Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

EFF: California Lawmakers Pass Safeguards for Privacy-Leaking RFID Chips

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a Media Release concerning California legislation over RFID chips. "The California State Senate passed tough new privacy safeguards late yesterday for use of "tag and track" devices known as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips embedded in state identification cards. The bill helps ensure that Californians can control the personal information contained on their drivers' licenses, library cards and other important ID documents."

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Planning For 10 Years of Free Desktop (KDE.News)

KDE.News looks at 10 years of KDE. "10 years ago, on October 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced a project to create a complete and consistent GUI for the prospering Linux operating system. The project grew and matured and now it is 2006 and KDE is one of the largest Free Software projects."

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Nominations for X.Org Foundation Board of Directors are OPEN

X.Org Foundation Board nominations are being accepted. "We are seeking nominations for candidates for election to the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors. All X.Org Foundation members are eligible for election to the board. Nominations for the 2006 election are now open and will remain open until 23.59 GMT on 24 September 2006."

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Commercial announcements

Sun launches the Sun Studio Express Program

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the launch of the Sun Studio Express Program for its Sun Studio 11 development tool. "Sun has launched the Sun Studio Express Program that enables C, C++, and Fortran developers to preview features intended for future releases. With more than 50,000 registered downloads in the past 6 months, this program was created in response to the rapid adoption and interest in Sun Studio 11 software."

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Team ASA announces NPWR-LCX Single Board Computer

Team ASA has announced the NPWR-LCX single board computer. "The NPWR-LCX is one of two new single board networking computers released by Team ASA this week. The NPWR-LCX is based on the recently released Intel 80219 XScale CPU, running at 600 MHz. The NPWR-LCX I/O suite consists of Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, four Serial ATA ports, a USB 2.0 Device port and a Serial port. The NPWR-LCX Memory configuration supports 64 to 512 Megabytes of 266 MHz, DDR SDRAM and 8-16 Megabytes of FLASH ROM. The NPWR-LCX comes configured with a 2.6.13 Linux OS version on FLASH ROM Disk and a Linux Binary Distribution CD-ROM."

Team ASA also announced their NPWR-SAI board, which uses the Intel 80219 XScale CPU.

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Terra Soft announces the Y-Bio JS21 Cluster

Terra Soft has announced the Y-Bio JS21 Cluster, which is aimed at biological supercomputing applications. "The Terra Soft Y-Bio gene sequence analysis suite offers a single, database driven interface to the most common gene sequence analysis programs: Probcons, T-Coffee, mpiBLAST, MrBayes, Modeltest, NCBI BLAST, EMBOSS, Glimmer, ClustalW, HMMER, Wise, and FastA. The Y-Bio JS21 Cluster is comprised of Y-Bio pre-installed on each of 14 IBM JS21 blades in a single BladeCenter chassis. Each blade boasts four 2.5GHz cores for 56 cores in just 7U for a compelling 4x performance-density improvement over the former Apple G5 Xserve product line."

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New Books

Open Life publishes The Philosophy of Open Source

Open Life has published the book The Philosophy of Open Source by Henrik Ingo.

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The Relational Database Dictionary - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book The Relational Database Dictionary by C. J. Date.

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Contests and Awards

Rackspace Named Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Rackspace Managed Hosting has announced that the company was positioned in the "Leader's" Quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s annual North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant* published August 25, 2006 and authored by Gartner analysts Ted Chamberlin and Lydia Leong.

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Event Reports

Transcript of Richard Stallman at the 4th international GPLv3 conference

A transcript of Richard Stallman at the 4th international GPLv3 conference is available. This page links to audio and video recordings as well as text. "The overall topic of this speech is what we've changed in the GNU GPL. In order to speak about this, I need to remind people what the point of it is. The reason we change the GPL is to make it do it's job better, so what is that job? That job is protecting the freedom of all users of our software." (Thanks to Ciaran O'Riordan)

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Minutes from the OSDL DTL meeting on fonts and Linux

Waldo Bastian has posted minutes from the August 31 OSDL desktop Linux "tech board" meeting on fonts and Linux. There is quite a bit of work going on to improve the current situation. "[The Bitstream Vera license] requires renaming in order to extend. This may cause problems, e.g. somewhile back SUSE renamed Bitstream Vera to SUSE Sans. Websites/documents specifying SUSE Sans will not work correctly with other Linux distributions."

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Calls for Presentations

CFP, IT Underground, Warsaw, Poland 2006

A call for papers has gone out for the IT Underground 2006 conference. The event will take place in Warsaw, Poland on October 26-27, 2006.

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PyCon 2007 Calls for Proposals/Tutorials

A Call for Proposals has gone out for PyCon 2007. "Want to share your expertise? PyCon 2007 is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. PyCon 2007 will take place February 23-25 2007 in Addison, Texas." Submissions are due by October 31.

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Upcoming Events

The Ohio LinuxFest 2006

The Ohio LinuxFest 2006 will take place in Columbus, Ohio on September 30, 2006. "The Ohio LinuxFest 2006 will feature 19 exciting presentations this year by speakers such as Jon 'maddog' Hall, Jeff Waugh, Chris DiBona, Jay Pipes, Michael Johnson, and Jorge Castro -- as well as a guest appearance by live penguins!"

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Invitation to OSDL's Conference on Software Tagging (Groklaw)

Groklaw mentions an upcoming software tagging workshop in Portland, Oregon. "Kees Cook of OSDL would like to pick your brain some more, on the topic of software tagging. He also would like to hear from you, if you host an OSS software repository, and he has an invitation for Groklaw folks. Here's the request, along with the invitation: "I'm helping to host the OSDL-sponsored Software Tagging Workshop September 14 - 15 and am working with a number of folks to research best practices for manual software tagging and recording stamps. We'd like to create a list of who is currently hosting OSS repositories and the best way to contact them.""

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Software Development Best Practices India 2007 announced

CMP Technology has announced the Software Development Best Practices Conference & Expo series. The event will take place in Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore, India on January 16-18, 2007.

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Events: September 14, 2006 to November 13, 2006

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
November 6 November 10	Colorado Python seminar	Estes Park, CO, USA
November 7 November 9	2006 Web 2.0 Conference	San Francisco, CA,
November 9 November 10	Forum PHP 2006	Paris, France,
November 10 November 12	Chicago Perl Hackathon 2006	Chicago, IL, USA
November 11 November 17	Supercomputing 2006	Tampa, FL, USA
November 11	FSFE Fellows Meeting	Bolzano, Italy
November 12 November 14	Firebird Conference 2006	Prague, Czech Republic,

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