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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
KDE e.V. Quarterly Report (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the availability of the second quarter 2006 KDE e.V. report. "KDE's legal body KDE e.V. has published its second 2006 quarterly report. Topics covered include progress organising Akademy 2006, activities from the working groups and sysadmins, events organised and attended and seven new members. If you have been helping KDE for a while, do consider joining the e.V. membership."
OpenDocument Fellowship receives development grants
The OpenDocument Fellowship has received almost $40,000 in donations for its Targeted Donations Program. "One donation will be used to reward volunteers from the OASIS ODF Formula subcommittee for their continuing work on the formula specification. The other donations are targeted at development projects. The Fellowship is producing an "ODF toolkit" for developers, and a light-weight ODF viewer."
Commercial announcements
2X goes open source with 2X TerminalServer
2X has announced the release of the source code for its its 2X TerminalServer for Linux product, under the GPL. "2X TerminalServer is a mature terminal server solution based on the popular NX protocol, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection. A free terminal server solution provides significant value to the Linux community and will help justify a potential move to Linux on the desktop."
Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free
Linspire has announced that its "Click 'N Run" service is now available free of charge. "The strong revenue stream from the commercial desktop Linux software applications, as well as the premium 'CNR Gold' service, has opened the door for Linspire to offer the basic CNR service at no charge to all Linspire and Freespire users."
Linux/Unix version of SPECviewperf 9 now available
A free download of the SPECviewperf v9 graphics performance evaluation software is available for Linux, according to is available. "SPECviewperf has become a worldwide standard for users assessing graphics performance for new purchases and upgrades, graphics card vendors testing products under development, OEMs evaluating graphics components, and consultants and publication editors reviewing new graphics systems. SPECviewperf 9 represents a major upgrade to the popular benchmarking software, featuring two new viewsets, a totally restructured viewset, and code changes that bring the testing environment much closer to the realities experienced by application users."
Novell reports preliminary financial results for 3Q 2006
Novell, Inc. has announced its preliminary third quarter financial results. "For the third fiscal quarter 2006, Novell reported net revenue of $241 million, compared to net revenue of $252 million for the third fiscal quarter 2005. The loss available to common stockholders from continuing operations in the third fiscal quarter 2006 was $3 million or $0.01 loss per diluted common share. This compares to income available to common stockholders from continuing operations of $0.4 million, or $0.00 per diluted common share, for the third fiscal quarter 2005."
Prosilica releases Linux software development kit (LaserFocusWorld)
LaserFocusWorld reports that Prosilica has announced a Linux software development kit for its gigabit Ethernet cameras. "These GigE Vision gigabit Ethernet cameras, which have been used in wide range of Windows-based computer vision applications, can now also be easily used on Linux computers. The SDK also includes sample code to help programmers more easily use Prosilica's cameras in their Linux-based applications. Prosilica's Linux SDK for GigE Vision works on both x86 and PowerPC hardware which is of great interest to system integrators and equipment manufacturers who want to use low-cost computer platforms for their automated imaging systems."
Zenoss releases open-source enterprise monitoring product
Zenoss, Inc. has announced the release of a new version of its Zenoss open-source enterprise monitoring product. "Offering the most complete IT monitoring software suite available as open source, the new version of Zenoss features: Built in Support for Nagios Plug-Ins. Existing users of Nagios can continue to use widely available and/or customized Nagios plug-ins in support of their systems monitoring requirements."
New Books
CSS: The Missing Manual--O'Reilly's latest release
O'Reilly has published the book CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland.
No Starch Press releases "Hacking the Cable Modem"
No Starch Press has published the book Hacking the Cable Modem by DerEngel.
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by Bruce Tate and Curt Hibbs.
Resources
Open-Xchange Publishes Web 2.0 Collaboration Position Paper
Open-Xchange, Inc. has a position paper, written by Daniel Kusnetzky, entitled Three Critical Elements of a Web 2.0-based Collaborative Solution.
Contests and Awards
Announcing The APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize IN 2007 (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews mentions a $4000 prize that is available for free software developers. "The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Chris Nicol FOSS Prize recognises initiatives that are making it easy for people to start using free and open source software (FOSS). The prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make FOSS accessible to ordinary computer users."
The Free Software Directory D5000 Contest
The Free Software Foundation has announced a contest to celebrate the 5000th entry in the Free Software Directory. "To mark the milestone of reaching 5000 entries, the FSF is holding a "D5000 contest" the winner of which will be rewarded for submitting the five thousandth entry. From now, 2006-08-21, until 2006-09-21, each new, valid and completed directory entry that is submitted will count as one chit in the raffle for the prize."
KPhotoAlbum Splash Screen Contest (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the KPhotoAlbum Splash Screen Contest. "The contest comes with a prize of $100US straight from author Jesper's PayPal account. Some early designs are on the contest page already. The contest runs until September 15th, and after that the KPhotoAlbum community will vote on which one will be used for the next release."
MySQL wins database contest
MySQL AB has announced the winning of an award. "MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced today that its internal benchmark team has won an international contest sponsored by the renowned IT industry magazine c´t for the fastest e-commerce database application. The magazine's editors held the contest to evaluate database performance in real-world business use by creating a standard online inventory system."
Event Reports
Python Sprint Report
Guido van Rossum reports on the Python Sprint in a blog posting. "This week, a number of Python developers (core and otherwise) and some Googlers got together in Mountain View and New York for a four-day Python and Python-3000 (Py3k) development sprint. Here's what we've done." Topics include: Warming Up, Int/Long Unification, Reinventing Comparison, Miscellaneous Projects and Python 2.5/2.6 Sprint Results.
Calls for Presentations
linux.conf.au 2007 call for participation extended!
The lca2007 Call For Participation has been extended until September 15, 2006. Submit your presentations, miniconfs, tutorials and papers before its too late. "Proposals for presentations and tutorials should be around 400 words and should detail the subject you want to talk about and include links to any other relevant details, such as a project home page. Remember this proposal needs to convince our programme committee that you should be talking at linux.conf.au 2007." lca2007 begins January 15, 2007.
Upcoming Events
Update on Hack.lu 2006
Hack.lu 2006 will be held in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg on October 19-21, 2006. "Hack.lu is an open convention /conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. The aim of the convention is to make a bridge of the various actors in the computer security world."
T-DOSE event in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
The 2006 T-DOSE event has been announced. "During the weekend of December 2nd and 3rd 2006 the T-DOSE event will be held in the auditorium of the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The name T-DOSE stands for Technical Dutch Open Source Event and offers a central speakers track, an open source marketplace for the abundant sharing of information and several developer/community rooms."
Events: September 7, 2006 to November 6, 2006
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 5 September 8 |
Linux Kongress 2006, 13th International Linux System Technology Conference | Nürnburg, Germany |
| September 8 | Leipzig Python Workshop | Leipzig, Germany, |
| September 9 September 10 |
Linuxtage in Essen | Essen, Germany, |
| September 11 September 13 |
OpenOffice.org Conference | Lyon, France, |
| September 12 September 15 |
php|works/db|works 2006 | Toronto, Canada, |
| September 13 September 15 |
2006 WebGUI Users Conference | Las Vegas, NV, |
| September 14 | NLUUG najaarsconferentie 2006 | Gelderland, The Netherlands, |
| September 14 September 16 |
Wizards of OS 4 - Information Freedom Rules | Berlin, Germany, |
| September 14 September 15 |
RailsConf Europe 2006 | London, UK |
| September 14 | Open Source: New DoD Paradigm, or Business as Usual? | Arlington, VA, USA |
| September 14 September 15 |
Software Tagging Workshop | Portland, OR, USA |
| September 16 September 17 |
WineConf | Reading, UK |
| September 16 September 17 |
Linux-Delhi (India Linux users group Delhi chapter) Freedel 2006 | Delhi, India |
| September 17 | KLDP 10 year Anniversary Free/Open Source Software Conference | Seoul, Korea |
| September 18 September 21 |
2006 European Open Source Convention | Brussels, Belgium, |
| September 18 September 21 |
New Security Paradigms Workshop | Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, |
| September 19 September 21 |
High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop | Lexington, MA, USA |
| September 23 September 30 |
KDE World Summit 2006 | Dublin, Ireland, |
| September 25 September 28 |
Embedded Systems Conference | Boston, MA, |
| September 29 September 30 |
No cON Name 2006 Congress | Palma de Mallorca, Spain, |
| September 29 October 1 |
ToorCon 2006 | San Diego, CA, |
| September 29 October 1 |
Encuentro de Desarrolladores de GNOME Zaragoza | Zaragoza, Spain |
| September 30 October 1 |
RuxCon 2006 | Sydney, Australia, |
| September 30 | Ohio LinuxFest 2006 | Columbus, Ohio, |
| September 30 | Defective by Design, 2pm-5pm, Apple Store, Regent Street, London, UK | London, UK |
| October 1 October 4 |
Gelato ICE Itanium Conference and Expo | Biopolis, Singapore, |
| October 1 October 3 |
LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006 | Hamburg, Germany |
| October 2 October 5 |
Security OPUS Infosec Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| October 7 October 9 |
GNOME Boston Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| October 9 October 13 |
ApacheCon US | Austin, TX, |
| October 9 October 13 |
13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Naperville, IL, |
| October 11 October 12 |
Eclipse Summit Europe | Esslingen, Germany |
| October 11 October 12 |
Linux World Conference and Expo | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| October 12 October 15 |
Eighth Real-Time Linux Workshop | Lanzhou, Gansu, China, |
| October 18 October 19 |
International Conference on IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics | Stuttgart, Germany, |
| October 18 October 22 |
Pike Conference 2006 | Riga, Latvia |
| October 19 October 21 |
HackLu 2006 | Kirchberg, Luxembourg, |
| October 19 October 20 |
DC PHP Conference | Washington, D.C., |
| October 20 October 22 |
aLANtejo 06 | Évora, Portugal |
| October 20 October 22 |
RubyConf 2006 | Denver, Colorado |
| October 22 October 27 |
Colorado Software Summit | Keystone, CO, USA |
| October 23 October 24 |
Mono User and Developers Meeting | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| October 23 October 26 |
Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conf | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 25 October 26 |
LinuxWorld UK 2006 | London, UK, |
| October 25 October 27 |
Plone Conference 2006 | Seattle, WA, |
| October 26 October 27 |
IT Underground | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| October 28 | LinuxDay 2006 | Many of them, Italy |
| October 31 November 2 |
Zend/PHP Conference and Expo | San Jose, CA, |
| November 1 | Ingres Users Association Conference | London, England |
| November 4 November 8 |
I Jornadas técnicas KDE de | Zaragoza, Spain |
| November 4 November 11 |
Open Source in Performance and Exhibition | London, England |
| November 5 November 8 |
International PHP Conference | Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 5 November 10 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit - Mountain View | Mountain View, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
SpreadGNOME.org Launches
The new SpreadGNOME.org site has been launched. "In an effort to promote the adoption of GNU/Linux desktops, SpreadGNOME.org has launched with the goal of being a resource to help spread the word of GNOME to GNU/Linux desktop users and potential converts. It is meant as a place to share ideas to help promote GNOME in the community, and helping those who wish to get involved with GNOME. Feel free to submit other GNOME-related content as well to this site. SpreadGNOME.org is an independent web-site and is not affiliated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or otherwise approved by GNOME Foundation. "
A wiki about computer hardware, including Linux support
Thue Janus Kristensen has announced a new wiki. "After having noted that there doesn't seem to be a wiki in existence about computer hardware and operating system support, I decided to create one. To me hardware and operating system support it seems like an obvious idea for a user-supported information collection, in the spirit of Wikipedia."
Audio and Video programs
Lawrence Lessig's LinuxWorld talk online
LinuxWorld has put up a video of Lawrence Lessig's LinuxWorld keynote. It is in Flash format, however, and thus not accessible to all Linux users.
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