Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Announcing the launch of the Desktop Linux Consortium

The Desktop Linux Consortium has announced (click below) that it is ready to finalize its corporate structure and begin accepting members. Before things are finalized, they are asking for some feedback from the community.

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The Future: The Mozilla Foundation and the End of Netscape (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine has a clarification of AOL's disbanding of the Netscape project and the creation of the Mozilla Foundation. "Firstly, while a major loss, the end of Netscape does not mean the end of Mozilla. There is no way that AOL can revoke the Netscape and Mozilla Public Licenses and make the code proprietary. The Mozilla code will continue to be available to all. AOL has also agreed to transfer the Mozilla trademark and other intellectual property (much of it dating back to when Mozilla was Netscape's mascot) to the new Mozilla Foundation. Netscape-owned hardware (such as the mozilla.org servers) will also be transferred to the new organisation. AOL will continue to employ some Netscape staffers, such as Asa Dotzler, for a couple of months to help with the transition. The Mozilla Foundation marks the first time that the Mozilla project actually has a legal existence (mozilla.org was always just a more informal group)."

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Mozilla Marketing Project Launches (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine has an announcement for the new Mozilla Marketing Project. "Think of these initiatives as experiments. We also have more private forums to pursue marketing-related projects, but we want to see if we can get a broader community of people involved in what we hope will evolve into an "open marketing" effort."

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Mozilla Foundation Accepting Donations (MozillaZine)

Along with all of the other Mozilla news this week, the Mozilla project is now accepting donations from individuals and groups. Support your favorite browser.

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Commercial announcements

Open Source Victoria files ACCC complaint against SCO regarding Linux

Open Source Victoria (OSV) has filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, asking the ACCC to investigate The SCO Group's activities in light of their unsubstantiated claims and their extortive legal threats.

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Free Version 1.3 of icoya OpenContent released (ZopeMembers)

Struktur AG has announced the availbility of a free version of its commercial icoya OpenContent web content management system. "Enterprises, public authorities, and private users have now the possibility to download the starter version 1.3 of icoya OpenContent at no charge for immediate and unrestricted use. This free version of icoya OpenContent Management System is not limited in any way and can be used with an unlimited number of editors and users. The starter version 1.3 is also available on CD for the nominal price of EUR 10."

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Linux Financial Summit Makes West Coast Debut at LinuxWorld San Francisco

IDG World Expo has announced the agenda for the Linux Financial Summit. The summit is sponsored by Technology For Finance and will take place Tuesday, August 5, 2003 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

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New Books

"GNU Bash Reference Manual" published

A new book, the "GNU Bash Reference Manual", has been published. "For each copy of this manual sold, $1 will be donated to the Free Software Foundation." Thanks to Brian Gough.

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Resources

LDP Weekly News

The July 15, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation change news.

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LDP Weekly News

The July 22, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out. Take a look for the latest documentation updates.

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Contests and Awards

The 2003 Active Award Winners

The winners of the 2003 ActiveAwards have been announced. "The Active Awards are held annually to honor members of the open source community who *actively* contribute to open languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. The categories include each of ActiveState's key technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT."

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Event Reports

O'Reilly Open Source Convention Wrap-Up

O'Reilly has published a wrap-up review of the 2003 Open Source Convention (OSCON).

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PerlBugathon Results (use Perl)

UsePerl covers the results of the 2003 PerlBugathon event. "Around 150 bugs were closed by volunteers at OSCON and around the world. OnyxNeon has doubled their bug-bounty to $2, and will be making a donation of $300 to The Perl Foundation."

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Upcoming Events

Damian in Chicago (Sept. 15-26) (use Perl)

According to Use Perl, Perl guru Damian Conway will be teaching Perl classes in Chicago, Illinois from September 15-26, 2003.

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Kastle: Conference Program Released

The conference schedule for the KDE Contributor Conference 2003, to be held in Nové Hrady, Czech Republic on September 22-30, 2003, has been announced. "Conference registration for all attendees is still possible until 29th July."

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First Plone Conference (ZopeMembers)

The first conference on the Plone web development platform has been announced. The event will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 15-17, 2003.

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Events: July 24 - September 18, 2003

Date	Event	Location
July 24 - 26, 2003	Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa Canada
July 24 - 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 22 - 30, 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
September 15 - 18, 2003	LogOn Web Days	Across Europe
September 15 - 18, 2003	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass

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Web sites

GNOME.org gets a makeover (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org mentions the newly redesigned gnome.org web site. "Our favourite place on the web (after gnomedesktop.org) has got a makeover. The long overdue overhaul of gnome.org is underway with both the main and subsites in the middle of the move to the new look. Check out www.gnome.org to see its splendor."

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Introducing www.kdedevelopers.org

KDE.News has the announcement for the new KDE Developers Web Log site. "This weblog is intended to be for KDE developers to journal their thoughts in a community atmosphere. This is not meant to really compete with things like http://dot.kde.org/ or the http://www.kde-forum.org/. This is meant to be an area exclusively for KDE developers to share their thoughts about KDE or anything else for that matter. It's an incubator for ideas and an area to let the community see what the KDE developers are thinking."

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Lindows Project Steers Open Source Faithful To 'Linux-Friendly' Retailers (TechWeb)

TechWeb takes a look at a new Lindows web site. "Lfriendly.com will offer shoppers links to Linux hardware, software and service, the San Diego-based company said."

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RubyForge site launches

The new RubyForge site provides a home for Ruby language projects and discussions.

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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 alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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