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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Bluescreen welcomes Jettisoned / Old / Unused PCsTuomas Santakallio represents a company called Bluescreen, a student project that aims to create solutions on Debian for educational and SME environments. "In practice, we export refurbished PCs installed with Debian or Ubuntu into Kenya, where the PCs will be used in schools, churches, healthcare centres, libraries, internet cafés, etc. Some computers are bought for private use."
The Gimp needs more friendsAn effort is underway to increase the public awareness of the Gimp, a full-featured image manipulation application. "There is a simple solution to end the deep unawareness of the Gimp. The Gimp needs more advertising to gain more users, developers and professional friends. The Gimp needs something like "spread firefox" or "get firefox", but in the more intelligent way."
IDABC unveils draft software licenceIDABC has announced the unveiling of a new draft software licence. "At the annual LinuxTag fair and conference, IDABC presented a draft version of a software license that it hopes will encourage public administrations to release software applications developed by them. The proposal, which has been given the working title EU public licence (EUPL), was written on behalf of IDABC by the University of Namur following an in-depth study on existing licenses."
Rafael Ebron New Head of Mozilla Update (MozillaZine)MozillaZine has announced the new head of the Mozilla Update project, Rafael Ebron. "Rafael's appointment comes after concerns from long-time Mozilla Update contributor Alan J Star that development of Mozilla Update is progressing too slowly and that there's not enough detailed planning for Mozilla Update 2.0, a complete rewrite of the site."
RWJ Foundation: Information Links Grants (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews looks into a grant program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges.
Commercial announcements ActiveGrid Closes $10 Million in Series B FinancingActiveGrid, Inc. has announced that it has closed a $10 million Series B round in financing, led by Worldview Technology Partners. "ActiveGrid plans to use the funds to accelerate and extend the development of its Enterprise LAMP product offering to leverage the growing popularity of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) software stack. Irwin Gross, general partner of Worldview Technology Partners, will join the company's board of directors."
Mandriva settles Hearst litigationMandriva (formerly Mandrakesoft) has settled the litigation it had with Hearst Publications and Kingfisher Syndicate. This litigation concerned the "Mandrake The Magician" character and had being going on since 2000.
Mandriva Certifies BitDefender Linux Security SolutionsBitDefender Linux Security Solutions has announced its certification by the Mandriva Linux distribution. "Mandriva Linux distribution developers issued BitDefender security vendors with certificates stating full compatibility between BitDefender for Samba Linux File Servers, BitDefender Mail Protection for Small Business and Mandriva Linux Corporate Server 3.0."
Open-Xchange Inc. Bundles Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise ServerOpen-Xchange Inc. has announced an agreement with Novell to bundle SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with its Open-Xchange (OX) Server. "Open-Xchange also enters Novell's Technology Partner Program and will receive selling, marketing and development support."
Open-Xchange Announces Agreement With Red HatOpen-Xchange Inc. has announced a software partner agreement with Red Hat. "According to the agreement, Open-Xchange Server is now certified for the Red Hat Enterprise Server and Red Hat Application Server platform. Red Hat will provide Open-Xchange Inc. with open source technology and services as part of the Software Partner Agreement for distribution with Open-Xchange products. Open-Xchange Inc. will offer bundles for new customers and upgrade bundles for customers who want to migrate from SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server to the Red Hat platform."
Rackspace Taps Novell to Manage Multiple Linux Operating Systems in Enterprise Hosting EnvironmentNovell, Inc. has announced that Rackspace Managed Hosting has selected Novell(R) ZENworks(R) Linux Management software to administer its new enterprise Linux* hosting solution. "Additionally, with the launch of Rackspace Red Label*, the company now offers its enterprise hosting solution on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, among other Linux distributions."
Bill Joy Joins SpikeSource Board of DirectorsSpikeSource has announced the appointment of Bill Joy to its board of directors. "Bill Joy has joined the company's board of directors and that it has hired two new executives to oversee core business areas. Joaquin Ruiz has joined as vice president of product marketing and Anders Tjernlund as vice president of support services."
New Books Perl Best Practices - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway.
Prentice Hall publishes "A Pratical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming"Prentice Hall has published A Pratical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming by Mark Sobell.
Resources July 14 EDRI-gram newsletterThe EDRI-gram newsletter for July 14 is out, with the usual collection of news items on digital rights issues in Europe. The second piece - on a new European Commission proposal which would turn many "intellectual property rights" violations in to criminal offenses with a four-year prison term - is especially worth a look. "As with the 2004 IPR directive, the definition of 'commercial scale' is highly ambivalent. It doesn't require financial benefit, profit, or motive.... Free/Open source software development could be seriously jeopardised as well as generic drug production, by strong-armed legal hassle in stead of civil proceedings."
Realtimepublishers Releases 'The Developer Shortcut Guide to SUSE LINUX'Realtimepublishers has published the online book The Developer Shortcut Guide to SUSE LINUX by John Featherly. "Written for experienced developers who are looking to get a quick start on writing open source-based enterprise applications, this guide offers the most up-to-date information on the capabilities of SUSE LINUX as a development environment for enterprise .NET and Java applications."
Education and Certification New POSIX Certification Addresses Predictability for RealtimeThe Open Group and IEEE have announced a new POSIX certification program. "The certification is based on the criteria for bounded response times in Application Profile PSE54, which is part of the IEEE 1003.13(TM)-2003 standard, and complements the existing certification program for the base POSIX 1003.1(TM) standard."
Upcoming Events Australian Open Source Developers' ConferenceThe 2nd Australian Open Source Developers' Conference will be held in Melbourne Australia on December 5-7, 2005. "OSDC is a great opportunity for open source devotees to attend an affordable conference where the main focus is software development. Companies and other organisations will find the conference an ideal avenue for providing professional development for staff, identifying trends and partners and promoting their services."
CFP: Open Source Developers Conference - MelbourneThe 2005 Open Source Developers Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia on December 5-7. A call for papers has been issued.
CFP: 1st European Conference on Computer Network DefenceThe 1st European Conference on Computer Network Defence (EC2ND) will be held at the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd, UK on December 15 and 16, 2005. A call for papers has been issued, materials are due by September 30.
Registration Opens for the First O'Reilly EuroOSCONRegistration is open for the O'Reilly EuroOSCON, the event will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on October 17-20, 2005.
14th USENIX Security Symposium AnnouncedThe USENIX Association has announced the 14th Annual USENIX Security Symposium. The event will take place in Baltimore, Maryland on July 31-August 5, 2005.
Events: July 21 - September 15, 2005
Mailing Lists Ubuntu artworkUbuntu has set up a new Artwork Team to to handle all the pretty pictures in the Ubuntu project. This will include things like icons, splash screens, wallpapers, the calendar and much more. If you're interested in getting involved, the best way to start is to join the new artwork mailing list.
Audio and Video programs New episode of LUGRadio out (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop mentions the availability of a new audio program from LUGRadio. "The incredible crew at LUGRadio have put out another entertaining show featuring some discussion about GStreamer and Jono Bacon's newfound intimate relationship with it. Also being interviewed is Edward Hervey, maintainer of PiTiVi the GStreamer based non-linear video editor. Also interviewed is Sarah Ewen from Sony, talking about Linux on current and future Playstation's and Sony's plan for World Domination."
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