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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Ted Ts'o goes to the Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has announced that longtime Linux kernel hacker Ted Ts'o has joined as its "chief platform strategist" for two years; he will be working to promote the Linux Standard Base and other Foundation initiatives.
Commercial announcements Guardian Digital releases new EnGarde Secure Linux Community Guardian Digital has announced a new release of EnGarde Secure Linux Community. "Used by security enthusiasts, businesses and global organizations worldwide for its ease of use, stability and security since 1999, it is just one part of Guardian Digital's complete Open Source security portfolio."
ZaReason joins the $199 gPC business Everex, the company providing the $199 "gPC" sold by Wal-Mart, has announced that it has partnered with ZaReason to help deliver the sold-out systems. ZaReason seems to be an interesting company: "ZaReason is staffed almost entirely by volunteers and caters to the Linux enthusiast, offering branded desktop and notebook computers from $199 to $1499."
New Books Head First C#--New from O'Reilly Media O'Reilly has published the book Head First C# by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.
The Book of PF--New from No Starch Press No Starch Press has published The Book of PF, A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall by Peter N.M. Hansteen.
Resources Report: free codecs for online video Transmission.cc has posted a detailed report on the state of the art in free video codecs. "This research report seeks to outline the current state of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) codecs and containers, particularly how they might evolve and be implemented by social justice organisations within the Transmission network for which this report was originally envisioned. Transmission is a network of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, researchers, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy." (Via BoingBoing).
Contests and Awards Les Trophées du Libre contest winners announced The winners of the 2007 Les Trophées du Libre free software contest have been announced. "Since 2003, Cetril has organised the Trophées du Libre contest, with the support of various partners, to reward innovative free software in six different categories: Security, Games/Multimedia, Education, Scientific software, Public sector software, Enterprise software."
Vienna.pm Winter of Code (use Perl) The Vienna.pm Winter of Code contest has been announced. "YAPC::Europe 2007 left Vienna.pm with quite a lot of money. We want to give part of this money back to the Perl community by hosting the Winter of Code (with apologies to Google...). You can find detailed information in our new and shiny Wiki. For those too lazy to follow links, here's the super-short summary: * We have about €20,000 to spend..."
Calls for Presentations LAC2008 submission deadline extended The submission deadline for the 2008 Linux Audio Conference has been extended until December 6. "We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. We are also looking for music that has been produced completely or mostly under Linux and/or with open source software from every genre: compositions, Electronica, Chill-Out, Ambient, etc."
Upcoming Events YAPC::Europe 2008, Call for Attention (use Perl) use Perl has an announcement for YAPC::Europe 2008. "jonasbn writes "The dates for the annual YAPC::Europe conference to be held in Copenhagen in 2008 have been settled. The hosts, Copenhagen Perl Mongers, are happy to inform you that the event will take place across 3 days, from Wednesday the 13th to Friday the 15th of August 2008, at the magnificent venue of Copenhagen Business School."
Events: December 13, 2007 to February 11, 2008 The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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