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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Another BusyBox lawsuit settled The Software Freedom Law Center has sent out a press release announcing the settlement of the GPL-infringement suit filed on behalf of the BusyBox developers against Xterasys. "Once SFLC verifies that the complete source code is available, Xterasys' full rights to distribute BusyBox under the GPL will be reinstated. Additionally, Xterasys has agreed to appoint an internal Open Source Compliance Officer to monitor and ensure GPL compliance, and to notify previous recipients of BusyBox from Xterasys of their rights to the software under the GPL. Xterasys will also pay an undisclosed amount of financial consideration to the plaintiffs."
European Broadcast Union adopts FLAC The FLAC audio compression project notes the adoption of the FLAC format by the European Broadcast Union. The EBU's FAQ explains: "The EBU Musipop is an audio file transfer system. All concerts on the Euroradio satellite channels, Ravel & Verdi, are recorded by the EBU Geneva Musipop PC as WAV files. They are subsequently converted into FLAC files and sent via satellite over a dedicated 4.8Mbit/s xtranet channel to member stations. Concerts are stored on your local Musipop PC for up to 2 months (memory with standing) from where they are transferred to your local hard drive playout systems."
Commercial announcements Novell reports fourth quarter financial results Novell, Inc. has announced its fourth quarter 2007 financial results. "For the quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $245 million, which excludes $6 million of revenue from its Swiss-based business consulting unit, which Novell agreed to sell during the quarter. This compares to net revenue of $234 million for the fourth fiscal quarter 2006. The loss from operations for the fourth fiscal quarter 2007 was $13 million, compared to income from operations of $4 million for the fourth fiscal quarter 2006."
xTuple Debuts Managed Server Network xTuple has announced XTN, the xTuple Network service. "xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning software, is pleased to announce the general availability of XTN, the xTuple Network service, for users of the xTuple Applications, PostBooks and OpenMFG. The xTuple Applications are advanced ERP software solutions built with open source components, such as the PostgreSQL database, the Qt toolkit for C++, and the OpenRPT report writer. The fully integrated packages include Inventory Management, Product Definition and Costing, Work Order Management, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Shipping and Receiving, Project Management, Sales Analysis, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, a full General Ledger, and Customer Relationship Management. Both packages are fully multi-currency, multi-lingual, and support a range of multi-layered taxation structures."
New Books Digital Astrophotography--New from Rocky Nook Rocky Nook has published the book Digital Astrophotography by Stefan Seip.
The Django Book is done The Django Book has been announced. "The Django Book started shipping last week, and we've put the full text online for free. We put a draft of the book up about a year ago for comments, and were amazed by the quality (and quantity!) of responses. We read each of the comments (around 2500) as we revised the book towards a final print release. That print release has been available in stores for about a week, and we've put the text up for you to read for free."
Learning ActionScript 3.0--New from O'Reilly Media O'Reilly has published the book Learning ActionScript 3.0 by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser.
X Power Tools--New from O'Reilly Media O'Reilly has published the book X Power Tools by Chris Tyler.
Resources FSFE Newsletter The December 17, 2007 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), STACS meeting in London, Trophees du Libre 2007 in Soissons, Training Courses in Stockholm and Nijmegen, FTF events in Linz, Lausanne, Nijmegen and Dusseldorf, Foundation activities in Sweden, Berlin Fellowship discusses Free Software mobile phones, FSFE revisiting software patent information, SELF public beta and bug fixing and Interview with Werner Koch.
The Perl Review, Winter 2007 (use Perl) The Winter, 2007 edition of the The Perl Review has been announced. "The Winter 2007 issue of The Perl Review is here, and it has a wonderful cover picture that Eric Maki made with a combination of the B modules and GraphViz. Wonder what Perl's really doing with your program? Map it and find out! That's just the cover, and there is a lot more Perl on the inside."
An analysis of the SonyBMG rootkit disaster Deirdre K. Mulligan and Aaron K. Perzanowski have posted a 76-page paper [PDF] on the causes of the SonyBMG rootkit fiasco. "This Article aims to identify the market, technological, and legal factors that appear to have led a presumably rational actor toward a strategy that in retrospect appears obviously and fundamentally misguided." There's also a couple of detailed suggestions on (U.S.) legal changes which could help make such episodes less likely in the future.
Calls for Presentations Embedded Linux Conference 2008 - call for sessions The CE Linux Forum has put out a Call for Presentations for the 2008 Embedded Linux conference to be held in Mountain View, CA April 15-17. The conference will be held at the Computer History Museum and presentations are being sought for many different topics of interest to embedded Linux developers. Click below for more information.
SOA in Health Care Conference -- A Call for Abstracts (LinuxMedNews) A Call for Abstracts has been posted for the SOA in Health Care Conference. The submission deadline is December 31. "The HSSP effort is pulling together an industry conference entitled "SOA for Health Care". Note that the event is focused on case-studies around SOA in health care, and is not about the standards themselves."
SyScan'08 Call For Paper/Training Two SyScan'08 events have been announced, along with calls for papers. "The Symposium on Security for Asia Network aims to be a very different security conference from the rest of the security conferences that the information security community in Asia has come to be so familiar and frustrated with. SyScan is a non-product, non-vendor biased security conference. It is the aspiration of SyScan to congregate in Asia the best security experts in their various fields, to share their research, discovery and experience with all security enthusiasts in Asia." SyScan'08 Hong Kong will take place on May 29-30, 2008, SyScan'08 Singapore will take place on July 3-4, 2008.
Upcoming Events Linux Foundation to host a symposium in Beijing The Linux Foundation has announced that it will be co-hosting (with the Chinese OSS Promotion Union) a Linux developer symposium in Beijing, China. Speakers will include Dave Neary, Andrew Morton, Matt Mackall, and a certain LWN editor. "Similar to the Linux Foundation's Japanese Symposia, this event is intended to educate and promote cross-collaboration among Linux kernel developers and local developers in the region, resulting in increased kernel involvement and patch submissions."
Program Unveiled for MySQL Conference and Expo The program for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo has been announced. "Registration is now open for the sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo. Co-presented by MySQL AB and O'Reilly Media, the conference will take place April 14-17, 2008, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to bring together over 1,600 open source and database users from some of the most exciting and fastest-growing companies in the world, as well as from the large and active MySQL Community. The program for 2008 will include keynote presentations by Jacek Becla of Stanford Linear Accelerator and MySQL CEO Marten Mickos."
PostgreSQL Conference East 2008 The PostgreSQL Conference East 2008 has been announced. The event will take place in College Park, Maryland on March 29-30, 2008. "The conference series is designed to be a geographically strategic series of conferences that allow contributors, current users and future users/developers to learn and network. Each conference is held in an Academic facility, students and educators are free. Our goal is to establish a series of forums for local developers, administrators and users to mingle with leading PostgreSQL contributors. Initially these forums and conferences will be held in the U.S."
YAPC::NA 2008 Dates and Venue (use Perl) The YAPC::NA 2008 Perl conference has been announced. "The Chicago Perl Mongers are excited to officially announce the location, dates, and website for YAPC::NA 2008. The conference will be held June 16th-18th 2008 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL."
Events: December 27, 2007 to February 25, 2008 The 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 Your Media: A new blog on Linux multimedia Pawel Wolniewicz, a Polish user of open source multimedia applications, has announced his new blog, Free Your Media. Articles so far include Traverso 0.42.0 released, Podcasting with Linux Command Line Tools and Audacity, 7 Alternatives to Flickr, and much more.
Miscellaneous Mozilla Foundation Directed Giving Enables Specific Donations for Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey and Accessibility (MozillaZine) mozillaZine covers the Mozilla Foundation's directed giving program where donors choose one of four specific projects to direct their donation to. "While the Mozilla Foundation has accepted donations since shortly after its establishment in 2003, it has not previously been possible for supporters to specify how they want their money to be spent. With the launch of the directed giving program, Mozilla donors can now allocate their funds to be spent on Bugzilla (the open-source bug tracking software used by many software development projects), Camino (the Mozilla-powered native Mac OS X browser), SeaMonkey (the community-driven continuation of the Mozilla Application Suite) or the Mozilla Accessibility Community (which aims to make Mozilla software easier to use for users with disabilities)."
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