Announcements

Extremadura government to move to Linux

The government of the Spanish state of Extremadura has made the decision to move all of its systems over to free software and open formats within one year. "The councillor explained that a version gnuLinEx, adapted for the public administration, will be established as the obligatory operating system in workplaces of the civil servants of the Junta and that the OS will be gradually introduced to all administrative organizations of the Junta de Extremadura."

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The Linux Business Campus Nuremberg

The Linux Business Campus Nuremberg has announced its existence. It is a sort of business incubator aimed at Linux and open source businesses; there seem to be a number of early SUSE folks (among others) involved. "Thirteen campus coaches currently offer advisory services ranging from organizing high-ranking contacts with international software companies, support for open source technology and business models, advice on setting up a product or sales management system and development of go-to-market strategies to growth financing support from the Business Angel network and venture capital companies."

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Proposal for an OpenDocument icon (OpenDocument Fellowship)

There is a new Proposal for an OpenDocument icon set. "The idea is that each icon maker (desktop environments, applications, etc) will make their own icon set, suitable for their environment, but will include this image so that the user can recognize the document as an OpenDocument file. Think of PDF. KDE and Gnome have different PDF icons, but both are recognizable as PDF be[c]ause of the red squiggle that is associated with PDF. Wouldn't it be nice to have something like that for OpenDocument? Having such an image would significantly improve awareness of the OpenDocument format." (Thanks to Pete Harlow.)

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Software in the Public Interest announces new officers

Software in the Public Interest has announced the appointment of three new board members. "Software in the Public Interest is pleased to announce that it has appointed new Officers following the election of three new members to the board of directors. In a board meeting on 1st August, the board elected Bdale Garbee as President, Michael Schultheiss as Vice President, Neil McGovern as Secretary and Josh Berkus as Treasurer of the board."

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BitRock Releases LAPPStack 1.0

BitRock has announced availability of LAPPStack 1.0. "BitRock LAPPStack 1.0 is an easy to install distribution of Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, and supporting libraries. LAPPStack allows users to have a complete web development environment up and running in just minutes."

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Boeing Selects Wind River Carrier Grade Linux

Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced the selection of the Wind River Platform for Networking Equipment - Linux Edition by Boeing, for use in the P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft mission system. "The P-8A is a long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft. It possesses an advanced mission system for maximum interoperability in battle space. Capable of broad-area, maritime, and littoral operations, the P-8A is expected to improve training, deployment, and operation of the U.S. Navy's maritime patrol and reconnaissance forces."

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GDA Technologies announces Freescale MPC8548E PowerQUICC III Reference Platform

GDA Technologies, Inc. has announced an embedded Linux reference platform for the Freescale Semiconductor MPC8548E PowerQUICC processor. "The MPC8548E-based AMC is designed with high-performance Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and up to 8 lanes of PCI Express for embedded applications in broadband telecommunications and data communications networks. The board has four Gigabit Ethernet ports (two on the front panel and two on the edge connector) along with a debug port on the front panel and 8 PCI Express lanes on the AMC edge connector."

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South Korean Haansoft joins Linux group OSDL

South Korean Linux developer Haansoft has joined Open Source Development LabsL (OSDL). "The company's involvement should help the spread of linux in Asia, OSDL said. For example, Haansoft is also a developer of Asianux 2.0, the second version of the Asianux Linux distribution. Other companies behind Asianux are Red Flag Software Co. Ltd., one of China's leading Linux developers, and Japan's Miracle Linux Corp. Asianux 2.0 should be available in South Korea and China in July and in Japan in October."

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ObjectWeb Releases Enterprise Content Management and Repository Solution

ObjectWeb has announced the release of an Open-Source Enterprise Content Management and Repository Solution, the eXo Enterprise Content Management and eXo Java Content Repository. "ObjectWeb and eXo Platform SARL today announced the availability of the first complete open-source content management and repository solutions that allow users to create, manage and store documents from a customized, single point-of-access Web portal."

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Wind River Contributes Code to the Eclipse Foundation

Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced the release of over 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation. "The contributions are being made to four Eclipse projects: the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Project, the Platform Project, and both the Target Management (TM) and Device Debugging (DD) subprojects within the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Project."

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Wind River announces new commercial grade Linux platforms

Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of new commercial grade Linux platforms. "At its foundation is a pristine, unmodified, stable version of the Linux 2.6.14 kernel. Available today, the Linux editions of the Wind River(R) General Purpose Platform, Platform for Consumer Devices and Platform for Network Equipment ship with the latest version of the company's Eclipse-based device software development suite, Wind River(R) Workbench 2.5 and include significant new enhancements to runtime performance and footprint size, networking protocols, security, file systems and hardware architectures."

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Ruby Cookbook - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson.

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No Starch Press releases "Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks"

No Starch Press has published the book Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant.

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Astaro Product Awarded by Leading IT Security Publication

Astaro Corporation has won an award from SC Magazine. "Astaro Corporation, developers of a Linux-based line of network security appliances comprised of more than 300 open source projects and proprietary technology, today announced that SC Magazine has honored the Astaro Security Gateway 425 with the SC Magazine "Recommended" Award and an overall rating of 4 stars in the group test category of firewalls."

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LPI, Ubuntu and MySQL Certification exams to be offered at LinuxWorld

The Linux Professional Institute has announced a round of Ubuntu and MySQL Certification exams, to be held at LinuxWorld San Francisco on August 15 -17, 2006.

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Fourth International Conference on GPLv3 (Bangalore)

The Fourth International Conference on GPLv3 will take place in Bangalore, India on August 23 and 24, 2006. "A part of the world-wide drive to create awareness about the upcoming version three of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), the two-day conference is expected to draw delegates from across the communities - legal, bureaucrat and academia."

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Gelato ICE, Singapore

The next Gelato Itanium Conference & Expo (ICE) will take place in Singapore on October 1-4, 2006.

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RubyConf*MI, OSCON, and 'Ruby for Rails' (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal has an announcement for RubyConf*MI. "It's being held in Grand Rapids Michigan on Aug 26th. It looks like a good conference, David Black will be speaking (the word is he'll be presenting a day of training through Ruby Power and Light ahead of the conference as well). I'm going to be speaking there too, along with several local Ruby hackers. You can see the speaker list or register for the conference at their website."

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Events: August 3 - September 28, 2006

Date	Event	Location
August 3, 2006	Black Hat USA 2006 Briefings and Training	(Caesars Palace)Las Vegas, NV
August 3, 2006	SigGraph 2006	(Boston Convention and Exposition Center)Boston, MA
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
August 14 - 17, 2006	LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA
August 14 - 17, 2006	ApacheCon Asia	(Trans Asia Hotel)Colombo, Sri Lanka
August 17 - 18, 2006	Python for Scientific Computing(SciPy2006)	(Caltech)Pasadena, CA
August 18 - 19, 2006	The Ubucon Conference	(Google headquarters)Mountain View, CA
August 21 - 27, 2006	Ireland PyPy sprint	(University of Limerick)Limerick, Ireland
August 23 - 24, 2006	Fourth International Conference on GPLv3	(Indian Institute of Management)Bangalore, India
August 26, 2006	RubyConf*MI	(Calvin College)Grand Rapids, MI
August 28 - 31, 2006	Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2006	(Jakarta Convention Center)Jakarta, Indonesia
September 8, 2006	Leipzig Python Workshop	Leipzig, Germany
September 9 - 10, 2006	Linuxtage in Essen	(University of Essen)Essen, Germany
September 11 - 13, 2006	OpenOffice.org Conference(OOoConf 2006)	Lyon, France
September 12 - 15, 2006	php|works/db|works 2006	Toronto, Canada
September 13 - 15, 2006	2006 WebGUI Users Conference	(The Vegas Club Hotel and Casino)Las Vegas, NV
September 14, 2006	NLUUG najaarsconferentie 2006	(De Reehorst)Gelderland, The Netherlands
September 14 - 16, 2006	Wizards of OS 4 - Information Freedom Rules	Berlin, Germany
September 18 - 21, 2006	2006 European Open Source Convention(EuroOSCON)	Brussels, Belgium
September 18 - 21, 2006	New Security Paradigms Workshop(NSPW)	Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
September 23 - 30, 2006	KDE World Summit 2006(aKademy)	(Trinity College)Dublin, Ireland
September 25 - 28, 2006	Embedded Systems Conference	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA

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