Announcements
Commercial announcements
Aberdeen Group Announces Top Predictions for 2003 IT Trends
The Aberdeen Group has announced its top predictions for 2003. Among other predictions, they see a bright future for Enterprise Linux.LGP Competition and Prize Draw
Linux Game Publishing has announced a contest that involves guessing the titles of two commercial games that are being ported to Linux. Winners will receive free copies of the games.
Resources
Open Source Digest: Issue #1
The first issue of Open Source Digest, a new monthly online magazine devoted to bringing quality articles about open source to the open source community, is now available.LPI-News December 2002
Here is the December issue of the LPI-News. This issue looks back at 2002 and ahead to Linux World in New York; and much more.LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Nominations
LinuxQuestions.org has announced their latest poll for the Members Choice Awards. Make your selections here, the poll closes on March 1, 2003.PostgreSQL Introduction (Linux Productivity Magazine)
Linux Productivity Magazine has a lengthy introduction to the PostgreSQL database available online. "PostgreSQL, often nicknamed "Postgres", offers SQL query support. It offers a high power command line front end called psql for a DBA to manage the database. It has excellent transactional support. Sophisiticated triggers and stored procedures are available thanks to the built in plpgsql programming language."
Upcoming Events
O'Reilly Open Source Convention Call for Participation
The 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention will be happening in Portland, Oregon on July 7 to 11. The call for participation has just gone out, with proposals being due by February 15. The theme this time around is "embracing and extending proprietary software."samba eXPerience 2003 CFP
We have received an updated Call For Papers for the samba eXPerience 2003. Submissions are due in by February 14, 2003.Open Source Workshop Call For Papers
A call for papers has been issued for the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, to be held on May 3, 2003 in Portland, Oregon. Papers are due in by February 1, 2003.Case Studies-Call for Submissions:OMG Days Europe 2003.
The Object Management Group and LogOn Technology Transfer announced a call for submissions for "Case Study" presentations done by End Users at the forthcoming series of OMG Days in 2003.Damian Conway Classes in Boston (use Perl)
Use Perl has an announcement for three more Perl classes by Damian Conway. The classes will be held in Boston, Mass. on January 21-24, 2003.Debconf 3
The University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway is hosting Debconf 3 this year, and the Debcamp hacking session preceeding Debconf 3. Debcamp starts July 12 to 17, 2003, followed by Debconf 3 July 18 to 20, 2003.Events: January 9 - March 6, 2003
| January 21 - 24, 2003 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | (Jacob K. Javits Center)New York, NY |
| January 22 - 25, 2003 | Linux.conf.au 2003 | Perth, Australia |
| January 27 - 31, 2003 | SAINT-2003 | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| February 3 - 6, 2003 | O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference | (Westin Horton Plaza.)San Diego, CA |
| February 4 - 6, 2003 | Linux Solutions 2003 | (CNIT)Paris, France |
| February 8 - 9, 2003 | Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting(FOSDEM) | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 10 - 14, 2003 | The fifth NordU/USENIX Conference(NordU2003) | (Aros Congress Center)Västerås, Sweden |
| February 22 - 24, 2003 | CodeCon 2.0 | (Club NV)San Francisco CA, USA |
Web sites
Linux Orbit Professional web site
The Linux Orbit Professional web site has been launched, the site will include a monthly journal publication.
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
- Sorted alphabetically,
- Sorted by license.
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