Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
FSFE and top unionists against SWPAT
The Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out a Memorandum on Software Patentability. "Patents on software are among the worst threats to knowledge-based industries, by restricting software development: they make computers less secure, less reliable and prevent competition on a basic level. Lack of competition and uncalculable legal risks raise the cost of ICT and cost jobs wherever the economy depends upon them."
X.Org Foundation Hires Software Freedom Law Center
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced it will represent The X.Org Foundation. ""X Window System gives computer users complete flexibility in how they choose to have information presented on their computers," said Leon Shiman, board member, The X.Org Foundation. "We have more than 20 years invested in our technology from many different companies and individuals. With the assistance of the Law Center we can continue to focus our efforts around work on standards and code, confident that our legal house is in order.""
Commercial announcements
Astaro announces new network security appliance
Astaro Corporation has announced the Astaro Security Gateway 420. "The Astaro Security Gateway 420 can serve a business or branch office of 500-1000 employees, depending on applications in use, with seven forms of network protection: firewall, VPN gateway, intrusion protection, anti-virus, spam blocking, spyware protection and content (URL) filtering."
Gumstix announces Robostix robotics board
Gumstix, Inc has announced a new robotics expansion board for its Linux-based miniature computer line. "In addition to signals from the gumstix motherboard, the robostix expansion board exposes 6 PWM Channels (2x8 bit, 6 programmable), 8 A/D, 24 GPIO, 2 UART at logic levels and an in-system programming port. The Atmega128 has 5V logic. robostix offers three power inputs: V-RoboBatt, V_Power and V-Motor."
Mandriva to support top European insurance company MACIF
Mandriva has announced a new support contract with MACIF, a major European personal insurance company, with a total of 4.5 million subscribers. "Bruno Marand, Deputy Director, Information System, Architecture Unit, at MACIF said: "MACIF has chosen Linux and open source software for part of its information system. In the handling of these technologies, Mandriva's expertise has proven dramatically effective on some issues we had to sort out. This contract marks our renewed trust.""
Novell Announces GroupWise 7
Novell, Inc. has announced the release of its GroupWise 7 product. "Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) today announced open beta availability of its latest version of the most secure and reliable collaboration platform in the industry, Novell(R) GroupWise 7. GroupWise 7 features advances for end users such as integrated e-mail and instant messaging, enhanced Outlook support and a pre-bundled SUSE(TM) LINUX Enterprise Server."
Rackspace and Emic partnership
Emic Networks has announced a solution partnership with Rackspace Managed Hosting for the delivery of Emic Application Clustering ("EAC") with Rackspace's managed hosting services. Emic's clustering solutions use open source application stacks.Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform of choice for Lower Saxony IT centre
Red Hat, Inc. has announced that the Lower Saxony IT centre (Informatikzentrum Niedersachsen - IZN) has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform to provide IT services for the police force in Lower Saxony, in Germany. IZN is the main systems centre for IT and communications in Lower Saxony, providing 11,000 employees with access to the central case tracking system "Nivadis" at the central police headquarters and its departments. The Java-based web application operates entirely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.SugarCRM Appoints Larry Augustin as Board Member
SugarCRM Inc. has announced the appointment of Larry Augustin to the Board of Directors. "SugarCRM provides powerful solutions built on a pure open source technology stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) offering functionality constructed by the best open source CRM experts from around the world."
Sun Microsystems Announces Release of Key Java Products to the Open Source Community
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has several announcements in this press release, among them plans to release key Java products to the open source community. "Those key technologies include Sun Java System Application Server 9 Platform Edition and Sun Java Enterprise Service Bus, the first fully open sourced enterprise service bus implementation based on the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification (JSR 208)."
TimeSys Introduces Freescale Linux Component Repository
TimeSys has announced a Linux Component Repository for Freescale PowerPC core Processors. "The Freescale Linux Component Repository is a key component of Linux Customization Solutions from TimeSys, web-based, automated development, build and validation tools that dramatically reduce the cost, effort and time required to tailor Linux to the unique feature, footprint and processor requirements of any embedded device."
Toshiba Announces 64 bit TX4939XBG-400 Reference Board
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. has announced a new reference board for the 64 bit MIPS-based TX4939XBG-400 single chip microprocessor. "The RBTX4939 consists of two modules, a CPU module and a base board. The CPU module includes the TX4939XBG-400 microprocessor, DDR SDRAM and the EJTAG interface. The base board includes the PCI slots, ATA sockets, Ethernet PHY (RMII) and audio/video interface socket."
TransGaming releases Cedega Portability Technology for Linspire
Linspire and TransGaming Technologies have announced the release of Cedega, a product that allows Windows games to be played under the Linspire distribution. "TransGaming's innovative Cedega portability technology, combined with the Point2Play graphical front end, offers equivalent game-play experience and performance, making it possible for avid Linux gamers to play titles like Half-Life 2, World of WarCraft and Battlefield 1942 on their machines."
Win4Lin and NoMachine partner to offer a Citrix alternative
Win4Lin and NoMachine have announced a partnership. "Win4Lin and NoMachine will develop a Windows and Linux hybrid terminal server solution that can be used for desktop productivity, line-of-business and legacy Windows application access. The solution will be based on the NoMachine NX Distributed Computing Architecture and Win4Lin Terminal Server."
Surfin' China:: Opera Web Browser on the new ZTE e3 Mobile Phone
Chinese company ZTE Corporation has chosen the Opera mobile Web browser for their new GSM mobile phone in China, the e3. The ZTE e3 is an advanced Linux-based smartphone geared toward the Chinese business market.JavaOne Press Releases
Here is the first round of press releases from the JavaOne conference.- BEA Announces Expanded dev2dev(TM) Online Community
- Catalyst Systems' Openmake 6.4 For Eclipse, .NET and WebSphere
- Funambol and Nokia Collaborate on Mobile Open Source Solution
- InterSystems Teams with InsiTech on Swing-Based Java Web Apps
- Motorola introduces E895 handset running Linux and Java
- Sun Microsystems Accelerates Delivery of Service Oriented Architecture Strategy
- Sun Microsystems Announces Fastest x64 Workstation in the Industry to Date
- Sun Microsystems Advances the Development of Building Java Applications
- Sun Microsystems Open Sources Key Java Enterprise Technologies
Java/open source related corporate announcemets
Here are some press releases inspired by the JavaOne conference:- Sun Microsystems Facilitates Community Learning With $180 Million Student Developer Program
- Oracle Strengthens Commitment to Java Developers With Free Development Tool and Open Source Projects
- BEA Systems plans to develop a J2EE application environment that is designed to fully support all major open source frameworks
- OpenLogic Introduces Free BlueGlue Starter Edition - based around Eclipse and Eclipse Plug-ins
New Books
Addison-Wesley Publishes Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Addison-Wesley has published the book Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, second edition by Richard Stevens and Stephen Rago.New Book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques
Martin F. Krafft has announced the publication of his book The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques by Open Source Press.Maven: A Developer's Notebook - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Maven: A Developer's Notebook by Vincent Massol and Timothy O'Brien.Swing Hacks - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Swing Hacks by Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson.Switching to VoIP - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Switching to VoIP by Ted Wallingford.UML 2.0 in a Nutshell - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book UML 2.0 in a Nutshell by Dan Pilone with Neil Pitman.No Starch Press Releases "Write Portable Code"
No Starch Press has published the book Write Portable Code by Brian Hook."Zooming in on Digital Cartography" - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Zooming in on Digital Cartography by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh.
Resources
The LDP Weekly News
The June 22, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest new documentation releases.
Contests and Awards
Lisp NYC awarded 9 project fundings by Google Summer of Code
Nine Lisp projects have been awarded funding by the Google Summer of Code project. "Dirk Gerrits, in a 25 Jun 2005 blog entry, lists the 9 Lisp project fundings awarded to Lisp NYC by Google Summer of Code. Lisp NYC is "a group devoted to the advocacy and advancement of professional software developers in their adoption of Common Lisp and associated languages"."
Google Summer of Code: Results In (KDE.News)
KDE.News finds the KDE related projects that are being worked on in Google's Summer of Code. "After reviewing the list of submissions, Google has released this morning the final list of Summer of Code proposals they have accepted. Out of 8000+ entries, 410 were selected and KDE proponents were awarded 24 out of those which equals $120,000 of support for KDE technology."
Ricoh and Sun Java Solutions $100,000 Developer Challenge
Ricoh Corporation and Sun Microsystems have announced a $100,000 Java Solutions Developer Challenge. "This program is designed to encourage creative submissions for both commercial and open source software applications that provide solutions that will run on the Ricoh Embedded Software Architecture platform. Participants in the Developer Challenge must be Premier Plus members in good standing of the Ricoh Developer Program (RiDP)."
Upcoming Events
DebConf5 Press Release
A new press release about the sixth annual Debian Developers Conference has been posted. "The conference will be kicked off on July 9th with Debian Day, which is aimed at the general public and the press. This is an excellent opportunity for corporations and governments to discover the benefits of the world's most mature GNU/Linux distribution. Computer users can experience the Debian community and learn from the software designers themselves."
FLOSSIE Conference 2005
The 2005 Free Libre Open Source In Education (FLOSSIE) conference and expo will be held in Bolton, UK on July 14-15, 2005. "This year's FLOSSIE Conference focuses on explaining and demonstrating the FLOSS technologies that achieve these results. The Conference now covers two days and keynote speakers are Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Technology Evangelist, and Dr Brian Iddon, MP for Bolton South-East and Member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee."
KDE to Demo at Montréal's Copyright and You Day (KDE.News)
KDE.News has an announcement for the Droit D'auteur et Vous "KDE will be present at the Droit D'auteur et Vous event in Montréal (Québec) on July 3rd. The event is to promote Free Software and Richard Stallman will be giving a talk on copyright. There is an expo for LUGs and other organisations where KDE has booked a stall to show off the latest KDE & KOffice and to hand out limited edition Kubuntu CDs."
LinuxMed 2005 Congress (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced the LinuxMed 2005 online conference. "LinuxMed 2005 is the First Virtual Meeting over Internet of Free and Libre Opensource Software , and its applications in Health Care and related disciplines. LinuxMed 2005 is developing in association with the FCVC Fourth cardiology Virtual congress over Internet, the most important international meeting in this field every two years. LinuxMed is organized by BioLinux Group, CETIFAC (Tele-informatics Center of FAC) and LAD (opensource e-learning system). From September 1st to November 30th, 2005."
ZEND/PHP Conference and Expo 2005
A Call for Presentations has gone out for the ZEND/PHP Conference and Expo 2005. The event takes place in Burlingame, California on October 18-21, 2005. Submissions are due by June 30.Events: June 30 - August 25, 2005
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2005 | Where 2.0 Conference | (Westin St. Francis Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| June 30 - July 3, 2005 | Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe(LVEE) | Hronda, Belarusia |
| June 30, 2005 | 2005 JavaOne | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| July 1 - 6, 2005 | Linux Desktop Development and KDevelop Developers Conference 2005 | Kiev, Ukraine |
| July 3, 2005 | Droit D'auteur et Vous | Montreal, Canada |
| 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 14 - 15, 2005 | Free Libre Open Source Software in Education Conference(FLOSSIE) | (Bolton Technology Innovation Centre)Bolton, UK |
| 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 | Black Hat Briefings USA 2005 | Las Vegas, NV |
| July 29 - 31, 2005 | DefCon 13 | (Alexis Park)Las Vegas, Nevada |
| July 31 - August 4, 2005 | 2005 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival | Los Angeles, CA |
| August 1 - 5, 2005 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention | (Oregon Convention Center)Portland, Oregon |
| August 1 - 5, 2005 | CIFS 2005 Conference and Plugfest | (Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, CA |
| August 4, 2005 | Penguincon 2005 | Israel |
| August 4 - 7, 2005 | Linux 2005 | (University of Wales)Swansea, UK |
| August 8 - 11, 2005 | LinuxWorld Conference and Expo | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| August 20, 2005 | Free Audio and Video Event(FAVE) | (Trinity Community and Arts Centre)Bristol, UK |
Event Reports
Impressions from OSG '05
Jan-Oliver Wagner has posted his impressions from the 2005 Open Source Geospatial conference. Thanks to Bernhard Reiter.
Mailing Lists
New mailing list to discuss adoption of VistA in a clinical setting (LinuxMedNews)
A new VistA mailing list has been announced. "At the request of several physicians involved in the adoption of VistA in their clinical settings, a mailing list to discuss topics pertaining to the discussion of VistA in a clinical setting has been created. Go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/worldvista-adoption to join."
Web sites
New Groklaw Page -- Litigation Cast of Characters (Groklaw)
Groklaw has announced an online list of legal cases covered by the site. "Groklaw's heretic approached me with an idea, to set up a page listing all the attorneys in all the cases we cover on Groklaw, as well as the judges, the law firms, the courts, with links to bios -- with pictures when available -- on the cast of characters, so we can keep them all straight. At the time, his idea was a bit more expansive, but after input from Groklaw's membership on his first draft, we eventually settled on the four categories."
New Engine for KDE Online Documentation (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers recent improvements to the KDE Documentation site. "The KDE online documentation site docs.kde.org has gotten a new back- and frontend addressing experiences made over the last few years. It now allows for faster and easier navigation through the languages and branches. The User Guide and the FAQ are featured more prominently and in the chosen language if already translated."
SourceForge.net Engineering Team Blog (SourceForge)
SourceForge has announced a new engineering team blog site. "The SourceForge.net Engineering Team has launched a blog to communicate information about our architecture, our tactical plans, and our progress. The blog may be accessed at: http://blog.dev.sf.net/."
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