Announcements

EFF: Who Killed TiVoToGo?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks at the reasons behind the removal of a TiVo feature. "Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) have changed the way millions of people watch television. But the new TiVo Series 3 for HD lacks a feature that past versions have had -- TiVoToGo, which allows users to move recorded shows to a computer or other device. In a report released today, "Who Killed TiVoToGo?", EFF gets to the bottom of this digital murder mystery. The plot includes Hollywood, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and digital rights management (DRM) -- and it's an ominous tale for television fans looking forward to the widespread adoption of high-definition (HD) television."

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Free Software Foundation fights DRM

The Free Software Foundation has declared October 3, 2006 a "Day Against DRM" with demonstrations in New York and London. Also today, the Free Software Foundation Europe launched DRM.info. "DRM.info is based on the idea that people should be informed and involved in decisions that will affect them on a very personal level. "DRM technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data," explains Georg Greve, FSFE's president."

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OpenDomain Donates Use of Web Addresses to Encourage Online Collaboration

OpenDomain.Org has announced an effort to purchase domain names for open-source projects. "A Pennsylvania entrepreneur who owns registered Internet Web site domain names is allowing individuals and organizations to use many of them for free to encourage people who develop Internet applications to share information and contribute computer codes online. Unlike others who purchase domain names and later fight with companies over much-needed Web site addresses, OpenDomain.Org gives away the use of these valuable assets to those who use open sourcing - the practice of releasing previously proprietary software for free under license - to help advance Internet technologies around the world."

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Public beta of CrossOver for Mac and Linux

New public beta versions of CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux, applications that allow the running of Windows binaries on other operating systems, are out. "For Linux users, the big highlights are support for World of Warcraft and many Steam based games (including Half Life 2 and Counterstrike), as well as support for Outlook 2003. Version 6 also represents a major improvement in the core of Wine since version 5 of CrossOver, so you may be pleasantly surprised as you try running unsupported applications."

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Funambol announces Mobile Open Source Software v3

Funambol has announced the release of Funambol v3. "Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced the general availability release of Funambol v3. The announcement extends the company's reach to the mass market and puts open source on a collision course with proprietary mobile email vendors in what some consider the next technology battlefield. Funambol v3 provides mobile carriers with an open, cost-effective solution that can provide address book and calendar synchronization, and push email, for hundreds of millions of consumers with commodity cell phones."

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WildPackets' new Linux network analysis appliance

WildPackets has announced Omnipliance, a commercial network analysis appliance for Linux. "The WildPackets Omnipliance is a turn-key hardware and software solution that gives network engineers unprecedented, real-time visibility into remote network segments. Each Omnipliance is a 3U rack-mountable appliance that runs a WildPackets' OmniEngine and sends real-time analytics and monitoring results to a central OmniPeek console."

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Prentice Hall publishes An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt

Prentice Hall has published An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt by Alan Ezust and Paul Ezust.

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Nominations open for Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit

The Free Software Foundation has requested nominations for the 2006 Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit. "This award is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. We look to recognize projects or teams that encourage collaboration to accomplish social tasks. A long-term commitment to one's project (or the potential for a long-term commitment) is crucial to this end."

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GnuPG Logo Contest

A logo contest is being held for Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). "We appreciate Thomas Löffelholz's Gnus-guarding-the-door logo which has served us for a long time. However, GnuPG has moved forward and is not anymore a plain OpenPGP application but features other protocols as well (S/MIME and partly Secure Shell). Further, the current logo is too detailed to be used as an icon or to be printed on a t-shirt. Thus we want to have a new modern logo."

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Roktoberfest: The Amarok Project Fundraiser (KDE.News)

KDE.News has an announcement for the next Amarok Project Roktober fundraiser. "The Amarok Project is giving away an iPod Nano during its current fundraiser to celebrate the month of Roktober. Anyone that gives the equivalent of $10 or more is automatically entered in a random drawing to win a 2GB iPod Nano. Amazingly, a year has passed since the last fundraiser. Having the ability to spend some money on project resources and hardware made a big difference to the project's productivity."

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LPI Offers Discounted Certification Exams at LinuxWorld, Utrecht

The Linux Professional Institute will offer discounted Linux certification exams at the LinuxWorld Expo in Utrecht, the Netherlands on October 11 and 12, 2006.

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FAVE 2006 call for participants

A call for participants has gone out for FAVE 2006. "FAVE is an event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. The 2006 event is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London, England on Saturday the 25th of November."

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FOSS.in CFP ends October 8

FOSS.in is a serious, development-oriented conference held in Bangalore, India; it will be held November 24 to 26 this year. The call for participation deadline is soon: Sunday, October 8. FOSS.in is a fun conference with intensely interested attendees; they also treat their speakers very well. If you are looking for an event to present at, this one is highly recommended.

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Foundations of Open Media Software - CFP

A call for participation has gone out for the first Foundations of Open Media Software meeting. The event will be held in Sydney, Australia on January 12-13, 2007, submissions are due by October 31.

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GNOME.conf.au Call for Submissions

A call for submissions has gone out for GNOME.conf.au, which will take place during Linux.conf.au in January, 2007. "Past topics presented at G.c.a haved included getting involved, 101 things you didn't Gnow about GNOME, freezing GTK+ processes, the design behind GNOME-Games, Opensolaris and more. This year we're hoping for an even bigger and better event."

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USENIX Security Symposium CFP

The 16th USENIX Security Symposium "Security '07" is scheduled for August 6 - 10, 2007 in Boston, MA. The call for papers is open until February 1, 2007.

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Events: October 12, 2006 to December 11, 2006

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
November 21 November 24	15th International Conference on Computing	Mexico City, Mexico
November 24 November 26	FOSS.IN 2006	Bangalore, India
November 25	FAVE 2006 - free software multimedia event in London	London, UK
November 27 November 30	PacSec Applied Security Conference 2006	Tokyo, Japan
December 1 December 2	PHP Conference Brasil	Sao Paolo, Brazil
December 2 December 3	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, the Netherlands
December 3 December 8	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Washington, D.C.
December 5 December 8	Open Source Developers' Conference 2006	Melbourne, Australia
December 7 December 8	Desktop Architects Meeting	Portland, OR, USA
December 9	London Perl Workshop	London, England

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A report from an "IPR protection" seminar in Helsinki

Here's a one-week-old report from Georg Greve on the "IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent and/or Open Source?" seminar recently held in Helsinki. "My personal favorite was probably the presentation of Dietmar Tallroth of Nokia. He had just come back from a face to face meeting in the GPLv3 process to discuss in particular the clauses on Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), that have recently made the headlines when some Linux kernel developers took public position against it. According to Mr Tallroth, the potential issues with DRM were clarified sufficiently for Nokia. He expressed understanding and acceptance of the position taken by FSF, and provided that the result of the recent discussions is present in the next draft, there are only a few more points to clarify in the software patent language, for which he was generally optimistic." (Thanks to Timo Jyrinki).

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Report: The Large Software Systems Management and EDOS Workshop

Roberto di Cosmo has written up a summary of the Large Software Systems Management and EDOS Workshop, held in Nancy, France last July. "In Nancy, our goal was to put together experts from different distributions to confront experiences, ideas, tools, and solutions about the difficult task of maintaining a Linux distribution, and also to ask their informed opinions on some tools and ideas that are currently being developed in the EDOS project."

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CELF to set up Embedded Linux Wiki

CELF has announced plans to start a new Embedded Linux Wiki. "The CE Linux forum is working on setting up a vendor-neutral, community-oriented wiki to host information related to the use of Linux in embedded products. CELF will provide hosting and a dedicated editor for the site, and a task force is forming to help design and steer the site. The task force and the site will be open to the public."

CELF has also sent out a CE Linux Forum initiatives update that lists other new activities.

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Wizards of OS 4 streams available

The organizers of Wizards of OS 4 have now put up audio and video streams from the sessions that were held there. There is a lot of interesting discussion there - and it's all available in Ogg format.

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