Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Support threatened open standards in Europe before Sept 15, 2007

The European Commission agency IDABC has published a document written on contract by Gartner initiating the revision of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and the Architecture Guidelines (AG). The revised document backs on the support of open standards. Show your support for open standards in Europe before September 15, 2007.

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Commercial announcements

FEI Introduces Vitrobot Mark IV

FEI has announced the Vitrobot Mark IV, a cryo sample preparation tool. "The Mark IV is an easy-to-use system that features a newly-designed touchscreen user interface operated under a Linux operating system and robotics that ensures high-quality, reproducible freezing of samples. Automated transfer from the vitrification medium into the liquid nitrogen atmosphere offers more consistent and higher yield sample throughput."

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Mobile and Internet Linux Project launched

The Mobile & Internet Linux Project has been launched. "Moblin.org is an umbrella open source project focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices. Moblin.org is also an incubator for prototyping new ideas and building a community of developers around them. Currently, moblin.org hosts a number of projects, including an Image Creator, Browser, UI framework, power policy manager, and various non-PC oriented applications and software components. The work so far has been focused on Intel-based devices, but is open to contributions for support of other architectures."

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Open-Xchange Express Edition announced

Open-Xchange has announced Open-Xchange Express Edition, full-featured collaboration software designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. "Open-Xchange Express Edition includes all the tools required by companies to facilitate communication and efficient teamwork. The product does not require a licensed operating system or any other software prior to installation. Open-Xchange Express Edition transforms a bare metal computer into a fully-functional e-mail and groupware Server integrating the increasingly popular Ubuntu operating system."

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Oracle and Symantec certify Veritas Data Center Solutions on Oracle(R) Enterprise Linux

Oracle Corporation has announced certification of the Veritas data center software on the Oracle Enterprise Linux platform. "The certification spans the following six Veritas data center software products: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0; Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0; Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0; Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas NetBackup 6.0 Client and Veritas i3."

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Xandros partners with NoMachine

Xandros has announced a partnership with NoMachine. "Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive Linux solutions, and NoMachine, the makers of NX virtualization desktop, remote access and server management software, announced that NoMachine's NX Enterprise Server is now shipping with Xandros Server. This extended Xandros-NoMachine alliance provides enhanced capabilities for secure and rapid access to graphical applications, running on any operating system across any network connection."

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New Books

The Family Guide to Digital Freedom is now available

The June 2007 edition of the The Family Guide to Digital Freedom is on sale at Lulu.com. "Today your rights and the overall quality of your life depend very heavily on which software is being used around you - even if you don't care much about computers, or don't use them yet. The situation is even more serious for today's children. All the issues discussed in the Guide are already affecting their civil rights and future opportunities."

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Mastering Perl--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Mastering Perl by brian d foy.

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Programming Erlang--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong.

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Securing Ajax Applications--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Securing Ajax Applications by Christopher Wells.

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Simply JavaScript--New from SitePoint

SitePoint has published the book Simply JavaScript by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams.

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The Book of Qt 4--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book The Book of Qt 4 by Daniel Molkentin.

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Resources

FSFE Newsletter

The July 12, 2007 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: FSFE's General Assembly and the first Benelux fellowship meeting, GPLv3 and LGPLv3 have been released, Free Software personal consultancy for businesses, Six questions to national standardisation bodies, Georg Greve in India, FTF useful tips translated to Asian languages, Free Software in Austrian Schools and Get your friends to support the Fellowship and FSFE.

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Contests and Awards

Forum Nokia Issues 'Open C Challenge' to mobile applications developers

Nokia has announced the first Open C Challenge contest for the S60 on Symbian OS smartphone platform. "It is aimed at encouraging open source and freeware developers to use Nokia's Open C environment, to create innovative mobile applications that will deliver the greatest value to S60 smartphone users worldwide."

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2007 Open Source CMS Award Launched

The 2007 Open Source CMS Award features a $20,000 prize fund. "Following on from the success of the inaugural Open Source Content Management System Award, UK publisher Packt is pleased to announce details of its follow up. With new categories and an increase in prize money, the 2007 Open Source CMS Award will launch on July 16 and is expected to appeal to a broader range of projects. The 2006 Open Source CMS Award was designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an open source Content Management System (CMS) selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com."

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Help Choose the Best Open Source Projects on SourceForge.net

SourceForge has announced a contest for the best open-source projects. "There's a contest going on here for the open source community to pick winners in eleven different categories of SF.net projects. They're announcing the winners at OSCON and also having a party that anyone can attend if they just RSVP."

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Education and Certification

LPI hosts events during LinuxWorld San Francisco 2007

The Linux Professional Institute will offer discounted certification testing during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, CA on August 6-9, 2007.

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Calls for Presentations

Ninth real-time Linux Workshop calls for papers (LinuxDevices)

LinuxDevices looks at the call for papers for the 9th Real-Time Linux Workshop. "The Real-time Linux Workshop has issued a call for papers for its ninth annual event, set for Nov. 2-4 in Linz, Austria. This year's event has a special focus on industrial case studies, but authors are invited to submit original work on a range of topics related to real-time Linux."

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Upcoming Events

Announcing ENOS 2007

ENOS 2007 will take place in Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal on September 1, 2007. "The acronym ENOS stands for 'Encontro Nacional de openSUSE', a Portuguese expression which can be translated to 'National openSUSE Meeting', an event meant to unite the Portuguese openSUSE users. The purpose of ENOS is to give an opportunity to the Portuguese openSUSE users to be together, as well as provide the participants an insight view on the latest developments on the openSUSE project and stimulate them to take an active part on the community itself."

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The Florida Linux Show 2008

The Florida Linux Show 2008 will be held in Jacksonville, Florida on February 11, 2008. "This year's show will focus on moving from IPv4 to IPv6, Greener PCs, Linux and your desktop, Linux Certification, and much more."

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Free GNU/Linux audio + live impro workshop

A free GNU/Linux audio + live impro workshop will be held in in Arteleku, San Sebastian, Basque country Spain on July 18-20 2007. "A three day course exploring free and open source software available for live improvisation purposes such as real-time audio effects, controlers, audio and midi processing, as well as the creative possibilities of Pure Data in a live setup. The workshop is an introduction to GNU/Linux and audio for instrumentalists."

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Mandriva sponsors GNOME's GUADEC 2007 conference

Mandriva has announced that it will be sponsoring the GNOME GUADEC 2007 conference and providing free Mandriva Flash bootable Linux USB keys to attending developers. More information is available on the Mandriva Blog or this press release.

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KVM Forum 2007

The KVM Forum 2007 will take place on August 29-31, 2007 in Tucson, AZ. "Hypervisors are complex beasts. The fact that KVM is developed by a distributed development team with people on six continents, working on a 24X7 basis, across 24 time zones amplifies the difficulty of the task at hand. Regular face to face meetings facilitate the development and overall quality of KVM. If you are a KVM developer, or thinking about joining the growing ranks of the KVM Developer Community, the place to be is Tucson, Arizona on August 29th - 31st, at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort."

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SFLC to host legal summit on software freedom

The Software Freedom Law Center has announced that it will be holding a summit on free software legal issues in New York on October 12. "The Summit will have two parts: a closed session in the morning for a private meeting of the world's foremost FOSS attorneys, and an open session in the afternoon consisting of free legal presentations to the public."

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Replicate Technologies launches new LinuxWorld virtualization track

Replicate Technologies has announced a new LinuxWorld virtualization track. "Gone are the days of annual release cycle. Software companies need to operate with rapid releases while maintaining high quality and tight integration. For Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, weekly releases are the new standard. Virtualization helps SaaS companies deploy their software faster and more flexibly. At the same time, it promises faster and simpler delivery of on-premise software, competing with SaaS. Ken Novak, CEO of Replicate Technology, is honored to speak about these emerging trends at LinuxWorld in San Francisco Aug 7-9, 2007."

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Projects wanted for the .ORG Village at LinuxExpo 2007

Free space is available for the LinuxExpo 2007 .Org Village. The event takes place in London, England on October 23-24, 2007. "Sadly space is limited at the Expo. However unlike other LinuxWorld Expo's we do not allocate space on a first come first served basis or based on the perceived size of you .Org. Submissions are welcome up until the 31st July. At that time we will announce which entrants have been accepted. Whilst some priority will be made to UK based .Orgs the size of your Org will not be either a benefit or hindrance. Some space will be reserved specifically for small or new Orgs."

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OSCON Alert: O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing

O'Reilly has announced an Executive Briefing, to be held at the 2007 Open Source Conference in Portland, OR on July 22-27. "Tuesday, July 24: Join Tim O'Reilly focus on the overall the future of open source. Intimate by design, the Executive Briefing is more about conversation than formal presentation. The full day briefing will explore trends, companies, and projects that matter today and point to what you'll need to know in the near future."

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X Developers' Summit Cambridge, UK

The 2007 X Developers' Summit will take place in Cambridge, UK on September 10-12, 2007. "The X Developers' Summit will be on the 10th-12th September, and you're all invited. Currently we are planning for 40 people, but can accommodate more than that _if we know immediately_. We expect slots to fill up pretty quickly, so please do let us know soon."

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Events: July 26, 2007 to September 24, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
July 23 July 27	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Portland, OR, USA
July 23 July 27	Asterisk Bootcamp with Jared Smith at Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 24 July 27	Ninth course on the Exim mail transfer agent	Cambridge, UK
July 28 August 2	Black Hat USA 2007	Las Vegas, NV, USA
July 30 August 3	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
August 3 August 5	Wikimania 2007 (Annual Wikimedia conference)	Taipei, Taiwan
August 3 August 5	DefCon 15	Las Vegas, NV, USA
August 4 August 7	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 6 August 10	16th USENIX Security Symposium	Boston, MA, USA
August 6 August 9	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 7 August 9	Flash Memory Summit 2007	Santa Clara, CA, USA
August 7 August 11	7as Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre	Córdoba, Argentina
August 8 August 12	Chaos Communication Camp	Finow airport, Germany
August 10	August Penguin 2007	Tel Aviv, Israel
August 11	Picn*x XVI - The Linux 16th Anniversary Picnic	Sunnyvale, CA, USA
August 11 August 15	Virtual FudCon8	Online, IRC
August 14 August 18	Scientific Tools for Python	Pasadena, CA, USA
August 19	Open Source Health Informatics Working Group	Brisbane, Australia
August 20 August 24	PHP Training at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
August 20 August 25	DallasCon 2007-cancelled	Dallas, Texas, USA
August 22 August 25	Python 3000 Sprint	Mountain View and Chicago, USA
August 24 August 26	Summercon 2007	Atlanta, GA, USA
August 25 August 26	FrOSCon 2007	Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany
August 27 September 1	International Computer Music Conference 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
August 28 August 29	XCon2007	Beijing, China
August 29 August 31	KVM Forum 2007	Tucson, AZ, United States
September 1	ENOS 2007	Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal
September 2 September 4	LinuxConf Europe 2007	Cambridge, England
September 3 September 6	HITBSecConf2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September 5 September 7	RAID 2007	Gold Coast, QL, Australia
September 5 September 6	2007 Linux Kernel Developers Summit	Cambridge, UK
September 5 September 7	Office 2.0 Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 6 September 8	Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems	Dortmund, Germany
September 7 September 8	LinuxWorld China 2007	Beijing, China
September 7 September 8	LinuxChix Brasil	Asa Sul, Brazil
September 8 September 12	GITEX Technology Week	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
September 8 September 9	PyCon UK 2007	Birmingham, UK
September 10 September 14	Django Bootcamp with Juan Pablo Claude	Atlanta, GA, USA
September 10 September 12	X Developers' Summit	Cambridge, UK
September 10 September 12	Sun Grid Engine Workshop 2007	Regensburg, Germany
September 11 September 12	3rd International Conference on IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics	Stuttgart, Germany
September 11 September 14	5th Netfilter Workshop	Karlsruhe, Germany
September 11 September 13	VMworld 2007	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 14 September 15	EuroBSDCon 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
September 14	Django Sprint	online,
September 15 September 16	Texas Python Unconference	Houston, TX, USA
September 15	Software Freedom Day	The Internet, Worldwide
September 17 September 19	RailsConf Europe 2007	Berlin, Germany
September 17	Bruce Perens to speak in Berkeley, September 17	Berkeley, CA, USA
September 18 September 21	Embedded Systems Conference	Boston, MA, USA
September 18 September 20	High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop	Lexington, MA, USA
September 19 September 21	OpenOffice.org Conference 2007	Barcelona, Spain
September 19 September 21	Gartner Open Source Summit	Las Vegas, NV, USA
September 22 September 25	Cell Hack-a-thon II	Austin, TX, USA

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