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The history of Bugzilla

Telsa Gwynne has summarized the history behind GNOME's use of the Bugzilla bug reporting system.

OpenOffice Developer's Guide - CFP

Sun Microsystems is working on a new OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide. Community users of OpenOffice are being requested to participate in the writing of the guide.

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OpenOffice.org Address Books and Form Letters (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal has published a tutorial on importing data sources for address books and form letters into OpenOffice 1.0.

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Upcoming Events

AUUG 2002 Conference Student Day, Melbourne

The AUUG will be holding a free Student Day in Melbourne, Australia on September 3, 2002 with the aim of getting students involved in Linux and free software.

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FLOSS final report

The FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) study from the University of Maastricht is now available in its final form. Set aside a fairly large chunk of time to read through the whole thing. "Almost half of the sample (46%) does not earn money from OS/FS, neither directly nor indirectly. In turn, this means that the majority of the OS/FS developers receives some kind of reward for contributions to OS/FS. Comparing the amount of monetary and non-monetary rewards with regard to the respective shares of developers in the different items, both kinds of rewards seem to have the same importance for the community."

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Ruby Conference 2002 CFP

A Call for Presentation proposals has been posted for the Ruby Conference 2002, to be held on November 1-3 in Seattle, WA.

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Events: August 22 - October 17, 2002

August 24 - 31, 2002	Linux Beer Hike	(Russell Community Centre)Doolin, Co. Clare
August 27, 2002	Seattle Ruby Brigade Meeting	Seattle, Washington
September 4 - 6, 2002	Linux Kongress 2002	(Physics Institutes, University of Cologne)Cologne, Germany
September 5 - 6, 2002	SciPy '02	(CalTech)Pasadena, CA
September 11 - 13, 2002	Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002(GRASS)	(Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara)Trento, Italy
September 12 - 13, 2002	Perl 6 Mini::Conference	(ETF, E1, ETH Zurich)Zurich, Switzerland
September 16 - 20, 2002	9th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Vancouver, BC, Canada
September 18 - 20, 2002	Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2002(YAPC::Europe 2002)	Munich, Germany
September 27 - 29, 2002	Lulu Tech Circus	(State Fairgrounds Complex)Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
October 11 - 13, 2002	V Congreso Hispalinux	San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain
October 14 - 16, 2002	The Singapore Linux Conference 2002	(Le Meridien Singapore)Singapore
October 17 - 18, 2002	Open Source for E-Government	Washington, DC

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Web sites

We Want Linux press release

We Want Linux is a self-funded non-commercial group of IT professionals, who would like to see the computing consumer have as many options in the marketplace as possible. They are currently running a survey to see how many people would be interested in demoing Linux at the retail outlets.

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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

TPJ Ceases Publication (use Perl)

Use Perl mentions that final issue of The Perl Journal has been published, the journal is being discontinued due to low advertising revenues.

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Artifex and artofcode announce Ghostscript "bug bounty"

In an effort to track down bugs before the 8.0 release of AFPL Ghostscript, Artifex Software, Inc., and artofcode LLC have announced a "bug bounty" program, in which $500 will be awarded to those who find bugs in AFPL Ghostscript. There are a few restrictions on the awards.