Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

New job and expert lists on elinux wiki

New job and expert lists are being hosted on the elinux wiki. "In an attempt to try something new (but which we've discussed for some time now), we have added a job and expert list to the new embedded Linux wiki. These are meant to be places where companies with embedded linux work (either contract work or full-time positions) can post them, and for Linux developers to post their job skills. Posting and access to these pages is free of charge."

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GNOME turns 10

The GNOME community is celebrating ten years of existence. "A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20. During the celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording their ten year history, and a commemorative cookery book with 'Open Source' recipes contributed by GNOME community members from around the world."

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NIH’s National Database for Autism Research deploys with OpenClinica (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on the use of OpenClinica, an open-source web-based electronic data capture platform for clinical research, by the NIH National Database for Autism. "The National Database for Autism Research, or NDAR, is a collaborative biomedical informatics system created by the National Institutes of Health to provide a common, nationwide resource to support and accelerate research on autism. NDAR will make it easier and faster for researchers to gather, evaluate, and share autism research data from a variety of sources."

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Commercial announcements

Levanta launches free Linux management virtual appliance

Levanta has launched their Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance. "Levanta® (www.levanta.com), the leader in Linux data center automation, today announced the release of the Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance. The Intrepid VM is a VMware appliance version of the award-winning Levanta Intrepid line of Linux life-cycle management products, which automate provisioning, change control, migration and disaster recovery processes for Linux systems."

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New Matrox Graphics 1.4.5 Linux Drivers Provide Enhanced Features for Thin Client Users

Matrox Graphics has introduced new 1.4.5 Linux drivers providing enhanced features and additional support to its Matrox EpicA TC2 and EpicA TC4 multi-display graphics cards for thin computing.

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OpenEMR HQ Launches total EMR Solution (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has announced the launch of OpenEMR HQ. "September 1, 2007 will see the official launch of OpenEMR HQ, a solutions provider offering several "enterprise level" EMR solutions to small to mid-sized clinics. The service will offer both hosted and on-site installations of the OpenEMR electronic medical records software package and a pre-configured, semi-managed appliance called "EMR-RACK" which promises to offer clinics an easy and affordable way to implement OpenEMR."

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Citrix acquires XenSource

Citrix Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource, for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock, which includes the assumption of approximately $107 million in unvested stock options. (Thanks to Nathan Lutchansky)

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Sourcefire buys ClamAV

Sourcefire has announced the acquisition of the ClamAV anti-virus project. "Under terms of the transaction, Sourcefire has acquired the ClamAV project and related trademarks, as well as the copyrights held by the five principal members of the ClamAV team including project founder Tomasz Kojm. Sourcefire will also assume control of the open source ClamAV project including the ClamAV.org domain, web site and web site content and the ClamAV Sourceforge project page." The announcement posted to the ClamAV list says: "The core team will continue to lead the advancement of ClamAV and the CVD as employees of Sourcefire. Both the ClamAV engine and the signature database will remain under GPL." (Thanks to Alan J. Wylie).

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New Books

JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook, 2nd Ed--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Danny Goodman.

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Programming Collective Intelligence--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran.

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Contests and Awards

Submit your review and win a year's technical support on 64 Studio

The 64 Studio Ltd. company will give away a technical support package for the 64 Studio multimedia distribution in exchange for reviews. "To enter this contest, all you have to do is download 64 Studio (either 64-bit or 32-bit), try it on your own computer, and write up your experiences. We're looking for the most insightful review, so just writing "64 Studio rocks!" will not win you the prize :-)"

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Surveys

Git User's Survey 2007

A User's Survey is being held for the Git version control system. "We would like to ask you a few questions about your use of the GIT version control system. This survey is mainly to understand who is using GIT, how and why. The results will be discussed on the git mailing list and published to the GIT wiki at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007. We'll close the survey in three weeks starting from 20 August 2007, on 10 September 2007."

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Education and Certification

LPI to host discounted exam labs in England and Sweden in September

The Linux Professional Institute will hold exams in England and Sweden in September. "The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier Linux certification organization worldwide, will provide discounted certification testing at LinuxConf Europe on Tuesday September 4th in Cambridge, England and at the Linux Summit Sweden, Wednesday, September 5 in Stockholm."

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LPI Certification Exams top 150,000 worldwide

The Linux Professional Institute has announced the giving of 150,000 Linux certification exams. "Jim Lacey, President and CEO of the Linux Professional Institute noted the organization's notable growth in the last two years: "In February 2005, five years after our program's inception, we announced that we had achieved 75,000 exams worldwide. In half that time we have doubled the number. This demonstrates the growing momentum and importance of Linux professionalism in the IT industry. Furthermore, it firmly establishes LPI as the global leader in Linux certification.""

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Calls for Presentations

Call for Papers: 5th Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios

A call for papers has gone out for the 5th Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios. "The event will be held on March 5-6, 2008 in Karlsruhe, located in the southwest of Germany. This will be a great opportunity to bring the GNU Radio Community together." Submissions are due by November 30, 2007.

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CFP: LCA SysAdmin Miniconf

Linux.conf.au 2008 (starting January 28 in Melbourne) is beginning to take shape, and the list of miniconfs has been posted. One of them - the system administration miniconf - has posted its call for participation; click below for the details.

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No cON Name 2007 - Call for Papers

A call for papers has gone out for No cON Name 2007. The event will take place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on October 11-13, 2007, the submission deadline is September 20.

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ToorCon 9 CFP

A call for papers has gone out for ToorCon 9, a hacker conference. "Papers and presentations are being accepted for ToorCon 9 to be held at the Convention Center in San Diego, CA on October 19th-21st, 2007. Please email your submissions to cfp [at] toorcon.org; submissions will be accepted until September 9th, 2007."

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Upcoming Events

Register now for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon)

The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain on September 19-21, 2007. "Highlights this year include keynotes from Louis Suarez-Potts and Hu Cai Yong. Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager for OpenOffice.org at Sun Microsystems, will present a paper about "OpenOffice.org 3.0 and beyond". Hu Cai Yong is CEO of the Community's newest major corporate sponsor, Redflag CH2000, and will be challenging delegates to think truly global: "designing good applications for the citizens of the world means thinking beyond technology"."

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Events: August 30, 2007 to October 29, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
August 27 September 1	International Computer Music Conference 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
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
October 2 October 3	Openmind 2007	Tampere, Finland
October 3 October 5	Apache Cocoon Get Together	Rome, Italy
October 6 October 7	Wineconf 2007	Zurich, Switzerland
October 6 October 8	GNOME Boston Summit	Boston, MA, USA
October 7 October 9	Graphing Social Patterns	San Jose, CA, USA
October 8 October 10	VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Developer Conference	Santa Clara, USA
October 8	Embedded Linux Bootcamp for Beginners	Santa Clara, CA, USA
October 9 October 10	Profoss	Brussels, Belgium
October 10 October 12	Plone Conference 2007	Naples, Italy
October 12	Legal Summit for Software Freedom	New York, NY, USA
October 13 October 14	T-DOSE 2007 (Technical Dutch Open Source Event)	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
October 13	The Ontario Linux Fest Conference	Toronto, Canada
October 13	Aka Linux Kernel Developer Conference	Beijing, China
October 16	Databases and the Web	London, England
October 17 October 19	2007 WebGUI Users Conference	Madison, WI, USA
October 17 October 19	Web 2.0 Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 18 October 20	HackLu 2007	Kirchberg, Luxembourg
October 19 October 21	ToorCon 9	San Diego, CA, USA
October 20 October 21	Ubucon.de	Krefeld (Köln), Germany
October 20	PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007	Portland, OR, USA
October 20	./freedom & opensource day - PERU	Lima, PERU
October 21 October 25	OOPSLA 2007	Montreal, Canada
October 21 October 26	Colorado Software Summit	Keystone, CO, USA
October 22 October 26	OpenGL Bootcamp with Rocco Bowling	Atlanta, GA, USA
October 22 October 23	She's Geeky - A Women's Tech (un)Conference	Mountain View, CA, USA
October 23 October 25	Open aLANtejo 07 - CNSL07	Évora, Portugal
October 23 October 26	Black Hat Japan	Tokyo, Japan
October 25 October 26	FSOSS 2007 - Free Software and Open Source Symposium	Toronto, Canada
October 27 October 28	FOSSCamp 2007	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 27	Linux Day Italy	many cities around country, Italy
October 28 November 2	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Web sites

MacForge.net: Now Over 45,000 Mac Open Source Projects

MacTech(r) Magazine has announced that its MacForge(tm) Mac open source project index now has over 45,000 projects. MacForge.net was created for not only the experienced open source user, but to introduce the Mac technical community to the wonderful array of projects available.

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