Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

LSB Certification news - Quarterly Bulletin 1Q 2003

The Open Group provides a list of products that have been certified as Linux Standards Base compliant during the first quarter of 2003.

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Open Source study by the Swedish Agency for Public Management

The Swedish Agency for Public Managment (Statskontoret) commissioned a feasibility study on open source software. The study shows that open software is a good alternative for public administrations. Statskontoret's report is available in English (PDF format) as are the appendices (also PDF). (Thanks to Magnus Lyckå)

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Commercial announcements

MySQL Industry Support Demonstrated at MySQL Users Conference

Commercial support is now available for the MySQL database. "MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced today at the first annual MySQL Users Conference that several leading organizations are announcing support for the MySQL™ database."

Also, see this press release on News.com. "The Swedish company, which develops open-source database software, is making its way into markets once dominated by proprietary database vendors such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase. During a keynote address Thursday morning, co-founder David Axmark said more than 29,000 people are downloading MySQL each day, and it has more than 4 million users worldwide."

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Novell Launches Open Source Web Site, Releases UDDI Server

Novell, Inc. has announced the launch of the Novell Forge Web site, an open source developer resource. "As part of the announcement of Novell Forge, the company is releasing the source code of the Novell Nsure(TM) UDDI Server, which makes Web services registries more secure and easier to manage by adding identity management capabilities to the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard." Other related announcements from Novell can be found here.

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Resources

PyConPapers online

The papers presented at this year's PyCon 2003 are available online. "Here is a quick index of the talks from PyCon 2003, and links to the papers and/or any other information I could find. Though this started as an index of the scheduled talks, I an expanding it to include resources for lightning talks, open space sessions,etc."

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Linux Soundapps Site Updated

Dave Philips has updated his Linux soundapps site, check it out for a comprehensive listing of many Linux audio applications.

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Upcoming Events

GU4DEC - Registration, Schedules and Tutorials (GnomeDesktop)

Gnomedesktop.org has an announcement for the Fourth GUADEC GNOME User's Conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland on June 16-18, 2003.

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LinuxWorld Keynoters announced

IDG World Expo has announced the keynote speakers for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, next August.

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Midgard tutorial at OSCOM 3

Henri Bergius will hold a tutorial session on the Midgard content management framework at the OSCOM 3 conference in Cambridge, MA on May 28, 2003.

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Call for Participation for Scandinavian Perl Works (use Perl)

A Call for Participation has gone out for the Scandinavian Perl Workshop, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 25-26, 2003.

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YAPC::Europe pre-registration is open (use Perl)

According to Use Perl, pre-registration for the YAPC::Europe Perl conference in Paris is now open.

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Events: April 17 - June 12, 2003

Date	Event	Location
April 17, 2003	RSA Conference 2003	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA
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 25 - 26, 2003	Scandinavian Perl Workshop	(Symbion Science Park)Copenhagen, Denmark
April 28 - 30, 2003	Real World Linux 2003	(Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Canada
May 2 - 4, 2003	Penguicon	Warren, Michigan
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
June 9 - 14, 2003	USENIX 2003	(Marriott Hotel)San Antonio, TX
June 10, 2003	Linux For Business	(The Commonwealth Institute)London, England

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Software announcements

This week's software announcements

Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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Miscellaneous

Argentina's BioLinux Group (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews takes a look at the BioLinux Group, which was founded in Argentina in the year 2001 and now encompasses all of Latin America.

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