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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Gnumeric's 5 year anniversaryThe Gnumeric spreadsheet has reached its five year anniversary. "This seemed like a good time to thank all the people who have contributed to Gnumeric over the years. We're about to start the run up to the the next stable release which will be out in a few weeks. We look forward to continuing work with the GNOME community to produce the most powerful spreadsheet in the world."
Mozilla Calendar Project Lead Mike Potter Retires (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports on the changing of the lead of the Mozilla Calendar Project. "Mike Potter retired as the lead of the Mozilla Calendar project. Mostafa Hosseini has now taken over Mike's duties, which include reviewing patches, checking in code, creating new builds and updating the project website."
Commercial announcements Out-of-the-Box 2.1 Java project collectionA collection of open-source Java projects has been put together by EJB Solutions, Inc. "EJB Solutions, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Out-of-the-Box 2.1, an intelligent distribution of over 100 Open Source projects for Java(r) and LAMP developers. This version marks the first release to fully support LAMP developers."
Interact-TV ships Digital Entertainment CentersInteract-TV is offering a Linux-based digital entertainment system. "Interact-TV(tm), a leading innovator in home entertainment technology, today began shipping the Telly(tm) MC1000 Digital Entertainment Center throughout the country-the first fully customizable and expandable digital entertainment system."
Neverwinter Nights release for LinuxA Linux version of the role playing game Neverwinter Nights is now available.
Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database AppliancePogo Linux Inc. and MySQL AB have announced a partnership to build the first MySQL(R) database appliance, a pre-configured, fully-integrated hardware/software offering. The database appliance, the DataWare 2600 Server, will be shown at OSCON.
Sistina Software Announces Sistina GFS 5.2Sistina Software has announced the release of Sistina GFS (Global File System) version 5.2 for the Intel Architecture.
Softbank Uway Selects Linux and the IBM eServer z990 MainframeHere's a press release from Korea's Softbank Uway announcing that the company has replaced 45 database and Web servers from HP and Sun with one IBM eServer z990 mainframe, running Linux.
SourceForge.Net UpdateSourceForge has published a site status update for June 20, 2003. "One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects."
"Google Pocket Guide" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the "Google Pocket Guide", a guide to using the google search engine.
"Perl 6 Essentials" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book "Perl 6 Essentials".
Resources Linux Gazette #92 is outThe July 2003 edition of Linux Gazette is available. This issue contains select() on Message Queue, by Hyouck "Hawk" Kim; Linux to Save the Health of the World, by Janine M Lodato; My Open Radio, by Mark Nielsen; and much more.
Linux Focus July 2003The July issue of LinuxFocus is available. This month you can read about Going 3D with Blender; Building an autonomous light finder robot; A GNUstep "small apps" tour; A 1 Bit Data Scope; and more.
LDP Weekly NewsThe July 8, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation news for Linux.
LPI-News June 2003The June edition of the Linux Professional Institute newsletter is out. This month's issue looks at LPI's redesigned web site; volunteers are needed to translate the web site into different languages; LPI at Linux User and Developer conference; LPI in Brazil; Linux training; OSCON; and much more.
Event Reports Europython conference report, day 3Stéfane Fermigier has sent in a report for day 3 of the Europython conference.
EuroPython 2003 reviewsTwo new reports are available from the EuroPython 2003 conference. Jarno Virtanen describes the event in Some general thoughts on EuroPython 2003, and Michael Hudson has contributed his EuroPython 2003 diary. These articles were found on the Daily Python-URL, which also features Guido Van Rossum's Powerpoint slides for the State of the Python Union keynote speech.
Report from the OMG Information Days In EuropeA report has been published for the OMG Information Days traveling conference that was recently held in Europe. "The OMG Information Days offered information on the MDA approach and related standards like the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), CORBA, and UML. Issues such as scalability, availability, integration with legacy systems, integration with EJB and other technologies such as XML, SOAP, and .NET, were discussed in detail." Thanks to Milos Gedosev.
OSCON links and resources (O'ReillyNet)0'Reilly's 2003 Open Source Convention is in high gear. This page contains links to articles, announcements and pictures from OSCON.
GUADEC 4 Slides and Paper - GNOME Documentation: Past, Present, and Future (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org mentions the availability of a set of papers and slides on GNOME Documentation that were presented at the GUADEC conference.
Upcoming Events KDE Presence at LinuxTag 2003 (Karlsruhe, Germany)KDE.News previews the KDE presence at LinuxTag 2003 in Karlsruhe, Germany. "The KDE Project's primary focus this year will be the latest stable KDE release, KDE 3.1.2, though KDE volunteers will also demonstrate other KDE programs like the KDE PIM family including the pcoming integrated personal information suite Kontact, the KOffice suite and the development tool KDevelop."
ZOPE at LinuxTag in Germany (ZopeMembers)ZopeMembers has posted a reminder that the Deutsche/German User ZOPE Group will be present at the Linux Tag conference in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 10-13, 2003.
Miguel de Icaza to Present Mono Project Update and Successes at OSCon KeynoteXimian CTO Miguel de Icaza will present a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, which begins Wednesday. His presentation will provide an update on the Mono Project and highlight early Mono adoption.
Events: July 10 - September 4, 2003
Web sites Keith's PHP EditorsKeith Edmund's PHP Editors page, which currently lists 105 PHP editing packages, has been moved to a new site.
New Section on the KOrganizer Website: CalendarsKDE.News mentions a new KOrganizer web site section. "The KOrganizer website has a new section covering information about sharing and exchanging iCal calendars. First, we have an overview over calendar sites, websites offering calendars in iCal format. These sites have a huge offer of downloadable iCal calendars covering arts, culture, economics, finance, government, science, sports and many more. The second page offers the so called hot new stuff calendars that are available via the new 'Get Hot New Stuff' feature in KOrganizer."
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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