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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The Linux Foundation travel fund The Linux Foundation has announced a new travel fund which will pay for free software developers to attend distant events. "Conferences covered by this fund include the LF Collaboration Summits held three times a year, the LF's Japan Symposia, the Kernel Summit, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Linux.conf.au, desktop conferences such as Guadec and aKademy, and other technical conferences where true collaboration takes place."
A Manifesto for Free Appliances The Free Appliances project has issued a manifesto for free Appliances. "Just as there is a need for Free Software, there is a need for free (as in speech) appliances. Free Appliances can be modified or enhanced using GNU/Linux tools or other Open Source Software, preferably licensed as GPLv3. They have no binaries without source code. They adhere to generally accepted standards as much as possible. Their documentation is open. They favor open file formats since information in open file formats should not require DRM. They do not use proprietary components when there are generic ones widely available. (For example: batteries should be replaceable.)"
WorldVistA EHR VOE/ 1.0 achieves CCHIT certification (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews reports on the CCHIT certification of the WorldVistA electronic medical record system. "Formerly VistA Office EHR (VOE) there has been a name change due to entanglements. It is now known as WorldVistA EHR."
Commercial announcements Coverity to Regularly Scan Security and Quality of 250 Open Source Projects Coverity, Inc. has announced a major infrastructure upgrade to scan.coverity.com, an open source software quality and security analysis site. "The upgrade will enable the rapid expansion of the site, including regular additions of hundreds of new open source software projects. Coverity will use the new infrastructure to add 100 new open source graphics projects to the site on May 4th, 2007, coinciding with the start of the open source Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal, Canada."
OpenLogic announces Open Source Software inventory tool OpenLogic, Inc. has announced the release of OpenLogic Discovery. "OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the release of OpenLogic Discovery, a free software tool that helps enterprises inventory the open source software installed on their computer systems. OpenLogic Discovery finds installed open source software on Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms in order to help enterprise customers manage their use of open source and remain compliant with internal policies."
Parallels Technology Network launched The Parallels Technology Network has been launched. "Parallels, Inc., maker of award-winning desktop virtualization solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, announced today the Parallels Technology Network (PTN) - an online community for users, as well as developers using Parallels virtualization technology to deliver their software in self-contained virtual appliances."
SugarCRM expands support for Oracle Unbreakable Linux SugarCRM Inc. has announced plans to support SugarCRM on Oracle Unbreakable Linux. "Based on the growing community and customer demand, SugarCRM and Oracle can now provide their joint customers a robust, fully supported solution. "We are proud to have SugarCRM join the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support Program," said Monica Kumar, senior director of product marketing, Oracle. "Together we can provide performance, reliability and world-class support that enterprise customers demand for their business-critical CRM applications.""
Sybase releases IQ Analytics Server 12.7 Sybase, Inc. has announced the release of Sybase IQ analytics server 12.7. "Sybase IQ analytics server handles the most challenging data warehousing requirements with ease, meeting the demand for business intelligence, advanced analytics, predictive modeling, stringent regulation compliance and high-speed reporting. The addition of ETL functionality to Sybase IQ provides highly improved data integration capabilities."
New Books Practical Packet Analysis - No Starch Press's Latest Release No Starch Press has published the book Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems by Chris Sanders.
Upcoming Events KOffice / KDE ODF Infrastructure Meeting (KDE.News) KDE.News has announced an upcoming KOffice / KDE ODF infrastructure meeting. "KOffice, the KDE office suite, has always stood behind the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an industry standard. Now with KOffice 2.0 around the corner, with OpenOffice.org quickly becoming a new leader, and with Microsoft to release its own so-called "open" format, ODF and the interoperability that it promises is more important than ever. The KOffice developers will meet in Berlin during the weekend of May 12th-13th to do as much ODF-centered development as possible."
The Libre Graphics Meeting A press release has been sent out by the organizers of the 2007 Libre Graphics Meeting. "Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 (LGM), a conference for developers and artists of leading open source graphics software, will bring together the top open source graphics application development teams, along with artists and print production users. LGM will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique from the 4th to the 6th of May 2007 and will be of interest to end-users, students of graphic design, editors, pre-press staff, printers and institutional archivists."
Mitch Kapor, Philip Rosedale to Keynote at Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Summit CMP Technology has announced the keynote speakers for the Life 2.0 Summit "... a virtual event that will take place in Second Life April 28 to May 4."
The Make Magazine Maker Faire The Make Magazine Maker Faire will be held on May 19 and 20 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in northern California. "The award-winning, family-friendly Maker Faire celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. The festival draws the grassroots community of backyard inventors, hackers, creative recyclers, artists, engineers, and scientists from across the country--called Makers. These Makers gather to share and display their amazingly entertaining projects, wonderfully ingenious crafts, and eye-popping, up-to-the-nanosecond projects."
Cross Desktop Text Layout Summit 2007 (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop.org reports on the upcoming GNOME/KDE cooperative Text Layout Summit. "The Akademy team is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Text Layout Summit 2007 during our week in Glasgow at the start of July. This is the second Text Layout Summit following the success of the event at Gnome's Boston Summit last year. " See the KDE.News article on the summit for more information.
Events: May 10, 2007 to July 9, 2007 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 Cryptome site shut down Cryptome.org has long been a place to find information which has been suppressed elsewhere. Now, it seems, Cryptome has been shut down by its ISP, Verio, which has provided not solid reasons for the disconnection. The shutdown notice can still be found in Google's cache, for now.
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