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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Akaza Research awarded NIH grant (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews reports on the winning of an NIH grant by Akaza Research. "Akaza Research, LLC announced today that it has been awarded a two-year Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue development of the open source clinical trials data capture system, OpenClinica. The objectives of the project include further development of the OpenClinica open source community, addition of new features, such as calendaring, coding, and adverse events to the core OpenClinica platform, and implementation of data exchange capabilities."
Marcus Rex to be CTO at the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has announced that long-time SUSE manager Marcus Rex will be the group's new chief technology officer. It's a one-year position, after which Mr. Rex will go back to Novell. "As CTO, Rex will lead all technical initiatives for the Linux Foundation, including oversight of the Linux Standard Base and other workgroups such as Open Printing. He will also be the primary technical interface to LF members and the LF's Technical Advisory Board who represent the kernel community."
The all-new Linux Fund Visa Card launches today
A new Linux Fund Visa Card has been announced. "The Linux Fund began in 1999. Since then, the organization has handed out over one-half million dollars in grants to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects like Blender, FreeGeek and the WikiMedia Foundation. "We don't represent a wealthy patron or a long-dead industrialist," says Mandel. "Our donations come from engineers, managers, and ordinary working geeks who use The Linux Fund Visa in the course of everyday living. "The way it works is actually quite cool, Just by using The Linux Fund Visa card, ordinary geeks can participate in serious philanthropy, at no out-of-pocket cost to themselves. Each time a cardholder uses their card, a donation is made to The Linux Fund by the card issuer, U.S. Bank."
SugarCRM goes to GPLv3
SugarCRM has announced that the upcoming 5.0 release of its "community edition" CRM software will carry the GPLv3 license. This is a big improvement over the current license which contains badgeware provisions and was never accepted as open source. "Sugar Community Edition 5.0 is expected to be released in September, and introduces innovative platform features, new CRM functionality and community development tools."
Commercial announcements
Entrust contributes essential PKI technology component to open-source community
Entrust, Inc. has announced the release of its public key infrastructure technology to the open-source community. "To support that goal, the layered security expert is contributing public key infrastructure (PKI) technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation. Specifically, Entrust will supply its certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP) patent 5,699,431 to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries."
Ingres Joins the Eclipse Foundation
Ingres Corporation has announced that it has become a member of the Eclipse Foundation. "According to Emma McGrattan, Ingres senior vice president of engineering, "Ingres has a large application development community using a variety of application development languages across a host of operating system platforms. Eclipse encompasses the diverse needs of Ingres developers by providing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a rich and robust development and debugging platform for building the most sophisticated enterprise applications.""
ITema releases enterprise service bus for PHP developers
ITema, Inc. has announced the release its Blackbird PHP enterprise service bus software under the GPL. "Blackbird allows PHP developers to rapidly develop loosely coupled software applications, allowing them to leverage PHP's development speed and ease of use for application integration tasks. It also integrates easily with Apache ServiceMix by sharing a common message queue server, Apache ActiveMQ. This allows developers to mix PHP and Java components with minimal effort."
OpenLogic introduces new development and production support packages
OpenLogic has announced two new open-source support development and production support packages. "OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the availability of two cost-effective support packages for enterprises using open source software. These new packages are designed to cover the full spectrum of open source support needs, from development and QA to staging and production."
Passport Software releases PBS Manufacturing Series for Linux
Passport Software, Inc. has announced the release of PBS Manufacturing Series Version 11.5 for LINUX. ""For companies who have chosen Linux for their operating system, software solution choices have been slim. PBS Manufacturing changes that", says Ian Creswell, Passport's Manufacturing Product Manager. "For Linux users, PBS Manufacturing combined with Passport Business Solutions offers a complete, fully integrated business solution that brings the sophisticated tools of bigger ERP systems to the small to mid-size company for better control of their manufacturing, make-to-order, or job shop operations" continues Creswell."
Xandros acquires Scalix
Xandros has announced the acquisition of Scalix. "Today Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end Linux solutions and cross platform management tools, announced the acquisition of Scalix, the premier award-winning Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company."
New Books
Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects -- New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has published the book Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects: GIMP for photography, special effects, and design by Michael J. Hammel.
Contests and Awards
The 2007 Best of SugarCRM awards program
SugarCRM Inc. has announced the first annual Best of SugarCRM Award program, which recognizes best-in-class SugarCRM implementations. "SugarCRM is now accepting nominations for the award through Monday, August 6, 2007. Finalists will be publicly announced on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. The awards ceremony dinner will be held in conjunction with the CRM Acceleration Summit in New York City on Monday, August 20, 2007."
Surveys
Study shows enterprises evaluate on Windows, deploy on Linux
Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced its global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise. "The Alfresco open source barometer survey, conducted April through June 2007 using opt-in data provided by 10,000 of the 15,000 Alfresco community members, showed that Windows is increasingly a popular evaluation platform for open source software but most enterprises use Linux when they go into production. The survey also asked users about their preferences in operating systems, application servers, databases, browsers, and portals to capture the latest information in how companies today evaluate and deploy open source and legacy proprietary software stacks in the enterprise."
Event Reports
Mandriva and Intel Showcase classmate PC at aKademy
Mandriva and Intel demonstrated the classmate PC at the aKademy conference. "Intel's Latin America Linux Strategic Program Manager Sulamita Garcia and Mandriva's KDE developer Helio de Castro were participating at aKademy 2007, KDE's annual meeting of the KDE community, demonstrating the flexibility and the specialized educational interface of Mandriva Linux on the Intel-powered classmate PC in the "Edu and School" presentation sessions."
PgDay Portland, A huge success!
The Portland, Oregon PgDay event was a success. "On July 22nd, PostgreSQL.Org held a single day conference in Portland Oregon preceding OSCON 2007. This conference, although short notice was a huge success. We had solid attendance from new and old community members.Notable talks for me was Theo Schlossnagle's talk on Solaris and PostgreSQL. It was enlightening to see where PostgreSQL is lacking, (places I didn't realize) and how Theo has worked around the problems to provide a quite decent set of tools for Solaris and PostgreSQL."
Upcoming Events
Red Hat To Showcase Open Source Enterprise Solutions At GITEX 2007
Red Hat has announced that it will be attending the 27th Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX). At the event, Red Hat will present its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to its Middle Eastern partners and to potential customers.
Software Freedom Day 2007
Software Freedom Day 2007 has been announced. "September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like Free & Open Source Software are so important. Community groups in more than 80 countries organise local activities and programs on Software Freedom Day to educate the wider public about free software: what it is, how it works and its relationship to human rights and sustainability. We already have over 140 teams around the world registered: join them in spreading the word!"
Events: August 2, 2007 to October 1, 2007
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 24 September 27 |
14th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | New Orleans, USA |
| September 24 September 25 |
Power Architecture Developer Conference | Austin, TX, USA |
| September 24 September 27 |
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2007 | Victoria, BC, Canada |
| September 27 September 28 |
Audio Mostly 2007 | Ilmenau, Germany |
| September 28 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2007 | Columbus, USA |
| September 28 September 29 |
Freed.in | Delhi, India |
| September 28 | IRC discussion on AGPLv3 and GPLv3 | online, world |
| September 30 October 3 |
Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo | Biopolis, Singapore, Singapore |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
Introducing beautifulcode.oreillynet.com
O'Reilly has announced the launch of the beautifulcode.oreillynet.com web site. "The new, easy-to-use site gives the public the opportunity to discuss the book's projects and to contribute information about other projects that illustrate coding artistry. The site is designed to build community among new and experienced innovative programmers and designers who are inventing and creating elegant coding solutions now and in the future."
Staging Site for Firefox Support Knowledge Base Ready (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine reports on the launch of the Firefox Support knowledge base. "Chris Ilias writes: "The staging site for the new Firefox Support knowledge base is now up and running, and we’re looking for people to help contribute content. We have an initial list of articles we would like created for the alpha version, so feel free to create an account, assign yourself to an article, and create it. Our primary goal, right now, is core content."
TechBase Hits 1,000,000 (KDE.News)
KDE.News reports that the TechBase site has reached a milestone. "KDE's new technical documentation library, TechBase, hit an important milestone today when it served up its one millionth page. In step with the KDE 4.0 development cycle, TechBase is rapidly maturing into a central hub for high-level technical information related to KDE and the Free software desktop."
Audio and Video programs
ELCOT's success story on OSS migration on youtube.com
Krishna Pagadala reports on the availability of a YouTube video on the migration to OSS by India's ELCOT. "After a year of experimentation and implementation, ELCOT made a corporate video on how it migrated to linux, notably suse linux which had stolen the hearts of all ELCOT's officials."
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