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Non-Commercial announcements

University of Buffalo faculty goes for open source

The University of Buffalo (New York) Faculty Senate has passed a resolution calling for the use of open source software and open file formats at the University. The resolution cites the needs for free information flow, privacy, and cost containment. "...open-source, or 'free' software provides an alternative to proprietary operating systems and application software that is robust, reliable and trustworthy, and provides a means for the University community to retain complete control of its computer hardware and software, and to retain the rights of Fair Use of information, and preserve the means to adapt computer systems to specific research and personal needs..." (Thanks to Dan Kegel).

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FSF Announces Corporate Patronage Program

The Free Software Foundation announced its new Corporate Patronage Program. This follows the successful launch of its Associate Membership program.

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Competition: Design a New Logo for KDE.org

KDE.News has announced a competition for a new KDE web site logo. "The KDE Web Team would like to announce a competition to design a new logo for the KDE.org website. The prize for the competition is the honour and satisfaction of having your work displayed on KDE.org and its subdomains, with full credit given for each use of the image. The competition will run over the course of a month and closes on April 30th, 2003."

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Commercial announcements

ActiveState & O'Reilly provide Safari Electronic Reference Library

ActiveState Corp. and O'Reilly & Associates have announced the launch of Safari Bookshelf, a leading technical reference library, now accessible within the redesigned ActiveState Programmer Network(TM) (ASPN) website.

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Linux Networx cluster renders "The Core"

In another example of how Linux systems appear to be taking over in the special effects field, Linux Networx has announced that one of its "Evolocity" clusters was used to perform the rendering in "The Core."

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Resources

Linux Audio Developers Conference slides and recordings

Slides and recordings are available from the recent Linux Audio Developers Conference. The slides are available here.

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LPI Level 1 Exams

The Linux Professional Institute has re-published its Level 1 exams.

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OpenOffice.org: Integration with GNOME

Michael Meeks has made his slide presentation on the integration of OpenOffice.org and the GNOME desktop available online.

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From CMF to Zope3, Lessons Learned (Presentation) (ZopeMembers)

A set of Zope related slides are available online. The slides were presented to the the 2003 Berlin Tagung, Deutschesprachlige Zope User Group

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ZConfig PyCon DC presentation online (ZopeMembers)

A paper and slides on ZConfig, a Python package which supports application configuration, are available. The material was presented at PyCon DC 2003.

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Upcoming Events

Plone Seminar - Apr 29 (ZopeMembers)

Zope Members News has an announcement for the first Plone Seminar Day, to be held in Paris, France on April 29. "IngeniWeb organizes a Plone Seminar in Paris, a whole day to discover and explore Zope/Plone, with the french experts, authors of books about Plone and Zope."

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Date	Event	Location
April 3, 2003	The UK Python Conference	(Holiday Inn Oxford)Oxford, England
April 5, 2003	Linux In Education Spring Conference	(Grand Prairie High School)Grand Prairie, Texas
April 10 - 12, 2003	MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003	(Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, California
April 13 - 17, 2003	RSA Conference 2003	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA
April 14 - 15, 2003	Samba eXPerience 2003	(Hotel Freizeit)Göttingen, Germany
April 15 - 16, 2003	LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2003	Birmingham, UK
April 22 - 26, 2003	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA
April 22 - 25, 2003	The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	(Westin, Santa Clara)Santa Clara, CA
April 23 - 25, 2003	PHPCon East 2003	(Park Central Hotel)New York, NY
April 28 - 30, 2003	Real World Linux 2003	(Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Canada
May 3, 2003	International Conference on Software Engineering 2003	Portland, Oregon
May 8 - 9, 2003	International PHP Conference, 2003	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
May 11 - 14, 2003	The International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications(HPCS 2003)	(Sherbrooke Delta Hotel)Quebec, Canada
May 11, 2003	Yet Another Perl Conference, Israel(YAPC::Israel::2003)	(C.R.I.)Haifa, Israel
May 15 - 16, 2003	YAPC::Canada	(Carleton University)Ottawa, Canada
May 25 - 27, 2003	GCC Developer's Summit	Ottawa, Canada
May 28 - 30, 2003	Open Source Content Management, 2003(OSCOM)	(Harvard Law School)Cambridge, Mass