Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Request for Submissions for Open Source Reference Book 2003

The Center of Open Source & Government has announced that it will publish The Open Source Reference Book 2003 subtitled [What Local/National Governments, the Defense Establishment, and The Global 1000 Need To Know About Open Source Software]. This is a request for submissions.

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Commercial announcements

Human-Size Household Robot Developed on MontaVista Linux

MontaVista Software has announced that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has chosen MontaVista Linux to power 'wakamaru,' the first human-size robot that can provide companionship, or function as a caretaker and house sitter.

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GRID WARS Parallel Programming Challenge Featured at ClusterWorld Conference and Expo

Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) has announced that the next "GRID WARS" parallel programming challenge will be held live at the ClusterWorld Conference and Expo in San Jose, June 23-26. HP will provide a Linux-based Itanium cluster for the challenge.

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The Axis device server

Axis has announced the availability of the "AXIS 83 Device Server." It's a Linux-based single board system with two ethernet ports, a USB port, and some flash memory. It looks like a fun toy for the creation of well-connected embedded systems.

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Novell Becomes LPI's Latest Gold Sponsor

Linux Professional Institute has announced that Novell has selected LPI's professional certification program as a step towards its own Novell Certified Linux Engineer (Novell CLE). LPI exams are now available at Novell's Utah test centers as part of the Novell CLE certification program.

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Resources

Comparing Microsoft's EULA and the GPL

The folks at Cybersource have taken a long look at the Microsoft Windows XP Professional end user license agreement and produced a document comparing it, in detail, to the GPL. The result is available as a 30-page PDF file. It is a good analysis of what a user is getting into by agreeing to either license.

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Upcoming Events

Jupitermedia Announces IBM as Cornerstone Sponsor for Its Enterprise Linux Forum

Jupitermedia Corporation has announced that IBM has signed on as the Cornerstone Sponsor for its upcoming Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, to be held June 4-6, 2003 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

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First ever Linux Summit in Finland a success

The first Linux Summit in Finland has been declared a success for both organizers and attendees. Arranged by SOT in co-operation with HP, Oracle and F-Secure, the conference attracted close to 400 visitors from Finland's largest corporations and public organizations.

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PHPCon East Opens Wednesday in NYC

The PHP conference circuit heads to New York City this week with an expanded program that includes a third day of tutorials and several new and returning PHP gurus. PHPCon East 2003, the first of two regional, PHP-centric shows scheduled in 2003, runs April 23 to 25, 2003 at the Park Central Hotel in New York City, NY.

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Pogo Linux Inc. Supports LinuxFest Northwest

Pogo Linux Inc. has announced it will provide free, round-trip transportation for Seattle-area attendees to LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) in Bellingham, Washington, on Saturday, April 26, 2003.

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London Open Source Conference

The Open Group Conference / Open Source in the Enterprise event will be held in London, England on May 7, 2003.

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CFP: Real Time Linux Workshop, Valencia

A Call for Papers has gone out for the Fifth Real-Time Linux Workshop, to be held in Valencia Spain on November 9-11, 2003.

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WSJX 2003 series, Europe

The WSJX 2003 series will be held across Europe from September 15 - October 30, 2003. "LogOn is launching a new series of pan-European events which integrates and expands the existing series of XML and Java Days into a comprehensive pan-European tour focusing on Web Services, Java and XML."

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Events: April 24 - June 19, 2003

Date	Event	Location
April 24 - 26, 2003	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA
April 24 - 25, 2003	The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	(Westin, Santa Clara)Santa Clara, CA
April 24 - 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 7, 2003	The Open Group Conference/Open Source in the Enterprise	(Hilton London Paddington)London, England
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
May 30 - 31, 2003	4th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting(Tcl'Europe 2003)	Nürnberg, Germany
June 4 - 6, 2003	Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo	(Santa Clara Convention Center)Santa Clara, California
June 9 - 14, 2003	USENIX 2003	(Marriott Hotel)San Antonio, TX
June 10, 2003	Linux For Business	(The Commonwealth Institute)London, England
June 16 - 18, 2003	Yet Another Perl Conference::North America(YAPC::2003)	(Florida Atlantic University)Boca Raton, FL
June 16 - 18, 2003	GNOME User and Developer European Conference(GUADEC)	(Trinity College)Dublin, Ireland
June 18 - 23, 2003	Open Source Clinical Application Resource Workshop(OSCAR)	(McMaster University)Ontario, Canada

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Web sites

New Perl Beginners Portal (use Perl)

Use Perl mentions the move and rework of the Perl Beginners' Site, a resource for new Perl programmers.

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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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