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AnnouncementsCommercial announcements Alfresco Community Contribution Model 2.1 announced Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced the release of the Alfresco 2.1 Community Contribution Model. "Contributions from the Alfresco Community to Alfresco 2.1 include wiki space, blog space and calendars, as well as multi-lingual document and translation management to assist in managing the document translation process and collections of translated material (for details of the latter project, please visit http://www.eionet.europa.eu/EIONET_Services/LongLiveCIRCABC)."
Canonical releases Storm as open source Canonical Ltd has announced the release of Storm, a generic open source object relational mapper (ORM) for Python. Storm is designed to support communication with multiple databases simultaneously. The Storm project welcomes participation. Its website includes a tutorial, and links to allow developers to download, report bugs and join the mailing list. Storm is licensed under the LGPL.
IBM pledges free access to patents for standards IBM announced today that they are simplifying access to their patent portfolio as it applies to open standards. "IBM's commitment not only applies to the distributors, developers or manufacturers that are implementing the specifications involved, but also extends to their users or customers. It is valid as long as adopters are not suing any party -- not just IBM -- over necessary patented technology needed to implement the standards."
Intel and Novell Become Patrons of KDE (KDE.News) KDE.News reports that Intel and Novell have become corporate patrons of KDE. "Intel and Novell have both become corporate Patrons of KDE. Their exceptional financial commitment to the KDE e.V. helps the project with community events, infrastructure and developer meetings."
Mandriva adds a semantic layer to the KDE 4 desktop Mandriva has put out a press release (click below) about what we can expect from the NEPOMUK-KDE project. "NEPOMUK-KDE introduces semantic capabilities to the upcoming release of the K Desktop Environment (KDE 4), providing an interoperable framework that can be harnessed by all KDE applications to allow annotating and interlinking any and all desktop objects."
Mandriva advances into Korea, the IT hub of Asia Mandriva has announced the opening of Mandriva Korea. "Mandriva, the global Linux distributor, selected MetaNav to become its official local representative in this fast growing technological environment in Asia. Mandriva and MetaNav reached an agreement to work together and co-develop open source products and services closely adapted to the East Asian market."
Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3 Microsoft has put out a statement claiming that, despite what others have said, it is not and will not be bound by any version of the GPL. But then one wonders why they say: "At this point in time, in order to avoid any doubt or legal debate on this issue, Microsoft has decided that the Novell support certificates that we distribute to customers will not entitle the recipient to receive from Novell, or any other party, any subscription for support and updates relating to any code licensed under GPLv3."
OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 announced OpenLogic, Inc. has announced the release of OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6. "... the newest release of its enterprise platform designed to help companies quickly and easily manage the use of open source software across the enterprise. OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 contains many additions to the OpenLogic Certified Library, has a fast new automated installation process, and offers more enterprise control for updating security patches and versions of open source software."
New Books Forbidden LEGO - New from No Starch No Starch Press has published the book Forbidden LEGO by Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley.
Contests and Awards Help choose the 2007 SourceForge.net Community Choice Award winners (Linux.com) Linux.com reports that the SourceForge.net community has selected the nominees, you can vote for the projects you think represent "the cream of the crop on SourceForge.net." Voting is open until July 20 and winners will be announced at OSCON the following week.
Education and Certification rPath Launches Certified Software Appliance Architect Curriculum rPath has announced it is launching a Certified Software Appliance Architect training curriculum, which will give participants the skills needed to build, deploy and maintain software appliances. The curriculum will employ a hands-on, lab-driven approach and focus on application packaging, software appliance design, image construction, lifecycle management, and virtualization technologies.
Upcoming Events Open Solutions Alliance to Congregate at OSCON Interoperability Hack-a-Thon The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) has announced it is hosting the first in its series of Interoperability Hack-a-Thons at O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., July 23 - 27, 2007.
Events: July 19, 2007 to September 17, 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 Announcing hardware4linux.info The hardware4linux.info site has been launched. "This is a new web site about hardware for Linux. The site allows to browse systems and components to find the ones that work or don't work with Linux. It works in a collaborative way: users install an LSB package to collect their hardware and system configuration, upload the collected data to the site and then rate their hardware components on the site."
Medwiki, the medical wiki (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the new Medwiki site. "What happens when a fan of Free Software and wikies wish to motivate your girlfriend to her Medicine studies? You could think in many things but possibly not to create a multilanguage wiki about Medicine and human health to her, but was exactly that what I did, and I couldn't choose a best gift."
Audio and Video programs Video of GPLv3 release now available The Free Software Foundation has made videos of Richard Stallman's GPLv3 release announcement available. "You can watch Stallman give an overview of the major changes in the license, and his reflections on the drafting process. The video is Ogg Theora, and is about fifteen minutes long."
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