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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements An open letter from Alan Cox Alan Cox has sent out an open letter encouraging Europeans (and UK citizens in particular) to vote in the upcoming European Parliament elections, and to keep software patents in mind while doing so. "The turnout in the UK is expected to be 18%. That favours anyone who can mobilize and get out and vote. It's a one off opportunity to kick the pro-patent lobby somewhere that hurts."
AGNULA project needs editors The AGNULA audio distribution project sent out an announcement asking for newsletter editors.
AGNULA needs a webmaster The AGNULA project is in need of a volunteer webmaster.
Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Geronimo as an Official Project Apache Software Foundation has announced that Apache Geronimo has been approved as an official project of the ASF. The objective of the Apache Geronimo project is to produce an open source, certified implementation of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification licensed under the Apache License and offered to the public at no charge.
Creation of YAPC::Europe Foundation announced (use Perl) Use Perl has an announcement for the new YAPC::Europe foundation. "The new committee will be part of YAPC, which is part of YAS, also known as TPF."
Commercial announcements Arabella Announces Linux USB Host and Device Support for the PowerQUICC(TM) Processor Arabella Software has announced Linux USB support for the PowerQUICC processor. "Arabella Software, a leading supplier of "Customized Linux Solutions" for embedded applications, today announced that its Arabella Linux for the PowerQUICC(TM) integrated communication processors has been extended to include fully integrated support for USB Host and Device functionality."
Euroland initiates research coverage of Mandrakesoft Mandrakesoft has announced the availability of a report from Euroland entitled "Mandrakesoft: the rising star of the Linux Market". Click below for more information.
Intel to open source EFI firmware code Intel has announced that it will be releasing its "foundation code" implementing the extensible firmware interface (EFI) specification. This release raises the prospect of having a system with a completely free BIOS. CollabNet will be handling the actual release, which is due "later this year."
Lineox Announces Migration Instructions from Red Hat Linux 9 Lineox is offering a solution for migration off of Red Hat Linux version 9. "Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is an enterprise level Linux distribution with almost 5 years of planned support life. In the past Lineox has provided updated program packages with feature enhancements, bug and security fixes for free. The update service will be fee based starting fall 2004."
Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux Now Available Macromedia has announced the immediate availability of Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux.
Pingtel Forms Technical Advisory Board Pingtel Corporation has announced the formation of the Pingtel Technical Advisory Board to assist in the development of open source IP telephony.
The Sendmail messaging integrity pilot program Sendmail, Inc. has announced the launch of the "Sendmail messaging integrity pilot program," a public testbed for various sender authentication schemes. Included at the beginning is a free implementation of Yahoo's "DomainKeys" system. "'Sender-based email authentication is set to change the way email is used. Instead of focusing on filtering out unwanted mail, organizations will need to think about filtering in the mail they want,' said Eric Allman, CTO at Sendmail."
Sun Announces Java WSDP 1.4 Sun Microsystems has announced the release of version 1.4 of its Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP).
New Books NoSCOpyright - SCO contro Linux A group known as the "NMI Club" has written an entire book (in Italian) on the SCO Group and its attacks. This book, called NoSCOpyright - SCO contro Linux, is available in bookstores; it has also been released online under a copyleftish Creative Commons license. Click below for the full announcement (again, in Italian).
Upcoming Events OMG Information Day: London, June 10, 2004 An OMG Information Day will take place in London. "LogOn and the Object Management Group are announcing an OMG Information Day, taking place at the New Connaught Rooms in London, on June 10, 2004."
Wizards of OS 3 Wizards of OS 3 conference will be held at the Berlin Congress Center on June 10-12, 2004.
Debian Project at Wizards of OS Look for representatives of the Debian Project at the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, Germany on June 10-12, 2004.
Tim Ney's GUADEC Blotter (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop.org mentions the availability of online coverage from the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference on June 28-30. "TIm Ney, the GNOME foundation director wrote in to let us know that he will be blogging various news items relating to GUADEC at his new blog."
European Revolution Conference The Autumn European Revolution Conference will be held on November 14-16, 2004 in Malta.
YAPC::Australia::2004 Call for Papers (use Perl) A Call for Papers has gone out for the Open Source Developers Conference and YAPC::Australia::2004, according to this notice on Use Perl.
Events: June 3 - July 29, 2004
Web sites KDE Users Database (KDE.News) KDE.News has an announcement for a new KDE Users Database site. "A few days ago, we've opened a new section on our Polish K Desktop Environment website called "KDE Users Database". This is not only for Polish users, it's international. After some time it'll be good rate of KDE users number all over the world. Every registered user can save generated certificates and put them on his desktop or website."
Software announcements This week's software announcements Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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