Announcements

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

The old domain used by the AGNULA project (which works on audio-oriented Linux distributions) has been abruptly grabbed by an unrelated third party and used to host yet another spam blog. The project is working on changing this state of affairs; in the mean time, however, the site has move to agnula.info.

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Lobbying effort ATI and NVIDIA

David A. Wheeler has sent in news regarding a video driver email campaign: "Lobby4linux is stirring up a lobbying campaign to NVIDIA and ATI to support FLOSS 3D drivers."

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CrossOver 6 Announced

Version 6 of CrossOver for Mac and Linux is out. "Users of Intel based Mac systems can now seamlessly run many Windows applications on their Mac without needing a Windows license. Supported applications include Outlook, Visio, Project, Quicken, Steam based games such as Half Life 2, and many more. For Linux users, we have added support for Outlook 2003, World of Warcraft, a range of Steam based games such as Half-Life 2, and a number of other applications. Additionally, CrossOver 6 represents another major step forward in the evolution of Wine, so most users will find substantial improvements in the overall compatibility and behavior of CrossOver as compared to version 5."

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Open Country Announces Partnership with Turbolinux

Open Country and Turbolinux have announced a partnership. "Open Country, a next-generation systems management software company, today announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Turbolinux, Inc., a global provider of Linux-based solutions, to deliver powerful end-to-end management capabilities for Turbolinux’s Chinese customers. Under the terms of the agreement, a customized Mandarin version of Open Country's Universal Systems Management Suite will be bundled with Turbolinux Server 10.5 for the Chinese market."

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An OpenMoko update

Rumor has it that some telephone products have been announced this week. A little more quietly, it was announced that the Linux-based (and open) OpenMoko phone would begin to ship in February, though widespread availability will probably take a little longer. There's also some details on the final hardware configuration, click below for the full text.

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Second Life software to be released

Linden Labs has announced that it has released the code for its "viewer" application as open source. "The Second Life Viewer is used by subscribers or 'Residents' to access the virtual world's Grid. Freely-downloadable from the Second Life website, the Viewer software enables Residents to control their in-world avatars, interact with each other via Instant Message, create content, buy and sell objects, access multimedia content and to navigate around the virtual environment." One has to dig a bit, but the associated FAQ states that the GPL is being used, "as well as a separate license for entities that wish to reserve the ability to create proprietary extensions for the viewer." (Thanks to Francesco Lovergine).

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Storix, Inc. launches backup and adaptable system recovery software

Storix, Inc. has announced the launch of Storix System Backup Administrator version 6 for Linux and AIX. "SBAdmin is designed for daily backup management, as well as Adaptable System Recovery (ASR), providing the flexibility to migrate systems to different hardware or to provision new systems. This ability, coupled with the free annual maintenance offered by the company to its customers, significantly reduces the user's TCO and increases productivity by minimizing downtime."

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Nokia N800 announced

Nokia has announced the availability of the N800, the much-rumored upgrade of the Linux-based 770 tablet. "Building on the success of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, the Nokia N800 introduces faster performance, full screen finger qwerty keyboard, easier continuous connections through Wi-Fi or via Bluetooth phone, integrated web camera as well as a new elegant design." There is a page with some photos available.

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Optaros publishes an open source catalog

Opteros has announced the release of an "Open Source Catalog," designed to help companies decide which projects are "enterprise ready." Actually downloading the report requires registration, but it's under a Creative Commons license, so we've made a copy available [PDF]. There are some interesting conclusions (qmail is said to be more enterprise-ready than postfix or sendmail, despite scoring lower in the "community" and "functionality" categories), but it still might serve as a useful starting point for people trying to choose free software.

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Qt Centre Programming Contest (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the Qt Centre Programming Contest 2007. "Qt community site Qt Centre is celebrating its first anniversary with a programming contest. The contest is open until the end of May and the winner is the best Qt 4 or Qtopia application or component in one of several categories. Great prizes to be won include a MacBook and two Qtopia Greenphones. The contest is sponsored by Basyskom, froglogic, ICS, KDAB and Trolltech."

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InfoWorld Honors SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

Novell, Inc. has announced the winning of a technical award by the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. "Novell today announced its SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 has earned a 2007 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award, being named "Best Linux Desktop." According to InfoWorld, "Novell's revamped desktop Linux* distribution combines professional fit and finish with unique usability features not available from other vendors... A class act, [SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop] 10 gives business users new reason to consider Linux for enterprise desktops.""

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Call for Papers: aKademy 2007

aKademy 2007 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland from June 30 to July 7. KDE 4 will clearly be a big topic at this gathering. The call for papers has gone out; click below for the details. Abstracts are due by February 14.

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KDE Room at FOSDEM 2007 (KDE.News)

KDE.News has posted a call for participation for the upcoming FOSDEM conference. "These annual meetings are organised by volunteers, free of charge and generally recognised as one of the most productive gatherings available on the European stage. This year it will be held on the weekend of 24/25th February 2007 on the ULB Campus Solbosh in Brussels, Belgium. We are now looking for KDE contributors to talk about what they are working on. Talks in previous years have included PyKDE, Krita, KDE Marketing, KDevelop and Context Linked Desktops. We want to hear from all parts of KDE in the devroom, so do not think your area of work is too insignificant."

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CFP for RAID 2007

A call for papers has been posted for the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection 2007 conference (RAID 2007). The event takes place in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia on September 5-7, 2007, papers are due by March 31.

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Red Hat Summit 2007 call for sessions

A call for sessions has been posted for the Red Hat Summit 2007. The event takes place in San Diego, CA on May 9-11, 2007, submissions are due by January 19.

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Terra Soft Hosts Cell Hack-a-thon

Terra Soft Solutions has announced the first Cell processor "hack-a-thon". The event takes place in Loveland, Colorado on January 20-26, 2007. "Glen Otero, Ph.D., Chief Scientist at Terra Soft describes this week long event as, "A gathering of researchers from all over the globe who wish to port science and engineering applications to the Cell processor and create the initial knowledge base of Cell-optimized code. Code authors have the option to release code through the newly formed HPC Consortium, making it available to researchers everywhere."

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DebConf7 registration/sponsorship/CFP deadline

An update report has been sent out for DebConf7, which will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 17-23, 2007. Regarding registration for sponsored accommodation: "We need this information now to make financial estimates. In particular, we would like to calculate how much money we can allocate to travel sponsorship. Even if you are not applying for travel sponsorship, we suggest you organise travel soon. For example, for those coming from Europe some budget airlines recently opened booking for flights that are currently very cheap, and will increase in price over the next few months." Also, the event submission deadline is January 31.

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ETel Adds New Speakers and Sessions

New speakers have been announced for the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. "The program schedule is nearly final for ETel, the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. A cross-section of noted industry experts will be leading more than 50 sessions and hands-on workshops designed to capture the trends of the evolving telecom industry and provide the means to navigate the communication opportunities ahead. ETel 2007 is scheduled for February 27 through March 1, 2007 in Burlingame, California."

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Django at PyCon

The Django weblog mentions some Django web development system events at PyCon 2007. "On Feb 22nd (the tutorial day) I (Jacob) will be teaching back-to-back three-hour Django tutorials. The morning tutorial is an introduction to Django designed for anyone interested in getting started with Django. After lunch, I'll move on to an advanced Django tutorial, covering a lot of what goes on under the hood. Anyone who knows Django and wants to dig deeper should really enjoy this one. You can, of course, sign up for both."

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PyCon 2007 Funding Available

The Python Software Foundation has announced the availability of funding for PyCon 2007 attendees. "The Python Software Foundation has allocated some funds to help people attend PyCon 2007. If you'd like to come to PyCon but can't afford it, maybe the PSF can help you." Funding requests are due by January 19.

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Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA

The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold the next Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA on Saturday, January 20, 2007.

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Events: January 18, 2007 to March 19, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
February 12 February 13	Vancouver PHP Conference	Vancouver, BC, Canada
February 12 February 13	Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop	San Jose, CA, USA
February 12 February 16	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Training	Atlanta, USA
February 12 February 15	3GSM World Congress 2007	Barcelona, Spain
February 14 February 15	LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit	New York, NY, USA
February 15	TiE Open Source Summit	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
February 16	The Ubucon New York	New York, NY, USA
February 19 February 23	DebianEDU DevCamp	Soissons, France
February 22	PyCon Tutorial Day	Addison, Texas
February 22	CELF Japan Linux Technical Jamboree #13	Tokyo, Japan
February 22 February 24	OpenMind 2007	San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples, Italy
February 23 February 25	PyCon 2007	Addison, Texas
February 23	PHP Conference UK 2007	London, England
February 24 February 25	Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting	Brussels, Belgium
February 24 February 25	Java/DevJam/2007/Fosdem	Brussels, Belgium
February 26 March 1	PyCon Sprints	Addison, Texas
February 26 March 2	PHP5 Bootcamp Training at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
February 27 March 1	O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference	San Francisco, CA
February 27 March 2	EUSecWest Applied Security Conference	London, UK
February 28 March 2	Network and Distributed System Security Symposium	San Diego, CA, USA
March 2 March 3	LinuxForum 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 3 March 8	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
March 5 March 8	EclipseCon 2007	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 5 March 6	Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios	Karlsruhe, Germany
March 8 March 10	2007 Open Source Think Tank	Napa, CA, USA
March 10 March 13	Camp 5 Advanced Zope3 Training	Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
March 12 March 16	QCon	London, England
March 12 March 16	Third Annual Security Enhanced Linux Symposium	Baltimore, US
March 12 March 14	BOSSA Conference	Porto de Galinhas, Brazil
March 13 March 14	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
March 14 March 16	PHP Quebec Conference	Montreal, Canada
March 14 March 17	Barbeque Sprint for Plone3	Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
March 15 March 21	CeBIT computer fair	Hannover, Germany
March 16 March 17	MountainWest RubyConf	Salt Lake City, USA
March 18 March 23	Novell BrainShare 2007	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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

Transcript: Richard Stallman on free software

Ciaran O'Riordan has posted a transcript of Richard Stallman's talk on free software in Zagreb last March. It is, he says, the first transcript of a general RMS talk since 1986. The 1986 transcript is also available for anybody who would like to see what's changed over the last twenty years.

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Web 2.0 Podcast: A Conversation with Bruce Chizen (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly presents an interview with Bruce Chizen in audio and video formats. "Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen talked with Web 2.0 Summit program chair Tim O'Reilly about the ubiquity of Flash and PDF, and the fine line that his company walks between open standards and open source. They talked about everything from eBooks and Apollo to competing with Microsoft. This episode is sponsored by the Intel Software Partner Program."

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