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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
CentOS Artwork SIG created
CentOS has announced the creation of the Artwork Special Interest Group. "The CentOS team is pleased to make computers more useful through the creation of the Artwork Special Interest Group (SIG). A SIG is a smaller group within the CentOS project that focuses on a small set of issues, in order to either create awareness or to focus development along a specific topic."
OSA announces chapter in Europe
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) has announced plans to expand the organization's global footprint. The OSA will function under a chapter structure with its first new regional chapter planned to address the European open solutions market.
Terra Soft Sponsors Inaugural International Short Film Festival
Terra Soft has announced their sponsorship of a short film festival. "Terra Soft is proud to sponsor the inaugural A3F International Short Film Festival, an exciting addition to the fourth year of the Almost Famous Film Festival 48 Hour Challenges. In Phoenix, Arizona, February 13-14, 2008, 17 independent films will be screened, including the World Premier of "Sympathetic Details," a film by Benjamin Busch from HBO's critically acclaimed series "The Wire.""
Terra Soft requests funds for Kenyan orphanage
Terra Soft is sponsoring children at a Kenyan orphanage. "Following the controversial Presidential elections in December, Kenya is experiencing violence that has left an estimated quarter million people uprooted or homeless and several hundred dead. This week the Pistis Academy & Orphanage has received 30 new children whose parents have been killed or homes destroyed. While the Red Cross is working to sustain an estimated 2,000 people now given shelter in a ball park in Nakuru center, no additional funding has been offered by the Kenyan government to help support those new children at Pistis."
Commercial announcements
Enea LINX Provides TIPC Alternative/Gains Backward-Forward Compatibility
Enea has announced the release of Enea LINX for Linux 2.0, which includes protocol and feature negotiation to enable seamless upgrades of system subsets with newer versions of the protocol. "This addition to the protocol ensures forward and backward compatibility with all future versions of LINX for Linux."
Concurrent announces NightStar LX Tools for Ubuntu
Concurrent has announced a new generation of the NightStar LX debugging and analysis tools for the Ubuntu distribution. "NightStar is a powerful, integrated GUI tool set for developing and tuning time-critical applications on x86-based platforms. NightStar's advanced debugging features enable system builders to solve difficult problems quickly. The NightStar LX suite includes four tools -- the NightView(tm) source-level debugger, the NightTrace(tm) event analyzer, the NightProbe(tm) data monitor, and the NightTune(tm) system and application tuner."
Nokia to acquire Trolltech
Nokia has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Trolltech. "The acquisition of Trolltech will help Nokia accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business. With Trolltech, Nokia and third party developers can develop applications that work in the Internet, across Nokia's device portfolio and on computers." More information is available on Trolltech's web site.
openSUSE Build Service expands support to Red Hat and CentOS
Novell, Inc. has announced an expansion of the openSUSE Build Service. "The openSUSE(R) Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux* distributions, has extended its support to now build packages for CentOS and Red Hat* Enterprise Linux. The openSUSE Build Service already supports several Linux distributions including openSUSE, Ubuntu, SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise, Debian and others."
New Books
The Art and Science of JavaScript -- New from SitePoint
SitePoint has published the book The Art & Science of JavaScript by Michael Mahemoff, Cameron Adams, James Edwards, Dan Webb, Simon Willison, Ara Pehlivanian and Christian Heilmann.
The Ruby Programming Language -- New from O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly has published the book The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto.
The Book of Wireless -- New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has published the book The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition by John Ross.
Resources
TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007
The TIOBE Programming Community Index report lists Python as the language of the year for 2007. "Python has been declared as programming language of 2007. It was a close finish, but in the end Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (2.04%). There is no clear reason why Python made this huge jump in 2007. Last month Python surpassed Perl for the first time in history, which is an indication that Python has become the "de facto" glue language at system level. It is especially beloved by system administrators and build managers. Chances are high that Python's star will rise further in 2008, thanks to the upcoming release of Python 3."
Contests and Awards
Sun launches OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program
Sun Microsystems Inc has announced the launch of the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program. "On 7 December 2007, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a new million- dollar fund to foster innovation in six of the open-source projects it sponsors and contributes to. We are pleased to report that OpenOffice.org was included. The contest, which we have titled the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program, commences tomorrow, 30 January, and we invite OpenOffice.org Community members to participate."
Surveys
FUDCon F9 Survey available
A FUDCon F9 survey is open until February 7. "The Fedora marketing team has posted a survey regarding FUDCon F9, held January 11-13, 2008 in Raleigh, NC. All community members are invited to participate, whether you attended or not. We expect to use these surveys in the future for additional FUDCon events, to make sure that the events are delivering as much value as possible to attendees and observers."
Meeting Minutes
GNOME Board meeting minutes
The January 2, 2008 GNOME Board meeting minutes have been published.
GNOME Board meeting minutes
The January 16, 2008 GNOME Board meeting minutes have been published.
Calls for Presentations
Libre Software Meeting cfp
A call for contributions has gone out for the 2008 Libre Software Meeting. "The LSM (Libre Software Meeting) are an opportunity for all sort of public to come together around the free software. Over 5 days, conferences and workshops welcome everyone. This event is organized each year and for the 9th edition is hosted in the town of Mont de Marsan, from 1 to 5 July 2008." The submission deadline is February 8.
Open for RailsConf Europe 2008 CFP
A call for participation has gone out for the Open for RailsConf Europe 2008, which will be held in Berlin, Germany. "RailsConf Europe taps into the dynamic energy of the growing Rails ecosystem. Co-produced by Ruby Central, Inc. and O'Reilly Media, Inc., the conference takes place September 2-4, 2008. True to the spirit of this community, RailsConf Europe is dedicated to everything Ruby on Rails. In attendance will be over 800 Ruby on Rails enthusiasts, web developers and programmers, IT managers tracking emerging technologies, open source developers and hackers, Tech-savvy entrepreneurs, users at every level (new, power, intermediate, advanced, expert) and others interested in web technologies and strategic implementation. The Call for Participation is open; speaking proposals must be received by March 18, 2008."
OSDC.tw call for papers
A call for papers has gone out for the Open Source Developers' Conference, Taiwan. "The OSDC.tw 2008 will be on 12th-13th, April. The subject is "Innovation and Implementation" in this year. Please submit your papers with subject, extract and user profile." The submission deadline is February 15.
Upcoming Events
Florida Linux Show in Jacksonville
The Florida Linux Show will be held in Jacksonville, Florida on February 11, 2008. "Reminder: Speakers, Exhibitors & Support still needed... time is getting short! They are looking for more Vendors, EDUs & Organizations that would like to setup a Booth. If you know folks in the area that would be interested in speaking or sponsoring an exhibit, please let us know asap. Perhaps a presentation or two could be recycled from FUDcon? There will be Gentoo & Ubuntu exhibits, it would be nice if someone could help represent Fedora, my favorite Laptop distro."
Linux Audio Conference 2008: Registration now open
Registration has opened for the Linux Audio Conference 2008. "The Linux Audio Conference 2008 in Cologne (Feb 28th - Mar 2nd 2008) is just one month away now. The programme is shaping up, concerts are being organized and coffee is about to be ordered. To help us with planning the LAC2008 we kindly ask you to register now at the conference website."
O'Reilly announces the Money:Tech Conference
O'Reilly has announced the Money:Tech Conference "O'Reilly Money:Tech takes place February 6-7, 2008 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, NY. The event brings together some of the most pioneering minds in the financial and computing community to frame the future of investing in challenging times." Read further for some news announcements that are planned for the event.
OOoCon 2008 Call for Location - deadline extended
The call for location deadline for the 2008 OOoCon has been extended to February 10. "In response to a number of requests from organising teams, we have agreed to put back the deadline to midnight UTC February 10th. We will aim to open the community voting process a few days later, and announce the winning bid on March 1st."
SCALE weighs in
The final preparations are being made for the Southern California Linux Expo, which begins on February 8. "The SCALE staff continue to put the final touches on SCALE 6x. There are a few places left in the SCALE U classes on Friday, February 8th. The tutorials are: "Open-Source Email Systems: One Approach to Spam Fighting" and "Introduction to Virtualization on Linux with Xen". Register for the tutorials via the regular SCALE registration process, and a SCALE Full Access pass will be included."
Spring VON Conference - San Jose, CA
Pulvermedia has announced The Twelfth annual Spring VON.x Conference & Expo. The event will take place on March 17-20 in San Jose, CA. "The Industry's largest, longest-running, and most respected Internet communications event now adopts the VON.x brand, which signifies the inclusion of technologies such as IP-voice, IP-video, wireless, presence, instant messaging, social media, and many others that have enhanced and evolved the Internet communications industry."
Events: February 7, 2008 to April 7, 2008
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 6 February 10 |
O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| February 8 February 10 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, USA |
| February 10 February 13 |
NDSS Symposium 2008 | San Diego, CA, USA |
| February 11 | Florida Linux Show 2008 | Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
| February 11 | Open Source Software (OSS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | Alexandria, VA, USA |
| February 13 February 15 |
German Perl-Workshop | Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen, Germany |
| February 16 | Frozen Perl 2008 Workshop | Minneapolis, USA |
| February 19 February 20 |
Linux Developer Symposium | Beijing, China |
| February 19 February 20 |
Files and Backup | London, UK |
| February 22 February 24 |
freed.in/2008 | Delhi, India |
| February 23 February 24 |
Free/Open Source Developers' European Meeting 2008 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 23 February 26 |
Linux World Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
| February 25 February 26 |
2008 Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop | San Jose, CA, USA |
| February 25 February 29 |
NEW PHP 5 and PostgreSQL Bootcamp with Mark Fenoglio | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| February 28 March 1 |
Linux Audio Conference | Cologne, Germany |
| March 1 March 2 |
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 3 March 6 |
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference | San Diego, CA, USA |
| March 3 March 6 |
Drupalcon Boston 2008 | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 4 March 9 |
CeBIT Germany | Hannover, Germany |
| March 8 March 14 |
Asia OSS Conference & Showcase 2008 | Guangzhou, China |
| March 11 March 12 |
4th AustralAsian Cleantech Forum | Melbourne, Australia |
| March 14 March 16 |
PyCon 2008 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| March 15 | FSF Associate Members Meeting | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 16 March 19 |
BossaConference 2008 - International Conference on Open Source Software for Mobile Embedded Platforms | Pernambuco, Brazil |
| March 16 March 21 |
Novell BrainShare 2008 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| March 16 March 20 |
Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa | Dakar, Senegal |
| March 17 March 20 |
Eclipse Community Conference | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| March 17 March 20 |
Spring VON.x Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| March 19 March 20 |
LinuxWorld Expo 2008 Brussels | Brussels, Belgium |
| March 24 | SDForum Global Open Source Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
CanSecWest 2008 | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| March 26 | Document Freedom Day | Everywhere, Worldwide |
| March 29 March 30 |
PostgreSQL Conference East 2008 | College Park, MD, USA |
| March 31 April 2 |
UKUUG Spring 2008 Conference - Dynamic Languages | Birmingham, England |
| March 31 | 2008 European Workshop on System Security | Glasgow, Scotland |
| March 31 April 2 |
UKUUG Spring 2008 Conference | Birmingham, England |
| March 31 April 2 |
Sharkfest Wireshark Network Analysis Summit | Los Altos Hills, CA, USA |
| April 2 | First meeting UKUUG PostgreSQL SIG | Birmingham, England |
| April 3 April 4 |
E-Mail Systems Conference 2008 (Exim and other mail systems) | Birmingham, England |
| April 4 April 5 |
openSUSE Packaging Days II | IRC, Everywhere |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
SCALE on the Radio!
Gareth Greenaway, SCALE Operations Chair, and Orv Beach, SCALE Publicity Chair, will be on the Digital Village radio show. Digital Village is carried on KPFK (90.7 FM in the Los Angeles area), and streaming audio at www.kpfk.org. Tune in if you've got a moment!
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