Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF: Self-Help Group Backs Off Attack on Internet Critic
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a media release concerning a self-help group's attempt to uncover an anonymous poster. "Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, served a subpoena for the identity of an anonymous user of Google Video last month, claiming that a French documentary posted by the user infringed Landmark's copyrights. The piece, entitled "Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous" (Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus), is highly critical of Landmark and included hidden camera footage from inside a French Landmark Forum event along with panel discussions about the group." Landmark has withdrawn the subpoena.
Commercial announcements
Adaptive Planning Express Edition 3.0 Released
Adaptive Planning has announced the release of Adaptive Planning Express Edition Version 3.0. The latest version of Adaptive Planning's open source budgeting and forecasting application is available via free download from SourceForge.Ampro Accelerates EPIC Form Factor Performance to 1.8 Gigahertz
Ampro Computers, Inc. has announced the availability of their 1.8 GHz Pentium M 745 processor EPIC single board computer. "At a mere 4.5" x 6.5" (115mm x 165mm), the 1.8 GHz ReadyBoard 800 implements high CPU and I/O performance in a size that is 34% smaller than the Mini-ITX form factor. The Intel(R) 82855 chipset is featured, with up to 1GB DDR 333 SODIMM RAM, (4) USB 2.0 ports, (4) serial ports, (2) serial ports with RS-422/485 capability, EIDE, Gigabit Ethernet, 10/100 Ethernet with Wake on LAN support, LVDS, (8) general-purpose I/O (GPIO) pins, integrated chipset graphics, and PCI-104 expansion (PCI bus)."
Compiere hires a community relations manager
Back in October, LWN wrote about Compiere's difficulties in its relationship with its development community. Compiere Inc. has now announced the hiring of Dawn Foster (or "Geekygirl Dawn Foster" on her weblog) as "director of community and partner programs." "Foster will serve as a liaison between Compiere and the open source community to ensure the company is effectively communicating with the community, while encouraging community contributions to the Compiere ERP & CRM project. She will also be responsible for managing Compieres recently expanded partner program and relationships with Compiere partners, many of whom are active participants in Compieres open source community."
Jive Software launches IgniteRealtime.org web site
Jive Software has announced the launch of their IgniteRealtime.org web site. "IgniteRealtime.org is a community website intended to increase support of Jive Software's active developer and user communities. IgniteRealtime.org builds upon the tremendous success of Jive Software's Open Source EIM products by evolving the website from a source code destination to the single biggest XMPP-centric product community on the Web, with a goal of driving the adoption of XMPP as the primary standard for open, real-time communications."
Novell's Susan Heystee to Oversee Microsoft Pact in Strategic Partner Role
Novell, Inc. has announced the appointment of Susan Heystee. "Novell has appointed Susan Heystee, recently named vice president and general manager for Global Strategic Partners, to manage the relationship with Microsoft under the recently announced Novell-Microsoft agreement to promote Linux* and Windows* interoperability. Heystee will oversee both the business and technical cooperation components of the agreement, ensuring that Novell(R) customers gain the maximum benefit from interoperability work around Linux."
Novell Appoints Colleen O'Keefe to Lead Services Business
Novell, Inc. has announced the appointment of Colleen O'Keefe as senior vice president of services at Novell. "Former NCR executive, O'Keefe will oversee Novell's technical support offerings, critical competitive differentiators for Novell in the Linux market."
Novell adds OpenXML to OpenOffice.org
Novell has sent out a press release proclaiming its intent to implement OpenXML support for OpenOffice.org. "Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. As a result, end users will be able to more easily share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and style templates across the two office productivity suites."
Novell's fourth-quarter results
Novell has announced its "preliminary" quarterly and annual results. "During the fourth fiscal quarter 2006, Novell reported $13 million of revenue from Linux Platform Products, up 32 percent year-over-year."
OpenLogic expands OpenLogic Expert Community
OpenLogic, Inc. has announced the expansion of the OpenLogic Expert Community. "The OpenLogic Expert Community is the first program to provide consolidated, commercial-grade support across a wide range of open source products by tapping the open source development community for enterprise support. OpenLogic currently offers enterprise support for more than 160 certified open source products -- providing a single point of contact for enterprise open source issues. Through the Expert Community, OpenLogic pays qualified experts for help in resolving the most complex issues and shepherds enterprise issues through the entire process to resolution."
PolyServe Joins Red Hat Advanced Software Partner Program
PolyServe, Inc. has announced that it has joined the Red Hat Advanced Software Partner Program. "Membership in the program ensures customers that PolyServe's shared data clustering software solutions for Linux have been tested for and are certified with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, are supported under the Technical Support Alliance Network (TSANet) cooperative support forum, and are compliant with Red Hat's guidelines for interoperability."
Sun releases some development tools
Sun Microsystems has announced the release of its "NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack" and "NetBeans Visual Web Pack" tools. The C/C++ tools are available under the CDDL; the "Visual Web Pack," instead, is available under the rather more restrictive "Sun entitlement for software".Terracotta Goes Open Source
Terracotta, Inc. has announced that the company is open sourcing its Java clustering product line to accelerate adoption by developers using open source frameworks. The announcement is followed by a second press release (click below for both) on the software companies and projects that are backing Terracotta's move to open source its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) clustering software.Virtual Bridges upgrades Win4Lin Pro
Virtual Bridges, Inc. has announced a major upgrade to its Win4Lin Pro product. "Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is the enterprise/SMB product for delivering Windows applications on thin clients via a Linux server. The Win4Lin Pro 3.5 upgrade includes new functionality, support for newer Linux distributions, performance improvements and a roll-up of the maintenance releases since Win4Lin Pro 3 which was released in May 2006."
New Books
No Starch Press releases "The Book of JavaScript" Second Edition
No Starch Press has published the book The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages by thau!.Cryptography for Developers released by Syngress Publishing
Syngress has published the book Cryptography for Developers by Tom St. Denis.Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design by Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, and David West.Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition - New From O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville.
Contests and Awards
Ekiga awarded in Soissons (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop has announced the winning of an award by the Ekiga project. "Ekiga won last week one of the Free Software Awards in Soissons (France). Ekiga was nominated in the "Multimedia" category. The jury appreciated the quality of the project and the fact that it was original (GnomeMeeting was the first Open Source GUI to support VoIP together with video and the H.323 standard on GNU/Linux in 2001). It is now the first Open Source application to support multiple major VoIP protocols at the same time, again with audio and video."
Winner announced for the GnuPG logo contest
Thomas Wittek from Cologne has won the GnuPG logo contest. "He will soon see his design used with GnuPG and also receive 50 percent of the received donation (we received as of now 215 Euro but further donations won't be rejected)."
Education and Certification
LPI changes recertification policy
The Linux Professional Institute has announced a change in its recertification policy. "The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification is changing the organization's "Recertification Policy" to ensure that the skills and knowledge of Linux professionals continues to be relevant and current. Candidates who have earned LPIC certifications will have to re-certify every five years or alternatively earn a higher certification status. Previously recertification was only required after ten years."
Novell Supports LPI's upcoming Enterprise-Level certification
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and Novell have announced cooperation of Novell on the development of LPI's upcoming enterprise-level certification program, LPIC-3. "LPIC-3 will be LPI's senior certification level for Linux professionals, requiring candidates to hold both LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 designations. LPI will launch the program in January 2007 and will hold the first North American exam lab at Novell's BrainShare(R) event in March 2007."
TimeSys Expands Educational Webinar Series for Embedded Linux Development
TimeSys has announced an expanded webinar series for embedded Linux developers. "Beginning in early December, the new topics are designed to help developers that are new to embedded Linux, showing the steps to boot Linux on a target embedded board, get a sample application to run on the board, and help attendees understand the options available for filesystems to use with their project."
Calls for Presentations
2nd Call for Talks for the FOSDEM Debian Developer's room
The second Call for Talks has gone out for the FOSDEM Debian Developer's room. "About a month ago, I sent out a first Call for Talks to the debian-project and debian-events-eu lists. In the mean time, I did receive an official confirmation that we will be able to get a DevRoom at FOSDEM for the whole weekend; more specifically, we will be having room AW1.125, which has 76 seats, on saturday from 14:15 to 19:00, and on sunday from 09:00 to 18:00."
NLUUG 2007 spring conference Call for Papers
A call for papers has gone out for the NLUUG 2007 spring conference. The event takes place in Ede, the Netherlands on May 10, 2007, submissions are due by December 31.
Upcoming Events
PyCon 2007 announced
PyCon 2007 has been announced. "PyCon 2007, the fifth annual conference of the Python community, will take place February 23-25 at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel. The keynote speakers will include Ivan Krstiæ, from the One Laptop Per Child project; Adele Goldberg, a developer of Smalltalk; Robert R. Lefkowitz, an expert on the use of open source in business; and Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python."
SCALE 5x Opens For Registration (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced the registration for SCALE 5X. The event takes place on February 10-11, 2007 in Los Angeles, CA. "The Expo is now accepting early registrations. A full pass (expo floor and seminars is $60 until January 24, 2007, and $70 thereafter, a student pass is $30 until January 24, 2007, and $35 thereafter, and an expo-floor-only pass is $10. Join us for over 40 seminars and tutorials. Presentations from Chris Dibona, Ted Haeger, Don Marti, and more! Expo floor will include exhibits by Dell, ClearHealth, Google, Krugle, Ingres, Trolltech, and others."
Registration Open for VistA Community Meeting (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced the registration for the 14th VistA Community Meeting. "K.S. Bhaskar writes: As you may be aware, the next VistA Community Meeting will be at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Tuesday through Thursday, January 9-11, 2007. We hope that you will be able to attend."
Events: December 14, 2006 to February 12, 2007
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 7 February 9 |
Free Software World Conference 3.0 | Badajoz, Spain |
| February 7 February 9 |
Xorg Developer's Conference | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| February 9 | Women In Open Source | Los Angeles, USA |
| February 9 | Open Source Health Care Summit | Los Angeles, USA |
| February 10 February 11 |
2007 Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
Akademy 2006 Review and Videos (KDE.News)
KDE.News mentions the availability of coverage from the aKademy 2006 conference. "Linux Magazine have put their overview of aKademy 2006 -- the KDE World Conference -- online from their December 2006 issue. They describe how aKademy helped plan the road to KDE 4, and also report on the widely-successful OpenDocument day. There is also a review of KAlarm available from the same issue. In other aKademy 2006 news, the videos of the presentations and talks are now being uploaded."
The Linux Action Show interviews Novell Rep on Microsoft-Novell deal
The Linux Action Show has an interview with Novell's Director of Marketing for Linux and Open Source Platforms. "The Linux Action Show gets Novell's take on the Microsoft/Novell deal straight from the source: The Director of Marketing for Linux and Open Source Platforms at Novell. They Ask the questions and concerns on the minds of the community, plus they get the insider's track on Suse Linux Enterprise, openSUSE and more."
Web 2.0 - Barry Diller and Arthur Sulzberger (O'ReillyNet)
O'Reilly presents an audio podcast from the Web 2.0 Summit. "Barry Diller and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. talked to Web 2.0 Summit program chair John Battelle about publishing content online. Sulzberger is chairman of The New York Times Company which now includes NYTimes.com, Boston.com, and About.com. Diller is the chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, and chairman of Expedia, Inc. In the second half of their discussion they turn to community created content and answered questions about its role in their various websites."
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