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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Updating the GNOME contributors listWork is being done to update the GNOME contributors list. "Do you all remember that we list our contributors in About GNOME? The list of GNOME contributors is probably outdated: many people contributed a lot of stuff in recent years and are not there. It's a shame to not thank them, so we have to fix this! It would be really great if all maintainers could take 10 minutes and check that all of their main contributors are listed in there."
GNOME Foundation board meeting minutesFor those who are curious about decision making within the GNOME project: the minutes from the March 1 GNOME Foundation board are now available. "Luis had a meeting with James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center, as one of the GNOME Foundation legal representatives and sent minutes of the meeting to the board list. We are in the process of signing a client agreement with the SFLC. James and Luis discussed various issues on which we might consult with the SFLC, including trademark, code audits, and patent issues."
GNOME participates in the 2007 Summer of CodeThe GNOME project has announced its participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code. "GNOME will participate in Summer of Code 2007. We've started to collect ideas of projects for students. If you can think of a project that would make a good SoC project, please add it to this page before March 13th."
GreatGamesExperiment.com launchedGarageGames.com, Inc. has announced the launch of GreatGamesExperiment.com, a social networking site which emphasizes gaming. "Getting games made is only half of the problem. Finding an audience once you have sweat out two or three years of development is extremely difficult," says Great Games Experiment creator Jeff Tunnell. "Getting a lot of 'eyeballs' to look at your game is important, and social networking sites are a method of allowing a community to create its own content and momentum."
Final KDE e.V. Quarterly Report of 2006 (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the availability of the KDE e.V.fourth quarter report [PDF]. "It covers the board meeting in Darmstadt, the fate of the technical working group and the status of the SQO-OSS research project. As usual there are reports from the working groups, including business cards, a branding meeting, an active HCI group and 27,478 commits. New members and finances are also covered."
Mozilla Foundation Statement of DirectionMitchell Baker has posted an initial version of the Mozilla Foundation statement of direction, describing what the Foundation is trying to do. "The Mozilla Foundation seeks to effectuate these goals both by building broadly-used products that impact Internet development as a whole, and by empowering people to act in highly decentralized, experimental ways. The work of creating general consumer products that influence broad aspects of Internet development is currently handled through the Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation plans to increase its direct involvement in other activities which enable people to participate in the development and enjoyment of the Internet in a decentralized, self-directed manner."
Commercial announcements ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite at EclipseConACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. has announced the demonstration of its ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite at the EclipseCon 2007 conference. "ACCESS recently announced that the Product Development Kit (PDK) for ACCESS Linux Platform is now available to licensees. The Company has also launched their Early ACCESS Program for qualified third party developers interested in being first to market using the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite and Garnet(TM) VM Compatibility Kit."
Novell reports financial Results for first fiscal quarter of 2007Novell, Inc. has announced its first quarter financial results for 2007. "For the first fiscal quarter 2007, Novell reported net revenue of $230 million, compared to net revenue of $242 million for the first fiscal quarter 2006. The loss available to common stockholders from continuing operations in the first fiscal quarter 2007 was $20 million, or $0.06 loss per common share. This compares to income available to common stockholders from continuing operations of $4 million, or $0.01 per diluted common share, for the first fiscal quarter 2006."
TimeSys Introduces LinuxLink Subscriptions for AMCC 440EPxTimeSys has announced the availability of LinuxLink Subscriptions for AMCC 440EPx Processors. "The partnership between TimeSys and AMCC allows customers of AMCC's popular PowerPC-based processors to use LinuxLink to build an enterprise-ready custom Linux platform. In addition to the new support for the 440EPx, TimeSys offers LinuxLink subscriptions for many other AMCC processors, including the 405EP, 405GP, 405GPr, 440EP, 440GP, 440GX, 440SP and 440SPe."
TuxMobil Celebrates 10th Anniversary as Resource for Linux, Laptops, PDAs and Mobile PhonesTuxMobil is celebrating its 10th anniversary. "TuxMobil is the number one online resource providing information about Linux for laptops, PDAs, cellular phones and portable media players. In short, TuxMobil is all about Linux and portable devices. The name TuxMobil is a abridgement of the words Tux and "mobil." Tux is the well known name of the Linux mascot and "mobil" is a shortcut for mobile."
VMware announces VMware ACE 2 enterprise editionVMware, Inc. has announced the release of the public beta version of VMware ACE 2 enterprise edition. "VMware ACE is a breakthrough product that enables IT desktop managers to create a standard PC environment including operating system, data and applications, wrap it with IT policies to protect the contents, package it into a virtual machine and deploy it to any managed or unmanaged PC endpoint."
Resources An FSF paper on restriction-free hardwareThe Free Software Foundation has announced the publication of a paper entitled "The road to hardware free from restrictions; on how hardware companies can make the free software community happier. "Hardware vendors could support the community by providing access under a permissive license to all the low-level hardware documentation necessary to port a free BIOS to their systems, and ideally offer engineering support."
Calls for Presentations Chaos Communication Camp 2007 Call for ParticipationA call for participation has gone out for the chaos Communication Camp. "We ask you to participate in the third Chaos Communication Camp on August, 8th to 12th, 2007 near Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Communication Camp is organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms. The Camp features two conference tracks with interesting lectures. Workshops will take place in a central workshop area and in thematic "villages", organized by various groups." Submissions are due by May 15 with an overflow deadline of June 5.
LayerOne 2007 Call for Papers and Pre-RegistrationA call for papers and pre-registration announcement has gone out for LayerOne 2007, a security conference. The event takes place in Pasadena, CA on May 5-6, 2007, submissions are due by March 31. "Pre-registration is available from now until the end of April. The pre-registration cost is 80 dollars (US) and will get you into both days of the conference as well as the Saturday night entertainment. Tickets will be available at the door, but the cost will be 100.00 (US)."
Upcoming Events FSF announces details of its Annual MeetingThe Free Software Foundation will hold its annual associate member and activist meeting at MIT, Cambridge, MA on March 24, 2007. "Keynote speakers Richard Stallman (FSF president) and Eben Moglen (FSF director and legal counsel) will each address the "Year of the Upgrade" theme, looking at what issues will demand the free software movement's attention after the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) is released."
Samba eXPerience 2007Samba eXPerience 2007 will take place in Goettingen, Germany on April 23-25, 2007. "The organizers are happy to welcome Howard Chu (Chief Architect of OpenLDAP) as the keynote speaker. Talks from the WINE project and OpenChange show the link to other projects, a talk regarding Samba and GPLv3 reflects the current legal discussions - and of course developers, users and vendors cover the program with 25 talks in two days."
Events: March 15, 2007 to May 14, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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