Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

EFF: 09 f9: A Legal Primer

The EFF has published 09 f9: A legal primer on the counterproductive attempts to suppress the spread of an HD-DVD decryption key. "Is the key copyrightable? It doesn't matter. The AACS-LA takedown letter is not claiming that the key is copyrightable, but rather that it is (or is a component of) a circumvention technology. The DMCA does not require that a circumvention technology be, itself, copyrightable to enjoy protection."

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Volunteer opportunity: OLPC Nepal

For those who haven't made their plans for the summer yet: the One Laptop Per Child Nepal organization is looking for people to head over to the country and help get the project going. "Right now we have three full-time volunteer developers, all of them Nepali. We would love four (4) foreign volunteers to come work with us this summer in Kathmandu. We will pair each foreign volunteer with a Nepali intern. That should bring our content strike force to 11 people. That would really help us to advance OLPC in Nepal." When they say "volunteer" they mean it, though.

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Commercial announcements

Allmydata, Inc. releases open-source distributed storage grid

Allmydata, Inc. has announced the first public release of their Tahoe secure, an open-source distributed storage grid system. "The source code that we are releasing is the current working prototype for Allmydata's next-generation product. This release is targeted at hackers who are willing to use a minimal, text-oriented web user interface."

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Dell Joins Microsoft and Novell Collaboration

Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. have announced that Dell Inc. is the first major systems provider to join the business collaboration that was formed by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the agreement, Dell will purchase SUSE Linux* Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft and establish a services and marketing program to migrate existing Linux users who are not Dell Linux customers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

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JasperSoft partners with SugarCRM

JasperSoft Corporation has announced a partnership with SugarCRM. "JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced Jasper4SugarCRM, a high- performance reporting and analysis BI solution optimized for use with the SugarCRM Sugar Suite. Jasper4SugarCRM delivers a set of standard prebuilt reports and dashboards, ad hoc query and report creation, OLAP analysis, a secure report management repository, report scheduling, report distribution, and integration interfaces for PHP, Web Services, Java, and C/C++."

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Koobox.com celebrates 3 years selling pre-installed Linux PCs

Linspire, Inc. has announced three years of selling Linux PCs on Koobox.com. "Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and developer of CNR, a one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux programs, along with Mirus Innovations Inc., a leading North America PC manufacturer that brings innovative digital lifestyle products to consumer and small business customers with a focus on high-value and low-cost, today celebrate the Three Year Anniversary of Koobox.com selling Linux-only pre-installed desktop PCs to the mainstream consumer marketplace. An authorized Linspire system builder, Mirus pre-installed desktop Linux systems have been sold through various other mass merchant online retail stores over the years including Sears.com, Kmart.com, and HomeDepot.com."

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Public Meetings on Future of Mozilla Customer Support Announced (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine looks at the topic of Mozilla customer support. "Starting next week, the Mozilla Corporation will be hosting twice-weekly meetings to discuss the future of customer support for Mozilla products. Several different support mediums will be discussed in the conferences, including knowledge bases, forums and real-time chat. The meetings, which are open to all, will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the next three weeks. Notes will be published afterwards for those unable to make it."

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Mozilla and eBay Launch Firefox Companion for eBay (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers the launch of the Firefox Companion for eBay, at this point, no Linux versions appear to exist. "Mozilla Europe has announced the release of the first beta of the Firefox Companion for eBay in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The add-on for Firefox 2 offers a range of features to make it easier for users to participate in eBay auctions while browsing the Web. The most visible feature of the Firefox Companion for eBay is the eBay Sidebar, which lets users monitor items that they are bidding on, selling or watching, with details updated in real time."

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NETGEAR(R) to Acquire Infrant Technologies

NETGEAR, Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire Infrant Technologies, Inc. "Founded in March 2001 and based in Fremont, California, Infrant is dedicated to bringing enterprise-level storage technology to small businesses and professional home users at affordable prices. Its ReadyNAS(TM) family of network attached storage (NAS) products implements redundant array of independent disks (RAID) data protection, enabling users to store and protect critical data easily, efficiently and intelligently. The ReadyNAS lineup is powered by Infrant's proprietary network storage processor, Linux-based RAIDiator(TM) operating system and patent-pending Expandable Protection (X- RAID(TM)) technology, which allows for automatic RAID volume expansion as additional drives are added."

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Netscape Revives Navigator Brand for Netscape Navigator 9 (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on the revival of the Netscape Navigator brand name. "The official Netscape Blog has announced that the next Netscape browser release will be called Netscape Navigator 9, reviving the name used for Netscape's earliest browser releases at the height of its popularity. Though many users have always referred to both the company and its flagship product as Netscape, the browser was officially called Netscape Navigator for its first three releases."

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Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 announced

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the release of Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS). "... a standards-based extension of the Java platform designed to help developers gain precise control over their Java software. This new release combines the power and scalability of the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) with the flexibility of the Java platform to address a growing demand for predictable computing in industries such as aerospace, financial services and scientific research."

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Sun Microsystems announces OpenID Program

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced a new OpenID Program. "Expanding its commitment to deliver secure web-scale identity management solutions, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a new initiative around support for OpenID, a decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism that allows consumers to reuse a single login across different websites, tackling the "login explosion" problem. OpenID is currently limited to facilitating low-risk transactions such as blog comments."

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Sun announces GlassFish Communications Application Server

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced a new communications application server project. "Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced a multi-faceted collaboration agreement with Ericsson to jointly develop an open source, Java(TM) technology-based communications application server as part of the GlassFish(TM) community. This open source contribution means Java software developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV), System Integrators and individuals will have access to telecommunications technologies and resources to help accelerate the development of multimedia, VOIP, IM and next generation applications."

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Sun Unleashes Java Technology Innovations

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced a preview of their JavaFX Java technology-based products. "The first of these, JavaFX Mobile, is a complete mobile phone software system available via OEM license to carriers, content owners and consumer electronics manufacturers. JavaFX leverages the security and ubiquity of the Java platform and will support all content and applications currently available across the billions of Java technology-based devices in the world today. Sun today also previewed JavaFX Script, a new scripting language targeted at creative professionals, which will help to radically simplify the process of creating and distributing interactive content that spans all Java technology enabled platforms, from handsets to set tops, laptops to dashboards."

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NetBeans IDE 6.0 preview release announced

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the release of version 6.0 (preview release) of the NetBeans IDE. "etBeans 6.0 IDE extends support beyond Java and C/C++ by providing a rich set of features for the Ruby and JavaScript dynamic scripting languages, and continues to enable developer productivity with ease-of-use and support for the latest Java Standards. Today we are also announcing further enhancements to the NetBeans GUI Builder which include full support for new desktop technologies, such as Beans Binding (JSR 295) and the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296)."

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Unicon Systems announces Linux mobile development kit

Unicon Systems has announced the availability of its Mobile Linux Development Kit. "MKitTM ($599) is the first and only unique mobile Linux development kit on the market. It gives professional developers and manufacturers the ability to create new handheld devices for industrial, security, educational and medical applications, as well as for various consumer electronics products. Unicon's patented, wireless, and mobile chip-on-film Linux computer is based on an ARM9 embedded CPU running full blown Linux 2.6 and attached to the back of a 3.5" touch screen. It is equipped with multiple connectivity options, including two 2.0 high-speed USB host ports and WiFi."

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New Books

The Myths of Innovation--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun.

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Programming Firefox - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Programming Firefox by Kenneth C. Feldt.

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Resources

Global summit of open source leaders releases free online report

The Organizers of Open Source Think Tank 2007 have announced a new paper on trends in commercial open source software. "The report [PDF], available online at no charge from Think Tank organizers Olliance Group and DLA Piper looks at how the fast-moving commercial open source industry has dramatically impacted business models, licensing and intellectual property issues, and adoption and usage models for open source software. Think Tank 2007 was supported by JasperSoft, Microsoft, NEC, Novell, OpenLogic, SugarCRM and Unisys. The summit was hosted by the Olliance Group, a leading open source management consulting firm, and DLA Piper, a global law firm with 3,200 lawyers in 24 countries and a leading advisor to the open source industry."

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Contests and Awards

Novell Technical Support wins praise

Novell, Inc. has announced the winning of awards by its technical support program. "Novell technical support has recently been recognized by both customers and leading industry groups for its quality, scope, and timeliness. The Association of Support Professionals has just named Novell as a "Best Web Support" winner for 2007, while the Help Desk Institute has honored Novell with its "Team Excellence Award for External Support." In addition, an independent customer study indicates that Novell support for Linux bests Red Hat and Oracle in overall quality, timeliness, and addressing the needs of mixed-source IT environments."

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Calls for Presentations

Netfilter Workshop 2007 in Karlsruhe, Germany

The Netfilter Workshop 2007 will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 11-14, 2007. "The attendance is free but requires an invitation. You may consider attending if you are involved in any aspect of the Netfilter development. Please, send us an email to coreteam@netfilter.org before July 7th, 2007 (strict deadline). We have a very limited number of invitations!" A call for papers has also gone out for the event, submissions are due by July 7.

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Upcoming Events

LinuxConf Europe 2007

LinuxConf Europe is a new development-oriented conference put together as a joint effort by the folks who did the UKUUG and Linux-Kongress events. It will be happening September 2 to 4 in Cambridge, UK, immediately prior to the kernel summit. The call for papers is out now, with proposals due by May 20.

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The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference

The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference will be held in San Jose, California on June 18-20, 2007. "Among the keynotes are presentations from John Ingram, vice chairman of Ingram Industries, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine; Brian Murray, group publisher of HarperCollins Publishers; Erin McKean, editor-in-chief of United States Dictionaries for Oxford University Press; Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe Systems, Manolis Kelaidis, Designer, Royal College of Art, and Tim O'Reilly, CEO and founder of O'Reilly Media."

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Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA

The next Linux Users' Group of Davis Linux Installfest workshop will take place in Davis, California on Saturday, May 19.

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Events: May 17, 2007 to July 16, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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	Grazer LinuxDays 2007	Graz, Austria
May 19	Linuxwochen Austria - Graz	Graz, Austria
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 May 20	Make Magazine Maker Faire 2007	San Mateo, CA, USA
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 30	I FLOSS CONFERENCE RESISTENCIA	Resistencia, Argentina
May 29 May 31	European ADempiere Developers Conference	Berlin, Germany
May 30 June 1	3rd UNIX Days Conference - Gdansk 2007	Gdansk, Poland
May 30 June 1	Linuxwochen Austria - Wien	Wien, Austria
May 30 June 2	Linuxtag	Berlin, Germany
June 2 June 3	Journées Python Francophones	Paris, France
June 9 June 10	PyCon Uno - First Python Italian conference	Florence, Italy
June 10	Pluto Meeting 2007	Padova, Italy
June 10 June 15	DebCamp	Edinburgh, Scotland
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 22	2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Santa Clara, USA
June 17 June 23	Debian Developer Conference	Edinburgh, Scotland
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	Open Source Showcase @ OpenAdvantage	Birmingham, UK
June 20 June 22	IT Underground	Dublin, Ireland
June 23	Mozilla Developer Day	Paris, France
June 25 June 27	SOA World Conference and Expo 2007	New York, NY, USA
June 27 June 29	Summer School of Sound	Lancaster, UK
June 27 June 30	2007 Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
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
July 9 July 11	EuroPython 2007	Vilnius, Lithuania
July 9 July 13	PostgreSQL 8.2 Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 10 July 11	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
July 12 July 13	IV GUADEC-ES	Granada, Spain
July 12 July 13	DIMVA 2007	Lucerne, Switzerland
July 14	UK Gentoo Meeting 2007	London, UK
July 15 July 21	GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference	Birmingham, England

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Web sites

Mozilla Japan's Foxkeh Mascot launches English website (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine notes the launch of the new Foxkeh web site. "Mozilla Foundation international affiliate Mozilla Japan has launched an English language website for Foxkeh, its cartoon mascot for promoting Mozilla Firefox. The site has English translations of some of the content already available on Foxkeh's Japanese website, including introductory Firefox videos, monthly calendar desktop wallpapers and an amazingly detailed flowchart illustrating the history of Firefox."

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quality.mozilla.org launches (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine has announced the launch of the alpha version of the quality.mozilla.org site. "The Mozilla Quality weblog has announced that an initial version of the quality.mozilla.org site has launched. Described as "pre-alpha", the quality.mozilla.org site (QMO for short) is intended to become a central portal for the Mozilla quality assurance community."

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