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EFF Battles to Save Critical Ohio E-Voting Case

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release concerning an Ohio E-voting case. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject Ohio's latest attempt to dismiss a critical electronic voting case -- the final legal hurdle in the path to a thorough investigation of the state's widely criticized 2004 election and much needed reform. "Ohio's procedures, like many used elsewhere across the country, simply don't do enough to protect voters from the serious vulnerabilities in the current generation of electronic voting equipment," said EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman."

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KDE Thanks Rob Levin (KDE.News)

KDE.News commemorates Rob Levin. "We knew him as lilo. He was the founder of the Freenode IRC network, a place where many open source projects established a real-time meeting ground. Freenode is where we work, play, and share. It is where many a small idea has grown into a large project. It is where we are all enriched by the experience and diversity of a group of people from many cultures who all have in common a love of open source."

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Mercurial Joins Software Freedom Conservancy

The Software Freedom Conservancy has announced its newest member, Mercurial. "The Software Freedom Conservancy, home of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, today announced that it welcomes as its newest member Mercurial, a distributed source management program which can be used to track revisions of software during development. By joining the Conservancy, Mercurial is entitled to all of the benefits of being a corporate entity. In particular, the Conservancy's corporate form limits the personal liability of individual developers and allows member projects to receive donations."

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Munich migration moves forward

The city of Munich, Germany has put out a press release (in German, English translation here) on the status of its migration to Linux. The early pilot phase has been completed, and the core system (built on Debian 3.1, KDE 3.5, and OpenOffice.org 2) has been approved. While this system is expected to continue to evolve somewhat, it seems that the deployment phase is beginning.

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A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox

Rockbox developer Björn Stenberg has let it be known that the project received a cease-and-desist letter from the Tetris company, which objected to the name of the "Tetrox" game distributed as a Rockbox plugin. In response, the project has renamed the game "Rockblox." "In addition to the trademark claim, they also claim copyright on "features" of the game. However, the lawyers agree with me that those claims are nonsense so we can safely ignore them."

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X.Org Foundation membership system running

X.Org has a board election coming up, with membership in the X.Org Foundation required to vote. It has, however, been difficult to actually become a member of the Foundation. That has now changed with the establishment of the new X.Org membership site. If you are interested in the direction of the X Window System, and have contributions to X that you can point to, you may wish to set up your membership now so that you can be part of the upcoming election. (Click below for the announcement).

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Commercial announcements

GroundWork Launches Version 5 of GroundWork Monitor Product Family

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. has announced version 5 of the GroundWork Monitor product line, including GroundWork Monitor Professional, a major upgrade to the company's flagship solution for monitoring the most demanding IT infrastructures, including servers, applications, and networked devices.

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Intel announces Linux-ready firmware developer kit

The Intel Open Source Technology Center has announced the Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit, which is aimed at BIOS writers. "The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit is an open source tool to test how well Linux works together with the firmware (BIOS) of your machine. The kit consists of a bootable CD that runs a series of tests and then presents the results on the screen for interactive inspection. The tests all check an aspect of the firmware that Linux uses or depends on for optimal operation."

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Novell Honors Top Global Training Partners

Novell, Inc. has announced that it is honoring its training partners. "Reflecting the importance of training in promoting Linux* adoption worldwide, Novell(R) is honoring its top Linux training partners for their success in driving Linux education, designating them Linux Centers of Excellence. These partners, which include companies across Novell's major geographic markets, delivered rapid growth in students trained, top ratings for the quality of their Linux instructors, and high marks for customer satisfaction."

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OpenSceneGraph 1.2 released

Version 1.2 of OpenSceneGraph, a cross-platform scene graph platform, is out. "OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of OpenSceneGraph 1.2, the industry's leading open source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. OpenSceneGraph 1.2, written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets a real time visualization tool which rivals established commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality and performance."

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Sun announces NetBeans IDE/BlueJ edition

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition. "Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, together with the NetBeans(TM) community and the University of Kent today announced the general availability of a new version of the open source NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition. This freely available edition of NetBeans offers a seamless migration path for students transitioning from educational tools to a full-featured, professional IDE."

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Contests and Awards

aKademy Awards 2006 (KDE.News)

KDE.News covers plans for the upcoming aKademy Awards. "This year aKademy will continue with tradition created at aKademy 2005 of awarding the people that made an outstanding contribution to KDE in the last year. The award ceremony will be on Sunday, September 24th at 17:50-18:00."

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Fedora Open Video Winner Announcement

The winner of the Fedora Open Video contest has been announced. "I would like to congratulate Maurizio Bertoldi who has won the first prize for his video "Fly your mind." The prize -- a digital Sony DVD camcorder -- will be soon on its way to Maurizio."

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Calls for Presentations

FOSS.IN/2006 - Call for Participation

A call for participation has gone out for FOSS.IN/2006. The event takes place on November 24-26, 2006 in Bangalore, India, submissions are due by October 8.

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Hackers to Hackers Conference III - Call for Papers

A call for papers has gone out for the Hackers to Hackers Conference III. "The H2HC have as mainly objective offer a national and internation conference for Brazilians Hackers, strongly the ethical of hacking. We have as mission change and desmistify the word hacker from the pejoractive sense to show the hacker as who works in software research and security, possing a professional ethic to protect the organizations. Who destroy systems? Crackers!." The event takes place during November, 2006, submissions are due by September, 30.

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Upcoming Events

One Week Until Akademy 2006 (KDE.News)

KDE.News previews the Akademy 2006 conference, which will take place in Dublin, Ireland on September 23 and 24. "There is now less than one week to go until KDE developers meet with our users and industry supporters at Trinity College Dublin for our annual KDE World Summit, aKademy 2006. We are pleased to announce a further two sponsors to our long list. Office automation equipment manufacturer Ricoh and mobile phone company Nokia are now both silver supporters. Read on for the keynote speakers and some more useful information."

Also, the final version of the aKademy 2006 Schedule has been posted.

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PAKCON III: Announce (2006)

PAKCON III, the underground hacking convention, will be held during December, 2006 at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan. "PAKCON is an underground hacking convention, the first initiative of its kind in the history of the Pakistan IT scene. PAKCON is the brainchild of a group of capable security professionals who have employed their genius and aptitude to provide their extensive and comprehensive experience of information security in the form of a wide-ranging convention on information security."

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Events: September 28, 2006 to November 27, 2006

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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,
November 14 November 16	LinuxWorld Cologne	Cologne, Germany
November 16 November 17	III Latin American Free Software Conference	Iguassu Falls, Brazil
November 16 November 17	Conference on Software Patents	Boston, MA, USA
November 18	Richard Stallman speaks in Seoul	Seoul, South Korea
November 21 November 24	15th International Conference on Computing	Mexico City, Mexico,
November 24 November 26	FOSS.IN 2006	Bangalore, India
November 25	FAVE 2006 - free software multimedia event in London	London, UK

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Web sites

Musical MIDI Accompaniment forum started

A new forum for the discussion of MMA, the Musical MIDI Accompaniment software, has been created. "Our good friends at Kara Moon Productions have added a forum and will be adding some "power user tutorials" and other examples on their web site. These folks have been giving the development of your program a ig boast in the last weeks, so I encourage your support."

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Audio and Video programs

Linux clients in Active Directory, News from Support (Novell)

Novell presents an audio interview with Lars Mueller and Guenther Deschner. "Samba hacker Lars Mueller explains new capabilities that he and Guenther Deschner team have been working on, allowing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 to integrate into an Active Directory environment. From joining the Active Directory domain to initial login and Kerberos provisioning, this stuff is too cool. And Dave Mair and Randy Goddard are back for News from Support, so cue the bagpipes!"

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