Announcements

Google's summer of code

Google has announced a program called the "Summer of Code." Students interested in hacking on free software can put in an application and, working with a mentor project, earn $4500 for completing a project. The participating projects include Python, Perl, Apache, Ubuntu, Mono, GNOME, Wine, Subversion, and Google itself.

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BitMover announces BitKeeper to CVS converter

For any free software projects which still have BitKeeper repositories: BitMover has announced the availability of a conversion utility which will turn those repositories into CVS repositories. Time to use it is running out: "Beginning July 1, 2005, all existing BitKeeper binaries will require license keys to enable continued use."

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CAC Media Announces Digital Entertainment Devices

CAC Media, Inc. and VIA Technologies will demonstrate new Linux-based digital entertainment platforms at the VIA Technology Forum and Computex trade shows. "This combination of low cost / high performance hardware and software shows Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers VIA Technology's latest reference designs running CAC's MCSS platform. CAC's Media Convergence Software Suite (MCSS) is a Linux-based operating system the company licenses to consumer electronics manufacturers to drive new chip-sets available for their products. The innovative software / hardware combination enables them to combine PC, Internet, and CE functionality into "lean back" products designed to play, consume, store, and organize ALL digital media."

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EarthLink and Microtel Partner to Offer $69.99 PC

EarthLink and Microtel have announced a partnership to provide discounted Linux-based PCs and laptops for new subscribers. "New dial-up subscribers can receive the special Microtel pricing from May 25, 2005 - June 25, 2005, by going to http://www.microtelpc.com and placing an order for a $69.99 PC or $399 laptop. During the ordering process buyers will be directed to the EarthLink Website to fill in subscription details. The $150 discount will be applied to the cost of the computer at the point of purchase, and requires a one-year EarthLink dial-up Internet access commitment."

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Nokia Makes Donation to GNOME Foundation

Nokia has announced a developer device program at the GNOME user and Developer European Conference (GUADEC). The developer device program will donate the proceeds from the sales of 500 Nokia 770 devices to the GNOME Foundation.

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Novell's "Mono Kickstart" program

Novell has announced the "Mono Kickstart Program," a support offering for companies developing desktop applications with Mono. This is clearly not a service intended for free software projects: "Mono Kickstart includes 25 developer support incidents along with one server or 50 desktop licenses for $12,995. Additional developer support incidents, server licenses and desktop licenses can be purchased separately."

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SCO's second quarter results

Remember SCO? That company has just announced its second quarter results: an almost $2 million loss on declining revenue. Even that figure includes almost $800,000 realized from the sale of all of SCO's stock in Trolltech last March.

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Win4Lin Products Available for Linspire

Win4Lin has announced "..that the company's Win4Lin 9x and Win4Lin Home products are now compatible with Linspire Five-0 and are available in the Linspire CNR Warehouse. The company also announced that their flagship Win4Lin Pro will be available in the CNR Warehouse by mid-summer 2005."

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Killer Game Programming in Java - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Killer Game Programming in Java by Andrew Davison.

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Table of analogs of Windows software in Linux

Fiodor Sorex has announced the creation of a table that lists Linux equivalents for Windows software. "One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows :). This list of Linux equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software is based on our own experience and on the information obtained from the visitors of this page (thanks!)."

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Edition 2 of MyOSS Magazine

Edition 2 of the Malaysian Online Open Source Magazine, MyOSS Magazine has been published. Topics include: Open Source Power Management, Open Source PBX/PABX, Daemon's Advocate, Virtualisation, Tip of The Month, Book Review : Free as in Freedom, and more.

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Open source and the commoditization of software

Ian Murdock has posted his chapter from the upcoming O'Reilly book Open Sources 2.0; it is called "Open source and the commoditization of software. "If Red Hat's business model is wrong, then what is the right business model for Linux distribution vendors? In my view, the Dell model can be taken a step further than any of the Linux distributors have thought to take it. After all, what are open-source technologies but commodity software components, and what are Linux distributions but assemblers of those components into products the end customer finds useful?"

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First-Round Voting in 2005 Readers' Choice Awards (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal has announced the first round of voting for the 2005 Readers' Choice Awards. "As you know by now, the Web form is gone, and voting is taking place by e-mail this time. We require plain text e-mail for votes, so no HTML or attachments."

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Debian Day at LinuxTag 2005

The Debian Day mini-conference at LinuxTag has been announced. "It will take place on Thursday, 23rd of June during this year's LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. The talks will describe certain parts of the distribution or the project and will be held in English."

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Europython 2005 update

An Update notice has been sent out for the EuroPython 2005 conference. "Due to some technical problems with the registration website we have decided to extend the registration of talks until 8 May. We already have an impressive array of talks, but we do have room for some more. We are especially interested in talks focusing on the Python language and talks on Python usage in Science." The event takes place in Göteborg, Sweden on June 27-29, 2005.

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Fedora Talk at USC Los Angeles, CA

A talk on the Fedora Project will be held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California on June 16, 2005. "Warren will explain the Fedora Project, do Q&A, and hand out a limited amount of schwag."

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Joint Call for Participation: IEEE Conference on Web Services

A Joint Call for Participants has gone out for the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services. The event will take place on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida.

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Embedded Technology 2005, Yokohama, Japan

The Embedded Technology 2005 Conference has been announced. The event will be held in Yokohama, Japan on November 15-18, 2005.

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Events: June 2 - July 28, 2005

Date	Event	Location
June 2 - 3, 2005	The Red Hat Summit 2005	(Hilton New Orleans)New Orleans, LA
June 2 - 4, 2005	Fórum Internacional Software Livre(FISL)	Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil
June 9 - 10, 2005	Austrian Perl Workshop	(Kapsch CarrierCom)Vienna, Austria
June 9 - 10, 2005	The French Perl Workshop	(Faculté des Sciences de Luminy)Marseille, France
June 11, 2005	PHP West	Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 15 - 17, 2005	AstriCon Europe 2005	(Auditorium Madrid Hotel)Madrid, Spain
June 17 - 19, 2005	RECON 2005	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 18, 2005	Perl Dag 2005	Copenhagen, Denmark
June 19 - 22, 2005	International Lisp Conference 2005(ILC 2005)	(Stanford University)Palo Alto, CA
June 20 - 21, 2005	Linux Cluster Summit 2005	Walldorf, Germany
June 22 - 25, 2005	LinuxTag 2005	(Kongresszentrum)Karlsruhe, Germany
June 23 - 24, 2005	Italian Perl Workshop 2005	(University of Pisa)Pisa, Italy
June 25, 2005	LugRadio Live 2005	(Molyneux Stadium)Wolverhampton, UK
June 25, 2005	XML Prague 2005	Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
June 27 - 29, 2005	Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC::NA 2005)	(University of Toronto)Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 27 - 29, 2005	EuroPython 2005	Göteborg, Sweden
June 29 - 30, 2005	Where 2.0 Conference	(Westin St. Francis Hotel)San Francisco, CA
July 1 - 6, 2005	Linux Desktop Development and KDevelop Developers Conference 2005	Kiev, Ukraine
July 5 - 9, 2005	LSM 2005 Libre Software Meeting for Medicine	Dijon, France
July 6 - 9, 2005	IV Jornades de Programari Lliure	Campus de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
July 10 - 18, 2005	Debconf 5	Helsinki, Finland
July 11, 2005	Evolution of Open-Source Code Bases(EVOSC05)	Genova, Italy
July 11 - 15, 2005	First International Conference on Open Source Systems(OSS2005)	Genova, Italy
July 11 - 14, 2005	GOTO10 workshop	(OKNO)Brussels, Belgium
July 11 - 15, 2005	IEEE International Conference on Web Services(ICWS 2005)	Orlando, Florida
July 17 - 19, 2005	Desktop Developer's Conference	(Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
July 18 - 22, 2005	ApacheCon Europe 2005	Stuttgart, Germany
July 18 - 22, 2005	PostgreSQL Bootcamp	(Big Nerd Ranch)Atlanta, GA
July 20 - 23, 2005	Ottawa Linux Symposium(OLS 2005)	Ottawa, Canada
July 20 - 22, 2005	North American Plone Symposium	(The Astro Crowne Plaza)New Orleans, Louisiana
July 26, 2005	2nd European LISP and Scheme Workshop	Glasgow, Scotland
July 27 - 28, 2005	Back Hat Briefings USA 2005	Las Vegas, NV

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