Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Asterisk Advisory Council formed
Digium has announced the formation of the Asterisk (telecom project) Advisory Council. "Composed of five experienced Asterisk community contributors, the Council will assist in the overall management of Asterisk including the selection and supervision of community developers, release cycles and contributions."
EFF: Digital Copyright Law Hurts Consumers, Scientists and Competition
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced (click below) the release of Unintended Consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA, a collection of reports of the misuses of the DMCA.Open Source Parking
Bruce Perens is bothered by a recent event: "Microsoft has been paying the large domain resellers to move their 'parked' sites to IIS on Microsoft Server. Moving the parked customers of a single large reseller, GoDaddy.com, caused a shift of 4.5 Million domain names, or 5% of total server share from Apache to Microsoft IIS in the Netcraft report. This is an 'appearance' change only, because the sites involved have no content. But managers believe figures like those in the Netcraft report, and act on them." His response is OpenSourceParking.com, a place where idle domains can be parked and show up in the Linux column. He also plans to use the resulting advertising revenue to fund an open-source political action committee.
California Bill on Open Voting To Be Heard on Tuesday (Technocrat.net)
Technocrat.net looks at California AB2097, which implements the people's right to know how their votes are counted - rather than to have the details cloaked with DMCA and trade-secret law applying to present proprietary voting software. The hearing is Tuesday April 18 in Sacramento, California.
Commercial announcements
FSMLabs and Advantech Announce Partnership
FSMLabs has announced a collaboration with Advantech on a single board computer platform. "The first qualified board is an Advantech fanless "3.5 inch Biscuit SBC" that uses 10 watts to run RTLinux hard real-time under the full load of sophisticated middleware like Java, databases, and web servers. Users can choose to run the industry standard Linux networking stack or FSMLabs' agile zero-copy real-time networking on the built in Ethernet."
Linux Networx Names Robert Neumeister, Jr. CFO
Linux Networx has announced the naming of Robert Neumeister, Jr. as its new executive vice president and chief financial officer. "A proven CFO with extensive experience in the technology industry, Neumeister has achieved repeated success at Fortune 500 companies and technology start-ups both domestically and internationally. Mr. Neumeister's experience includes financial leadership through periods of rapid growth as well as leveraged buyouts and initial public offerings (IPO's)."
Solsoft Announces NetFilterOne 1.2 Upgrade for Netfilter Firewall Management
Solsoft Inc. has announced Solsoft NetfilterOne 1.2, a graphical interface that will automate the design, deployment and documentation of security rules and policies as they pertain to a networked netfilter firewall. Linux Netfilter Iptables version 1.3 is now supported.Unitrends Introduces Added Rapid Recovery Capabilities
Unitrends Corporation has announced the GOLD release of their Rapid Recovery System. "Among the enhancements announced today are increased capabilities to Unitrends' Hot BareMetal(TM) capability, at the core of its exclusive Continuous System Protection(SM), allowing Linux users, running SuSe/Novell, Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo and more, to capture an image of the entire operating system at any point in time, without having to first shut down the server application or interrupt operations."
Contests and Awards
Google Code - Summer of Code 2006 is Launched
The 2006 Google Summer of Code event has been launched. "The Google Summer of Code is a program that helps student developers create open source programs. Google is planning on identifying and funding several hundred projects over three months, with the help of open source, free software and technology companies mentoring and inspiring students. The application process opens officially on May 1 2006, and Google hopes to fund over 400 participants this year. Only students enrolled in an accredited institution to get the chance at the funding for the Summer of Code." See the 2006 Summer of Code web site for more information.
Hennessy wins OO.o article contest
The winner of the latest round of the OpenOffice.org article contest has been announced. "CP Hennessy has won the latest round of the contest with an excellent article on the citation facilities of OpenOffice.org. Titled, "Current Implementation of the OpenOffice.org Bibliographic Component," the work examines "the APIs available to the programmer to manipulate the citation data, and how these API calls actually map to real C++ classes in the OpenOffice.org source code.""
Programmers' prose sought in Linux essay contest (Linux.com)
Linux.com has an announcement for the Linux Symposium essay contest. "First prize is a shiny new Intel Centrino Duo laptop. Second prize: an iPod nano. Entrants must be registered to attend the 2006 Linux Symposium in Ottawa, Canada, July 19-22, and must be at least 16 years old. The essays are to be no more than 1,500 words, and should be submitted in English as plain text, PDF, or Perl. The deadline is June 30, and winners will be announced during the welcome reception of the conference July 19."
Ludum Dare 48 Competition 8
A new Ludum Dare 48-Hour Game Programming Competition will happen on April 28-30 2006. "The new competition has been announced, and I am currently working on getting the site ready for the competition. The last competition we used Wiki pages, and besides still not having the winners announced other things went fairly well. After I get the site up for the new competition the last competition will be moved into the new site and the winners will be announced."
Tux is alive - The Tux Buzz
The new tuxisalive.com contest has been announced. "Kysoh SA, a developer of electronic devices for geeks by geeks, today launched a big contest on their buzz site (www.tuxisalive.com). Tux is alive and it's not a plush. You always dreamed of having a live penguin at home but didn't know how? Take part of the genesis of Tux by participating with Kysoh's big contest."
Education and Certification
Hui Announces VistA Training Institute (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has an announcement for a new VistA Training Institute. "In 2005, the Hui partnered with the University of Hawaii and VistA subject matter experts throughout the continental U.S. to develop a VistA training and certification curricula for clinical application coordinators and system administrators. The VistA Institute curricula will serve as a resource to enhance the technical and clinical training competency needed to implement, support and encourage adoption of VistA in the healthcare market worldwide, explained Hui Director Stanley M. Saiki, Jr., M.D..."
Calls for Presentations
IPR implications for Free/Libre and Open Source Software CFP
A call for papers has gone out for the IPR '06 Workshop on Intellectual Property protection for software and its implications for Free/Libre and Open Source Software. The event will take place in Como, Italy on June 10, 2006, papers are due by May 15.
Upcoming Events
Recon 2006: speaker lineup announcement
The speaker lineup for the Recon 2006 security conference has been announced. The event will take place on June 16-18, 2006 in Montreal, Canada. Training sessions will be offered before and after the conference.Events: April 20 - June 15, 2006
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| April 20 - 22, 2006 | Forum Internacional Software Livre 7.0(FISL) | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| April 20 - 22, 2006 | International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(AReS 2006) | Vienna, Austria |
| April 20, 2006 | UK Python Conference | (Randolph Hotel)Oxford, England |
| April 21 - 23, 2006 | Penguicon 4.0 | Livonia, Michigan |
| April 23 - 26, 2006 | ItaniumR Conference and Expo 2006(Gelato ICE) | San Jose, CA |
| April 24 - 26, 2006 | LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld Canada 2006 Conference & Expo | (Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Bldg.)Toronto, Canada |
| April 24 - 27, 2006 | MySQL Users Conference | Santa Clara, CA |
| April 24 - 25, 2006 | 2006 Desktop Linux Summit | (Manchester Grand Hyatt)San Diego, CA |
| April 24 - 26, 2006 | SambaXP 2006 | (Clarion Parkhotel)Göttingen, Germany |
| April 26 - 28, 2006 | php|tek 2006 | (Orlando Airport Marriott Hotel)Orlando, FL |
| April 27 - 30, 2006 | Linux Audio Conference(LAC2006) | (ZKM)Karlsruhe, Germany |
| April 29, 2006 | Linuxfest Northwest 2006 | Bellingham, WA |
| April 29 - 30, 2006 | European Common Lisp Meeting 2006 | Hamburg, Germany |
| May 1 - 6, 2006 | DallasCon 2006 | (Richardson Hotel)Dallas, TX |
| May 3 - 6, 2006 | LinuxTag 2006 | (Rhein-Main-Hallen)Wiesbaden, Germany |
| May 4, 2006 | openSUSE Day at LinuxTag 2006 | Wiesbaden, Germany |
| May 6 - 7, 2006 | WebTech 2006 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| May 8 - 18, 2006 | LinuxWorld on Tour Conference and Expo 2006(LOT2006) | Montreal Ottawa Calgary Vancouver |
| May 12 - 13, 2006 | BSDCan 2006 | (University of Ottawa)Ottawa Canada |
| May 13, 2006 | DebianDay | Oaxtepec, Mexico |
| May 14 - 22, 2006 | DebConf 6 | Oaxtepec, Mexico |
| May 26 - 27, 2006 | FreedomHEC | Seattle, WA |
| May 30 - June 3, 2006 | 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference | (Boston Marriott Copley Place)Boston, MA |
| June 13 - 14, 2006 | Where 2.0 Conference | (Fairmont Hotel San Jose)San Jose, CA |
| June 13 - 14, 2006 | Gartner Open Source Summit 2006 | (Palau de Congressos de Catalunya)Barcelona, Spain |
| June 14 - 16, 2006 | New York PHP Conference and Expo 2006 | (New Yorker Hotel)New York, NY |
Event Reports
CE Linux Forum conference report and videos
Michael Opdenacker has sent in a report of the recent Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) conference. "For the first time, it was called "Embedded Linux Conference", as the ELC accronym is now free after the end of the Embedded Linux Consortium last year. For the first time too, it was open to the general public (for a very moderate registration fee), and not only to CELF members like last year. This conference featured approximately 40 talks, tutorials or Bird Of a Feather sessions as well as several product demos, 100% targeted to embedded system developers."
Web sites
SpreadKDE: Try KDE (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the new Try KDE site. "Try KDE is a new resource listing ways that you can try out KDE without commiting to a full GNU/Linux or BSD install. It includes links to live cds, VMware player images and Klik bundles as well as links to KDE desktops available over NX, with explanations of these technologies. It is linked to from the KDE frontpage and will be updated regularly as more resources are discovered."
Miscellaneous
K3b Fundraiser 2006: A Complete Success (KDE.News)
KDE.News follows the progress of the K3b Fundraiser 2006 effort. "At the beginning of March 2006, I started a fundraising campaign with the goal of collecting 1000 Euro by the end of the month in order to buy a new computer system. I soon discovered how very unrealistic this goal was! You -- the K3b users -- taught me a lesson: by the end of the second day I had already received more than 1000 Euro and in the end the goal was surpassed by far."
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