Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
New Creative Commons 3.0 license drafts posted
The Creative Commons Project has announced a new set of drafts of the upcoming version 3.0 licenses. "The issue of the DRM parallel distribution language was debated in earnest. Ultimately, however, the general sentiment on the list does not seem to favor implementation of the DRM parallel distribution language at this stage."
EFF: Self-Help Group Bullies Net Critics
Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release involving a DMCA issue with a company called Landmark Education. "San Francisco-based Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, is trying to suppress an investigative television news piece critical of its methods. Landmark contends that the documentary infringes its copyright in the Forum course, while citing to copyright registration of the Forum leader's manual. Using the alleged copyright violation as a pretext, Landmark subpoenaed three websites hosting the video -- the Internet Archive, Google Video, and YouTube -- seeking the identities of the anonymous uploaders. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) allows a content owner to issue a subpoena for the identity of an alleged infringer without first filing an actual lawsuit."
Linuxaudio.org introduces a dedicated IRC channel
Linuxaudio.org has announced a new IRC channel. "With the help of consortium's new staff member Cezar Halmagean, the Linuxaudio.org now offers a dedicated IRC channel for its members as well as a resource for the entire Linux audio community."
SQO-OSS Project Launched with KDE (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers the launch of SQO-OSS (Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software). "KDE together with the Athens University of Economics and Business and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and other partners has launched SQO-OSS. This is a two-year multi-million euro project that aims to develop new tools and techniques for measuring Open Source quality."
Commercial announcements
ACCESS to Release Application Framework to Open Source Community
ACCESS CO., LTD. has announced its plans to release its open-source Linux Application Framework for development of mobile applications. "Developed as part of the ACCESS Linux Platform, the Application Framework has been designed specifically to meet the requirements of mobile phones and devices. In addition to providing a set of services to install and manage applications, the Application Framework from ACCESS can integrate communication between applications, enabling a seamless user experience for music, messaging and other advanced features."
CodeSourcery Joins MIPS Alliance Program
CodeSourcery, Inc has announced its joining of the MIPS Alliance Program. "CodeSourcery, Inc. announced today that the company has joined the MIPS(R) Alliance Program and has added support for the MIPS architecture to the GNU/Linux prelinker. The GNU/Linux prelinker substantially reduces application startup time. For example, when running on a MIPS32(R) 24K(R) platform, a prelinked version of the Firefox web browser starts 44% faster. CodeSourcery's version of the MIPS GNU/Linux prelinker can be used by developers working on either Microsoft Windows or GNU/Linux."
Motorola to develop a free Java Micro Edition stack
Motorola has announced its intention to create a Java Micro Edition stack under version 2 of the Apache license. "Aided by Apache's established success with production ready software such as Apache Tomcat Server and new projects such as Apache Harmony, we hope to help developers create and quickly deliver innovative applications to market."
Novell Appoints Maarten Koster as President, Novell Asia Pacific
Novell, Inc. has announced the appointment of Maarten Koster as president of Novell Asia Pacific. "Formerly director of Tivoli Asia Pacific for IBM, Koster brings to Novell deep experience in both enterprise software and the Asia-Pacific region, an area of increasing focus for Novell. Koster will be responsible for the full range of Novell's sales and consulting business across Asia-Pacific, including in China and India, two markets witnessing significant interest in Linux and open source."
Nuxeo Releases Nuxeo Core 1.0
Nuxeo has announced the release of Nuxeo Core 1.0, an open-source embeddable document management core for Java EE and rich client enterprise content management applications. "Nuxeo Core provides all the core services and functionalities needed to build a complete ECM product".
OpenClovis Launches New Application Open Source Projects
OpenClovis, Inc. has announced their plans to release high availability and carrier grade capabilities for open-source telephony and enterprise applications. "The enterprise projects would develop integrations and provide linkages to incorporate open source enterprise applications with the OpenClovis Application Service Platform (ASP), an open source, carrier grade, high availability management software platform. Applications could include solidDB for MySQL, which combines the strength of the MySQL Server and solidDB into a robust online transaction processing (OLTP) database that allows businesses to use an open source relational database for mission-critical applications."
Oracle and Intel to Collaborate on Enterprise Computing
Oracle Corporation has announced a collaborative effort with Intel. "Oracle and Intel Corporation today announced a joint effort to help accelerate deployment of solutions based on Oracle and Intel technology. This effort builds on a longstanding enterprise computing relationship and is expected to deliver a new level of performance and reliability to customers using Oracle solutions running on industry-leading Intel(R) Core(R) microarchitecture-based Linux servers."
The Sage Group partners with MySQL AB
MySQL AB has announced a Global Partnership with the Sage Group. "The Sage Group plc has signed a global agreement with MySQL AB which enables Sage to embed MySQL database technology into its world-wide product portfolio. Sage intends to introduce MySQL into its small business range over the coming months as part of ongoing product development and upgrade activity."
Sun Microsystems Reports Results for 1Q Fiscal Year 2007
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced its fiscal year 2007 first quarter financial results. "Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 were $3.189 billion, an increase of 17 percent as compared with $2.726 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Year over year revenue increase resulted from both acquisitions and increasing acceptance of the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System, as well as growth in the services business. Computer Systems Products revenues increased 15 percent year over year, the third consecutive quarter of year over year revenue increase."
New Books
Django book pre-release
A pre-release of a book on the Django web platform has been announced. "Starting today, The Django book is available at djangobook.com. We'll be unveiling one or two chapters each week until the whole book is available. The first two chapters are available now. This is a pre-release, which means we're actively looking for comments, typo fixes, corrections and other suggestions from readers like you, all around the world. We'll try to incorporate your suggestions into the final product, which will be published by Apress early next year."
HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy.Network Security Hacks, Second Edition--O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Network Security Hacks, Second Edition by Andrew Lockhart.Syngress Publishing Releases "Scripting VMware Power Tools"
Syngress has published the book Scripting VMware Power Tools by Al Muller.
Resources
EFF Releases Bloggers' Guide for Investigating Government Agencies
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced some new resources for Bloggers. "Bloggers across the Internet have shown that you don't have to be part of the mainstream media to uncover an important story and tell it to the world. But how do you start investigating a big story for your blog? Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released tips for bloggers who want the inside story on government agencies. The Bloggers' FAQ on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) outlines how to use open government laws to get access to records kept by federal agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."
Education and Certification
LPI offers discounted certification exams at LinuxWorld Cologne
The Linux Professional Institute will be holding discounted Linux certification exams at the LinuxWorld Cologne conference on November 14-16, 2006. "Exams will be available in German and English and 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. This will be the first time that the Ubuntu Professional exam will be offered at a LinuxWorld event in Germany."
Calls for Presentations
php|tek call for papers
A call for papers has gone out for the next php|tek conference. The event takes place in Chicago, IL on May 16-18, 2007, submissions are due by November 20.
Upcoming Events
linux.conf.au 2007 registration and program
The linux.conf.au 2007 organizers have announced that registration is open for next January's event. Discounts are available for those who register before November 15. The conference program has also been released, and it looks like an exercise in pain: there are a lot of interesting talks, and choosing between them is going to hurt.Announcing GNOME.conf.au, January 2007
GNOME.conf.au will take place in Sydney, Australia during Linux.conf.au in January, 2007. "This year, GNOME.conf.au is running over two days. With presenters including Andrew Cowie (Java-GNOME), Trent Lloyd (Avahi), Jono Bacon (Jokosher), Andy Fitzsimon (Art), David Zeuthen (HAL) and Nigel Tao (Deskbar). GNOME.conf.au is free to all linux.conf.au attendees, and being held on the Monday and Tuesday of Linux.conf.au."
LinuxWorld Mexico 2007
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo México will take place from February 27 to March 2, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference
The USENIX Association has announced the next Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA). The event takes place on December 3-8, 2006 in Washington, D.C. "This year's keynote, "Hollywood's Secret War on Your NOC," delivered by science fiction author Cory Doctorow, promises to be insightful and entertaining. Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing and former Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, examines Hollywood's efforts in banning new technology."
Openlab3 Exhibition and 2 Events, London
The OpenLab3 Exhibition will take place in London, England on November 4-11, 2006. "OpenLab is delighted to present OpenLab3, an group exhibition with an opening and closing event featuring musical performances by more than 20 artists and musicians of the OpenLab collective. OpenLab engages in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture."
Events: November 9, 2006 to January 8, 2007
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| November 4 November 11 |
Open Source in Performance and Exhibition | London, England |
| 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.
Web sites
The Nepomuk-KDE Wiki opens
Sebastian Trueg has announced the Nepomuk-KDE Wiki. "I would like to (once again) officially announce the Nepomuk-KDE project which aims to provide a full implementation of the standards and APIs defined in Nepomuk on the KDE Desktop. As a sub-project of Nepomuk the two main issues are the maintenance and intensive usage of metadata throughout the desktop and powerful peer-to-peer collaboration techiques. In the first phase of the NEPOMUK-KDE project the focus lies on the metadata part."
Audio and Video programs
The Linux Action Show on KDE 4 and Plasma
New audio interviews are available at The Linux Action Show. "The Linux Action Show interviews KDE developer Aaron Seigo and asks him the question on every ones mind, "just what is Plasma?". Then they get the low down on some of the slick new features coming for KDE 4."
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