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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Bay Area Software Professionals for Responsibility and Accountability Don Marti has announced the formation of a group in the San Francisco area which will attempt to put together a useful response to SCO's mailing of "invoices" for Linux use. This response is likely to involve passing said invoices onto an appropriate law enforcement agency. "We're calling the organization 'Bay Area Software Professionals for Responsibility and Accountability' for the obvious reason that we are Bay Area software professionals who are for responsibility and accountability." There is a mailing list, of course, for those who are interested in joining this effort.
Canadian Linux Interests Coalition Formed The Canadian Linux Interests Coalition has been formed "A coalition of computer professionals using and contributing to the Linux operating system, have united to oppose the recent actions of high-tech company the SCO Group."
KDE-Women Relaunched (KDE.News) The KDE-Women project has been relaunched. "The KDE-Women project was founded in 2001 as an international forum for women involved with or interested in KDE. It was originally intended to be a place where women could present their current contributions to KDE and where women who wished to contribute could find a starting point. That was the goal of KDE-Women then, and still is now. After a period of dormancy, the project has been relaunched in terms of a revamped website based on the new KDE design as well as fresh and updated content such as the tutorials and howto's and an article on Kontact."
PostgreSQL project looking for editor The PostgreSQL database project needs a new editor-in-chief. "The PostgreSQL Global Development group has a number of people who have volunteered to write articles about PostgreSQL for the media. So, now we're looking for an "Editor-in-Chief" volunteer to co-ordinate them."
University Of Kentucky Supercomputer Breaks The $100 Per GFLOPS Barrier Researchers at the University of Kentucky have constructed and demonstrated a parallel supercomputer that achieves application performance of more than 1 billion floating point operations per second (GFLOPS) for every $100 spent on building the machine, using standard PC parts in a Linux "Beowulf" cluster.
Commercial announcements Turbolinux Joins OSDL The Open Source Development Labs has announced that Turbolinux is the latest company to join up.
SGI and SuSE make a deal SGI and SuSE have sent out a press release announcing a new partnership between the two companies. SGI will start shipping SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on its Altix 3000 systems, which can run up to 64 processors. SuSE will be providing support, and the two companies will work together on further scalability efforts.
BlackAdder V1.0.0 released Version 1.0.0 of BlackAdder, a commercial IDE for Linux and Windows, has been announced. "BlackAdder is an application development environment that allows professional and hobbyist programmers alike to produce complex applications for the Windows and Linux platforms. BlackAdder brings together the Python programming language, the Qt graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, ODBC database connectivity and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that includes an editor, a GUI designer, a debugger and an interactive Python interpreter. BlackAdder gives the programmer, in a single package, all they need to develop sophisticated applications."
New Books New Books from Prentice Hall PTR New books from Prentice Hall PTR:
TiVo Hacks Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book TiVo Hacks. "Why hack your TiVo? As Raffi Krikorian explains, the TiVo has proven eminently hackable, to the point that there are communities of TiVo hackers springing up all over the Internet. "You can think of the TiVo as a carefully tweaked desktop computer with a television tuner card," Krikorian says. "Everything the TiVo does, save the channel tuning and video encoding, is done in software. Everything you see on the screen, all the interactivity through the remote, and the recording scheduling is all defined in code.""
Contests and Awards DotGNU Coding Competition The First International DotGNU Coding Competition has been announced, $4500 worth of prizes will be distributed. "The participants in this competition will collaboratively complete the implementation of the System.Windows.Forms part of the C# class libraries for DotGNU Portable.NET, with the goal of duplicating the functionality of the proprietary library so that programs written against it can be run on Free Software."
Event Reports Sound and Midi Software For Linux site updated Dave Philips has updated his Sound and Midi Software For Linux site, take a look at the Musings section for a summary of the summer's conferences and reviews of new Linux audio software.
Kastle 2003: Conference Reports KDE.News has published a report from the KDE Contributors' Conference 2003. Also, a review of Matthias Ettrich's talk, What to expect from Qt 4, and the preliminary Arrival and KDE e.V. Membership Assembly report are online. Lastly, the KOffice Developers' Meeting Report has been published.
Upcoming Events Emerging Tech Conference CFP A Call for Participation has gone out for the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, to be held from February 9-12, 2004 in San Diego, CA.
GNU/Linux Summit 2004 Call For Papers A Call For Papers has gone out for the GNU/Linux Summit 2004. The event will take place in Helsinki, Finland in February, 2004.
Events: August 28 - October 23, 2003 August 28 - 29, 2003 | International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming(PPDP 2003) | (Uppsala University)Uppsala, Sweden | August 28 - 30, 2003 | KDE Developers' Conference | (Zamek Castle)Nove Hrady, Czech Republic | August 31 - September 2, 2003 | AUUG 2003 Conference | (Duxton Hotel)Sydney, Australia | 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 | October 7 - 8, 2003 LogOn Web Days | Across Europe | September 15 - 18, 2003 | Embedded Systems Conference(ESC) | (Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass | September 26 - 27, 2003 | Third DZUG-Conference | Paderborn, Germany | October 12 - 15, 2003 | International Lisp Conference 2003(ILC 2003) | New York, NY | October 15 - 17, 2003 | The First Plone Conference | (Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana | |
Mailing Lists
gnome-network mailing list created (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for the new gnome-network mailing list. "A new mailing list has been created to hold the discussions about gnome-network, a set of user-oriented network tools. We've done so to get more people involved in its development. The main purpose of gnome-network is to offer a nice integration of the GNOME desktop into networked environments, so if that goal is of some interest to you, please subscribe."
Web sites
Common-Lisp.net
Common-Lisp.net is a new site for Lisp language enthusiasts. "Common-Lisp.net is a project hosting service similar to SourceForge.net, but specializing in Common Lisp software."
Monty Kamath's GoodStart Smalltalk site
Monty Kamath has updated his GoodStart Smalltalk language site, many Smalltalk resources are available there.
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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