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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: Who Killed TiVoToGo? The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks at the reasons behind the removal of a TiVo feature. "Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) have changed the way millions of people watch television. But the new TiVo Series 3 for HD lacks a feature that past versions have had -- TiVoToGo, which allows users to move recorded shows to a computer or other device. In a report released today, "Who Killed TiVoToGo?", EFF gets to the bottom of this digital murder mystery. The plot includes Hollywood, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and digital rights management (DRM) -- and it's an ominous tale for television fans looking forward to the widespread adoption of high-definition (HD) television."
Free Software Foundation fights DRM The Free Software Foundation has declared October 3, 2006 a "Day Against DRM" with demonstrations in New York and London. Also today, the Free Software Foundation Europe launched DRM.info. "DRM.info is based on the idea that people should be informed and involved in decisions that will affect them on a very personal level. "DRM technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data," explains Georg Greve, FSFE's president."
OpenDomain Donates Use of Web Addresses to Encourage Online Collaboration OpenDomain.Org has announced an effort to purchase domain names for open-source projects. "A Pennsylvania entrepreneur who owns registered Internet Web site domain names is allowing individuals and organizations to use many of them for free to encourage people who develop Internet applications to share information and contribute computer codes online. Unlike others who purchase domain names and later fight with companies over much-needed Web site addresses, OpenDomain.Org gives away the use of these valuable assets to those who use open sourcing - the practice of releasing previously proprietary software for free under license - to help advance Internet technologies around the world."
Commercial announcements Public beta of CrossOver for Mac and Linux New public beta versions of CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux, applications that allow the running of Windows binaries on other operating systems, are out. "For Linux users, the big highlights are support for World of Warcraft and many Steam based games (including Half Life 2 and Counterstrike), as well as support for Outlook 2003. Version 6 also represents a major improvement in the core of Wine since version 5 of CrossOver, so you may be pleasantly surprised as you try running unsupported applications."
Funambol announces Mobile Open Source Software v3 Funambol has announced the release of Funambol v3. "Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced the general availability release of Funambol v3. The announcement extends the company's reach to the mass market and puts open source on a collision course with proprietary mobile email vendors in what some consider the next technology battlefield. Funambol v3 provides mobile carriers with an open, cost-effective solution that can provide address book and calendar synchronization, and push email, for hundreds of millions of consumers with commodity cell phones."
WildPackets' new Linux network analysis appliance WildPackets has announced Omnipliance, a commercial network analysis appliance for Linux. "The WildPackets Omnipliance is a turn-key hardware and software solution that gives network engineers unprecedented, real-time visibility into remote network segments. Each Omnipliance is a 3U rack-mountable appliance that runs a WildPackets' OmniEngine and sends real-time analytics and monitoring results to a central OmniPeek console."
New Books Prentice Hall publishes An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt Prentice Hall has published An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt by Alan Ezust and Paul Ezust.
Contests and Awards Nominations open for Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit The Free Software Foundation has requested nominations for the 2006 Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit. "This award is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. We look to recognize projects or teams that encourage collaboration to accomplish social tasks. A long-term commitment to one's project (or the potential for a long-term commitment) is crucial to this end."
GnuPG Logo Contest A logo contest is being held for Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). "We appreciate Thomas Löffelholz's Gnus-guarding-the-door logo which has served us for a long time. However, GnuPG has moved forward and is not anymore a plain OpenPGP application but features other protocols as well (S/MIME and partly Secure Shell). Further, the current logo is too detailed to be used as an icon or to be printed on a t-shirt. Thus we want to have a new modern logo."
Roktoberfest: The Amarok Project Fundraiser (KDE.News) KDE.News has an announcement for the next Amarok Project Roktober fundraiser. "The Amarok Project is giving away an iPod Nano during its current fundraiser to celebrate the month of Roktober. Anyone that gives the equivalent of $10 or more is automatically entered in a random drawing to win a 2GB iPod Nano. Amazingly, a year has passed since the last fundraiser. Having the ability to spend some money on project resources and hardware made a big difference to the project's productivity."
Education and Certification LPI Offers Discounted Certification Exams at LinuxWorld, Utrecht The Linux Professional Institute will offer discounted Linux certification exams at the LinuxWorld Expo in Utrecht, the Netherlands on October 11 and 12, 2006.
Event Reports A report from an "IPR protection" seminar in Helsinki Here's a one-week-old report from Georg Greve on the "IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent and/or Open Source?" seminar recently held in Helsinki. "My personal favorite was probably the presentation of Dietmar Tallroth of Nokia. He had just come back from a face to face meeting in the GPLv3 process to discuss in particular the clauses on Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), that have recently made the headlines when some Linux kernel developers took public position against it. According to Mr Tallroth, the potential issues with DRM were clarified sufficiently for Nokia. He expressed understanding and acceptance of the position taken by FSF, and provided that the result of the recent discussions is present in the next draft, there are only a few more points to clarify in the software patent language, for which he was generally optimistic." (Thanks to Timo Jyrinki).
Report: The Large Software Systems Management and EDOS Workshop Roberto di Cosmo has written up a summary of the Large Software Systems Management and EDOS Workshop, held in Nancy, France last July. "In Nancy, our goal was to put together experts from different distributions to confront experiences, ideas, tools, and solutions about the difficult task of maintaining a Linux distribution, and also to ask their informed opinions on some tools and ideas that are currently being developed in the EDOS project."
Calls for Presentations FAVE 2006 call for participants A call for participants has gone out for FAVE 2006. "FAVE is an event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. The 2006 event is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London, England on Saturday the 25th of November."
FOSS.in CFP ends October 8 FOSS.in is a serious, development-oriented conference held in Bangalore, India; it will be held November 24 to 26 this year. The call for participation deadline is soon: Sunday, October 8. FOSS.in is a fun conference with intensely interested attendees; they also treat their speakers very well. If you are looking for an event to present at, this one is highly recommended.
Foundations of Open Media Software - CFP A call for participation has gone out for the first Foundations of Open Media Software meeting. The event will be held in Sydney, Australia on January 12-13, 2007, submissions are due by October 31.
GNOME.conf.au Call for Submissions A call for submissions has gone out for GNOME.conf.au, which will take place during Linux.conf.au in January, 2007. "Past topics presented at G.c.a haved included getting involved, 101 things you didn't Gnow about GNOME, freezing GTK+ processes, the design behind GNOME-Games, Opensolaris and more. This year we're hoping for an even bigger and better event."
USENIX Security Symposium CFP The 16th USENIX Security Symposium "Security '07" is scheduled for August 6 - 10, 2007 in Boston, MA. The call for papers is open until February 1, 2007.
Upcoming Events Events: October 12, 2006 to December 11, 2006 The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites CELF to set up Embedded Linux Wiki CELF has announced plans to start a new Embedded Linux Wiki. "The CE Linux forum is working on setting up a vendor-neutral, community-oriented wiki to host information related to the use of Linux in embedded products. CELF will provide hosting and a dedicated editor for the site, and a task force is forming to help design and steer the site. The task force and the site will be open to the public."CELF has also sent out a CE Linux Forum initiatives update that lists other new activities.
Audio and Video programs Wizards of OS 4 streams available The organizers of Wizards of OS 4 have now put up audio and video streams from the sessions that were held there. There is a lot of interesting discussion there - and it's all available in Ogg format.
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