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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements NY Fair Use on the DMCANY Fair Use and NYLUG will be working together on DRM issues. "On May 2nd, NY Fair Use and NYLUG are working together to represent Free Software at the Copyright Office Hearings for 1201 of the DMCA. Ruben Safir, representing NY Fair Use, will be testifying about DRM on Commercial DVD's and its negative impact on private ownership rights and normative commercial dealing."
Commercial announcements Commerce One Releases Open Source, DocSOAP XML Developer KitCommerce One has announced an open source Web services and SOAP XML Development Kit as part of its ongoing drive to foster the adoption of Web services technology for business.
CrossOver Office 2.0 releasedCodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver Office 2.0. This version allows Linux systems to run applications like Office XP, Photoshop 7, Access, and others - without Windows. Language support has also been improved.
IBM Delivers Linux Solutions to Finance Industry with New London CenterIBM announced the official opening of a new center in London for the financial sector, the latest of nine new IBM Linux® competency centers IBM has across four different continents. The centers are designed to help customers of every size, and from a variety of industries, including government, oil and gas and retail, take advantage of the reliability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Linux.
Intel Researchers Teach Computers to 'Read Lips' to Improve Accuracy of Speech Recognition SoftwareIntel Corporation has announced the release of open-source software that allows developers to build computers that see and "read lips" the way humans do to better understand spoken commands.
Intel and Chinese Academy of Sciences Release Research Compiler for Intel Itanium Processor FamilyIntel Corporation and the Institute for Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing have released version 2.0 of the Open Research Compiler (ORC) for the Intel(R) Itanium(R) processor family. This set of open source compiler tools for Linux is aimed at researchers doing advanced compiler and micro-architecture research and adds several new features over the earlier release.
'Open Source Software - Case Studies Examining Its Use' Released by the Dravis GroupThe Dravis Group LLC has announced the existance of a report "Open Source Software: Case Studies Examining its Use," which illustrates the diverse uses of open source software. The actual report is available in PDF format at the Dravis website.
O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' CopyrightO'Reilly & Associates has announced its commitment to Founders' Copyright; an initiative that will allow more O'Reilly titles to become available online.
Red Hat Appoints Alex Pinchev President, International OperationsRed Hat, Inc. has announced the appointment of Alex Pinchev to their executive team as President, International Operations. Pinchev will be responsible for the sales and service delivery for all Red Hat offerings outside of North America.
SuSE Linux Names Key Technology, Marketing and Alliance ExecutivesSuSE Linux named three key executives and announced the selection of new public relations and marketing agencies. Effective immediately, Juergen Geck, formerly vice president, Technology Partners, will be the company's Chief Technology Officer. Uwe Heine -- based in Oakland, California -- joins SuSE as Chief Alliance Officer and Dr. Uwe Schmid joins SuSE as vice president, Business Development and Marketing. The company also tapped Burson-Marsteller and J. Walter Thompson to develop and implement an international, integrated branding and communications program.
Resources Version 1.1.0 Released for Loads of Linux Links (LoLL)Loads of Linux Links (LoLL) Version 1.1.0 has been released. There are many changes and improvements, notably a new look to the website, W3C compliancy, better search engine and improvement of the underlying data with 1400 links added, 500 links deleted, bringing the total to 4000+ links.
TLDP Weekly NewsThe Linux Documentation Project weekly news has returned in time to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Linux Documentation Project.
Upcoming Events GIMP Developers Conference 2003 (GnomeDesktop)The GIMP Developers Conference 2003 has been announced. The event will take place as part of the Chaos Communication Camp 2003 in Paulshof, Altlandsberg, Germany on August 7-10, 2003.
pan-European Linux@work in DublinThe pan-European Linux@work conference will be held in Dublin coincident with the GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC). "Linux@work will be held on GUADEC's User Day, June 18, 2003 at Trinity College in Dublin. GUADEC and Linux@work will bring developers, GNOME Foundation leaders and individual, business and government GNOME users together to discuss open source software advantages and issues."
Open Source CMS Conference IIIThe Open Source CMS Conference III will be held in Cambridge, MA on May 28-30, 2003. "OSCOM 3 promises to be the best OSCOM conference yet, with a wide range of talks and tutorials covering 3 separate tracks. OSCOM 3 will be a meeting of the minds with the best from academia (MIT, University of St. Gallen, Harvard, University College, Cornell, Rice and others), corporations (HP, RedHat, Merant, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks) and organizations (Apache Foundation, mozilla.org). The keynote will be given by Dave Winer (author and co-inventor of numerous important Internet technologies). A second keynote will be delivered by Jon Udell from Infoworld."
Third Open Source Content Management Conference (use Perl)Use Perl has a preview of what's to come at the third Open Source Content Management Conference, which will be held at Harvard on May 28-30, 2003.
GCC Summit One Month AwayThe GCC Developers' Summit will be held in Ottawa, Canada in one month. "We have space for up to 90 delegates to attend, and it would be great to see more people there. We strongly recommend that if you're planning on attending that you register ASAP. On May 1st the cost to attend will double."
International Lisp ConferenceThe first call for participation has gone out for the International Lisp Conference 2003, to be held in New York, NY on October 12-15, 2003.
KDE Developers' Conference 2003The Initial Announcement has gone out for the KDE Developer's Conference 2003, to be held in the south of the Czech Republic starting August 22, 2003. "Compared to previous KDE conferences, this one will be bigger, in terms of number of participants, scope and time. We will start with two days of technical talks in at least two parallel tracks, and end with an optional six-days project work and hacking session until the 31st of August. The event will be held in a castle near a famous brewery.
Tcl 2003 Registration OpenRegistration is now open for the Tcl 2003 Conference. The event will be held in Ann Arbor Michigan from July 29 through August 2, 2003.
Zope / CMF / CPS training in Paris, 19-23 may (ZopeMembers)A Zope traing session will be held in Paris , France on May 19-23, 2003. "Topics convered are: Zope basics, Python, ZPT, CMF fundamentals and CPS usage and personnalisation (including skinning and workflows)." The event will be presented in French.
Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference 2003 CFPThe first call for papers has gone out for the Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference 2003. The conference will be held in Singapore on October 29-31, 2003.
Ruby Conference 2003 preregistrationPreregistration is now open for the Ruby Conference 2003, to be held in Austin, Texas from November 14 to 16, 2003.
Events: May 1 - June 26, 2003
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
Miscellaneous Opinions of German Mozilla Developers Sought for Open Source Survey (MozillaZine)According to MozillaZine, responses are being requested from German open-source developers for the FLOSS-US 2003 survey. "Claus Augusti, maintainer of the German MozillaZine, writes: "FLOSS-US 2003 is an international online survey aimed towards open source developers, currently being conducted for the second time by researchers of Stanford University's Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). I received a request for assistance at MozillaZine.de, as there are only 30 (of 1000) responses from Austrian/German/Swiss open source developers so far."
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