Announcements

Non-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."

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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.)"

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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.""

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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.

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Events: May 10, 2007 to July 9, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
May 6 May 11	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Sevilla, Spain
May 8 May 11	Annual Java Technology Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 8 May 11	OSHCA 2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 9 May 11	Red Hat Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
May 10 May 11	IEEE International Workshop on Open Source Test Technology Tools	Berkeley, CA, USA
May 10	NLUUG Spring Conference 2007	Ede, The Netherlands
May 11 May 13	Conferenze Italiana sul Software Libero	Cosenza, Italy
May 12 May 13	KOffice ODF Weekend	Berlin, Germany
May 14 May 25	The Pure Data Spring School 2007	Glasgow, Scotland
May 16 May 18	php|tek	Chicago, IL, USA
May 17 May 20	RailsConf 2007	Portland, Oregon
May 18 May 19	eLiberatica Open Source and Free Software Conference	Brasov, Romania
May 18 May 19	FreedomHEC	Los Angeles, CA
May 18 May 19	BSDCan 2007	Ottawa, Canada
May 19 May 20	The 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems	Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
May 19 May 20	Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007	Stockholm, Sweden
May 19	Grazer LinuxDays 2007	Graz, Austria
May 19 May 20	Make Magazine Maker Faire 2007	San Mateo, CA, USA
May 19	Linuxwochen Austria - Graz	Graz, Austria
May 21 May 23	International PHP 2007 Conference	Stuttgart, Germany
May 21 May 25	Python Bootcamp with David Beazley	Atlanta, USA
May 22 May 23	Open Source Business Conference	San Francisco, USA
May 22 May 24	Linux Days 2007, Geneva	Geneva, Switzerland
May 23 May 24	PGCon 2007	Ottawa, ON, Canada
May 25	Linuxwochen Austria - Krems	Krems, Austria
May 26	PAKCON III	Karachi, Pakistan
May 29 May 30	Where 2.0 Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
May 29 May 31	European ADempiere Developers Conference	Berlin, Germany
May 29 May 30	I FLOSS CONFERENCE RESISTENCIA	Resistencia, Argentina
May 30 June 2	Linuxtag	Berlin, Germany
May 30 June 1	3rd UNIX Days Conference - Gdansk 2007	Gdansk, Poland
May 30 June 1	Linuxwochen Austria - Wien	Wien, Austria
June 2 June 3	Journées Python Francophones	Paris, France
June 9 June 10	PyCon Uno - First Python Italian conference	Florence, Italy
June 10 June 15	DebCamp	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 10	Pluto Meeting 2007	Padova, Italy
June 11 June 14	Third International Conference on Open Source Systems	Limerick, Ireland
June 13 June 15	Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit	Mountain View, CA, USA
June 16	DebianDay	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 16	Firefox Developer Conference	Tokyo, Japan
June 17 June 23	Debian Developer Conference	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 17 June 22	2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Santa Clara, USA
June 18 June 20	O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
June 18 June 20	Advanced Workshop on GCC Internals	Bombay, India
June 20 June 22	IT Underground	Dublin, Ireland
June 20	Open Source Showcase @ OpenAdvantage	Birmingham, UK
June 23	Mozilla Developer Day	Paris, France
June 25 June 27	SOA World Conference and Expo 2007	New York, NY, USA
June 27 June 30	2007 Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
June 27 June 29	Summer School of Sound	Lancaster, UK
June 29	NLUUG event theme innovation Enschede	Enschede, the Netherlands
June 30 July 7	Akademy 2007	Glasgow, Scotland
July 2 July 6	Learning Programming with PHP	Redditch, Worcestershire, UK
July 6	II WHYFLOSS CONFERENCE MADRID	Madrid, Spain
July 7	Italian PostgreSQL Day	Prato, Tuscany, Italy
July 7 July 8	LugRadio Live 2007	Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

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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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