Announcements

Linuxaudio.org announces new staff members

Linuxaudio.org, a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors, has announced the hiring of five new staff members. "As a result of recent staff openings designed to diversify its membership and community-based programs as well as strengthen the existing services, Linuxaudio.org is pleased to announce its newest staff members".

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Gumstix, Inc. announces the netstix 400xm-cf computer

Gumstix, Inc. has announced their newest full-function miniature computer. "At 35mm x 103mm, the netstix 400xm-cf comes with 64MB of Ram and 16MB of flash memory, runs at 400MHz and starts at $186.00 USD each, for orders of 1,000 units or more."

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Next-Generation NVIDIA Performance Tools Announced

NVIDIA Corporation has announced the availability of NVPerfKit 2.1. "NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced NVPerfKit 2.1, a comprehensive suite of next-generation performance tools for the debugging and profiling of OpenGL and Direct3D software applications for Windows and Linux."

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Oracle Linux - sort of

Oracle has announced a supported Linux offering. "Oracle starts with Red Hat Linux, removes Red Hat trademarks, and then adds Linux bug fixes." Prices are claimed to be rather lower than Red Hat's.

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Oracle Joins the Free Standards Group

Here's another announcement from Oracle: the company has joined the Free Standards Group. "Oracle plans on contributing to FSG's Linux Standard Base (LSB) workgroup and providing feedback and guidance on its requirements for developing and supporting enterprise applications for Linux." No mention of when Oracle might ship an LSB-certified version of its software, however.

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Oracle sets world record TPC-H one terabyte clustered benchmark

Oracle Corporation has announced a new benchmark record on the PANTA Systems' PANTAmatrix platform running Linux. "This is the fastest TPC-H One TB performance result for clustered environments, outperforming the best TPC-H One TB results from IBM DB2(2) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in both performance and price."

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NexusWare Core V11 achieves Carrier-Grade Linux registration

Performance Technologies has announced that its NexusWare Core V11 Linux OS and development environment has achieved Compliance with the OSDL Carrier Grade 3.2 Specification. "NexusWare Core is a comprehensive, highly integrated, Linux-based software distribution designed to speed time-to-market for system engineers using Performance Technologies' solutions to build packet-based wireless and IP telephony systems. With CGL registration, NexusWare Core will enhance its current Linux capabilities in key areas such as performance, security and reliability, making it an attractive alternative to expensive proprietary operating systems for telecom servers."

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Woize International Ltd. to offer Woize client for Linux

Woize International Ltd. has announced plans to produce a SIP based Woize telecommunication client for Linux in Q4. "Management firmly believes that the development of a SIP based Woize client for Linux OS is an important step for Woize Ltd. to potentially broaden its user base substantially. With the Linux development as well as the recently announced Mac plans in addition to the already existing Windows versions, Woize Ltd. will shortly offer its software for the three major operative systems."

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CSS Cookbook, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book CSS Cookbook, Second Edition by Christopher Schmitt.

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Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition by Ken Milburn.

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Fedora Linux - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution by Chris Tyler.

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Syngress Releases "Hack the Stack"

Syngress has published the book Hack the Stack: Using Snort and Ethereal to Master the 8 Layers of an Insecure Network by Michael Gregg and Stephen Watkins.

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Campware Good Gnewsletter #2

The October, 2006 edition of the Campware Good Gnewsletter is online. Campware is: "a platform for open source solutions for independent news media organizations in emerging democracies. The initative is coordinated by MDLF's new-media arm, the Center for Advanced Media--Prague (CAMP)."

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IMIA Open Source Group to co-sponsor LMN Award (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has announced the upcoming Linux Medical News Freedom Award. "The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) will be co-sponsoring the Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be given at this years American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Open Source Working Group meeting on Monday November 13th at the Hilton Washington Towers in Washington, D.C."

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LPI Offers Discounted Certification Exams at LinuxWorld London

The Linux Professional Institute will be offering discounted certification exams at LinuxWorld London on October 25 and 26, 2006. "Certification exams will include all LPIC-1 (101 and 102) and LPIC-2 (201 and 202) exams, both MySQL 5.0 certification exams (administrator and developer) and the Ubuntu Professional exam."

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FAVE 2006 registration now open

Registration is now open for FAVE 2006, the event will be held in London, England on November 25, 2006. "FAVE is an event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It features workshops, talks and performances from free software developers and artists."

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Foundations of Open Media Software Developer Meeting

The first Foundations of Open Media Software Developer Meeting will take place on January 12 and 13, 2007 in Sydney, Australia before LCA 2007. "The FOMS meeting is organised by developers for developers, and aims to get the right people together to take the next steps in open media software. Meet and discuss your plans for the next 12 months with other developers and forge relationships to unwind the kinks, making open media kick ever more arse."

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International Lisp Conference 2007 announced

The 2007 International Lisp Conference has been announced, along with a call for papers. "The Association of Lisp Users has announced the International Lisp Conference 2007, which will take place in Cambridge, England, from April 1st to 4th, 2007."

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KDE Conference in Zaragoza, Spain (KDE.News)

A KDE Conference in Zaragoza, Spain has been announced. The event will take place on November 4-5, 2006. "It is oriented towards people with good computer knowledge who want to get started with KDE programming and for users that want to know the present and future of graphical environments."

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Events: November 2, 2006 to January 1, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 31 November 2	Zend/PHP Conference and Expo	San Jose, CA
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
December 12 December 19	Virtual Congress UnInet Meeting UMeet'2006	irc.uninet.edu, #linux
December 27 December 30	23rd Chaos Communication Congress 2006	Berlin, Germany

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

O'Reilly EuroOSCON coverage

O'Reilly has sent out a press release that details the recent EuroOSCON event that was held in Brussels, Belgium. "The second edition of EuroOSCON was loosely coupled around the theme of "Open and Connected," bringing together just over 500 developers, hackers, IT managers, sys admins, entrepreneurs, and researchers from around the globe. Participants spent four energizing days exchanging ideas on how open source's architecture of participation and user contributions provide guideposts for new business models and tools, how it influences geek culture and beyond, and how it informs and extends the concept of Web 2.0."

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Audio Interviews from aKademy 2006 (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the availability of six audio interviews from the aKademy 2006 conference. "The landmark event of the KDE calendar, the KDE World Conference, continues to surprise even its most excitable fans with the emergence of six audio interviews recorded at aKademy 2006, in Dublin, Ireland. The interviews all feature prominent current contributors, and cover a diverse and interesting mix of topics relevant to the present and future of the KDE project."

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