Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Mark Webbink Joins Board of Software Freedom Law Center

The 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."

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Commercial announcements

KnowledgeTreeLive service launched

KnowledgeTree 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.

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LPA announces African affiliates

The 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."

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Oracle open-sources the OCI8 database driver for PHP

Oracle 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."

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Scalix 11.2 released

Version 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."

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TransGaming and Mandriva renew OEM agreement

TransGaming 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."

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New Books

Linux Firewalls--New from No Starch

No Starch Press has published the book Linux Firewalls by Michael Rash.

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Linux Thin Client book from Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing has published the book Linux Thin Client Networks Design and Deployment by David Richards.

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Resources

FSFE Newsletter

The 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.

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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."

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Education and Certification

LPI Exams in Portugal and Italy

The 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.

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Upcoming Events

KDE 4.0 release event announced

A 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.

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Legal Summit for Software Freedom at Columbia Law School

The 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.

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NLUUG 25 year anniversary conference

The 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!"

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Events: October 18, 2007 to December 17, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
October 29	3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability	Alexandria, VA, USA
October 29 November 1	Fall VON Conference and Expo	Boston, MA, USA
October 30 October 31	BCS'07	Jakarta, Indonesia
October 31 November 1	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	Utrecht, Netherlands
November 1 November 2	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
November 2	5th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode	Alexandria, VA, USA
November 2 November 3	Embedded Linux Conference, Europe	Linz, Austria
November 2 November 4	Real-Time Linux Workshop	Linz, Austria
November 3	Linux-Info-Tag Dresden	Dresden, Germany
November 5 November 9	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, USA
November 7	NLUUG 25th anniversary conference	Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 7	Alfresco North American Community Conference 2007	New York, NY, USA
November 8 November 9	Blog World Expo	Las Vegas, NV, USA
November 10 November 11	Linuxtage	Essen, NRW, Germany
November 11 November 17	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Dallas, TX, USA
November 12 November 16	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, USA
November 12 November 15	OWASP & WASC AppSec 2007 Conference	San Jose, USA
November 12 November 16	ApacheCon US 2007	Atlanta, GA, USA
November 13 November 14	IV Latin American Free Software Conference	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
November 15 November 18	Piksel07	Bergen, Norway
November 15	Alfresco European Community Conference	Paris, France
November 16 November 18	aKademy-es 2007	Zaragoza, Spain
November 20 November 23	DeepSec ISDC 2007	Vienna, Austria
November 22 November 23	Conferencia Rails Hispana	Madrid, Spain
November 24	LinuxDay in Vorarlberg (Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich)	Dornbirn, Austria
November 26 November 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Brisbane, Australia
November 28 November 30	Mono Summit 2007	Madrid, Spain
November 29 November 30	PacSec 2007	Tokyo, Japan
December 1	Django Worldwide Sprint	Online, World
December 1	London Perl Workshop 2007	London, UK
December 4 December 8	FOSS.IN 2007	Bangalore, India
December 7 December 8	Free Software Conference Scandinavia	Gotherburg, Sweden
December 7 December 8	PGCon Brazil	Sao Paulo, Brazil
December 10	Paris on Rails (2nd Edition)	Paris, France
December 11 December 12	3rd DoD Open Conference: Deployment of Open Technologies and Architectures within Military Systems	Vienna, VA, USA
December 15 December 22	Unix Meeting 2007	IRC, Worldwide

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Web sites

Free Software Directory gets a new look

The 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."

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Announcing Planet CentOS

The 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).

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Audio and Video programs

Samba and Google Summer of Code Podcast

A 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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