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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements NPR Launches Open APIThe US National Public Radio organization has announced the launch of an open API for sharing news content. "This launch represents one of the first comprehensive Open APIs introduced by a major national media organization. It is also the latest step in NPRs multifaceted digital media strategy, which has included expansion of the NPR.org site, NPR Podcasts, the NPR Music destination site and NPR Mobile on-demand services."
Commercial announcements CodeWeavers announces CrossOver Games 7.1.0CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver Games 7.1.0. "This new version is largely an incremental improvement; it fixes a range of bugs in a number of games. It also includes a full merge with the Wine 1.0 code base, so this is now a 'post Wine 1.0' version of CrossOver Games."
Likewise Open Fall 08 announcedLikewise Software has launched Likewise Open Fall 08, a Cross-Platform Authentication and Administration system "A new version of a free, open source software application from Likewise Software enables administrators to remotely and uniformly manage all network computers, regardless of their operating systems, from a single point of control from virtually any computer. Likewise Software today announced Likewise Fall 08, which supports more than 118 platforms. Building on the success of the current version, this new edition includes features that further streamline the process of integrating Linux, Unix and Mac systems into a Microsoft Active Directory environment".
Mandriva and Precedent Technologies to launch TechSurfer desktopMandriva and Precedent Technologies have announced plans to produce the $399 TechSurfer desktop machine. "Mandriva and Precedent Technologies ("PTech"), announce a new partnership, working together on the release in September in the United States of a new low-cost desktop, with Intel Atom CPUs and Mandriva Linux preinstalled on these machines."
Opera joins the Open IPTV ForumOpera Software has announced that it has joined the Open IPTV Forum. "This global organization is comprised of key IPTV and TV stakeholders working to produce end-to-end specifications to take the next generation of IPTV services into the mass market. As a part of the Forum, Opera will team up with other members, such as Samsung, Ericsson, Sony and Philips, to help create an end-user mass market for IPTV by developing specifications."
VIA picks up Harald WelteVIA Technologies has announced that it has contracted with Harald Welte to be its liaison with the open source community. "Harald will assist VIA to develop drivers that are in line with the standards and best practices of Linux kernel development, enhance the quality and public availability of VIA documentation, and improve interaction with the Open Source development community." VIA's start with the community has been a bit on the rough side, so this would appear to be a good move on their part. (See also: Harald's weblog entry on this announcement).
New Books JavaScript: The Missing Manual--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book JavaScript: The Missing Manual by David McFarland.
Open Source in the Enterprise--An O'Reilly Radar ReportO'Reilly has announced the publication of a new Reilly Radar Report entitled Open Source in the Enterprise by Bernard Golden.
Resources ActiveState Code (the new Python Cookbook) launchedThe Python Cookbook has a new home. ActiveState has launched a site for sharing code recipes and moved over the recipes from their earlier site. The new site uses tags to categorize the recipes which is meant to make it easier to browse for code of interest. A bit more information can be found in the announcement linked below.
Contests and Awards Martin von Löwis receives 2008 Frank Willison awardMartin von Löwis has received the 2008 Frank Willison Award. "Martin von Löwis continues to be a tireless worker on behalf of the Python community. He has been a long-term contributor to the Python core, and regularly answers questions on both the python-dev list and the comp.lang.python newsgroup. A PSF director since 2002 he was also the prime mover in transitioning the Python development infrastructure from SourceForge, and has created several Roundup issue trackers for various areas."
White Camel Awards 2008 (use Perl)use Perl has announced the winners of the 2008 White Camel Awards. "jmcada writes "The White Camel Awards for 2008 were just presented at OSCON. This year's winners are Jacinta Richardson, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, and Gabor Szabo. The winners have all made significant contributions to the Perl community. Congratulations to the winners!""
Education and Certification Public Python Class - Washington DC - September 2008Holden Web is will hold its third public "Introduction to Python" class near Washington DC on September 9-11, 2008.
Event Reports OLS Proceedings 2001-2008 now availableAll of the papers presented at Ottawa Linux Symposium over the last eight years are now available in one place. In addition, the last six years of GCC Summit Proceedings are available there as well.
Calls for Presentations make art 2008 call for projects extendedThe call for projects for make art 2008 has been extended to August 8. "Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The third edition of make art - OpenOS - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 24th to the 30th of November 2008. make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming."
Upcoming Events Firebird Conference 2008The schedule has been posted for the 2008 Firebird Conference. The event takes place in Bergamo, Italy on September 25-27, 2008.
RailsConf Europe taps into vibrant and rich Rails sceneThe schedule for RailsConf Europe has been posted. "Co-presenters O'Reilly Media and Ruby Central have unveiled the program for RailsConf Europe, the official trusted event for the Rails Community in Europe on 2-4 September, 2008, in Berlin, Germany. Organizers have extended early registration until 30 July, offering community members the chance to save up to 150."
Events: August 7, 2008 to October 6, 2008The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Mailing Lists New Linux Audio Tuning mailing listThe Linux Audio Tuning mailing list has been launched. "A new mailing list has been set up to help GNU/Linux distribution maintainers and other interested users share information on performance tuning matters, especially with regard to audio and real-time Linux kernels."
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