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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The Mozilla Foundation launches
A press release has gone out announcing the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, which will "promote the development, distribution and adoption of the award-winning Mozilla standards-based web applications and core technologies." The Foundation is starting off with a $2 million donation from AOL and $300,000 from Mitch Kapor, who will be the Foundation's chair. This move seems, at a first look, to be a good and necessary development for the Mozilla project. It does also, however, seem to represent the beginning of AOL's exit from the Mozilla development business.
PoPy and PygreSQL projects are merging! (ZopeMembers)
Zope Members News reports that the PyGreSQL and PoPy projects are merging. "The developers of PyGreSQL and PoPy are pleased to announce that they have decided to merge the two projects. It was felt that the two projects were alike in many ways but with different strengths which will allow them to create a more powerful product over all."
Desktop Linux Technology and Market Overview
Mitch Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation just released a 34 page report (PDF format) on the Desktop Linux market, written by Bart Decrem. The paper concludes that Desktop Linux in no longer a technical challenge, it is a marketing challenge. (Thanks to David A. Wheeler)
Commercial announcements
ERP5 and CPS form alliance to build a Global Information System
ERP5 and Collaborative Portal Server are partnering to offer the first open-source global information system, known as the Collaborative Portal Server (CPS).
Analyst: embedded Linux costs more
A group called the Embedded Market Forecasters has announced a new white paper which, they say, shows that embedded Linux projects take much longer and cost way more than Windows projects. "The estimated average total cost of development for a Windows Embedded design project was $480,000, versus $1.5 million for an Embedded Linux project." Attempts to obtain the actual paper from their site end with a broken link, but we'll keep trying.
Qli Linux Computers Celebrates Lindependence Month
Qli Linux Computers is running a special promotion: Buy In July to register for your chance to receive your computer for free.
realMethods Open Sources Its J2EE Framework
realMethods has announced it is now part of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), making its commercially successful J2EE Framework available as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
New Books
"The Art of Assembly Language" from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has published "The Art of Assembly Language" by Randall Hyde.
"Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition" Released by O'Reilly
The fourth edition of Linux in a Nutshell by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, and Aaron Weber (published by O'Reilly) has been released.
Resources
An introduction to Thunderbird, part 2
Nidelven IT has published part two of An introduction to Thunderbird, which details the use of the Thunderbird Mail/News client.
Contests and Awards
Sangoma sponsors "Ultimate Linux Geek Contest"
Sangoma Technologies is sponsoring Linux Journal’s Search for the Ultimate Linux Geek. The winner gets a Cruise for two on Linux Lunacy to Alaska this September 13-20, 2003.
Linux Journal Awards Winners
Linux Journal has announced the winners of its Editors' Choice Awards. LWN.net is pleased to be named the winner of the Best Web Site award.
Awards at TPC (use Perl)
Use Perl has announced the winners of the Perl awards that were presented at OSCON.
Event Reports
Danny O'Brien's OSCON report
Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka BLOG page covers the recent OSCON event. "The lightning talks worked very well at OSCON (and proved hilariously stereotypical : the Python talks were well-ordered to a Netherlandish extent, the Emerging Tech ones were largely performed by people with brightly died hair, and the Perl talks were even more ADHD than you'd imagine). At the end-of-conference press overview, Nat said he was going to go for lightning keynotes next year: 800 pundits in half-an-hour."
Upcoming Events
ESC Boston 2003
The next Embedded Systems Conference will be held in Boston, Mass. on September 15-18, 2003. "ESC Boston's 70+ conference sessions will delve into hot design topics, including wireless, serial communications, Linux/Open Source, real-time development and software design. These sessions focus on delivering the technical insight necessary to make embedded system designs stronger, faster, and more reliable."
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo UK rescheduled
The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo UK conference that was scheduled for September 3 and 4, 2003 has been rescheduled, tentatively for some time in 2004. Thanks to Daniel James.
Plone Training in Bern, Switzerland August 21th 2003 (ZopeMembers)
According to ZopeMembers News, 4teamwork will be holding a Plone training day on August 21, 2003 in Bern, Switzerland.
Web Days Europe Call for Submissions
A Call for Submissions has gone out for the Web Days Europe conference, which is taking place across Europe in September and October, 2003.
Events: July 17 - September 11, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 17, 2003 | Debcamp | Oslo, Norway |
| July 18 - 20, 2003 | Debconf 3 | (The University of Oslo)Oslo, Norway |
| July 23 - 26, 2003 | Ottawa Linux Symposium | Ottawa Canada |
| July 23 - 25, 2003 | YAPC::Europe 2003 | (CNAM Conservatory)Paris, France |
| July 25 - 27, 2003 | Fifth Annual Linux Festival in Kaluga Region | (bank of the river Protva)Kaluga region, Russia |
| July 29 - August 2, 2003 | The 10th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| July 31 - August 3, 2003 | UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference(LINUX 2003) | (George Watson's College)Edinburgh Scotland |
| August 4 - 7, 2003 | LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 | (Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA |
| August 5 - 7, 2003 | 5th Annual CERT Conference(NEbraskaCERT) | (Scott Conference Center)Omaha, NE USA |
| August 7 - 10, 2003 | Chaos Communication Camp 2003 | Paulshof, Altlandsberg, Germany |
| August 18 - 21, 2003 | New Security Paradigms Workshop 2003(NSPW 2003) | (Centro Stefano Francini)Ascona, Switzerland |
| August 23 - 25, 2003 | KDE Developers' Conference | (Zamek Castle)Nove Hrady, Czech Republic |
| August 27 - 29, 2003 | International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming(PPDP 2003) | (Uppsala University)Uppsala, Sweden |
| September 3 - 4, 2003 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (Cancelled) | (The NEC)Birmingham, UK |
| September 11 - 12, 2003 | Python for Scientific Computing Workshop(SciPy'03) | (CalTech)Pasadena, CA |
Web sites
New www.perl.org (use Perl)
Use Perl has an announcement for the redesigned www.perl.org site, a Perl language portal.
New Russian Zope'n'Python community-site (ZopeMembers)
Zope Members News has an announcement for a new Russian Zope community web site that is being beta tested. "We are glad to present new project for zope community. New Russian zope site xen|ru based on Zope and CMF."
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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