Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF: Industry and Public Interest Groups Fight Overbroad Broadcast Treaty
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release concerning a proposed U.S. broadcast treaty. "Dozens of companies from the technology and telecommunications sector, public interest groups, and library associations have banded together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to fight a proposed treaty that would grant broadcasters and cablecasters a new 50-year intellectual property right in their transmissions, regardless of whether they own the copyright in the content being transmitted. The treaty would radically change U.S. law, create liability concerns for Internet service providers and device manufacturers, interfere with the rollout of broadband and home networking services, and restrict citizens' access to information and public domain material."
S1 Core 0.1 announced (OpenCollector)
OpenCollector covers the release of the Simply RISC S1 Core CPU. "Simply RISC has shipped the S1 Core, a 64-bit Wishbone-compliant CPU Core based upon the OpenSPARC T1 microprocessor released by Sun Microsystems few months ago. The S1 Core is released under the same license of the T1, the GNU General Public License (GPL); the design is freely downloadable from the Simply RISC website at www.srisc.com and no registration is required."
Commercial announcements
Former SUSE/Novell Exec Seibt Joins Collax Board
Collax, Inc. has announced its newest board member, Richard Seibt. "Collax offers SMBs a suite of simple, cost-effective open source solutions for security, networking, and communication -- with no Linux knowledge required. "What impresses me about Collax is the concept -- open source-based technology that can be operated without Linux know-how, and which integrates 'best-of-breed' open source software and applications," said Seibt. "It's a product ideally suited to SMBs and, frankly, the next big wave of Linux adoption.""
Continuent Ships New uni/cluster for MySQL
Continuent, Inc. has announced Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL. "Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL is part of a suite of Continuent products that deliver high availability for virtually any database environment. This newest version of Continuent's uni/cluster software provides the highest levels of availability and scalability for applications built using the MySQL database, and includes support for MySQL 4.1 and MySQL 5.0 on all platforms."
Continuent Ships New uni/cluster for PostgreSQL
Continuent, Inc. has announced Continuent uni/cluster for PostgreSQL. "Continuent uni/cluster for PostgreSQL is part of a suite of Continuent products that deliver high availability for virtually any database environment. This newest version of Continuent's uni/cluster software provides the highest levels of availability and scalability for applications built using the PostgreSQL database, and includes support for PostgreSQL 7.4, and PostgreSQL 8.x on most platforms."
KnowledgeTree exceeds 200,000 downloads
KnowledgeTree has announced the passing of the 200,000 download mark. "KnowledgeTree(tm), the world's leading Open Source document management system, has been downloaded over 200,000 times from the premier Open Source portal, SourceForge.Net, a significant milestone for the project." A commercially supported version of KnowledgeTree is also available.
PIKA Technologies Connects Skype to Asterisk
PIKA Technologies has announced PIKA Connect for Asterisk. "The second generation PIKA Connect for Asterisk is a channel driver for the popular open source Linux-based Asterisk PBX, enabling connectivity to Skype. This release of PIKA Connect for Asterisk, available in November, allows Asterisk-based applications to use Skype to receive incoming and/or make outgoing calls, provides access to the calling Skype ID profile information (caller ID), and has touch tone (DTMF) detection capabilities."
Rackspace Announces Q2 and Half-Year Financials
Rackspace Managed Hosting has announced its second quarter and first half of the year results for 2006. "The company's revenue was $52.0 million in the second quarter of 2006 and $97.8 million for the first half of the year. This represents a 59.5 percent increase over the second quarter of 2005 and a 58.8 percent increase over revenues in the first half of 2005. Rackspace also reported positive net income for both the second quarter of 2006 and the first half of the year. The company has experienced 30 consecutive quarters of revenue growth since its inception."
A letter from Terra Soft's CEO, "One year later ..."
Terra Soft CEO Kai Staats looks at how business has been for Yellow Dog Linux. "In retrospect, we enjoyed our position as a unique Apple Proprietary Solutions Provider, Value Added Reseller. In the same respect, I realize now we had become comfortable there, not pursuing our full potential as an HPC Linux engineering firm. Through a number of introspective team meetings, we redefined our core competencies, rediscovered what we enjoy doing, and then determined how best to profit from the marriage of these two. As such, we are moving ahead with focus on Board Support Packages, provision of Integrated Solutions, and application development."
Trolltech Greenphone Available
Trolltech has announced the pricing and availability of Qtopia Greenphone, the first open Linux mobile device for application developers.WIN Enterprises Announces WIN CAPT
WIN Enterprises has announced WIN CAPT, a Linux and Asterisk-based telephone PBX system. WIN Enterprises "... announces WIN CAP, a Converged Application Platform for IP PBX and other converged applications, Built on standards-based IntelR building blocks, the Converged Application Platform is based on an IntelR reference design that Intel developed with WIN Enterprises."
New Books
Prentice Hall publishes AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
Prentice Hall has published the book AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML by Edmond Woychowsky.Prentice Hall publishes Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications
Prentice Hall has published the book Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications by Joshua Eichorn.The Family Guide To Digital Freedom
Digifreedom.Net has announced the upcoming publication of the book The Family Guide To Digital Freedom. "In this modern world, our rights and quality of life heavily depend from which software is being used AROUND us: this is true even for people who don't care at all about computers and don't use them yet, including children. The Family Guide to Digital Freedom is a book which explains, in one place and in normal language, what everybody should know about software and other digital technologies, and above all the REAL reasons why they should care."
PHP Cookbook, Second Edition - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book PHP Cookbook, Second Edition by Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar.New book publishes Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source
New book has published the book Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source by Henrik Ingo.
Resources
EFF's Six Tips to Protect Your Online Search Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of six tips to protect your online search privacy. "AOL's recent disclosure of its users' search logs exposed the private lives of more than a half-million customers. But all the major search engines -- not just AOL -- record search queries and maintain massive databases that reach into the most intimate details of users' lives. When revealed to others, these details can be embarrassing and even cause great harm."
FSFE Newsletter
The September 8, 2006 edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter is out. Topics include: Moving forward in the GPLv3 public consultation process, SELF project issues call for material, New office in Sweden, School of Art and Design Zürich donates hosting services to FSFE, Giacomo Poderi ends his internship and Alex Antener joins the core team.
Contests and Awards
Funambol Announces Bounties for its Community Code Sniper Program
Funambol is running reward program for writers of plug-in software. "Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced it will pay up to $2,000 to open source community members who develop specific open source connectors and plug-ins that extend the mobile functionality of the communitys most desired applications. The Funambol Community Code Sniper Program will focus development efforts on the most desired projects stated by the mobile open source community, broaden interoperability of the Funambol code base and reward developers who do the work."
Education and Certification
TimeSys Expands Embedded Linux Webinar Series
TimeSys Corporation has announced new Linux Webinar events through September and October, 2006. "This series covers a variety of topics appealing to a wide range of embedded Linux developers, from overcoming common board bring-up issues to an overview of real-time Linux to understanding how services from TimeSys can make them more productive."
Calls for Presentations
linux.conf.au 2007 Call For Participation - Five days to go!
There are only five days left to submit your proposal for linux.conf.au 2007. "Heed our words, procrastinators -- your time has come! Remember to check the 'travel assistance' box if you can't get to Australia under your own steam... If your submission rocks, we'll sort that out for you. :-)"
MySQL Conference and Expo CFP
A call for participation has gone out for the MySQL Conference & Expo. The event will take place in Santa Clara, California on April 23-26, 2007, submissions are due by November 7.
Upcoming Events
Technical program for Gelato ICE: Itanium(r) Conference and Expo
The technical program for the Gelato ICE: Itanium(r) Conference & Expo in Singapore has been announced. "International Itanium architecture experts will deliver 40 presentations, including keynotes by Steve Geary (HP), Cameron McNairy, (Intel), and Jeff Adie (SGI and Itanium(r) Solutions Alliance)."
International PHP Conference
The next International PHP Conference will take place in Frankfurt, Germany on November 5-8, 2006. "The Power Workshops and sessions will pass on concentrated knowledge on the current PHP topics such as security, databases, business processes, web service strategies and general topics. This year the conference focuses on PHP security and features an exclusive choice of sessions giving you tips and tricks on how to develop PHP applications more safely. However, we have also integrated new topics in the conference program, i.e. Ajax and Web 2.0 for PHP as usual with first-class technical information given to you by renowned speakers of the PHP-Community."
Linux Users' Group of Davis announces Linux Demo
The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold a hands-on Linux demonstration on September 16, 2006 in Davis, CA.Pike Conference 2006, Latvia
The Pike Conference 2006 will take place in Riga, Latvia on October 18-22, 2006. "Users and developers of all levels of experience are invited to beautiful Riga, Latvia to attend the year's biggest Pike event. Presentation and workshop topics will include the Caudium, Open sTeam and Roxen web servers, LPC and many other Pike-related tools. This year's conference will feature a daily Beginner's Tutorial and the unveiling of the new book, "Pike: An Introduction." The book's editors, H. William Welliver III and Martin Bähr, will be on hand to sign copies and answer questions."
Text Layout Workshop at GNOME Summit
A free desktop Text Layout and Font Handling workshop has been announced. "I am happy to announce that at October 7 and 8 a free desktop Text Layout and Font Handling workshop / BOF / summit will be held as part of the Boston Gnome Summit."
Events: September 21, 2006 to November 20, 2006
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 18 September 21 |
2006 European Open Source Convention | Brussels, Belgium |
| September 18 September 21 |
New Security Paradigms Workshop | Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany |
| September 19 September 21 |
High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop | Lexington, MA, USA |
| September 23 September 30 |
KDE World Summit 2006 | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 25 September 28 |
Embedded Systems Conference | Boston, MA |
| September 29 September 30 |
No cON Name 2006 Congress | Palma de Mallorca, Spain |
| September 29 October 1 |
ToorCon 2006 | San Diego, CA |
| September 29 October 1 |
Encuentro de Desarrolladores de GNOME Zaragoza | Zaragoza, Spain |
| September 30 October 1 |
RuxCon 2006 | Sydney, Australia |
| September 30 | Ohio LinuxFest 2006 | Columbus, Ohio |
| September 30 | Defective by Design, 2pm-5pm, Apple Store, Regent Street, London, UK | London, UK |
| October 1 October 4 |
Gelato ICE Itanium Conference and Expo | Biopolis, Singapore |
| October 1 October 3 |
LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006 | Hamburg, Germany |
| October 2 October 5 |
Security OPUS Infosec Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| October 7 October 9 |
GNOME Boston Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| October 9 October 13 |
ApacheCon US | Austin, TX |
| October 9 October 13 |
13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Naperville, IL |
| October 11 October 12 |
Eclipse Summit Europe | Esslingen, Germany |
| October 11 October 12 |
Linux World Conference and Expo | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| October 12 October 15 |
Eighth Real-Time Linux Workshop | Lanzhou, Gansu, China |
| October 18 October 19 |
International Conference on IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics | Stuttgart, Germany |
| October 18 October 22 |
Pike Conference 2006 | Riga, Latvia |
| October 19 October 21 |
HackLu 2006 | Kirchberg, Luxembourg |
| October 19 October 20 |
DC PHP Conference | Washington, D.C. |
| October 20 October 22 |
aLANtejo 06 | Évora, Portugal |
| October 20 October 22 |
RubyConf 2006 | Denver, Colorado |
| October 22 October 27 |
Colorado Software Summit | Keystone, CO, USA |
| October 23 October 24 |
Mono User and Developers Meeting | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| October 23 October 26 |
Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conf | Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 25 October 26 |
LinuxWorld UK 2006 | London, UK |
| October 25 October 27 |
Plone Conference 2006 | Seattle, WA |
| October 26 October 27 |
IT Underground | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| October 28 | LinuxDay 2006 | Many of them, Italy |
| October 31 November 2 |
Zend/PHP Conference and Expo | San Jose, CA |
| November 1 | Ingres Users Association Conference | London, England |
| November 4 November 8 |
I Jornadas técnicas KDE de | Zaragoza, Spain |
| November 4 November 11 |
Open Source in Performance and Exhibition | London, England |
| November 5 November 8 |
International PHP Conference | Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 5 November 10 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit - Mountain View | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| November 6 November 10 |
Colorado Python seminar | Estes Park, CO, USA |
| November 7 November 9 |
2006 Web 2.0 Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| November 9 November 10 |
Forum PHP 2006 | Paris, France |
| November 10 November 12 |
Chicago Perl Hackathon 2006 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| November 11 November 17 |
Supercomputing 2006 | Tampa, FL, USA |
| November 11 | FSFE Fellows Meeting | Bolzano, Italy |
| November 12 November 14 |
Firebird Conference 2006 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| November 14 November 16 |
LinuxWorld Cologne | Cologne, Germany |
| November 16 November 17 |
III Latin American Free Software Conference | Iguassu Falls, Brazil |
| November 16 November 17 |
Conference on Software Patents | Boston, MA, USA |
| November 18 | Richard Stallman speaks in Seoul | Seoul, South Korea |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
Advogato is going offline
Advogato, a community resource for free software developers, is shutting down. "With considerable sadness, I have decided to take Advogato offline. It has filled its purpose of demonstrating the trust metric ideas, which was the original purpose of the site. It has also served as a congenial virtual home for free software developers. That role, I think, is being subsumed by a new generation of blogging tools and aggregators, particularly the "planets"." (Thanks to Paul Smith.)
Audio and Video programs
Open Source On The Air audio programs
The LocalFOSS site is offering a weekly online radio program called Open Source On The Air. "The focus of this programme is the Australian and regional FOSS community, however we do often interview international guests and people who would be considered "names" in the international FOSS community. Our most recent show included an interview with Egil Moller about the political organisation, the Pirate Party. We cover their plans for copyright reform and how they would affect Free and Open Source Software developers."
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