Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Annodex Foundation launched at linux.conf.au
The Annodex Foundation was launched at the recent linux.conf.au event. "Annodex is an open source technology that allows the creation of audiovisual content as 'webs' of audio and video, which are fully integrated with the text-based search and surfing capabilities of the World Wide Web. Increasing activity and uptake of the open media technology Annodex has spurred its open source development community into creating the Annodex Foundation, making it sustainable outside its originating organisation, the CSIRO."
Debian Founder Ian Murdock Appointed CTO of the Free Standards Group
The Free Standards Group (FSG) has announced that Debian founder Ian Murdock has been appointed its chief technology officer and elected chair of the Linux Standard Base workgroup. "As founder of Debian -- one of the most successful open source projects in history -- and commercial custom Linux platform provider Progeny, Murdock brings unmatched experience building open source communities, driving technical consensus and solving Linux distribution challenges. His experience will immediately enhance the open standards initiatives of the Free Standards Group and the Linux Standard Base."
Linux and Open Source Initiative formed (eFinland)
eFinland reports that Linux users have formed the Finnish Linux and Open Source Initiative forum. "The founders of the forum include IBM, Ericsson, Nokia, the Universities of Helsinki and Oulu, the Tampere University of Technology, the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, the Finnish IT center for science CSC, and the Centre for Open Source Software COSS."
eBox platform released
The eBox platform, a network appliance that is licensed under the GPL, has been released. "eBox manages network services, such as proxy cache, content filter, DHCP server, file sharing, Windows PDC or firewall, through an easy and straightforward manner through a web interface. The officially supported system to use eBox is Debian Sarge GNU/Linux and a tailored Sarge Debian installer including eBox packages is available." (Thanks to Isaac Clerencia.)
Commercial announcements
Astaro and Utimaco announce partnership
Astaro Corporation has announced a partnership with Utimaco Safeware AG. "Astaro plans to integrate Utimaco technology into its Unified Threat Management security architecture, and offer the world's first security appliance integrating strong encryption and digital signature mechanisms based on the S/MIME and OpenPGP industry standards."
CrossOver Office for Linspire supports Microsoft Windows software
Linspire, Inc. has announced the release of CrossOver Office 5.0 for Linspire. "CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading Windows-to-Linux software developer, and Linspire, Inc., maker of the easy-to-use desktop Linux operating system, today announced the release of CrossOver Office 5.0 for Linspire. Linspire users who purchase CrossOver Office can run dozens of Windows applications, including Microsoft Office 2003, Adobe Photoshop and Intuit's Quicken and Quickbooks, natively from their Linspire desktop Linux operating system."
Flander accelerates development of mobile Linux smartphones
Flander will present a reference design of its mobile Linux smartphone platform at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, Spain. 3GSM takes place on February 13-16, 2006. "The mobile-software testing and development company Flander develops the architecture of mobile Linux smartphones. A unique feature of Flanders reference design is that it supports several software vendors. The reference model significantly accelerates the development process and time-to-market of mobile Linux smartphones as well as reducing associated costs."
Funambol's Open Source Push Email
Funambol has announced an open-source push email product for mobile phones. "Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced the release of Funambol v3, the first open source push email product for carriers and enterprises. Funambol v3 allows customers to deploy this year's "killer app" push email to the widest range of mobile phones."
IBM gives-away DB2 Linux - not a trial version
IBM has released a free version of their DB2 Express-C Universal Database for Linux. "IBM is giving-away DB2 Express-C, a version of DB2 Universal Database Express Edition to the developer community. DB2 Express-C is a no-charge data server for use in application development and deployment. It provides the same core data server features as DB2 Universal Database Express Edition. DB2 Express-C offers a solid base to build and deploy all applications including: C/C++, Java, .NET, PHP, and more."
Jitterbit announces Jitterbit Open Edition
Jitterbit, Inc. has announced the availability of the open-source Jitterbit Open Edition business integration product. "Jitterbit's open source integration tool delivers a quick and easy way to design, configure, test, and deploy integration solutions. It supports most standards-based protocols, including Web Services (SOAP), XML, and connectivity to popular databases."
Krugle Announces Search Engine for Source Code at DEMO Conference
Krugle, Inc. has announced a search engine for source code and related technical content. ""Krugle is a search engine for programmers," said Krugle Co-Founder and CEO, Steve Larsen. "Today programming is more about efficiently assembling and integrating code, than it is about writing new code from scratch. The problem is, finding and evaluating the available code takes too much time. That's the problem Krugle solves.""
MySQL AB Opens Japanese Subsidiary
MySQL AB has announced the opening of a Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo. "MySQL K.K. is partnering with a number of large and leading Japanese resellers and systems integrators to deliver MySQL solutions to the enterprise market, including NEC System Technologies Ltd, NTT Comware, Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation, NRI, Open Source Japan, SmartStyle, and Time Intermedia."
Opera integrates BitTorrent in upcoming browser
Opera Software has announced that it has teamed with BitTorrent Inc. to include the BitTorrent(tm) protocol in the upcoming version of the Opera Web browser.Sleepycat and CollabNet Open Source Collaboration
Sleepycat Software and CollabNet have announced that the two companies have collaborated, along with the Subversion open source community, to optimize the integration between Berkeley DB and Subversion, ensuring that data is stored reliably and with full, automatic recoverability after a system or application failure.Sun Announces Release of Open Source NetBeans 5 IDE
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the release of NetBeans 5.0 IDE. "NetBeans 5.0 IDE provides comprehensive support for building Java SE, Java EE, and Java ME applications and includes a variety of unique new features and significant enhancements such as NetBeans GUI Builder (formerly Project Matisse), that differentiates it from all other developer tools."
TimeSys Introduces free LinuxLink Evaluation
TimeSys has announced a free LinuxLink Evaluation Subscription for Pentium-class Processors. "Embedded developers can use the evaluation subscription to rapidly determine how LinuxLink by TimeSys(TM) can speed and simplify efforts to create a commercial-grade custom Linux platform for any target processor."
New Books
C# Cookbook, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book C# Cookbook, Second Edition by Jay Hilyard and Stephen Teilhet.
Resources
Bugzilla/Subversion/Wiki Integration Guide (Segetech)
Segetech has announced the availability of a Bugzilla/Subversion/Wiki Integration Guide. "This document provides a detailed configuration guide to integrate incrementally several Open Source development tools ... Bugzilla/SVN/MediaWiki are all linked to each other and they together with mailing lists and various SVN utilities provide easily accessible way to see changes to documentation and source code, handling of bug reports, and people contributing to projects without any additional tools or preparations ..."
FSF Europe Newsletter
The February 8, 2006 edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter is online. Topics include: Fellowship meetings in Vienna and Berlin, Discussion about Free Software in Austrian schools started, First draft of GPLv3 presented and Microsoft still trying to avoid competition.Linux Gazette #123 is out!
The February 2006 edition of Linux Gazette is out. This month's articles include Re-compress your gzipp'ed files to bzip2 using a Bash script (HOWTO), uClinux on Blackfin BF533 STAMP - A DSP Linux Port, A Short Tutorial on XMLHttpRequest(), Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance, and much more.
Contests and Awards
Extend Firefox Contest Finalists Announced (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine announces the finalists for the Extend Firefox Contest. "Adblock, All-In-One Sidebar, Deepest Sender, DownThemAll!, Firefox Showcase, Forecastfox Enhanced, Groowe Search Toolbar, IE Tab, My Stickies, PDF Download, Platypus, Reveal, Sage, ScrapBook, Separe, Viamatic foXpose, Web Developer and Wizz RSS News Reader will be vying for awards in eleven categories, including Best New Extension, Best Upgraded Extension and Best Use of New Firefox 1.5 features."
Realm Systems Announces Winners in BlackDog(TM) Skills Contest
Realm Systems has announced the category winners in the Project Black Dog skills contest. "The online DogPound discussion group has been very active in talking about the BlackDog, a pocket-sized, self-contained server with a built-in biometric reader and Debian-based Linux operating system. Unlike any other mobile computing device, BlackDog contains its own processor, memory and storage, and is completely powered by the USB port of a host computer with no external power adapter required."
Education and Certification
LPI Offers Certification Exams at LinuxWorld Mexico
The Linux Professional Institute will be holding Linux Certification Exams at LinuxWorld Mexico in Mexico City on February 14-17, 2006.
Upcoming Events
Black Hat USA CFP opens
A call for papers has gone out for the Black Hat USA security conference. The event takes place from July 29 to August 3 in Las Vegas, NV. Submissions are due by June 30.Novell and Red Hat Sponsor Desktop Linux Summit
Novell and Red Hat are the top sponsors of the upcoming Desktop Linux Summit. "The Desktop Linux Summit today announced that Linux industry giants Novell and Red Hat have signed on as platinum sponsors for the show, which is the only event to focus exclusively on Linux and open source software for the desktop. In its fourth year, the Summit will be held April 24-25, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego, California."
Call for Participation Opens for 2006 O'Reilly EuroOSCON
A Call for Participation has gone out for the 2006 O'Reilly EuroOSCON. "This year's theme is "Opening Innovation." With free and open source software use on the rise all across the continent and particularly in governments, EuroOSCON creates a place for developers, sys admins, entrepreneurs, and business people working in free and open source software to come together to delve into critical issues across the spectrum of open source technologies. EuroOSCON takes place 18-21 September in Brussels, Belgium. Proposals are being accepted until 6 March."
GUADEC 2006 - Call for Papers (GnomeDesktop)
A Call for Papers has gone out for the 2006 GNOME Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC). The event takes place on June 24-30, 2006 in Catalonia, Spain, submissions are due by March 31.First ImageJ User and Developer Conference (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the first ImageJ User and Developer Conference "ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux." The event will be held in Luxembourg on May 18 and 19, 2006.
NSPW 2006 Call for Papers
A Call for Papers has gone out for the New Security Paradigms Workshop. The event takes place in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany on September 18-21, 2006. Submissions are due by March 26.NYPHPCon 2006
The New York PHP Conference & Expo 2006 will take place on June 14-16, 2006. "The New York PHP Conference & Expo 2006 is taking place in midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the historic New Yorker Hotel. There will be three full days of sessions, tutorials, exhibits, and networking events." A call for papers is open, submissions should be sent in by April 15.
Python 14 Conference CFP
A call for proposals has gone out for the Python 14 Conference. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2006 O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon on July 24-28, 2006. Proposals are due by February 13.SugarCRM CEO John Roberts to Deliver Keynote at OSBC West
SugarCRM Inc. has announced the selection of its CEO for giving the OSBC West keynote address. "John Roberts, chairman, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM Inc., has been selected to deliver a keynote address on the open source business model at OSBC West, the Open Source Business Conference that opens in San Francisco on February 14. Roberts and Clint Oram, the company's general manager of Sugar Online & co-founder, will also give three other presentations at the conference."
Want to host the Plone Conference 2006?
The 2006 Plone Conference is looking for a host. "Who is interested in playing host to this most talented and excellent community? Who shall come forth to take his/her rightful place in the Hall of Plone Heroes? Where shall we assemble and marshal our forces, and what shall the battle plan be?"
Rockbox International Developers Conference 2006
The Rockbox International Developers Conference 2006 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on March 18 and 19, 2006. "We thought we'd get together for a two-day Rockbox hacking session, and that it would be cool if there were some other Rockbox devs who would drop by and share the fun."
Keynotes Announced for 2nd SELinux Symposium
The keynotes for the second annual Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium have been announced. The event takes place in Baltimore, MD on February 27 through March 3. "The second annual Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium has announced that its keynote speakers will be IT security pioneer Steve Walker, president of Steve Walker & Associates and managing partner of Walker Ventures, and Dr. Steve Marsh, director of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance unit in the UK Cabinet Office."
Events: February 9 - April 6, 2006
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 9 - 10, 2006 | X Developer's Conference(XDevConf) | (Sun Campus)Santa Clara, CA |
| February 9 - 10, 2006 | LinuxAsia Conference and Expo 2006 | (India Habitat Centre)New Delhi, India |
| February 9, 2006 | OSCMS Summit | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 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 10, 2006 | PHP Conference UK 2006 | (Keyworth Centre)London, England |
| February 11 - 12, 2006 | Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE 4x) | (Airport Radisson)Los Angeles, California |
| February 14 - 16, 2006 | Open Source Business Conference(OSBCWest 06) | (The Argent Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| 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 26 - 28, 2006 | OSDC::Israel::2006 | (Netanya Academic College)Netanya, Israel |
| 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 |
| March 3 - 4, 2006 | LinuxForum 2006 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 6 - 9, 2006 | O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference(ETech) | (Manchester Grand Hyatt)San Diego, CA |
| March 17 - 19, 2006 | Libre Graphics Meeting 2006 | (Ecole d'Ingénieurs CPE)Lyon, France |
| March 18 - 19, 2006 | Rockbox International Developers Conference 2006 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| March 19 - 24, 2006 | Novell BrainShare 2006 | (Salt Palace Convention Center)Salt Lake City, UT |
| March 21 - 23, 2006 | UKUUG Spring Conference 2006 | Durham, UK |
| March 25, 2006 | Penguin Day | Seattle, WA |
| March 29 - 31, 2006 | PHP Quebec 2006 | (Plaza Montreal Hotel)Montreal, Canada |
| April 3 - 6, 2006 | Embedded Systems Conference(ESC) | (McEnery Convention Center)San Jose, CA |
| April 3 - 7, 2006 | CanSecWest/core06 | (Marriott Renaissance Harbourside hotel)Vancouver, Canada |
Web sites
The Firebird News Portal
A new news portal is open for the Firebird database. It contains: "Links to sites around the world that specialise in news about Firebird or otherwise of interest to Firebird users."
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