers are due by September 5, 2005.
Linux Installfest workshops in Davis - Saturday, July 16th The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold another Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, California on July 16, 2005.
ToorCon 2005 Call for Papers A Call for Papers has gone out for ToorCon 2005, a hacker convention that will be held in San Diego on September 15-18, 2005. Papers are due by August 15.
Events: July 14 - September 8, 2005
Web sites Social Bookmarking for Linux and Open Source LinuxQuestions.org has announced a new LQ Bookmarks site. "LQ Bookmarks allows you to bookmark, tag, annotate and share links to Open Source and Linux related sites. It also allows you to access your bookmarks from any browser on any machine. The ability to share and see what others are sharing is called social bookmarking."
Audio and Video programs LQ Radio Show - Episode #2 Episode number 20 of the LQ Radio Show is available. "The show is hosted by jeremy and includes a panel of LQ moderators. Topics include Linux on the desktop, beagle, Apple moving to Intel, blogging, Linux appliances, broadcom, Google's Linux app, the Vienna Linux migration and much much more."
Miscellaneous Another fun DMCA case Attorney William Patry's weblog looks at a new DMCA case, which, at its core, is claiming that a failure to heed a web site's robots.txt file is a circumvention of a technical copyright protection measure. "Those who decry the DMCA as an (attempted) tool of oppression will find more than ample support in this effort."
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