Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

An Open Source Strategy for the Open Group

The Open Group, owner of the Unix trademark, has been working with Bruce Perens to develop an Open Source strategy for the Group. Now a draft strategy document is out, and the Open Group is soliciting comments. "The Open Group is faced with challenges and opportunities regarding Open Source software. Foremost is the organization's responsibility to guide its members in use of, and participation in, Open Source. Secondarily, as an organization we must catch up: we couldn't have known that Open Source would be this successful, and it brings profound changes to our main areas of practice: Open Systems and Standards. We must now fully integrate Open Source into our operation. If not, it's time to change the name of our organization."

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Road to Lisp Survey

If you are using the Lisp language, you may want to take a few minutes to fill out a few questions on Kenny Tilton's The Road to Lisp Survey.

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Commercial announcements

IBM sells Opteron cluster in Japan

Here's a press release from IBM announcing yet another Linux cluster sale; this one is going to the Japanese Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The announcement is interesting in that the cluster is made up of IBM's eServer 325 systems, which will be announced at LinuxWorld. The 325 is based on AMD's Opteron ("Hammer", "x86-64", "AMD64") processor, and it will be, it is said, the most powerful Linux cluster in the world.

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MandrakeSoft shareholder newsletter

MandrakeSoft has posted a shareholder newsletter for the first half of fiscal 2003. The company lost EUR 1.2 million on EUR 2.1 million in revenue over that time. Despite the loss, the company claims to be cash-flow positive since January. MandrakeSoft's bankruptcy period ends on July 27, but the company is looking to extend it for another six months.

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Sleepycat Software Bundled with Latest Python and Zope

Sleepycat Software has announced that their Berkeley DB database software now ships with Python 2.3 and a recent version of Zope.

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SuSE teams with SAP

SuSE Linux and SAP have announced a a support agreement that is aimed at supporting corporate customers around the world. "Under the agreement, SuSE will collaborate with SAP on support for joint enterprise customers -- providing optimum support for mission-critical SAP(R) business solutions on SuSE Enterprise Server, powered by United Linux."

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ZopeMag available at a discount (ZopeMembers)

Subscriptions to the print magazine ZopeMag are available at a discount for several weeks.

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New Books

"Building Wireless Community Networks, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has released the second edition of "Building Wireless Community Networks".

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"Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the "Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++".

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PNG book FDL'd, online

O'Reilly has published an online version of "PNG: The Definitive Guide", by Greg Roelofs.

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Resources

GNOME Installation Guide Updated (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org mentions the availability of an updated GNOME Installation Guide. This version includes information on GNOME 2.2.2.

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LDP Weekly News

The July 29, 2003 edition of the LDP Weekly News is out with the latest Linux documentation updates.

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Contests and Awards

LinuxWorld Names Finalists for Product Excellence Awards

IDG World Expo has announced the finalists for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards, to be presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week.

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Nominations are now open for the Open Source Awards

Nominations are open for the first Open Source Awards, to be presented at OSCON 2004.

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Event Reports

GUADEC Desktop BOF Slides and post-paper posted (GnomeDesktop)

A set of slides and a post-BOF conclusion paper have been posted for the GUADEC BOF session, "KDE, Mac Os X, Windows: What can we learn (copy or improve) from them?".

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Upcoming Events

Bruce Perens Press Event at LinuxWorld

Open-source evangelist Bruce Perens will give a speech entitled the "Open Source State of the Union" on August 6, 2003 during the LinuxWorld Conference.

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Silicon Valley Linux Picn*x12

Several Bay Area Linux groups will be holding an event known as Picn*x12 on August 9 in Sunnyvale, CA, following the LinuxWorld Expo conference. The theme is the celebration of the birthday of the Linux operating system. "The picnic event is completely free, and free food will be served. It's a family-oriented gathering, so bringing the spouse and kids is encouraged! You must RSVP in advance, however."

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YAPC::EU::2004 Venue Chosen (use Perl)

According to Use Perl, the YAPC::Europe 2004 conference will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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YAPC::Israel::2004 - first call for papers (use Perl)

Use Perl has an announcement for the YAPC::Israel::2004 conference, to be held in February. "After the successful year of 4 YAPCs we would like to announce the first call for participation, papers and sponsorship of YAPC::Israel::2004".

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GUADEC 5 - Host Wanted! (GnomeDesktop)

The GNOME Foundation is looking for a host city for the GUADEC 2004 conference.

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Events: July 31 - September 25, 2003

Date	Event	Location
July 31 - August 3, 2003	UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference(LINUX 2003)	(George Watson's College)Edinburgh Scotland
July 31 - August 2, 2003	The 10th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Ann Arbor, Michigan
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 8, 2003	Boundaryless Information Flow: Open Source in the Enterprise	(Hilton London Paddington)London, 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

Project Aims to Combine Mozilla and Java (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine examines the new java.mozdev.org site. "Brad GNUberg writes: "The goal is simple. Build a Mozilla application so that a Java backend can be used to interact with a Mozilla/XUL front-end. It makes sense. Combine the power of Java's server libraries with the interactivity and user interface capability of Mozilla. Kevin Burton and Brad GNUberg are proud to announce java.mozdev.org, a central repository for open-source projects making this vision true."

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French Geckozone Site Launches (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine mentions the launch of a new French language Mozilla site, Geckozone. "Initiated by several members of the Frenchmozilla localization team, this new site is targeted to French-speaking people seeking information, help and tutorials on Mozilla-based products."

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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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Miscellaneous

zWebit interface engine released as GNU/GPL (LinuxMedNews)

According to LinuxMedNews, HSC has released their zWebit interface engine under the GPL. "zWebit has proven stable and reliable in a 250 bed hospital supporting twelve interface connections."

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