Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Open source developers visit Dutch government
The OSS Guru Group visited the Dutch government organization for ICT (ICTU) for their first meeting. "The aim of the OSS Guru Group is to create a sustainable relationship between the Open Source community and an ICTU-project that develops software for the government. The software currently under development entails a redesign of the GBA, i.e. the Population Registry. This software will be based on open source components, and will be deployed on a large scale by approximately 3 Ministries, 500 Municipalities and more than 5000 government agencies." (Thanks to Bart Knubben)
Commercial announcements
DigiLore Releases SCORM 2004 Enhancements for the Open Source LMS, Moodle
DigiLore, Inc. has announced a new version of Moodle. "DigiLore, Inc. the thought leader in Learning Lifecycle Management(TM) announced today it has released, to the open source community, enhancements to the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). These developments render Moodle compliant with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative's SCORM 2004 standards."
FSMLabs Showcases Real-time Linux for AMD Dual-Core Processors
FSMLabs is demonstrating single-digit microsecond timing in their software while running on 64-bit dual core AMD Opteron processors. "RTLinux for AMD CPUs meets the hard real-time needs for high performance communications, dedicated networking and security systems, instrumentation and control, simulation, imaging, and other demanding embedded deployments."
Keane Wins $54 Million NWS Contract
Keane, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the National Weather Service to upgrade the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). "Keane will develop a vigorous, sustainable architecture and will integrate and maintain the software products developed at the various NWS labs to support AWIPS' real-time processing system. Utilizing advanced technologies, Keane will manage the AWIPS migration to an all-Linux environment built on Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 and support the migration of AWIPS to an open-standards, service-oriented architecture based on a Web services platform."
Novell Selects SugarCRM's Sugar Suite for New Market Start Program
SugarCRM Inc. has announced a collaboration with Novell. "SugarCRM Inc. today announced a collaboration with Novell. its selection as one of the first open source application partners for Novell's(R) Market Start program, designed to make the low cost and easy back-office integration benefits of open source and open standards-based enterprise applications easily accessible to small and mid-sized businesses. SugarCRM's Sugar Suite is the first customer relationship management (CRM) software to be selected for the program, reflecting the application's status as the market's most successful commercial open source enterprise platform."
Panasonic Launches New Technology Center For Embedded Linux
Panasonic Digital Concepts Center has announced the launch of its new Technology Collaboration Center, with a technology focus on embedded Linux OS applications and middleware solutions.REAL Software Ships REALbasic 2005 for Linux
REAL Software has announced REALbasic 2005 for Linux. "REALbasic 2005 for Linux is a rapid application development (RAD) environment that enables professional and non-professional programmers alike to quickly create software for Linux." The company has also published a white paper on migrating Visual Basic applications to Linux.
SGI announces DMediaPro DM12 digital media board
SGI has announced a new video board for its 64 bit Linux-based visualization system. "Supporting the 64-bit Linux(R) operating system, the DMediaPro DM12 video board is a professional digital media interface providing up to 2K (8-bit or 10-bit) input and output, with single and dual link HD-SDI capabilities including dual-link output for RGBA (4:4:4:4) or YUVA (4:2:2:4). DM12 includes support of eight channels of digital audio, for embedded audio or configured with AES/EBU interfaces."
VMware Introduces VMware Workstation 5.5
VMware, Inc. has announced the release of its VMware Workstation 5.5 desktop virtualization software. New features include 64-bit Guest Support, experimental Two-way Virtual SMP, improved Virtual Machine Importer and command line interfaces, and more.Xilinx announces Integrated PowerPC and MicroBlaze Development Kit
Xilinx, Inc. has announced a new PowerPC(TM) and MicroBlaze(TM) Development Kit. "The FX12 Edition delivers an integrated platform with hardware, design tools, intellectual property (IP) and reference designs to kick start the development process. Developers can select the processor(s) best suited for the target application and rapidly configure complete systems with a single, easy-to-use kit."
New Books
Digital Identity - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Digital Identity by Phillip J. Windley.php|architect's Pocket PHP Reference
The book php|architect's Pocket PHP Reference has been published by php|architect. "All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross' Hurricane Katrina's Relief Fund."
Tips and Techniques for Pro Photo Retouchers--O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio by Glenn Honiball.
Resources
PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet
Peter Freitag has posted a handy PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet that contains examples of numerous database statements.
Contests and Awards
The Code Project and Mainsoft Announce 'Race to Linux'
The Code Project and Mainsoft Corporation have announced the first Race to Linux contest. "The Race to Linux challenges Visual Studio developers to port existing ASP.NET applications to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Mono, Grasshopper, PHP, Macromedia, etc.). The Code Project will announce which ASP.NET application needs to run on IBM xSeries Linux at the start of each race. The winners of each of the three races will win an Xbox 360."
Surveys
Announcing the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey (O'ReillyNet)
O'Reilly has announced the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey. "The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is now open. This is your opportunity to let us know what you're using, what you're watching and waiting for, and what you'd like to see from ONJava in the future. The survey is about 20 questions long, a mixture of multiple-choice and free-response questions, and will only take a few minutes to complete."
Education and Certification
Linux Learning Zone launched
APNIC Solutions Ltd. has launched the Linux Learning Zone. "Linux Learning Zone provides a number of FREE services to the community as well as optional paid extras. Have a look through the site, play with the free stuff (some of which requires an account - this is free). Should you wish to subscribe to what is essentially a tailored linux training program then please get in contact immediately as that's what we do - using practical and hands-on methods to teach linux on any level. So please contact us immediately and see just how helpful we are!"
Upcoming Events
EuroOSCON, Amsterdam
The 2005 O'Reilly European OSCON will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on October 17-20, 2005.Gelato to Promote Linux Itanium at Brazil Meeting
The Gelato Federation will hold a meeting in Brazil October 2-5 to advance Linux on the Intel Itanium platform in Latin America.Linux Installfest workshops in Davis - Saturday, Sept. 17th
The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold their next Linux Install Workshop in Davis, CA on September 17, 2005.PyCon 2006 Call for Proposals
A Call for Proposals has gone out for the PyCon 2006 conference. Submissions are due by October 31, 2005.Events: September 15 - November 10, 2005
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 15 - 16, 2005 | php|works | (Holiday Inn Yorkdale)Toronto, Canada |
| September 15, 2005 | Embedded Systems Conference | (Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass |
| September 15, 2005 | Novell Brainshare 2005 | (CCIB)Barcelona, Spain |
| September 16 - 18, 2005 | ToorCon 7 | (San Diego Convention Center)San Diego, CA |
| September 17 - 18, 2005 | Freedel | New Delhi, India |
| September 19 - 21, 2005 | Plone Conference 2005 | (Semper Depot, Lehargasse)Vienna, Austria |
| September 20 - 23, 2005 | New Security Paradigms Workshop(NSPW) | (UCLA Conference Center)Lake Arrowhead, California |
| September 23 - 24, 2005 | Sixth Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming(TFP 2005) | Tallinn, Estonia |
| September 26 - 29, 2005 | Hack in the Box Security Conference(HITBSecConf2005) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| September 26 - 30, 2005 | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing(Cluster 2005) | Boston, Massachusetts |
| September 28 - 30, 2005 | OpenOffice.org Conference 2005(OO.oCon) | Koper (Capodistria), Slovenia |
| September 30 - October 2, 2005 | Linucon | Austin, Texas |
| October 1, 2005 | Ohio LinuxFest 2005 | Columbus, OH |
| October 2 - 5, 2005 | Gelato October 2005 Meeting for Linux on Itanium | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| October 5 - 6, 2005 | LinuxWorld London | Olympia, London, UK |
| October 5 - 7, 2005 | Web 2.0 Conference | (Argent Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| October 6, 2005 | Fedora Users and Developers Conference(FUDCon London) | (LinuxWorld Conference and Expo UK)London, UK |
| October 7 - 9, 2005 | Indie Games Con 2005(IGC) | Eugene, Oregon |
| October 8 - 10, 2005 | GNOME Boston Summit | (Gates Building)Cambridge, MA |
| October 8, 2005 | LinuxForum BOF-dag | Denmark |
| October 12 - 13, 2005 | IT Underground(ITU) | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 13 - 14, 2005 | Open Source Desktop Workshops | San Diego, CA |
| October 14 - 15, 2005 | HackLu 2005 | (Chambre des Metiers)Kirchberg, Luxembourg |
| October 14 - 16, 2005 | Blender Conference 2005 | (De Waag)Amsterdam, the Netherland |
| October 16 - 23, 2005 | piksel05 | Bergen, Norway |
| October 17 - 20, 2005 | O'Reilly European Open Source Convention 2005(EuroOSCON) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| October 17 - 20, 2005 | O'Reilly European Open Source Convention(EuroOSCON) | (NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky)Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| October 18 - 21, 2005 | Zend/PHP Conference and Expo 2005 | (Hyatt Regency SF Airport Hotel)Burlingame, CA |
| October 18, 2005 | Dynamic Languages Symposium 2005(DLS05) | San Diego, CA |
| October 19 - 21, 2005 | Australian Unix Users Group Conference 2005(AUUG) | Sydney, Australia |
| October 24 - 28, 2005 | 12th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | (Red Lion Hotel)Portland, Oregon |
| October 30, 2005 October 31 - November 11, 2005 | Ubuntu Below Zero | (downtown Holiday Inn)Montreal, Canada |
| October 30, 2005 October 31 - November 11, 2005 | Ubuntu Below Zero | (downtown Holiday Inn)Montreal, Canada |
| November 6 - 9, 2005 | International PHP Conference 2005 | Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 7 - 9, 2005 | Open Source Database Conference 05 | (NH-Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 8 - 9, 2005 | Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP(AFUP) | Paris, France |
Web sites
Mozilla Developer Center in Beta (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has announced a beta version of the Mozilla Developer Center "Known as Devmo to its friends, the Mozilla Developer Center is a new site for coders wishing to build upon the Mozilla platform. There's documentation and resources for many groups, including extension authors, Web developers and localisers."
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