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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Apache Directory Server 1.0 LDAP Certified by the Open GroupApache Software Foundation has announced the second year of LDAP certification for the Apache Software Foundation's Directory Project. "The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) Directory Project today announced its continued certification to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) product standard as defined by The Open Group. The Apache Directory Server 1.0 (ApacheDS) is the first and, currently, only Open Source LDAP server among several certified commercial directory solutions."
Noted computer crime attorney comes to EFFElectronic Frontier Foundation has announced the hiring of Jennifer Stisa Granick as its Civil Liberties Director. "Noted computer crime attorney Jennifer Stisa Granick has joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as its new Civil Liberties Director, working on government surveillance, Fourth Amendment, computer security, and computer crime law. Granick previously was Executive Director at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society as well as Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic."
IBM joins OpenOffice.org communityOpenOffice.org has announced that IBM has joined the community and plans to assist in the development of the office software. "IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the community on the free productivity suite's software, IBM will also leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products."
Commercial announcements AMD releases initial GPU specsAs noted by David Airlie, AMD has made an initial set of specifications for ATI graphics processors available. These are 2D specifications, so they are not all that is needed to write a complete graphics driver, but they are a good start.
Australia To Join Mandriva Partner EcosystemMandriva has announced the launch of Mandriva Australia. "The Australian Market is ready for Linux expansion: about 50% of servers in Australia currently operate on Linux. The huge growth of Linux in China will in the near future give great impetus to the availability of Linux-based hardware and drivers for Australia. For this partnership, Mandriva has selected ArnSys Pty Ldt for its expertise".
Microsoft delivers Silverlight 1.0, extends support to LinuxMicrosoft Corp. has announced the launch of Silverlight(TM) 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in that aims to compete with Adobe's Flash. "In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com. Silverlight significantly reduces development and deployment costs and provides enhanced Web audio and video streaming and playback using industry-leading Windows Media(R) Technologies."
Microsoft and Novell open shared labThe Microsoft/Novell deal rolls forward with this announcement of the opening of a shared "interoperability lab". "Located in Cambridge, the 2,500-square-foot lab and workspace will be home to a combined team of the best and brightest Microsoft and Novell engineers focused on making Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise work better together. The first priority for the lab team will be to ensure interoperability between Microsoft and Novell virtualization technologies. Additional work will include standards-based systems management, identity federation and compatibility of office document formats."
OpenMoko Neo 1973 phones by Christmas?The OpenMoko wiki has an updated schedule that shows the phones reaching customers by 25 December. There is also more information about the new hardware (WiFi, faster processor, accelerometers, and more). "We will sell this device through multiple channels. Direct from openmoko.com, the price will be $450 for the Neo Base and $600 for Neo Advanced."
QNX source released - sort ofIt would seem that QNX is feeling the pressure from Linux; the company has just announced that it will be making the source for its "Neutrino" realtime operating system available under a "hybrid" license. "Not only can developers view the QNX Neutrino source code, but they can improve, modify, or extend that code for their own purposes or for the QNX community at large. They can then choose to offer back those changes to QNX Software Systems and the QNX development community or to keep their modifications private and proprietary." What they can't do is deploy the code commercially without paying royalties.
RedPost inc. launches Corktop softwareRedPost inc. has launched Corktop, a networked digital signage application that runs under Linux. "Eric Kanagy, CEO, founded the company after discovering that digital signage is far too expensive and complicated. "Until now, places like Times Square have dominated digital signage -- you can spend millions of dollars on signage when you have a million people walking by every week. The local shoe store, coffee shop or bar can't afford a Times Square digital sign. Corktop is the beginning of a paradigm shift -- digital signage will be accessible to everyone.""
Sun acquires ClusterFSSun has announced the acquisition of Cluster File Systems. "Sun intends to add support for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms."
ThalesRaytheonSystems to provide Linux-based Battle Control SystemThalesRaytheonSystems has announced the winning of a $25.6 million contract with the US Air Force to upgrade the NORAD Battle Control System-Fixed (BCS-F), which controls the North American airspace. "Having common software and a common human-machine interface between the fixed and mobile communities will reduce development, testing, and training costs for the Air Force," said Daniel De Sollar, director of ThalesRaytheonSystems Air C2 Systems in the U.S. "The upgrades will not only ensure a common look and feel between today's BCS-F and the mobile command and control variant, but they will also convert to the Linux operating system in order to take advantage of the latest hardware available."
VMware Unveils VMware Tools as Open Source SoftwareVMware, Inc. has announced that it has released a majority of VMware Tools as open source software as part of the project Open Virtual Machine Tools. Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) is hosted at Sourceforge.
New Books High Performance Web Sites--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly has published the book High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders.
The LEGO MINDSTORM NXT Idea Book--New from No Starch PressNo Starch Press has published the book The LEGO MINDSTORM NXT Idea Book by Martijn Boogaarts, Jonathan A. Daudelin, Brian L. Davis, Jim Kelly, David Levy, Lou Morris, Fay Rhodes, Rick Rhodes, Matthias Paul Scholz, Christopher R. Smith and Rob Torok.
Contests and Awards Les Trophees du LibreLes Trophées du Libre is a contest to reward innovative free software in six different categories: Security, Games/Multimedia, Education, Scientific software, Public sector software and Enterprise software. Register your project before October 1, 2007. Nominees will be announced on November 1, 2007 and the final deliberation of the jury and the award of prizes will take place on November 29, 2007 in Soissons, France.
Calls for Presentations linux.conf.au Embedded Mini-conference 2008 CFPAn embedded Linux mini-conference is being announced for linux.conf.au, which is being held in Melbourne, Australia in January of 2008. The focus of the mini-conference is the diversity of embedded Linux devices. A call for papers for the event is also part of the announcement. Click below for more information.
CFP: LCA Multimedia MiniconfThe LCA Multimedia Miniconf will take place on January 28, 2008. The submission deadline is November 30.
Upcoming Events Worldwide Django sprint - September 14A worldwide Django sprint has been announced. "On Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, we're going to hold a worldwide Django sprint -- an excuse for people to focus their undivided attention for a full day (or two) on improving Django. We've got a bunch of features that are almost done but haven't yet been committed/merged -- including newforms-admin, ORM aggregate support, multi-DB support and GeoDjango. Plus, we've got almost 1,000 open tickets in our ticket system. We plan to devote at least 24 hours of focused work to get some of this done in an organized fashion, and also to encourage new people to contribute. If all goes well on Friday, we'll probably continue to Saturday."
Technical program set for Gelato ICE SingaporeThe technical program for the Gelato ICE conference has been announced. The conference takes place in Singapore on October 1-2, 2007.
hack.lu 2007 speakers announcedThe speaker line up for hack.lu 2007 has been announced, the event will take place in Luxembourg on October 18-20, 2007. "We managed again to have speakers from all over the world coming to Luxembourg, the small country in Europe. There is a large diversity of interesting topics covered during the three days of this intimate security conference."
KDE-EDU 4.0 Polishing on Saturday (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced a polishing event for KDE-EDU, The KDE Education Project. "This Saturday (15.09.) will see the first KDE-EDU 4.0 Polishing Day. The aim is to allow direct communication between users and developers. Issues, doubts and new ideas can be discussed, solved and coded in real time. For this purpose, a meeting will be held in #kde-polishing from 8:00 to 15:00 UTC. KHangMan, KGeography and blinKen will be this first meetings subjects."
The Linux Foundation announces legal summitsThe Linux Foundation has announced a pair of legal summits, to be held in October and sometime in the (northern hemisphere) spring. "At this invitation-only Summit, members will focus on the issues of greatest common interest with regards to open standards and licensing. Presentations and working sessions will focus on building a legal defense infrastructure for Linux and evolving intellectual property rights policies optimized to support open development models."
Sun Microsystems announces Tech Days Developer ConferencesSun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the Sun Tech Days. "Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced the details of the Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conferences for 2007-2008. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Sun Tech Days program -- a 15 city world tour designed to educate developers in local markets. Based on feedback from developers around the world, the Sun Tech Days program has been expanded to include content on Ajax and Web 2.0 related frameworks and toolkits, application performance tuning, JRuby, and building rich Web applications with jMaki and JavaFX Script.
Events: September 20, 2007 to November 19, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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