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European Digital Rights launches

European Digital Rights is a new, international civil rights organization formed by ten European organizations. "European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association in which existing European privacy and freedoms organisations work together in raising awareness of policy makers and the public about the upcoming threats to our privacy and freedoms." Click below to see the full announcement.

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August issue of IBM developerWorks journal: Linux Focus

Debra Cated has written in about the August issue of the printed publication, IBM developerWorks journal. "This issue of the IBM developerWorks journal covers everything from porting your MFC apps to Linux to mastering Linux debugging techniques. It offers new strategies for developing with technologies like wireless, XML, and Java technologies, as well as with products like WebSphere and DB2. It also includes popular, in-depth technical articles. Register today to have the August 2002 issue of the printed journal mailed to you for free."

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Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

Web application developers understand that in order to succeed in today's market, you need to keep up with the latest technologies. One of the more exciting technologies to come around in recent years is the powerful platform, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Hit the link for my review of this book from O'Reilly.

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New Python/XML book from Prentice-Hall

Prentice-Hall has written in with the announcement of their latest book. The book is "basically about how to write applications that use XML, focusing on general concepts, but using Python and Java as example languages."

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Upcoming Events

The Fourth Australian Open Source Symposium

Registrations are now open for the fourth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 4), to be held at UNSW, Sydney on Saturday July 20, 2002.

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SAGE-AU 2002 Conf, August 5 - 9, Melbourne Australia

The Systems Administrators Guild of Australia are having their 10th annual conference this year in Melbourne, Australia from August 5-9.

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Linux.conf.au 2003 Media Release

Here is the latest press release from Linux.conf.au, which will take place in Perth, Australia, January 22 - 25, 2003. The press release covers a Call For Papers, Sponsors, Accomodations, and Invited Speakers.

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Events: June 27 - August 22, 2002

June 27 - 28, 2002	Embedded Systems Expo & Conference in Tokyo(ESEC)	(International Exhibition Center)Tokyo, Japan
June 27 - 28, 2002	Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC 2002)	(Washington University)Saint Louis, Missouri
June 27 - 28, 2002	European Python and Zope Conference(EuroPython 2002)	(Charleroi Espace Meeting Européen)Charleroi, Belgium
June 27 - 29, 2002	Ottawa Linux Symposium(OLS)	Ottawa, Canada
June 27 - 28, 2002	European Tcl/Tk User Meeting	(Siemens Trainings Center)Munich, Germany
July 4 - 7, 2002	UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference	(University of Bristol)Bristol, UK
July 5 - 7, 2002	Debconf 2	(York University)Toronto, Ontario
July 11 - 14, 2002	Uniforum NZ 2002	Auckland, New Zealand
July 18 - 20, 2002	Boston GNOME Summit	Boston, Mass.
July 20, 2002	Fourth Australian Open Source Symposium(AOSS4)	(UNSW, Sydney)Sydney, Australia
July 22 - 26, 2002	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	(Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina)San Diego, California
July 23, 2002	Seattle Ruby Brigade Meeting	Seattle, Washington
August 1 - 2, 2002	3rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference(BOSC 2002)	Edmonton, Canada
August 2 - 4, 2002	Defcon	(Alexis Park Hotel and Resort)Las Vegas, Nevada
August 5 - 9, 2002	11th USENIX Security Symposium	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 6 - 9, 2002	CERT Conference 2002	Omaha, Nebraska, USA
August 12 - 15, 2002	Linux World Conference & Expo	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, California

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Web sites

Python GTK+/GNOME Wiki

A new Web Wiki has been created for the discussion of Python GTK+/GNOME modules.

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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 by section,
• Sorted by license.

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Miscellaneous

YAPC Lightning Talks Nostalgia (use Perl)

Use Perl points to the YAPC 2001 lightning talks. "In particular, Sean Burke's seminal "How OOP is like Japanese food", which you can stream or download in MP3 format through the magic of Apache::MP3.""

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