Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Fighting an Australian DMCA
The free trade agreement recently signed between the U.S. and Australia requires the latter to adopt a U.S. style anti-circumvention law. That is bad enough, but the media industry is trying to get that turned into a full DMCA-style law. Linux Australia is now running a campaign to push for something more reasonable; there is a petition for Australians to print, circulate, and send in. "We ask the Parliament in the revision of these laws to clearly tie circumvention offenses to things which assist piracy, not activities such as playing our own DVDs or games without explicit permission! We ask the Parliament to commit to market freedom and competition in Australia, and refuse to provide new legal weaponry against competitive and innovative technology companies and users, such as Free and Open Source software."
Rusty Russell will be doing a live question and answer session on this issue the night of Friday, June 16 (Australian time); see the Linux Australia page for details.
The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program
The GNOME project made an interesting observation about its Summer of Code applications: "This year GNOME received 181 applications to Google's program, yet none were from women." In response, the project has decided to redirect some of the Summer of Code money into a program aimed at increasing female participation; interested female students are encouraged to put in an application for a grant. See the outreach program page for details; the application deadline is July 1.
OSDL to Mentor Four Students in This Year's Google Summer of Code Program
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced that it will mentor four students in Google's 2006 Summer of Code program. ""Providing mentors for Google's Summer of Code program fits hand in hand with OSDL's mission to increase adoption of Linux and open source software through collaboration with the community and industry," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "By providing guidance to students, we can expose them to a fulfilling career path and help them to have a real impact on solving challenges that will drive the use of Linux and open source software throughout the globe.""
Commercial announcements
Arcom announces new development kit
Arcom has announced the new SBC-GX533 Development Kit. "Arcom's new Development Kit allows faster and easier development of a wide range of embedded devices in a Linux environment. The kit's SBC-GX533 board has a compact Arcom Embedded Linux image installed in its onboard Flash. All onboard hardware features are supported, allowing unrestricted access to their functionality, while all unnecessary software functions have been removed, leaving a compact image of just 13 MB."
Collabora develops telephony framework for Nokia 770
Collabora Ltd. and Nokia are partnering on the development of the open-source Telepathy framework for the Nokia 770 Internet tablet. "The collaboration between the two companies has already yielded an active open source community around the framework itself. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet OS 2006 Edition uses Telepathy as the foundation of Voice Over IP and Instant Messaging functionality enabling users to communicate via text or voice with friends using Google Talk(tm) and Jabber(tm) servers across the world."
Novell Enables Rapid Adoption of Identity Management
Novell has announced (click below) the Bandit project. "Bandit is a system of loosely-coupled components that provide consistent identity services and creates a community that organizes and standardizes identity-related technologies in an open way, promoting both interoperability and collaboration."
Linux from Novell Chosen by China Earthquake Administration
Novell has announced the selection of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by the China Earthquake Administration for use in an earthquake monitoring network. "The network encompasses 41 national, provincial and metropolitan-level seismographic centers and 360 stations for large cities. CEA selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server after several benchmark tests among the various Linux distributions available in China."
OpenVZ announces support for IPv6 and Bridged Networking
OpenVZ has announced support for IPv6. "...The OpenVZ project today released its operating system-level server virtualization software technology with support for the next-generation Internet Protocol Version 6. In addition, support for bridged networking is now available, which gives OpenVZ virtual servers the ability to run software that relies on special network capabilities such as broadcasts, multicasts, or those having a MAC (media access control) address."
Open-Xchange partners with InTech-Solutions
Open-Xchange and InTech-Solutions are partnering to provide professional services for OX 5.0, a Messaging and Collaboration Solution. "OX 5.0 is a mature product with 11 integrated collaboration modules that allows for easy migration and integration to an open source environment allowing IT administrators to enjoy state-of-the-art collaboration without changing existing infrastructure components, i.e. databases, directory services, message transfer agents, e-mail servers or web-servers. End users can keep their favourite mail and groupware client -- most often Outlook, but also open source clients such as Kontact."
Oracle's "Validated Configurations"
Here is a press release from Oracle on its new "Validated Configurations" offering. Essentially, the company runs stress tests on specific hardware and software configurations and stamps its seal of approval on those which work well. "With this new program, Oracle is focused on providing customers with faster, hassle-free deployment of Linux solutions. Oracle Validated Configurations are a result of the company's real-world testing environment and provide documented best practices, including details on what to deploy, how to deploy and the most robust hardware and software combinations."
Terra Soft Extends HPC Offerings with IBM p5 Servers
Terra Soft Solutions has added the IBM p5 platform to its line of turn-key systems. "The p5 line-up starts with the p5 185 tower, a 32/64-bit replacement for the Apple G5 PowerMacs running Linux. The 505, 510, 520 offer dual and quad core, 64-bit configurations in 1U, 2U, and 4U rackmounts with a variety of on-board, high-throughput storage options. Higher-end p5 systems offer as many as 64 cores in a single configuration with massive on-board storage and I/O options."
TimeSys Announces Major Upgrade to Embedded Linux Developer Suite
TimeSys Corporation has announced an upgrade to its Embedded Linux Developer Suite. "This latest update based on Eclipse 3.1 and CDT 3.0.1, provides an end to end solution from kernel hacking to platform application development. Interoperability with a broad collection of third-party plug-ins in the Eclipse ecosystem addresses the primary problems and unique challenges faced by embedded developers."
VA Software offers free download of SFEE commercial software
VA Software has announced a free version of its SourceForge Enterprise Edition software. "The download, which includes a perpetual, no-cost license for 15 users, is available at www.vasoftware.com. Built on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition J2EE? platform, SFEE provides developers the features, scalability, reliability and robustness they expect in an enterprise-class product."
VariCAD announces new mechanical CAD system
VariCAD has announced a new version of its 3D/2D mechanical CAD system. "Unlike the previous Linux versions of VariCAD, the new VariCAD 2005 3.00 requires less dependencies on system files. It allows running thesoftware on more distributions of Linux."
Win4Lin announces virtual desktop server product
Win4Lin has announced availability of their new Enterprise and SMB product, Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server (VDS). "Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server allows organizations to standardize the application environment to users regardless of desktop hardware and operating system - Windows, UNIX, or Linux can be used on the client, but a common application profile can be created and served from Linux server configurations such as blade servers, rack arrays or large multi-way machines."
New Books
Learning PHP & MySQL - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Learning PHP & MySQL by Michele E. Davis and Jon A. Phillips.Build Your Own Website The Right Way--SitePoint's latest release
SitePoint Pty. Ltd. has published the book Build Your Own Website The Right Way by Ian Lloyd.
Resources
FSFE Newsletter
The June 11, 2006 edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter is out with the latest FSFE event coverage.Announcing the MySQL Journal
A new printed MySQL Journal, known as Tabula, has been launched. "I am pleased to announce the MySQL Journal. During the past two weeks, I've been discussing the journal with MySQL AB, and the plan that's been devised benefits all involved, including authors, readers, the community, and MySQL AB."
Contests and Awards
Nominations open for LinuxWorld SF Product Excellence Awards
IDG World Expo and Linux Journal have announced that nominations for the "Linux Journal Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld" are now being accepted.
Surveys
Questions for deployments of GNOME
The GNOME Foundation has announced that they are conducting an informal study of GNOME deployments. "Are you a deployment of GNOME? Are you like the City of Largo, Florida, or like the districts of Extremadura and Andalucía in Spain, who have big installations of machines running GNOME? At the GNOME Foundation we are conducting a little, informal study of how we can make your lives easier." The survey questions are available here.
Education and Certification
TimeSys to Include embedded training in its webinar series
TimeSys Corporation has announced a new series of embedded Linux webinars, starting in June. "The latest series will offer free educational sessions and more in-depth training available to LinuxLink subscribers through the developer exchange. Both the educational and training sessions will be available via webinar, allowing attendees to interact with TimeSys experts and developers. While both sessions will be recorded and archived for convenient replay, the training curriculum will be expanded to provide an on-demand resource for subscribers."
Upcoming Events
GUADEC 2006 Official Schedule (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org has announced the Official Schedule for the 2006 GNOME User and Developer European Conference, which will take place in Catalonia, Spain. "GUADEC 2006 will take place from the 24th to the 30th of June this year. The week will be split into three phases: The Approach Weekend, GUADEC Core and After Hours In addition, the Core days will have three simultaneous tracks..."
"Open and Connected" at the 2006 O'Reilly EuroOSCON
O'Reilly has announced the 2006 EuroOSCON. "EuroOSCON, the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, has unveiled the preliminary schedule for its second annual event. With free and open source software use on the rise all across the continent, EuroOSCON creates a place for developers, sys admins, entrepreneurs, and business people working in free and open source software to come together and delve into critical issues across the spectrum of open source technologies." The event will take place in Brussels, Belgium on September 18-21, 2006.
EP2006 timetable announced
The EuroPython 2006 timetable has been announced. "We have also secured Alan Kay (the inventor of OO languages, Smalltalk, opencroquet.org etc.) as a key note speaker and are happy that Guido van Rossum will make it again!"
The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference
The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain on June 22 and 23, 2006. "The current schedule includes presentations by Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and Georg Greve, as well as panels addressing the key issues of DRM, software patents, and license internationalization."
Announcing the Ubucon
The Ubucon conference for Ubuntu users, developers and admins will take place on August 18 and 19, following the LinuxWorld San Francisco conference.Events: June 15 - August 10, 2006
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 15 - 16, 2006 | New York PHP Conference and Expo 2006 | (New Yorker Hotel)New York, NY |
| June 16 - 18, 2006 | Recon 2006 | (Plaza Hotel Centre-Ville)Montreal, Canada |
| June 18 - 23, 2006 | Ubuntu Developer Summit | Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France |
| June 19 - 22, 2006 | Collaborative Technologies Conference | (Seaport Hotel)Boston, MA |
| June 22 - 23, 2006 | 3rd International GPLv3 Conference | Barcelona, Spain |
| June 24 - 25, 2006 | Free and Open Source Conference(FrOSCon) | (St. Augustin)Bonn, Germany |
| June 24 - 30, 2006 | 2006 GNOME Users and Developers European Conference(GUADEC) | Catalonia, Spain |
| June 24 - 25, 2006 | PHP Vikinger | Skien, Norway |
| June 27 - 29, 2006 | Corporate Channel and Computing Expo(C3) | (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, NY |
| June 28 - 30, 2006 | GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada |
| June 29 - July 2, 2006 | UKUUG Linux Technical Conference | (University of Sussex)Brighton, UK |
| June 30 - July 1, 2006 | WebTech 2006 | (Kempinski Hotel Zografski)Sofia, Bulgaria |
| July 3 - 4, 2006 | 3rd European Lisp Workshop | Nantes, France |
| July 3 - 5, 2006 | EuroPython 2006 | (CERN)Geneva, Switzerland |
| July 4 - 8, 2006 | 7th Libre Software Meeting(LSM) | (Nancy 1 University)Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France |
| July 5 - 8, 2006 | V Jornades de Programari Lliure | Barcelona, Spain |
| July 8 - 9, 2006 | PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit | Toronto, Canada |
| July 10 - 11, 2006 | Global db4o User Conference(dUC) | (Imperial College, South Kensington)London, UK |
| July 13 - 14, 2006 | Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment(DIMVA) | Berlin, Germany |
| July 15 - 16, 2006 | Crystal Space Conference | (University of Aachen)Aachen, Germany |
| July 16 - 19, 2006 | 2nd International Symposium on Free/Open Source Software, Technologies and Content(FOSSTEC 2006) | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| July 19 - 22, 2006 | Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006(OLS 2006) | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 22 - 23, 2006 | LugRadio Live | (Wolverhampton University)Wolverhampton, UK |
| July 24 - 28, 2006 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention(OSCON 2006) | Portland, Oregon |
| July 29 - August 3, 2006 | Black Hat USA 2006 Briefings and Training | (Caesars Palace)Las Vegas, NV |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | DEF CON 14 | (Riviera Hotel)Las Vegas, NV |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | Wikimania | (Harvard Law School)Cambridge, MA |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | Vancouver Python Workshop | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| August 8 - 10, 2006 | Flash Memory Summit | (Wyndham Hotel)San Jose, CA |
Event Reports
Talks from the Red Hat Summit
Videos from the keynote talks at the recently-concluded Red Hat Summit have been posted in several formats. Currently-available talks include Matthew Szulik, Cory Doctorow, and Eben Moglen. Those of you who have never seen Eben speak can get a good introduction by watching his short presentation at this event.
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