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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
GNU-Darwin: Bounty hunters search for proprietary code
The GNU Darwin project, in cooperation with the Free Software Foundation, wants to wipe out any proprietary code in the Darwin code base. Click below for more information.
2003 GNOME Foundation election
The first announcement for the 2003 GNOME Foundation Board election has gone out. If you are not a member of the Foundation, and you would like to vote, you have until the end of October to sign up. Nominations for Board members must be received by November 7.
Commercial announcements
MailStripper 1.1.1 released
Eridani has announced version 1.1.1 of MailStripper, an email spam filtering application.
IBM and Reuters turn to Linux for support of Reuters Market Data System
The latest IBM press release announces support for Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) on IBM eServer xSeries and BladeCenter hardware running Linux.
Lindows.com launches developer program
Lindows has announced a new program intended to inspire developers to create applications for the LindowsOS distribution. To that end, the company has created a new "LindowsDeveloper edition" and a free publication service. There is also a mechanism for getting applications integrated into the "Click-N-Run Warehouse."
SCO gets $50 million
The SCO Group has announced the receipt of $50 million in financing from BayStar Capital. "The increase in cash will significantly enhance the overall financial strength of SCO while providing substantial additional funding for business objectives including future UNIX and SCOx Web Services software development, new strategic partnerships, and protection of the Company's UNIX intellectual property and related programs." Those of you who have been missing the always-amusing SCO teleconferences will be glad to know that one is happening today (Friday) at 12:00 US/Eastern time.
Notes from the SCO conference call
The SCO conference call followed the usual lines; everything is going great for SCO. Some of the more interesting points: the $50 million from BayStar will be expensive; after a year it requires an 8% dividend. That dividend will increase 2% per year up to a maximum of 12%. SCO is pleased with its discussions with SGI; the removal of 200 lines of code by SGI was presented as a victory. No mention of XFS. Darl McBride said that they didn't see starting any other potential litigation against Unix vendors, but that they have several thousand customers with end-user Unix licenses. SCO apparently sees some opportunity to go after those end-user licensees for their use of Linux. Once again, it is made clear that SCO is not a good company to sign a contract with.The 8K filing on the BayStar deal is now available; we'll be looking at it shortly. Update: that look is now complete; click below (subscribers only) for our summary.
Breakthrough Results with SGI Altix at NASA Ames
Here's a press release (click below) from SGI about large-scale SGI Altix 3000 systems, running Linux, that have been generating breakthrough performance results on scientific applications at NASA Ames Research Center.
SuSE Openexchange server 4.1
SuSE has announced the forthcoming release of OpenExchange 4.1, its "complete messaging and groupware package." New features include a WebDAV interface, support for calendar and contact information, and more.
Resources
EDRI-gram newsletter
The October 22 EDRI-gram newsletter is available, with coverage of issues relevant to digital civil rights in Europe. Topics this time around include pan-European anti-spam measures, the pending intellectual property enforcement directive (and the 199 amendments which have been filed so far), the proposed EU-wide health care identity card, and several others.
The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines
IDA (Interchange of Data between Administrations) has published recommendations on how to migrate to Open Source Software (OSS)-based solutions. "These guidelines have been designed to help public administrators decide whether a migration to OSS should be undertaken and describe, in broad technical terms, how such a migration could be carried out. They are based on practical experience of a limited number of publicly available case studies, and cover a wide range of management and technical concerns." (Thanks to A.Ismael Olea González)
LDP Weekly News
The October 22, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out. Take a look for the latest documentation updates.
Event Reports
ILC 2003 proceedings available
The news and reports from the ILC 2003 International Lisp Conference are available.
Second Netfilter Development Workshop
A web site has been put together to document the 2nd netfilter developer workshop which took place in Budapest, Hungary on August 18 and 19, 2003 Thanks to Harald Welte.
Upcoming Events
ApacheCon 2003 speakers announced
The Apache Software Foundation has sent out a press release listing the speakers for ApacheCon 2003, which is happening November 16 to 19 in Las Vegas (next to Comdex). The keynote speakers will be Chris Pirillo and Doc Searls; many other speakers are on the schedule, see the PR for the full list.
EclipseCon 2004 announced
The EclipseCon 2004 has been announced. "Eclipse, the open community and consortium for universal tools integration, announces EclipseCon, a new technical conference that will take place February 2-6, 2004 in Anaheim, CA. Produced and managed by Eclipse consortium member the Object Management Group, EclipseCon brings together the Eclipse ecosystem: developers, software architects, technical managers, systems integrators, thought leaders, and other software development tools producers and consumers using or interested in learning about Eclipse technology."
SANE 2004 Call for Posters
The 4th International SANE Conference is less than a year away. The next System Administration and Network Engineering Conference will be held September 27 - October 1, 2004 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This is a call for Posters. "The SANE Posters provide an excellent forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results or for giving an introduction to interesting, innovative work. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work."
YAPC::NA::2004 Dates Set (use Perl)
According to Use Perl, the YAPC::NA::2004 conference will be held in Buffalo, NY on June 16-18, 2004.
Events: October 23 - December 18, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 23, 2003 | Enterprise Linux Forum | (Washington Convention Center)Washington, D.C. |
| October 23 - 24, 2003 | PHP-Con West | Santa Clara, CA |
| October 26, 2003 October 27 - 31, 2003 | Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA) | (Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA |
| October 27 - 29, 2003 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 | (Fairgrounds Frankfurt)Frankfurt, Germany |
| October 29 - 31, 2003 | Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference(AEOSC) | (Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre)Singapore |
| October 30 - 31, 2003 | 4to Encuentro Linux | Valparaiso, Chile |
| November 2 - 3, 2003 | International PHP Conference 2003 | (Astron Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 6 - 7, 2003 | HiverCon 2003 | (Davenport Hotel)Dublin, Ireland |
| November 6, 2003 | Netherlands Unix Users group fall conference | (Conference Center De Reehorst)Ede, the Netherands |
| November 6 - 7, 2003 | PacSec.jp 2003 | (Hotel East 21 Tokyo)Tokyo, Japan |
| November 8, 2003 | Lightweight Languages 2003(LL3) | (MIT)Cambridge MA |
| November 10, 2003 | Desktop Linux Conference | (Boston University Corporate Education Center)Tyngsboro, Massachusetts |
| November 10 - 11, 2003 | Congreso Nacional de Software Libre(CONASOL) | (Universidad de Talca)Talca, Chile |
| November 14 - 16, 2003 | Third International Ruby Conference | (Red Lion Hotel)Austin, Texas |
| November 15 - 21, 2003 | Supercomputing Conference(SC2003) | (Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center)Phoenix, AZ |
| November 16 - 19, 2003 | ApacheCon 2003 | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| November 20 - 21, 2003 | ObjectWeb Conferenc3 | (INRIA Rocquencourt)Rocquencourt, France |
| November 22, 2003 | Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE) | (Los Angeles Convention Center)Los Angeles, CA |
| November 22 - 24, 2003 | New York GNOME Summit | (Brooklyn College)New York, NY |
| November 24 - 26, 2003 | Open Standards and Libre Software in Government Conference(EGOVOS 3) | Paris, France |
| December 2 - 4, 2003 | Linux Bangalore/2003 | Bangalore, India |
| December 9 - 13, 2003 | International Conference on Logic Programming(ICLP'03) | Mumbai (Bombay), India |
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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