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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Open Health Tools accepts major code donationOpen Health Tools has announced receiving a code donation from the California HealthCare Foundation. "Open Health Tools (OHT) today announced it has accepted a donation from the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) of key software components from a $10 million health information data exchange project. CHCF provided the open source-format software code to OHT, a community of information technology and health care participants, to help accelerate establishment of regional health information exchanges, a critical but often missing piece of the health care delivery system."
OpenSAF Project announces general availability of version 2.0Version 2.0 of OpenSAF has been announced. "The OpenSAF Project, an open source community developing high availability base platform middleware, today announced that Version 2.0 of its Open Service Availability Framework (OpenSAF) code base is now available for download, free of charge, under the LGPL 2.1 license. This is the first release of the OpenSAF code base, which was developed and tested entirely by the OpenSAF community since its formal inception with the release 1 code base in January 2008."
Commercial announcements gOS Unveils gOS 3 Gadgets at LinuxWorldgOS has announced the release of gOS 3 Gadgets, a Linux operating system bundled with Google Gadgets, Wine and LXDE. "gOS 3 Gadgets instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on startup, giving users access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets that are small, graphically rich applications that can be added to the desktop in seconds over the Internet. gOS 3 Gadgets will also preload WINE, LXDE, and other Google software for Linux to improve the user experience."
NI and LEGO Education develop low-cost robotics platformNational Instruments has announced a cross-platform (including the OLPC) robotics platform that is aimed at the classroom. "National Instruments and LEGO Education continue their educational robotics collaboration with the new LEGO Education WeDo classroom robotics platform. Powered by NI LabVIEW graphical design software, LEGO Education WeDo Software is a drag-and-drop, icon-based environment that students ages 7 to 11 can use to easily program their own robotics inventions. Using WeDo software, students learn basic programming skills while designing their robotics applications."
OpenX announces major Ad Server updateOpenX Technologies has announced a new release of the OpenX 2.6 ad server. "(OpenX), the world's leading independent ad server for web publishers, today announced the launch of version 2.6, a major update to its free, open source software. The release contains dozens of new features, including a new application programming interface (API), a dashboard and a faster ad tag.
Contests and Awards LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards announcedThe winners from the 2008 LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards have been announced. "We saw a wide variety of products submitted for the Product Excellence Awards at this years LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, which demonstrates the high level of system administration productivity happening throughout the industry, said Don Marti, site editor, LinuxWorld.com, and Product Excellence Judge. We congratulate all the winners, as well as our finalists, for making the program so competitive. This years LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards were divided into 12 product categories, including Best of Show, that represent major areas of innovation in the Linux and open source community."
Event Reports KDE e.V. Endorses Community Working Group, Code of Conduct (KDE.News)Sebastian Kuegler covers the KDE e.V. general assembly on KDE.News. "On Monday at Akademy, KDE's yearly world summit, the KDE e.V. held its general assembly, covering a wide range hot topics, regarding licensing and community scalability. While part of the meeting is dictated by intricacies of German association law, the AGM also provides a way of effectively solving issues arising in the KDE community and deciding on ways to move forward as an organisation. This year's KDE e.V. General Assembly endorsed a Code of Conduct, the Community Working Group and a Fiduciary License Agreement for KDE contributors."
Proceedings from the 2008 LLVM Developers' meetingThe proceedings from the 2008 LLVM Developers' Meeting, held on August 1, have been posted. Videos of most of the talks (in various proprietary formats) are available as well. Some of the topics covered include register allocation, code generation, static analysis, compiling PHP, and more.
Where 2.0: Geo's Explosive FutureO'Reilly has sent out coverage of the 2008 Where 2.0 Conference. "CA-Geospatial data at Google grew 300 percent in the past year, Google Earth & Maps director John Hanke said in his keynote address to more than 900 location pioneers at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference May 12-14 this year in Burlingame, CA."
Meeting Minutes Minutes of GNOME Foundation Board of Directors MeetingThe minutes from the July 23rd, 2008 GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Meeting have been published.
July PSF Board meeting minutesThe minutes from the July 14, 2008 Python Software Foundation board meeting have been published. "A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 14 July 2008. Steve Holden presided at the meeting."
Calls for Presentations CFP: Workshop on I/O VirtualizationThe First Workshop on I/O Virtualization will take place on December 10-11, 2008 in San Diego, CA. A call for papers has been announced, submissions are due by September 15. "Over the past decade, the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly. Moreover, it is being used in a variety of places, ranging from the data center to the desktop. Although this has spurred great advances in processor and memory virtualization in commodity hardware and virtualization software, I/O virtualization has received far less attention. However, both personal computers and servers may perform significant amounts of I/O. For example, efficient virtualization of graphics hardware has presented significant challenges on the desktop and efficient virtualization of network interfaces has limited server consolidation in the data center."
Upcoming Events Announcing Hack Week IIIThe OpenSUSE Hack Week III has been announced. "Novell is once again sponsoring Hack Week -- and we want you to be in on it! Hack Week III (HW3) runs from August 25th through August 29th. What's Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell's developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties. This helps provide an opportunity for Novell's developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on."
Italian Perl Workshop 2008 guest speakers (use Perl)use Perl has announced the speakers for the fourth Italian Perl Workshop. The event takes place in Pisa, Italy on September 18-19, 2008. "Thanks to the sponsors, this year we have invited several Perl "celebrities": Tim Bunce, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Marcus Ramberg and Matt S Trout."
Ohio LinuxFest Announces Keynotes for 2008The keynotes for the Ohio LinuxFest have been announced. "Columbus, Ohio - The Linux community continues to move in new and diverse directions while building a successful momentum each new year. Credit for some of that momentum goes to those community members that advocate about and to the community. Ohio LinuxFest is proud to recognize two such community members by announcing Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier and Jono Bacon as keynote speakers for this year's Ohio LinuxFest occurring October 10th - 11th."
piksel08 - code dreams :: REMINDERThe piksel08 conference will take place on December 4-7, 2008 in Bergen, Norway. "Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened."
Events: August 21, 2008 to October 20, 2008The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs OLS 2008 videos availableMichael Opdenacker and Thomas Petazzoni of Free Electrons have released 30 videos in Ogg Theora format of keynotes, talks, and BoFs from the recent Ottawa Linux Symposium. The videos mostly focus on their interests: kernel and embedded talks.
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