Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Open letter to Novell
Bruce Perens has written an open letter to Novell and is collecting signatures (more than 1500 so far). "The Open Source community would find little to criticize in your agreement with Microsoft, had it remained a strictly financial and technical agreement. As the agreement stands today, it betrays the authors of the software you re-market and their users worldwide for Novell's sole commercial benefit."
ODF Alliance Hails Brazil, India, Italy, and Poland for Recognizing ODF
The OpenDocument Format Alliance has commends Brazil, India, Italy, and Poland for adopting the OpenDocument Format. "(ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated to improving access to electronic government documents, today applauded Brazil's decision to recommend ODF as the government's preferred format; India's decision to use ODF at a major state government agency; and Italy's decision to recognize ODF as national standard."
Commercial announcements
Acronis Joins Red Hat ISV Partner Program
Acronis, Inc. has announced its joining with the Red Hat ISV Partner Program. "The original Linux disk imaging and bare-metal restore solution on the market, Acronis True Image Server for Linux provides locally managed online server backup, server disk imaging and bare-metal restore solution for servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as other Linux distributions."
Agitar Software Establishes Research Fellowship Program
Agitar Software, Inc. announced the Agitar Research Fellowship program. "The program aims to provide financial sponsorship and other forms of support to researchers and open-source contributors working on software testing technology. The initiative will be carried out by AgitarLabs, Agitar's recently established division for research and advanced development. The Agitar Research Fellowship program is open to advanced Ph.D. students and independent researchers working in the areas of software testing and program analysis."
Linspire partners with Business International
Linspire, Inc. has announced a partnership with Business International. "Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name announced a strategic partnership today with Business International to bring Linspire's desktop Linux operating system to the Middle East and African markets. The partnership announcement between Linspire and Business International was made at this years GITEX Dubai 2006 Trade Show, one of the world's top three IT exhibitions. former Microsoft ME Executive, Mohamad Jarrar, Business International is positioned to bring desktop Linux to the growing emerging markets in the Middle East and African countries."
Novell launches 'Desktop-to-Data Center' management solutions
Novell, Inc. has announced its desktop-to-data center management initiative. "Novell today announced the first offerings of its desktop-to-data center management initiative, including the availability of a comprehensive set of solutions which orchestrate the management of virtual machines, high-performance computing and other IT resources. Following the agreement with Microsoft* earlier this month, these offerings are the next steps in Novell's plan to deliver on its vision of interoperable, cross-platform management solutions."
OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative Gains Another Heavy Hitter
Open Source Development Labs has announced its latest MLI member, Datang Mobile. OSDL "... today announced that Chinese handset manufacturer Datang Mobile will join OSDL as an active member of the Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI). Datang Mobile is a leading communication equipment provider in China and in markets around the globe. "Linux is being deployed on mobile devices shipped in China at a much higher rate than in any other region," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "Datang Mobile will bring increased representation from one of the most active and dynamic markets in the world, and its technical and business expertise will accelerate the adoption of Mobile Linux.""
Rivet Software to Open Source Dragon View XBRL Viewer
Rivet Software has announced plans to release its Dragon View XBRL viewer application as open-source software. "Dragon View is the first commercially available client-based application that allows business professionals to easily review XBRL taxonomy and financial document information. Rivet plans to release its source code to the open source community in Q1 of 2007 to encourage the establishment of new communities for open source development of XBRL technology."
New Books
Addison-Wesley Professional publishes The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition
Addison-Wesley Professional has announced the publication of The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition by Hal Fulton.Sams Announces New Ajax/Python Books
Sams Publishing has published the books Ajax for Web Application Developers by Kris Hadlock and Python Phrasebook (Essential Code and Commands) by Brad Dayley.
Contests and Awards
LPI creates voucher contest for LPIC-3 volunteers
The Linux Professional Institute has announced a voucher contest for LPIC-3 certification exam contributors. "The Linux Professional Institute invites all Linux professionals to participate in the creation of their enterprise level LPIC-3 certification. The contest asks for IT professionals to complete a Job Task Analysis survey which will assist in the creation of a psychometrically-valid certification program. The Job Task Analysis (JTA) survey asks participants to determine how often a specific task is peformed as an IT professional (or understanding of the same) and how important it is to know the specific task or concept." Selected contributors will win a free LPIC-3 exam voucher.
Nokia Foundation Award to Marten Mickos
Nokia has announced the winning of a EUR 10,000 Nokia Foundation Award by Marten Mickos. "Marten Mickos has strong merits in the leadership positions of international high-tech companies. Since 2001, he has been CEO of the Open Source company, MySQL. Mickos is known as a strong advocate of the Open Source community and MySQL has been at the forefront of developing successful business around open source."
Calls for Presentations
Debian Miniconf at linux.conf.au 2007
A call for participation has gone out for the sixth Debian Miniconf, the event will be held in conjunction with the linux.conf.au 2007 on January 15-20, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.MySQL MiniConf at linux.conf.au 2007 cfp
A call for participation has gone out for the second MySQL Miniconf, the event will take place in Sydney, Australia on January 15 prior to linux.conf.au 2007.Make Art 2007 - call for participation
A call for participation has gone out for Make Art 2007, submissions are due by December 9. "Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of free/libre and open source software in electronic arts. The second edition of Make Art will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 2nd to the 8th of April 2007. Make Art offers performances, exhibitions, lectures and workshops, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming. The event is dedicated to artists who create their own tools, and apply the same rules to art as to free software development. We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS based works and projects: performances, lectures, software presentations, installations..."
Ruby and Python Conference 2007
The Ruby & Python Conference 2007 will take place on April 14 and 15, 2007 in Poznan, Poland. "... the idea behind it is to put together experts with young programmers and to support a good communication channel for East-West exchange of prospective ideas. If you think you have something interesting to present or some ideas to share with other enthusiasts, we would be more then happy to welcome you as a Speaker."
SCALE Call for papers (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced a call for papers for the Open Source Health Care Summit, which will be part of the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE). SCALE will take place on February 9, 2007 in Los Angeles, CA, abstracts are due by December 29. "Generally we are interested in seeing solid presentations of the application of Free and Open Source Software to the healthcare environment. If you are doing something innovative that the world needs to know about, this is your opportunity!"
Upcoming Events
Countdown to linux.conf.au 2007
The 48 day countdown to linux.conf.au has been posted. "We've been leaping out of our skins to reveal our first keynote speaker, and now we can! He's a scholar and a gentleman, and leads a double life as a kernel hacker extraordinaire. Without this man, we may have missed an entire generation of kernel hackers, and certainly wouldn't have had a penguin to go with our GNU -- that's right... We're going to make you click through to find out who!"
Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA
The next LUGOD Linux Installfest workshop will be held in Davis, California on December 2, 2006.North America Mtn Summit announced
The North America Mtn Summit will take place on February 5-11 2007 in Mountain View, CA. "Okay, time to just go for it. I hereby declare that Mtn Summit 2007, North American edition, will be held February 5-11 in Mountain View. Be there or... don't be there. But you'll totally be missing out on balmy California weather, seeing core monotone developers scribbling madly on whiteboards, and the famous Google Cafeteria!"
PHP Conference Brasil
PHP Conference Brasil will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 1-2, 2006.Ruby Related Conference Announcements (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal has announced two new Ruby conferences. QCon will take place in London, England on March 12-16, 2006 and the first MountainWest RubyConf will be held on March 16 and 17, 2007.Events: December 7, 2006 to February 5, 2007
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 11 January 12 |
Foundations of Open Media Software | Sydney, Australia |
| January 15 January 20 |
linux.conf.au 2007 | Sydney, Australia |
| January 20 January 26 |
Cell Hack-a-thon | Loveland, CO, USA |
| January 23 January 26 |
Open Source Meets Business | Nürnberg, Germany |
| January 24 | European Patent Conference | Brussels, Belgium |
| January 30 February 1 |
Solutions Linux Expo | Paris, France |
| February 1 February 2 |
LinuxDays Luxembourg | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| February 2 | FUDCon Boston 2007 | Boston, MA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Transcripts of recent GPLv3 conference are online
Transcripts from GPLv3 conference speeches by Richard Stallman and Ciaran O'Riordan have been published.
Audio and Video programs
Watch Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Keynote Address
FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Keynote Address is available online. "In front of a standing-room-only crowd of over 350 Plone users and developers, Eben delivered an inspiring and wide-ranging talk that traced the connections between the free software movement, the One Laptop Per Child project, and the past three hundred years of modern industrial economic development, and placed our work into the larger context of the ongoing journey towards freedom and equality for all people."
RubyConf*MI Videos Now on the Web (Linux Journal)
Pat Eyler has announced the videos from the summer 2006 RubyConf*MI event. "Well, this is some news I've been wanting to share for a while, but I've had to wait until everything was ready. During the summer, I spoke at RubyConf*MI, one of the first regional Ruby Conferences (I think San Diego held the only one earlier than the Michigan folks). At the time, they filmed all the presentations."
Share groups across Active Directory and Linux (Network World)
Network World presents an mp3 podcast with Gerald Carter. "With the latest Samba, you can populate one group on a Linux system with some members from the local system, others from Microsoft Active Directory. Since it works a lot like local groups in Microsoft Windows, now Linux and Windows administrators will be able to share the task of managing users and groups. Gerald (Jerry) Carter covers some techniques that he'll be explaining at the upcoming LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York City."
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