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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging a patent regarding
online gaming.
" The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is
challenging a bogus online gaming patent threatening small
businesses and innovators of multi-player Internet games.
Sheldon F. Goldberg was awarded the illegitimate patent for
the "method and system of playing games on a network," and
claims to own rights in all online gaming systems that use
tournament-style play, advertising, and have real-time
updates of ladder-rankings in multi-player games. Goldberg
has used this bogus patent to coerce licensing fees from
numerous small businesses, demanding payments that are
excessive yet less than potential litigation."
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ODBMS.ORG has announced that it will host the resources of the
former ODMG.ORG consortium.
" This merger gives researchers and students, as well as any software developer with interest in
object oriented programming and persistence, a one-stop experience to find nearly 1,000 resources
aggregated and selected by a team of more than 100 internationally renown experts on object
database technology including names such as Alan Kay, Suad Alagic, Scott Ambler, Philippe Kahn,
Michael Blaha, William Cook, and Carl Rosenberger."
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Commercial announcements
Big Box Linux
has announced its existence.
" Announcing the grand opening of Big Box Linux,
the Canadian Linux hardware store. All the parts we carry are guaranteed
Linux-compatible. No longer do Linux users have to spend hours
researching websites and newsgroups in order to find parts that work on
Linux. Everything for sale at Big Box Linux is known to work, and we
even include Linux installation instructions for the components that
require it."
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The LiMo Foundation has
announced a new Linux-based mobile phone software platform.
" LiMo Foundation, a global
consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the
whole industry, today announced the on-schedule availability in March 2008
of the first release of the LiMo Platform-the first globally competitive,
Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets-together with the
immediate public availability of the application programming interface
(API) specifications."
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LinuxForce has made the following announcement:
" LinuxForce announced today that
it has released a complete array of monitoring services and software
to provide round the clock protection for businesses. The collection of
software, consulting and other monitoring services is called "LinuxForce
Monitoring(SM)"."
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Logicworks, a provider of high-availability hosting solutions, has
announced it has joined the MySQL Authorized Hosting Partner Program, at
the Platinum Level. As the first authorized partner of the program in U.S.,
Logicworks will offer customers a managed MySQL Enterprise database for the
delivery of mission-critical applications.
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Larry Augustin and Matt Asay have joined the MindTouch board of advisors.
" MindTouch, the open source wiki platform company and developer of Deki
Wiki, announced that open-source leaders Larry Augustin and Matt Asay have joined its Board of
Advisors. Augustin invests and advises early stage technology companies, and was CEO and founder of
VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX). Asay is general manager, Americas, and VP of Business
Development for Alfresco."
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NXP and Purple Labs have
announced an inexpensive Linux mobile phone.
" NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, and Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, jointly announced today the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at a transfer price below US$100. The new Purple Magic phone serves as a reference design for phone manufacturers creating entry-level 3G handsets, including those targeting mobile markets such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America."
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OpenLink Software Inc. has
announced a new version of its Virtuoso product.
" OpenLink Software Inc.
announces the immediate availability of the latest edition of OpenLink
Virtuoso, its industry-acclaimed hybrid data-server and integration
platform for SQL, XML, RDF, and Web Services. This release introduces a new
approach to enterprise information and data-integration, leveraging recent
advances in Semantic Web technology such as SPARQL and the best practices
of HTTP-based Linked Data across heterogeneous data sources. The new
release provides a platform for declaratively developing and deploying
conceptual views of disparate enterprise data sources such as SQL
databases, XML and RDF data sources, and SOA based Web services."
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Resources
Intel has been following a policy of releasing free drivers for its
hardware for some years now, but the company has been a little less
forthcoming with its documentation. That changed at linux.conf.au, where
Intel announced
the release of the manuals for
its 965 Express and G35 Express chipsets. " Containing over 1600
pages of text and figures, the Programmers Reference Manual includes
everything from low level register definitions and discussions on how each
functional hardware block works through descriptions about the hardware
architecture. Each documented feature includes a discussion on how the
hardware works and how the hardware designers expected the software to
operate." The manuals are available under a Creative Commons license.
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Contests and Awards
Tides Foundation has announced
that Barry Warsaw has been recognized for his work as the lead developer of
GNU Mailman, and has been awarded the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software
in the Public Interest.
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Education and Certification
Abhisam Software is running a free online RFID technology course.
" This course is made up of
text, rich graphics, Flash animations and interactive exercises that
make learning about RFID fun and easy. It introduces the learner to
the basics of RFID technology without either being boring or over the
top. The learner gets a balanced knowledge related to tags,
frequencies, application areas and even issues such as privacy."
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Upcoming Events
CMP has
announced Interop 2008.
" Interop(R), the leading business
technology event, produced by CMP, today announced a collocated lineup for
the 2008 Las Vegas event that will create the richest variety and widest
cross-section of business technology communities in one place. Computer
Security Institute Security Exchange (CSISX) and the Software 2008
Conference will join forces with Interop at the Mandalay Bay Convention
Center in Las Vegas, April 28-May 2, 2008."
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Pulvermedia has
announced the VON.x Europe Spring conference.
The event will take place on June 2-5, 2008 in Amsterdam.
" "VON.x in Amsterdam will discuss how today's diverse networks will soon
transition to IP, to create a single, unified infrastructure that produces
next-generation communications services, and enables intelligent handheld
devices to take over many of the tasks performed today by PCs," said Bob
Emmerson, European Editor for VON Magazine, and one of the content creators
for VON.x Europe, based in Amsterdam. "VON.x Europe will focus on wireless
technologies, and unified communications more than any previous VON event
has, and it's sure to be one of the most leading-edge events of the year.""
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Events: February 14, 2008 to April 14, 2008
The following event listing is taken from the
LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
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 25 February 27 |
German Perl Workshop |
Frankfurt, Germany |
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 |
April 7 April 9 |
IT360 Conference & Expo |
Toronto, Canada |
April 7 April 11 |
Django Bootcamp with Juan Pablo Claude |
Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
April 8 April 10 |
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit |
Austin, TX, USA |
April 10 April 13 |
Go-OO Conference 2008 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
April 12 April 13 |
Open Source Developers Conference Taiwan, 2008 |
Taipei, Taiwan |
April 12 April 13 |
LugRadio Live USA 2008 |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
April 12 April 18 |
KDevelop Developer Meeting 2008 |
Munich, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please
tell us about it.
Web sites
O'Reilly Media has announced the launch of
insideRIA.com.
" Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are shaping the Web
today. Love them or hate them, if you're working on the Web, you'll want
to understand them. And a new online website announced this week,
InsideRIA.com, is the premiere community site for all things RIA, created
specifically for web developers, architects, programmers, designers, or
anyone else who makes the Web their business.
"Our goal is to create an invaluable resource for information on the
ever-changing state of design and development of rich Internet
applications (RIAs)." explained Steve Weiss, executive editor at O'Reilly
Media. "We've started with general topic areas on Design, Development, and
Standards, which will feature blog posts and multimedia content.""
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Audio and Video programs
For those who were unable to attend linux.conf.au - or who were there but
missed an interesting talk - the conference organizers have populated the presentations
page with videos (in Theora format) for most of the talks. There is a
lot of interesting stuff there; best not to check it out until you have a
sizeable block of spare time.
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Page editor: Forrest Cook
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