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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements FSFE supports new antitrust investigation against MicrosoftThe Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out a press release announcing its support for antitrust investigation against Microsoft in the EU. ""Microsoft should be required openly, fully and faithfully to implement free and open industry standards," is the message of a letter by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. To help achieve this goal, FSFE offered its support for a possible antitrust investigation based on the complaint of Opera Software against Microsoft. The complaint was based on anti-competitive behaviour in the web browser market."
GnuPG Celebrates 10 YearsThe GNU Privacy Guard encryption software project has announced its 10 year anniversary. "It's been a decade now that the very first version of the GNU Privacy Guard [0] has been released. This very first version was not yet known under the name of GnuPG but dubbed "g10" as a reference on the German constitution article on freedom of telecommunication (Grundgesetz Artikel 10) and as a pun on the G-10 law which allows the secret services to bypass these constitutional guaranteed freedoms."
Samba team gets Microsoft protocol documentsThe Samba team has announced the signing of an agreement with Microsoft which will result in the delivery of Microsoft's protocol documentation. "We will be able to use the information obtained to continue to develop Samba and create more Free Software. We are hoping to get back to the productive relationship we had with Microsoft during the early 1990's when we shared information about these protocols. The agreement also clarifies the exact patent numbers concerned so there is no possibility of misunderstandings around this issue."
EU antitrust case over: Samba receives interoperability informationThe Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out a press release concerning the winning of interoperability information by the Samba project. "In 2004 the European Commission found Microsoft guilty of monopoly abuse in the IT marketplace and demanded that complete interoperability information be made available to competitors. Microsoft objected to this decision and was overruled in September 2007 by the European Court of First Instance (CFI). The CFI found Microsoft guilty of deliberate obstruction of interoperability and upheld the obligation for Microsoft to share its protocol information. The Samba Team has decided to make use of Micrsoft's obligation under the European judgements. Through the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), network interoperability information has been requested and a one-time access fee of 10.000 EUR is being paid to give Samba team full access to important specifications."
Commercial announcements dimdim partners with SugarCRMdimdim has announced a partnership with SugarCRM. "dimdim, the world's leading open source web meeting company, today announced that it will be a Premium Provider on SugarExchange, the SugarCRM Marketplace. SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software has been integrated with dimdim's open source web meeting software, giving companies of all sizes an integrated collaboration and CRM system that is the most fully-functioned, cost-efficient, and customizable solution available anywhere."
A message from Matthew SzulikHere's a message from Matthew Szulik in the wake of his abrupt decision to step down as CEO of Red Hat. "I take pride when customers and industry types comment to me that the people of Red Hat are 'different.' Not like the cylons who have come to dominate the industry of technology. Through our actions, the open source community and the people of Red Hat are defining a modern economic relationship between developer and customer. Collaboration. Transparency and value delivered. Our customers and marketplace are responding as evidenced by our financials and strong market potential."
Webot announces media player for Nokia N810 Internet TabletWebot has announced a media player for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. "To build the media player, Webot tailored its existing media search, sharing, and player technologies to the unique design of the tablet. With a tap of the screen, users can play any song from any of their computers, anywhere in the world. The system also offers digital picture frames that are automatically updated as new photos arrive, and the ability to share photo albums with family and friends."
New Books Prototype and script.aculo.us--New from Pragmatic BookshelfPragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Prototype & script.aculo.us by Christophe Porteneuve.
Packt Publishing announces Qmail QuickstarterPackt Publishing has published the book Qmail Quickstarter by Kyle Wheeler.
Resources OLPC News 2007-12-30The December 30 edition of the One Laptop Per Child project news is out. There is a lot going on, naturally, but the big news is that Mary Lou Jepsen, the creator of the unique display used on the OLPC XO, is moving on to other ventures. "Mary Lou was OLPC employee Number One, both in terms of when she joined the organization and in terms of the breadth and depth of her contributions. Thank you and best of luck with your adventures in a new role and new year."
Quantum cryptography on the OLPCThe OLPC XO laptop is supposed to be for kids, but, as can be seen on this page, the grownups have been having fun with it as well. "After a few hours of tinkering with the kernel config, timezones (the xo's had to be synchronized with an accuracy of at least 0.5 sec) and the dependencies, the team successfully tested the first 'entanglement based quantum key distribution' between two xo laptops!"
Calls for Presentations Black Hat Briefings Call for PapersCalls for papers have gone out for several Black Hat Briefings events. "Black Hat is proud to be holding Trainings and Briefings in Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Las Vegas, Japan, and a mystery location in 2008."
CFP CISIS '08The first call for papers has gone out for the International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS'08). The event will be held in Genova, Italy on October 23-24, 2008, submissions are due by March 14.
FOSDEM 2008: Devroom Talks Wanted (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced a call for speakers for the FOSDEM 2008 Devroom Talks. "As always, KDE will have a presence at next year's FOSDEM in Belgium on 23-24 February 2008. FOSDEM is a European meeting of free software developers, to listen to a plethora of interesting talks about anything related to free software. We are looking for people to give a talk in the KDE or cross-desktop devroom. On Sunday, we will be sharing a room with the developers from Gnome. This means that just like last year, we are also interested in talks that transcend free desktops generally."
LinuxWorld conference CFPA call for papers has gone out for the LinuxWorld conference, the submission deadline is February 22, 2008. The conference will take place on August 4-7, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. "Do you have a topic that would add important content to LinuxWorld? conference program? Then submit your speaking proposal by completing the online form. Prior to filling out the form, please review the content tracks, guidelines, evaluation criteria and other important facts regarding speaking opportunities."
Upcoming Events First OCaml users group meeting in ParisThe first Paris OCaml users group meeting will be held on January 26, 2008.
QualiPSo Conference 2008The QualiPSo Conference 2008, the first international conference on Open Source Software quality, will take place in Rome, Italy on January 16-17, 2008.
SCALE Early Bird Registration Ends Jan 5th.The sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced two new keynote speakers, Jono Bacon of Canonical and Stormy Peters of OpenLogic in conjunction with a reminder about early bird registration. SCALE will be held 8-10 February 2008 at the Los Angeles airport Westin hotel. Click below for more information.
SCALE is FullThe Southern California Linux Expo has announced its speakers. The event takes place on February 8-10, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. "The So Cal Linux Expo has filled all available speaker slots for not only the SCALE 6X main conference, but also all three Friday specialty conferences. Over the Friday and Saturday of SCALE there are 36 speaker slots. The SCALE committee received over 75 submittals for the main conference, which were gradually weeded down to those that the committee felt most matched SCALE's goals. Information on the selected session topics is available on the SCALE website".
Events: January 10, 2008 to March 10, 2008The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs Samba/Windows interoperability news: Jeremy Allison (LinuxWorld)LinuxWorld has an audio interview with Jeremy Allison. "One of the lead developers at the popular Samba project, which implements Microsoft file and print sharing, talks about today's protocol documentation announcement." (Thanks to Don Marti).
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