Resources
Telsa Gwynne
has summarized the history behind GNOME's use of the Bugzilla
bug reporting system.
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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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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
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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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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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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| 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 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
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of
Freshmeat.net. They are available in
two formats:
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Miscellaneous
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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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.
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ZopeZen is carrying
the results of the latest Zope Community Awards.
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