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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EU Public Licence: join the debateThe EU's IDABC Programme has released a draft of the EU public licence. Interested parties are invited to join the online discussions on the EUPL at the eGovernment Observatory's forum.
WSIS PCT WG: WIPO should prevent software patents, shorten copyright spanThe Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out a statement by the UN WSIS Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Working Group of Civil Society concerning software patents.
Commercial announcements Levanta announces Linux management applianceLevanta (once a high-flying company called Linuxcare) has announced the availability of "Intrepid M", a standalone box intended to help with the management of networks of Linux systems. "Through an intuitive interface, a Linux systems administrator with as little as two years of experience can use the Intrepid M to quickly deploy, rollback and migrate RPM-based Linux servers (whether running RedHat, SuSE, or Fedora distributions) from a central location -- all without the need to install the operating system or applications directly on computers."
PostgreSQL Achieves Coverity Quality CertificationEnterpriseDB Corp has announced the receipt of a Coverity Quality Certification for the PostgreSQL-based RDBMS database. "EnterpriseDB Corporation, an enterprise-class database company, announced today that its PostgreSQL-based RDBMS was analyzed by Coverity Prevent, the worlds most advanced static software analysis tool, and found to contain only 20 defects in more than 775,000 lines of code. This is the lowest defect density (one defect per nearly 39,000 lines of code) reported by Coverity for an open source relational database."
Open-Xchange to Appear at LinuxWorld Expo in San FranciscoOpen-Xchange Inc. has announced that it will hold a demonstration of the Open-Xchange Server at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, CA on August 9-11, 2005. "Open-Xchange enables easy migration and integration to an open source environment -- allowing IT administrators to create and implement killer-apps without changing existing infrastructure components, i.e. databases, directory services, message transfer agents, e-mail servers or web-servers."
Xandros extends Enterprise Linux ChallengeXandros has extended its Enterprise Linux Challenge through September 30, 2005. "To date over 1,000 companies have signed up to qualify for a free copy of the Xandros replacement for Windows business desktops. This clear sign of enterprises being ready for Linux, surpassed even Xandros expectations. Challenge participants download a free trial of the new Version 3 of the Xandros Business Desktop Operating System (OS), which provides seamless compatibility with the latest Windows servers, including domain authentication support, logon scripts, and group policy profiles. Participants who fill in a detailed questionnaire to help Xandros identify future enterprise needs will be rewarded with a fully licensed boxed copy of the Xandros Business Desktop OS."
New Books C++ Books from Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTRAddison-Wesley and Prentice Hall PTR have published three new C++ books.
Book: Free software for busy peopleMohammad Al-Ubaydli has written a brief book, called Free software for busy people. It serves as a quick introduction to the free software world for people who don't want to know all the details; much of the book is about OpenOffice.org and Firefox. Linux comes in toward the end. It is available online (Creative Commons noncommercial license), or can be purchased. (Seen on BoingBoing).
Learning Perl, Fourth Edition - O'Reilly's Newest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Learning Perl, Fourth Edition by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy.
Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook by Ian Langworth and chromatic.
No Starch Press publishes "Linux Made Easy"No Starch Press has published the book Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users by Rickford Grant.
Upcoming Events FAVE 2005: Open Source Creativity in Bristol, UKThe FAVE 2005 event will take place in Bristol, UK on August 20, 2005. "FAVE is a new event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms."
GOTO10 ASP digital sound workshopA digital sound workshop will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on September 1-4, 2005. "In a four-day workshop hosted by V2_, sound artists Frank Barknecht and Aymeric Mansoux will introduce the basics of Audio Signal Processing (ASP) in the fields of real-time music production. This workshop specifically targets people who want to develop their work in the digital sound field or those people curious about the processes involved behind the audio software they already use."
IBM eServer pSeries, AIX and Linux Technical ConferenceIBM will be holding two instances of its eServer pSeries and Linux technical conference. the first will be held in Orlando, FL on September 12-16, 2005 and the second will be held in Barcelona, Spain on November 7-10, 2005.
LinuxWorld LondonA LinuxWorld conference will be held in Olympia, London on October 5 and 6, 2005.
OSCON public meetingThe Open Source Initiative is holding a meeting at the upcoming OSCON event. "OSI is going to be holding a public meeting at O'Reilly's OSCON the first week of August. It's to be held on Thursday evening at 7:30PM in room D135 of the conference hotel."
OSDC 2005 CFPA call for papers has gone out for the 2005 Open Source Developer's Conference. The event takes place in Melbourne, Australia on December 5-7, 2005. Proposals are due by August 19.
The Pacific Northwest Venture Capital SymposiumStrategic Research Institute has announced the Pacific Northwest Venture Capital Symposium. The event will take place in Bellevue, Washington on September 12-13, 2005.
Python Bootcamp Back at the Big Nerd RanchMark Lutz will be holding another Python Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch in Atlanta, Georgia on October 17-21, 2005.
Southern California Linux Expo - Call For PapersA Call For Papers has gone out for the Southern California Linux Expo. The event takes place near Los Angeles, CA on February 11-12, 2006. Papers are due in November.
Events: July 28 - September 22, 2005
Web sites Samba Project and Developer BlogsThe Samba Project has announced two new Project and Developer Blogs. "This will be the permanent home of project lists, status updates and what is happening with a given project or feature. The site's success will really depend on developer interaction and whether or not the community finds the status information helpful."
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