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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The Apache Software Foundation Accomplishments of 2005The Apache Software Foundation has sent out a a press release that highlights its accomplishments in 2005. "In addition to the Apache HTTP Server, recognized ASF projects include Ant, Axis Web Services, Derby, Forrest, Geronimo, James, Lenya, Lucene, Maven, mod_perl, MyFaces, Tomcat, SpamAssassin, Struts, Tapestry, and Xerces - from the core basics to in-demand solutions such as scalable Internet architectures, Cocoon, DB, Jakarta, and XML. All software developed within the ASF is free to download, use, modify, and distribute under the Open Source Apache License."
Patents back on EU agendaFlorian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com Web site, tells us that software patents are once again on the EU agenda. "[Mueller] believes that it is "imperative for our movement to influence the new debate on the community patent on a timely basis, or else we would find it hard, if not impossible, to stop the avalanche". In his opinion, it is "a steep challenge" to ensure that a community patent law would simultaneously address the issue of the EPO's patent granting practice, "because many politicians believe that the community patent is an important measure from a competitiveness point of view, and won't like the all-or-nothing notion of having to solve two huge problems at one fell swoop". But, he adds, "defining what is patentable would be needed to really make Europe more competitive"."
Commercial announcements Aheeva collaborates with Asterisk and SugarCRMAheeva has announced a new version of their Asterisk-based IP Contact Center Software. "Aheeva CCS Version 2.0 is smarter IP contact center software, featuring improved quality monitoring tools, enhanced statistical analysis and tools to increase agent efficiency. Now supporting SugarCRM, a customer relationship management solution, Version 2.0 remains a cost-effective solution based on open source technology."
EnterpriseDB Announces Partner ProgramEnterpriseDB has announced a new partner program. "EnterpriseDB, the worlds leading enterprise-class, open source database company, today launched a formal partner program that enables companies to incorporate the award-winning EnterpriseDB database into their business models. Via the new partner program, Technology Partners, including SugarCRM, JasperSoft, Continuent, and TenFold, will collaborate with EnterpriseDB to certify products with the EnterpriseDB database, Service Partners, including dbConcert, Fusion Technologies, Optaros and Buda Consulting will grow market opportunities by providing professional services supporting EnterpriseDB, and Business Partners, including Contegix, will offer EnterpriseDB as an integral component of solutions for end-user customers."
HP to sell Mandriva systems in Latin AmericaMandriva has announced a deal with HP wherein HP will offer systems preloaded with Mandriva Linux throughout Latin America. "The first pre-loaded machines - one targeted to the consumer market and one for the enterprise - are shipping in Brazil. HP and Mandriva have been collaborating for several months to certify various system configurations and optimize performance, as well as expand language support. Technical support will be offered in both Spanish and Portuguese for all of Latin America."
Lattix LDM for Eclipse Now AvailableLattix, Inc. has announced the release of Lattix LDM for Eclipse. "With this new Eclipse plugin, Lattix further extends the developers' capabilities to visualize and maintain the architecture during application development by delivering the power of Lightweight Dependency Models (LDM) to formalize, communicate and control the architecture of Eclipse projects."
Linux Professional Institute Offers Certification Exams at IBM Software UniversityThe Linux Professional Institute will be offering discounted exams at the IBM Software University event in Las Vegas, NV on January 19, 2006.
MySQL Awarded GSA Contract Schedule 70MySQL AB has announced the award of a five-year US government GSA contract. "More than 8 million active installations around the world employ MySQL, including thousands of federal, state, and local government organizations such as Los Alamos National Labs, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and the Department of Defense. MySQL database products are recognized for low cost-of-ownership (TCO), as well as superior ease of use, performance and reliability. MySQL's inclusion on the GSA schedule is enabled by an agreement with Carahsoft Technology, a leading government IT solutions provider based in Reston, Virginia that represents a select group of top tier software and hardware manufacturers."
Novell Reaffirms Commitment to ODFNovell sent out a reaffirmation of its support for the OpenDocument format. "Novell today reaffirmed its roadmap for support of the OpenDocument file format in current and future Novell(r) products, which reinforces Novell's commitment to open standards, customer choice and flexibility. Novell has delivered OpenDocument support in its SUSE(r) Linux distribution since March 2005. Novell will deliver complete OpenDocument support in the next edition of its enterprise desktop in 2006."
Open-Xchange Hires Executive VP of Marketing StrategyOpen-Xchange has announced the hiring of Daniel M. Kusnetzky as the executive vice president of Marketing Strategy. "Kusnetzky, most recently vice president of IDC's System Software research, was responsible for research and analysis on the worldwide market for operating environments and virtualization software. Prior to his 11 years at IDC, he spent 15 years with Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was responsible for program and product management, and marketing in the areas of client software, server software, and clustered and networked systems. Kusnetzky appears regularly as a keynote speaker at industry trade shows and is a noted expert on the open source industry."
Penguin Computing Recruits HP ExecPenguin Computing has announced the hiring of Pauline Nist as Senior Vice President of Product Development and Management. "Pauline, formerly Vice President of HP's Enterprise, Storage and Servers business unit, brings over 20 years of in-depth experience in the high performance computing (HPC) and enterprise markets to this new position."
LI president Jon Hall to form UnifiedRoot Advisory BoardLinux International president Jon Hall will form a UnifiedRoot Advisory Board. "UnifiedRoot, the company that has created a new and simplified Internet addressing system for corporate and public top-level domains (TLDs), has appointed Jon Hall, president of Linux International, as a founding member of its advisory board. He will assist UnifiedRoot in the expansion of the advisory board with the specific task of addressing technical and policy issues."
New Books Embedded Linux System Design and Development publishedThe book Embedded Linux System Design and Development by Amol Lad is available from Auerbach Publications.
Pragmatic Bookshelf releases "Learn to Program"Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Learn to Program by Chris Pine.
Running Linux, Fifth Edition - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Running Linux, Fifth Edition by Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and Matt Welsh.
Understanding Linux Network Internals - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Understanding Linux Network Internals by Christian Benvenuti.
Resources Three new Audio Libre articlesLinuxUser & Developer magazine has announced three new PDF articles in the Audio Libre series. Titles include FAVE raves - a new event for free software creativity, The 64-bit question - 64 Studio distribution and Snake dance - the Kamaelia streaming media system.
Grid Computing Newsletter Looks at Key Open Source Development EffortsA new issue of the Globus Consortium Journal has been announced. "The Globus Consortium (founded by IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, Nortel, Univa and Cisco) today published the latest issue of the Globus Consortium Journal. (http://www.globusconsortium.org/journal). The newsletter focuses on open source Grid computing projects - and this month features developer interviews with the leaders of the three most important services in the Globus Toolkit (www.globustoolkit.org)."
Contests and Awards Performance Technologies wins Product of the Year awardPerformance Technologies has announced the naming of their NexusWare(TM) Linux-Based Software Suite as Product of the Year by Internet Telephony Magazine. "The NexusWare Software Suite is a development, management and operating system environment which enables users of Performance Technologies' hardware and platform products to rapidly develop and deploy value-added capabilities with their solutions. NexusWare was chosen as an INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year due to its strong embodiment of Linux and its ability to facilitate the use of open-source software packages."
Upcoming Events Austin Group to meet in Ottawa, Feb 2006The tenth plenary of the Austin Group meeting will be held in Ottawa, Canada on February 21-24, 2006.
EUSecWest papers and CanSecWest CFPThe selection of papers for EUSecWest (London, U.K. February 20-21, 2006) and a call for papers for CanSecWest (Vancouver, Canada April 3-7, 2006) have been announced. CanSecWest papers are due by March 15, 2006.
FrOSCon 2006 - Call for PapersA Call for Papers has gone out for FrOSCon 2006. The event will take place on June 24 and 25, 2006 near Bonn, Germany. The Deadline for submission is March 15, 2006.
2006 GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit CFPA call for papers has gone out for the 2006 GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit. The event will be held on June 28 - 30, 2006 in Ottawa, Canada. Submissions are due by February 15, 2006.
HLUG Special Event February 1st with Peter Salus (Groklaw)Groklaw has announced a panel discussion that is being put on by the Hamilton Linux User Group. "For those of you near Hamilton, Canada, or those who like to travel, here's some news of an event you might like to attend. Peter Salus, Bob Young, owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lulu.com digital publishing, founder of The Center for the Public Domain, and co-founder of Red Hat Software, and EFF's Policy Coordinator, Americas, Ren Bucholz will be the guests at the Hamilton Linux User Group on February 1st. The topic of the panel discussion will be Linux v. SCO and the relevant freedom issues and legalities."
LinuxFest Northwest 2006 call for presentersA call for presenters has gone out for LinuxFest Northwest 2006. The event will take place on April 29, 2006 in Bellingham Wash. "This is an annual, International grass roots event put on by Lugs from the USA and Canada."
LinuxTag 2006 Call for ProjectsA Call for Projects has gone out for LinuxTag 2006. The event takes place in Wiesbaden, Germany on May 3-6, 2006. Projects are due by February 3.
Call for help for LinuxTag2006A LinuxTag 2006 call for help has been sent to the Linux Audio Users list. The event will be held in Wiesbaden, Germany on May 3-6, 2006. "A booth at LinuxTag is a good opportunity to present Linux Audio to the people, not only to developers but more to users. The crowd is mostly industry (producers, technicians, musicians) at the weekdays and home-recording-users at the weekend. Don't be afraid, there won't be much questions about setting up drivers for consumer-cards (and If there are, we usually send them to their distributions booth :-) ). But there will be a lot people thinking about using your app in studio! So you definitly don't want to miss this chance!"
LPI Exam Labs in Houston, Texas, January 2006The Linux Professional Institute will be holding a discounted exam lab at the daratechPLANT conference in Houston, Texas on January 23-25, 2006.
OpenOffice.org 2006 Conference - Call for LocationA Call for Location has gone out for the 2006 OpenOffice.org Conference. "The first three OpenOffice.org conferences in Hamburg, Berlin and Koper/Capodistria were a huge success. The highlight so far was this year's conference which, for the first time, was organized by a team of volunteer community members. Now we are wondering if this outstanding event can actually be bettered. Therefore, we are searching for the perfect location for the OpenOffice.org Conference in 2006."
SELinux Symposium Online Registration is OpenOnline registration for the next SELinux Symposium has been opened. The event takes place on February 27 - March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Md.
TimeSys to Host Educational Webinars for Embedded DevelopersTimeSys has announced a pair of educational webinars for embedded Linux developers. "Each webinar will be led by a Linux development expert using LinuxLink by TimeSys(TM), a continuously updated, Web-based resource for embedded Linux development. Webinar hosts will guide attendees through the process of creating a custom Linux platform for an embedded development project targeting a PowerPC or x86 processor..." The events will take place on January 24 and 31, 2006.
Events: January 19 - March 16, 2006
Audio and Video programs Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with LinuxTux Power! is a freely available music compilation from members of Linuxaudio.org. "Linuxaudio.org has released its first compilation CD of music by artists using libre software - Tux Power! Every single part of the CD was made on Linux, including all the music, the mastering (with Jamin) and the artwork (with Scribus)."
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