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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Mark Webbink Joins Board of Software Freedom Law CenterThe Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), has announced that Mark Webbink has joined its board of directors. "Webbink comes to SFLC from Red Hat, the premiere Linux and open source vendor, where he served as its first general counsel beginning in 2000. In 2004, he became Red Hat's deputy general counsel for intellectual property, a position he served in until his retirement in August 2007. During his tenure with Red Hat, Webbink wrote and spoke extensively on the subjects of open source software, software patents, and patent reform."
Commercial announcements KnowledgeTreeLive service launchedKnowledgeTree has announced the launch of KnowledgeTreeLive, a software-as-a-service document management application built on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and the rPath virtual appliance platform. "The KnowledgeTreeLive on-demand document management service brings the powerful capabilities of the open source KnowledgeTree application to users wishing to subscribe to an easy to use, cost-effective and secure hosted application. The KnowledgeTreeLive service includes document management and collaboration features such as document versioning and auditing, metadata and content searching, workflow, tagging and tag clouds, RSS feeds and email triggers.
LPA announces African affiliatesThe Linux Professional Institute has announces new affiliates in Africa. The LPI "announced new affiliates in East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) and Nigeria. "These two new affiliates are indicative of the growing importance of Linux and Open Source Software both in the field of education and IT capacity development in Africa," said John Meaney, LPI Area Operations Manager for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). Mr. Meaney noted that there was significant interest in the region in Linux professionalism and that he was involved in ongoing discussions with other potential affiliates for the Middle East and Africa."
Oracle open-sources the OCI8 database driver for PHPOracle has announced the availability of an open-source preview release of OCI8. "Continuing to deliver on its long-standing commitment to the Open Source community, Oracle today announced the contribution and a preview release of an enhanced Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) database driver for PHP. This helps bring breakthrough scalability to PHP applications, further enhancing PHP as a viable development environment for mission-critical applications. The OCI8 database driver for PHP supports important Oracle(R) Database features such as connection pooling and fast application notification, enabling a single industry-standard server to support tens of thousands of database connections while providing higher availability."
Scalix 11.2 releasedVersion 11.2 of Scalix has been announced. "Scalix, the premier award-winning Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company, today announced the release of Scalix 11.2, with significant new features to support hosted multi-tenant environments, the latest Linux servers, and enhanced Microsoft Outlook facilities for mobile devices. Scalix 11.2 allows application service providers (ASPs) to host multiple customers on a single Scalix server without the use of virtualization. They can now easily subdivide a single Scalix installation into multiple independent partitions, each with its own address book and global address list."
TransGaming and Mandriva renew OEM agreementTransGaming has announced that it has renewed an OEM agreement with Mandriva. "TransGaming Inc., a leading developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry, announced today the renewal of the OEM and distribution agreement with Mandriva, the leading retail distribution for the Linux operating system. Under this agreement, MandrivaLinux 2008 customers will receive access to TransGaming's Cedega product that will allow them to play hundreds of PC games out-of-the-box."
New Books Linux Firewalls--New from No StarchNo Starch Press has published the book Linux Firewalls by Michael Rash.
Linux Thin Client book from Packt PublishingPackt Publishing has published the book Linux Thin Client Networks Design and Deployment by David Richards.
Resources FSFE NewsletterThe October 9, 2007 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: Microsoft antitrust: A victory for Free Software and freedom of competition, WIPO: FSFE calls for interoperability and Open Standards, Freedom Task Force signs MoU with TIS Free Software Center, Southern Tyrol, Italy, Videos of FSFE president Georg Greve with Chilean Minister of Economy, FSFE supports protest against increased surveillance of digital communication, FSFE presents FSCONS and The Scandinavian Free Software Award, FSFE at OpenExpo, Switzerland and Get active.
Contests and Awards KDE 4.0 Release Event Contest (KDE.News)KDE.News has an announced the KDE 4.0 Release Event Contest. "The KDE 4.0 Release Event Team is pleased to announce a contest for the KDE 4.0 Release Event. The winners of this contest will be flown out to Mountain View, California on January 17-19, 2008. Hotel and meals will be covered for them during the event. Read on for information about the contest. The purpose of this contest is to find the most enthusiastic KDE community member and reward him or her with a ticket to the KDE 4.0 Release Event held at the Google Headquarters at Mountain View, CA."
Education and Certification LPI Exams in Portugal and ItalyThe Linux Professional Institute will hold discounted LPIC exams at in Portugal on October 12-13 and October 19-21, 2007, and in Italy on October 27, 2007.
Upcoming Events KDE 4.0 release event announcedA three-day event is being held at the Googleplex, 17-19 January 2008, to celebrate the release of KDE 4.0. The schedule is still being worked out, but there will be a keynote by Aaron Seigo and lots of BOFs (Birds of a Feather meetings). Click below for more information.
Legal Summit for Software Freedom at Columbia Law SchoolThe Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is hosting a legal summit at Columbia Law School in New York City on 12 October 2007. Speakers include Eben Moglen, Dan Ravicher, Richard Fontana, Matt Norwood, Karen Sandler and James Vasile and the summit covers "licensing, copyrights and patents, and corporate issues related to Software Freedom." Click below for more information.
NLUUG 25 year anniversary conferenceThe NLUUG, the Dutch Unix Users Group, has announced its 25th anniversary conference. "The programme committee and the NLUUG board members are very excited about this 25th anniversary conference on November 7th, at the "Beurs of Berlage" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Do not miss this extraordinary conference!"
Events: October 18, 2007 to December 17, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites Free Software Directory gets a new lookThe Free Software Directory has undergone a web site makeover. "The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants."
Announcing Planet CentOSThe Planet CentOS web site has been announced. "The CentOS team is pleased to announce the Planet CentOS website. Are you wondering what is cooking in the kitchens of the CentOS developers? Wait no longer, Planet CentOS aggregates the blogs of CentOS contributors, merging them into one feed. You can read Planet CentOS with your favorite RSS/Atom reader, or through the Planet CentOS website." (Thanks to Daniel de Kok).
Audio and Video programs Samba and Google Summer of Code PodcastA podcast with a discussion of Samba projects from the Google Summer of Code has been announced. "The podcast features several members of the Samba Team -- Jeremy Allison, Andrew Bartlett, Jelmer Vernooij, Jerry Carter, Kai Blin, Rafal Szczesniak, Stefan Metzmacher and Steve French -- and is a fun listen, covering everything from Samba development itself to Samba's participation in the Google Summer of Code."
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