Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The Free Standards Group Accessibility Workgroup
The Free Standards Group is requesting comments on accessibility standards specifications for the Keyboard Access Functional Specification and the Generic Assertions for Manual Testing. "The Freestandards Group Accessibility (FSGA) workgroup's keyboard team is requesting comments on two candidate FSG standards specification documents. These specifications are expected to become FSGA standards in 2006." Comments should be submitted by December 31.
Mozilla Newsgroups Migration Scheduled (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine reports on the move of the Mozilla newsgroups. "As announced earlier, the new newsgroups will be hosted by Giganews. Access to the news server news.mozilla.org will remain free. The new groups will only be propogated to news.mozilla.org, Giganews Servers and Google Groups in an effort to combat news spam."
After EFF Litigation, Diebold Pulls Out of North Carolina
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an announcement regarding Diebold voting machines. "Raleigh, North Carolina - After a series of lawsuits led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to defend North Carolina's election integrity laws, controversial electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems finally withdrew from the state's voting machine procurement process on Thursday."
Commercial announcements
Fluendo announces cost free GStreamer mp3 plugin
Fluendo has announced a cost free mp3 plugin for the GStreamer multimedia framework. "With this plugins end-users and distributions everywhere can get hold of a cost free MP3 playback solution. This plugin is for the 0.10 version of the GStreamer framework."
Interact-TV Hits New Sales Record in November 2005
Interact-TV has announced a new sales record for November. "Interact-TV (OTC: ITVI), a leading developer of Linux-based Home Entertainment Servers has announced a record month in November, 2005 with an increase of over 480% from the same month a year ago. Telly Home Entertainment Servers allow consumers to easily store, share, manage and enjoy digital media throughout their home."
Linspire and Mirus Launch a new Line of Linux PCs
Linspire, Inc. and Mirus Innovations have announced a new line of Linux-based desktop computers, starting with the $299 entry. "At $299, the Essential Koobox is just right for basic computing -- a perfect student machine or second home computer. The machine comes complete with CDRW drive, 5 USB ports, including a convenient front-side port, Internet keyboard and optical mouse, and 2W speakers. Inside, the machine rounds out with an AMD Sempron processor, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, and onboard video and sound networks."
Open-Xchange Offers Free Live-CD for Open-Xchange Server
Open-Xchange, Inc. has announced the availability of a free, fully functional Live-CD of Open-Xchange Server 5 that gives users a cost-free, risk-free way to test all the attributes of the worlds leading open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange.Red Hat CEO to Adopt Stock Trading Plan In January
Red Hat, Inc. has announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Szulik, plans to enter into a Rule 10b5-1 stock trading plan with respect to the Company's common stock and also to engage in transactions in the Company's common stock outside of the stock trading plan, in January 2006.Sun Microsystems Introduces NetBeans Profiler Milestone 11
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced a new release of the NetBeans Profiler. "Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today announced NetBeans Profiler Milestone 11, the latest release of its high-performance Java application profiler, and an add-on to the upcoming open source NetBeans(TM) IDE release 5."
Terra Soft Ships Bioinformatics Package for Power, x86 Linux
Terra Soft Solutions has announced the shipment of Y-Bio, its first solution for the life sciences market, originally launched at SC2005.Migrating From Windows to Linux Simplified With New Versora Software
Versora and Linspire, Inc. have announced the release of Versora's Progression Desktop for Linspire. "This easy-to-use migration tool allows users to transfer e-mail, files and settings from their Windows machine to a Linux machine, moving critical data, application settings, e-mail, calendar entries, contact lists, desktop settings and directory structures via a "Click-Next-Next-Finished" interface."
Video Without Boundaries announces new MediaREADY
Video Without Boundaries, Inc. has announced demonstrations of a new release of its MediaREADY Digital Media Center product line. "To be demonstrated live at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the Linux-based line of products will be a series of popular online services and applications including iTunes, Yahoo! Music, Google Video, AOL Optimized 9.0, voice calling as well as transfer of video and audio to the Apple iPod."
Contests and Awards
Astaro Unified Threat Management appliances honored
Astaro has announced the receipt of rewards from Computer Reseller News and SC Magazine for its network security solutions. "Astaro products were featured in the Multifunction Appliances and Firewalls/VPNs categories in the Best of 2005 SC Magazine issue. In the October issue of the same publication, the Astaro Security Gateway 220 received a Best Buy and five-out-of-five star rating."
KOffice 2 User Interface Design Competition (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers KOffice GUI and Functionality Design competition. There's a cash prize for the winner, and the new design will be used in KOffice 2.x which is due for release around the same time as KDE 4.0.
Upcoming Events
Black Hat Federal and Europe Early Registration
Early registration is open for the Black Hat Europe security conference. The Black Hat USA 2006 call for papers will open at the end of January.GNU Classpath and friends meeting during Fosdem 2006
The GNU Classpath and friends meeting will be held on February 25 during the Fosdem 2006 conference in Brussels, Belgium.linux.conf.au 2006 reminder
A reminder has gone out for the 2006 linux.conf.au event. "With just over a month to go before the start of linux.conf.au 2006, we feel it's time to let those that have not heard, hear, and give those that have a reminder that time to register is running short. linux.conf.au 2006 will be held at the University of Otago in the remarkable city of Dunedin, New Zealand from the 23rd - 28th of January 2006."
Registration Opens for 2006 MySQL Users Conference
Registration for the 2006 MySQL Users Conference has been announced. The event takes place in Santa Clara, California on April 24-27.OSCON 2006 Call for Proposals
A Call for Proposals has gone out for the O'Reilly OSCON 2006 conference. The event will take place on July 24-28, 2006 in Portland, Oregon. Proposals are due by February 13.PyCon schedule available
The schedule for the 2006 PyCon has been posted. The conference takes place on February 24-26, 2006 in Addison, Texas.SCALE Announces Workshop On Open Standards For Government Organizations
The SCALE Workshop On Open Standards For Government will be held on February 10, 2006 in Los Angeles, CA. "In partnership with The Open Document Fellowship, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced plans to host a workshop on open standards in government at their upcoming conference, SCALE 4x. The focus of this workshop will be on the use of OASIS OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) and document accessibility standards in state and local government. The goal of this event is to foster a discussion about choice in software and open standards at all levels of California government."
X.org Developer's Conference
Here's an event announcement that we somehow failed to get up earlier: the X.Org Developer's Conference will be held February 8 to 10 in Santa Clara, California. Coming on the heels of the X11R7.0 release, this conference should offer some interesting insights into where X development goes next. Scheduled talks include a session by Jim Gettys on graphics in the One Laptop Per Child project and an intriguing talk on "NVIDIA driver internals."Events: January 5 - March 2, 2006
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 13 - 15, 2006 | ShmooCon 2006 | (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel)Washington, D.C. |
| January 23 - 28, 2006 | linux.conf.au 2006 | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| January 23 - 25, 2006 | Black Hat Federal Briefings and Training 2006 | (Sheraton Crystal City)Washington, D.C. |
| January 24 - 26, 2006 | O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference | (San Francisco Airport Marriott)San Francisco, CA |
| February 6 - 7, 2006 | ICMCC Conference on EHR Standards and Interoperability | (World Forum Convention Center, The Hague)The Netherlands |
| February 8 - 10, 2006 | X Developer's Conference(XDevConf) | (Sun Campus)Santa Clara, CA |
| February 8 - 10, 2006 | LinuxAsia Conference and Expo 2006 | (India Habitat Centre)New Delhi, India |
| February 10 - 12, 2006 | CodeCon 2006 | San Francisco, CA |
| February 10, 2006 | SCALE Workshop On Open Standards For Government Organizations | (Airport Radisson)Los Angeles, CA |
| February 11 - 12, 2006 | Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE 4x) | (Los Angeles Airport Westin)Los Angeles, California |
| February 20 - 21, 2006 | EuSecWest/core06 conference | London, England |
| February 24 - 26, 2006 | PyCon 2006 | (Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel)Addison, TX |
| February 25 - 26, 2006 | FOSDEM 2006 | (ULB Campus)Brussels, Belgium |
| February 27 - March 3, 2006 | SELinux Symposium and Developer Summit | (Wyndham Hotel)Baltimore, MD |
| February 28 - March 3, 2006 | Black Hat Europe Briefings and Training 2006 | (Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky)Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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