Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

DotGeek PHP Certification Program

DotGeek.org is offering a Certified PHP Programmer Certification Program. "Dotgeek is a community, non-business driven website made by developers for the PHP programmers community and open source community at large. Dotgeek is an entirely self-financed project and is free from any economically-driven initiatives."

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Linuxaudio.org Consortium Launched to Create Professional Audio Tools

Here's an announcement for the newly launched Linuxaudio.org. "Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and libre software projects using Linux kernel based systems and other libre software for audio work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, recording and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners."

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AGNULA Joins Linuxaudio.org

The AGNULA (A GNU/Linux Audio distribution) project has joined forces with the Linuxaudio.org Consortium. "Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and libre software projects using Linux kernel based systems and other libre software for audio work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, recording and broadcast industries."

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JC takes over GNU/Linux Summit from SOT

SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. has passed the job of organizing the annual GNU/Linux Summit to the Junior Chamber organization. "We wanted the Summit to have an independent organizer, one that will serve all actors in the industry equally, and ensure that the Summit remains an event of substance."

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Open Ireland group formed

A new open-source advocacy group has been formed in Ireland. "It's an active group and includes a number of people from both the Irish public sector as well as vendors and end users."

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Commercial announcements

HP Records More Than $2.5 Billion in Linux-based Revenue in 2003

HP has announced Linux-based revenue in excess of $2.5 billion for its fiscal year 2003 as well as additions to its Linux portfolio.

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Linux Veteran Paula Hunter Joins OSDL

The Open Source Development Labs has announced the appointment of Paula Hunter as Business Development director based on the East Coast. Hunter was the head of UnitedLinux from 2002 until joining OSDL.

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SGI launches visualization initiative

SGI has announced a new initiative to bring better visualization technology to Linux. This effort includes a new "Visualization Developer Tool Kit," which appears to be somewhat tied to the company's Itanium-based NUMA systems, and support for some free software projects, with Chromium being named explicitly.

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VA Company Now Offering Red Hat Linux Support

gOSapps, an eSolutions provider based in Virginia, has announced a comprehensive support programs for companies using Red Hat Linux.

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New Books

"Learning Python, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the second edition of the book Learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher.

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"Perl Template Toolkit" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the Perl Template Toolkit by Darren Chamberlain, David Cross, and Andy Wardley.

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Resources

Straw tutorial (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org points to a tutorial on Straw, a desktop RSS news aggregator. "Thomas Chung at fedoranews.org has put a nice little tutorial for getting Straw installed and running on Fedora. It also shows how to add new feeds, complete with screenshots."

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Contests and Awards

Desktop Integration Bounty Winners (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has announced the winners of round one of the Desktop Integration Bounty contest. "Six weeks ago, we launched the bounty hunt contest to attract new developers to the GNOME project, and generate momentum around innovations in collaborative software. Interest has, to say the least, been fantastic."

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Event Reports

Various LinuxWorld Announcements

LinuxWorld Conference and Expo begins today in New York. Here are a few of the announcements from the first day.

• LinuxWorld attendees are invited to join Fedora developers for a community gathering and discussion session on Wednesday.

• NewsForge wants to know what they should cover at LinuxWorld.

• Wind River Executive Dave Fraser will give at talk about "How to Make Money from Open Source".

• The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced the launch of a new Desktop Linux Working Group initiative focused on greater use of Linux on desktops throughout the enterprise.

• SGI announced new midrange models with "a host of 64-bit applications" and Voltaire InfiniBand solutions. SGI also launched a graphics technology initiative.

• Zultys Technologies announced a new Linux soft phone available for download.

• CodeWeavers launched the CodeWeavers CrossOver Compatibility Center.

• News.com reports the Red Hat will introduce a new provisioning service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a warranty, which is part of a new project called the Open Source Assurance Program.

• Trolltech joins OSDL.

• The Financial Times notes that Darl McBride will not be at LinuxWorld. (Thanks to Philip Nelson)

• Last, but not least, see eWeek's first report from LinuxWorld.

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LinuxWorld press release summary

Here's a selection from the LinuxWorld press release flood.

• Novell has five releases; these discuss the SUSE EAL3 certification, the availability of Red Carpet Enterprise for IBM zSeries servers, Novell exteNd 5 (a secure web services platform), an open beta of GroupWise 6.5 for Linux, and finally, Novell is joining Eclipse.

• JBoss has proclaimed a major increase in JBoss server usage and announced the availability of the "Nukes" content management system.

• LynuxWorks has announced the general availability of BlueCat Linux 5.0, which includes a 2.6 kernel.

• Predixis has announced the availability of "MusicMagic Mixer," a tool for organizing digital music files.

• RealNetworks has announced five recipients of funds from the "Helix Community Grant Program." Supported work includes multicast functionality, Ogg codec integration, and three other projects.

• Sun has announced a cheaper version of the Java Desktop for schools. Also announced is a new Java Desktop release, a Linux-based "Java Enterprise System" server offering, a preview of an upcoming developer-oriented desktop system, and a new community site for Linux Java developers.

• SYS-CON Media announces the winners of the LinuxWorld magazine Readers' Choice awards. LinuxWorld readers apparently have a strong fondness for proprietary applications.

• Tadpole Computer now offers a notebook running Sun's Java Desktop.

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Upcoming Events

LinuxWorld News

Here are a couple pre-LinuxWorld announcements:

• IDG World Expo has announced the finalists for the Product Excellence Awards. Winners will be announced next week, at LinuxWorld in New York City.

• The Desktop Linux Consortium will be hosting the Desktop Linux Pavilion at LinuxWorld.

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O'Reilly at LinuxWorld

O'Reilly has sent out a press release detailing their plans for the LinuxWorld conference.

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LPI SUSE Exam free at LinuxWorld

The Linux Professional Institute will be offering a free version of its SL103 SUSE Linux certification exam at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City on January 23, 2004.

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Strong KDE Presence at LinuxWorld NYC (KDE.News)

KDE.News covers the KDE events that will occur at the upcoming LinuxWorld NYC conference.

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Perl6 and Parrot at the NORDU Usenix Conference (use Perl)

Use Perl mentions a couple of Perl talks at the NORDU Usenix Conference in Copenhagen starting on January 28.

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YAPC 2004 CFP

A Call For Participation has gone out for the YAPC 2004 Perl conference. The event will take place in Buffalo, New York on June 16-18, 2004.

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Dutch Perl Workshop (use Perl)

Use Perl mentions a Perl Workshop that will be held in the Netherlands on March 5, 2004. "This informal meeting, with talks by many infamous Dutch Perl Monks and Saints, is targeted at anyone using Perl on a regular basis."

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Perl Conferences 2004

The definitive list of Perl conferences for 2004 is available.

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KDE at FOSDEM 2004: A Call for KDE Developers to Join

KDE.News has posted a call for talks by KDE developers at the FOSDEM 2004 conference in Belgium. "We are looking for developers who want to join and perhaps do a talk and/or presentation at the "KDE Developers Room". This is your chance to let us know what kind of talks you would like to see in the "KDE Developers Room"."

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Seth Schoen to teach Trusted Computing class

Seth Schoen will be teaching a class on Trusted Computing. The event will take place in Mountain View, California on January 24, 2004.

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Events: January 22 - March 18, 2004

Date	Event	Location
January 22 - 23, 2004	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004	(Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, New York
January 22 - 23, 2004	Vancouver PHP Conference	(SFU Harbour Centre)Vancouver, BC, Canada
January 28 - February 1, 2004	NordU/USENIX 2004	Copenhagen, Denmark
January 29, 2004	Linux for business 2004	Hotel De Biltsche Hoek, de Bilt
January 31 - February 1, 2004	WineConf 2004	(Court International Building)St. Paul, Minnesota
February 2 - 6, 2004	EclipseCon 2004	(Disneyland Hotel)Anaheim, CA
February 2 - 4, 2004	Open Standards and Certification Conference	(San Diego Marriott Mission Valley)San Diego, CA
February 3 - 5, 2004	Linux Solutions 2004	Paris, France
February 9 - 12, 2004	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference(ETech)	(The Westin Horton Plaza)San Diego, CA
February 20 - 22, 2004	CodeCon 2004	(Club NV)San Francisco, CA
February 20 - 24, 2004	PaWS PHP and Web Standards UK 2004	Manchester, UK
February 21 - 22, 2004	Mozilla Developers Meeting in Europe 4.0	Brussels, Belgium
February 21 - 22, 2004	FOSDEM 2004	(SOLBOSCH)Brussels, Belgium
February 23 - 27, 2004	PostgreSQL Bootcamp	(Big Nerd Ranch, Inc.)Atlanta, GA
February 25 - 26, 2004	UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial	(Lansdowne Campus, Bournemouth Univ.)Bournemouth, UK
March 1 - 5, 2004	PHP|Cruise	The Caribbean
March 5, 2004	Perl Workshop 2004	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
March 15 - 17, 2004	Open Source in Government Conference	(George Washington University)Washington, DC
March 16 - 17, 2004	Open Source Business Conference 2004	(The Westin St. Francis)San Francisco, CA

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Web sites

linuxmusician.com launched

The new linuxmusician.com site aims to expand the coverage of Linux in music. "At the moment there is one (1) complete article on there, plus two brief stubs of articles; there's a links page with hardly any links yet, and a copy of the bownie.com Guide to Home Recording. We will continue to post stuff that we come up with, but also if you take a moment to register you are then very welcome to submit articles, news, and links."

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Search PostgreSQL related resources

A new Search PostgreSQL sites service has been announced. "Currently it indexes 31 sites with about 350,000 pages in total. Web interface supports two languages: english (default) and russian."

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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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