Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Karlsruhe Memorandum on Softwarepatentability needs your signature!
The Free Software Foundation Europe is collecting signatures for its Karlsruhe Memorandum on Softwarepatentability. "Georg Greve, president of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) asks "everyone to sign up to the Karlsruhe Memorandum on software patentability preserve your freedom to be creative!" Started last Saturday during GNU/Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Germany the memorandum was signed by more than 200 people and 26 companies.."
yapc::NA::2005 Conference Proceedings (use Perl)
Use Perl has a call for conference materials from the recent YAPC::NA::2005 event. "For the presenters: this is your chance to update your slide show or presentation material that you want to include in the proceedings. It also gives you one last chance to update your photo and biography."
Commercial announcements
DbWrench Database Design v1.2.0 Released
A free trial version of DbWrench Database Design v1.2.0 is available for the PostgreSQL database.DENX Embedded Linux Development Kit for PowerPC Evaluation Kit
DENX Software Engineering has announced the availability of its Embedded Linux Development Kit in the AMCC PowerPC® 440EP evaluation kit. "The DENX Embedded Linux Development Kit provides a complete and powerful software development environment for embedded and real-time systems. All components of the ELDK are available for free with complete source code under GPL or other free software licenses."
Desktop Alert Releases Secure XMPP Jabber-based Linux Server
Desktop Alert Inc. has announced Jabcast 2.0 Secure for Linux. "Desktop Alert Inc. has released Jabcast 2.0 Secure for Linux which is based on an open source, secure, ad-free alternative to consumer IM services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo. Jabcast is a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies that enable any two entities on the Internet to exchange messages, presence, and other structured information in close to real time."
FSMLabs Brings Its RTLinux to ARM Processor-Based Platforms
FSMLabs, Inc. has announced the availability of RTLinuxPro development and deployment platform for a wide array of ARM(R) processors.Red Hat Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results
Red Hat, Inc. has announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended May 31, 2005. "Total revenue for the quarter was $60.8 million, a year-over-year increase of 46% and a sequential increase of 6%. Enterprise subscription revenue was $48.7 million, an increase of 63% year-over-year and 7% sequentially."
SGI Teams With IBM on Security and Identity System
SGI has announced the availability of IBM's Entity Analytics Portfolio on the SGI Altix Server platform. "IBM's DB2 EAS portfolio on SGI Altix helps solve identity problems common in national security, compliance, fraud detection, customer relationship management, insider threat detection, and other applications. The solution is designed to bring a new level of accuracy, precision, and fidelity to the concept of identity recognition and relationship resolution for government and commercial organizations."
VA Linux Business Forum a Spirited Success in Tokyo
VA Linux Systems Japan proclaims the VA Linux Business Forum, held last week in Tokyo, as a success. "This year the forum sought to explore the continuing growth of VA Linux as a technology source, present current business conditions and the directions of VA Linux partner companies as the core businesses driving the Linux and Open Source movement, as well as introduce new technologies and solutions essential to the enterprise market built from the Linux kernel level upward."
New Books
Addison-Wesley Publishes Second Edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Addison-Wesley has announced the release of the Second Edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, originally authored by W. Richard Stevens, and now comprehensively revised and expanded by Stephen A. Rago.JBoss: A Developer's Notebook - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book JBoss: A Developer's Notebook by Norman Richards and Sam Griffith, Jr.
Contests and Awards
Nominations for NJAPHs Open (use Perl)
Nominations are being accepted for a new Perl award. "jesse writes "At YAPC::NA, David H. Adler and I announced the creation of a new set of awards for the perl community: the NJAPHs. These awards recognize Perl hackers who have made an outstanding technical contribution in the past year. Nominations are now open, and will be tallied at OSCON, where information about how to cast your vote will be announced. The awards will be presented at YAPC::EU.""
Upcoming Events
GarageGames Presents the 4th Annual IGC
GarageGames will be holding the 4th Annual Indie Games Con from October 7-9, 2005 in Eugene, Oregon. "Indie Games Con (IGC) is a fun, informal and informative community gathering of independent game developers from around the world. IGC is designed to be a summit meeting of like-minded developers with the shared goal to focus on collaboration and building community. Along with sessions on game art, technology, tools and business, the event has a central ShowOFF Center where developers can showcase their current prototypes, demos and newly released games."
UKUUG Linux 2005 Conference
The UKUUG Linux 2005 Conference will be held in Swansea on August 4-7, 2005. A detailed description of the event is now available.Events: July 7 - September 1, 2005
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 7 - 9, 2005 | LSM 2005 Libre Software Meeting for Medicine | Dijon, France |
| July 7 - 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 |
| August 27 - September 4, 2005 | aKademy 2005 | (University of Málaga)Málaga Spain |
| August 31 - September 2, 2005 | YAPC::EU::2005 | (University of Minho)Braga, Portugal |
| September 1 - 2, 2005 | Symposium on Security for Asia Network(SyScAN'05) | (The Dusit Thani Hotel)Bangkok, Thailand |
Event Reports
More coverage of International Lisp Conference 2005
More coverage of the 2005 International Lisp Conference is available online.
Miscellaneous
KDE Announces the 24 Google Projects (KDE.News)
The KDE Project and Google have announced the 24 KDE projects selected for the Summer of Code project. "The accepted projects span accessibility work, improvements to the office and personal information management suites, and innovations to KDE architecture. Much anticipated projects include one addressing VoIP in KDE, and a unified document viewer to handle multiple formats with a plugin architecture for third party vendor extensions."
Summer of Code Results (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine reports on the list of Mozilla-related projects chosen to be part of Google's Summer Of Code. "Selected projects include an event logger for Firefox, a SIP phone client for Thunderbird, a Firefox extension installer, a XUL front end for Bugzilla, a graphical theme builder for Mozilla, a BitTorrent client built with XUL/XPCOM and localizations for Latvian, Thai, Vietnamese and Hindi."
Python Summer Of Code projects
A. M. Kuchling has announced the project list for the Python projects that will be mentored by the Python Software Foundation during the Summer Of Code event.
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