Announcements

Debian joins Desktop Linux Consortium

The Debian Project announced that it is a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC). A recent survey on DesktopLinux.com indicated that Debian is the most popular GNU/Linux Distribution for the Desktop.

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New DLC mailing list

The Desktop Linux Consortium has created a moderate volume mailing list for general discussions regarding the DLC.

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openMosix celebrates first anniversary

The openMosix project is celebrating its first anniversary. "This OpenSource project has quickly attracted thousands of users, building thousands of clusters. OpenSource is more than just free access to software source code. openMosix is a modern OpenSource project which encourages a very active user community."

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UCITA withdrawn from the ABA

An attempt to get American Bar Association approval for the UCITA "shrink-wrap software law" bill has been withdrawn after it became clear that it would not pass. ABA approval, while not strictly required, is a usual step taken before trying to push a law through state legislatures throughout the U.S. This is a big setback for UCITA, but experience over the years shows that this law (which, among other things, would legitimize a number of restrictive licensing practices, and potentially subject free software developers to liability claims) will be back before too long. (Thanks to Max Hyre).

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Merant Showcases Solutions in IBM’s Linux Center of Competence

Financial services are coming to Linux. Merant has announced that it is showcasing its solutions at IBM’s Linux Center of Competence. Merant is offering financial organizations the opportunity to evaluate two of its leading products, PVCS Dimensions and PVCS Version Manager, in the Center’s Linux environment.

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Quicknet PC-to-Phone Service now available for Linux users

Quicknet Technologies announced the Linux Special Edition, a commercial PC-to-Phone supported service for Linux users in concert with GnomeMeeting.Org.

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Press Release from Castle Technology Ltd

Castle Technology Limited has put out a press release concerning an alleged GPL violation. Source code is being made available to alleviate the concern. Thanks to Jonathan Riddell.

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Linux LPI Bootcamp

Jim Dennis will be teaching the first in a series of Linux LPI Bootcamp courses in Concord, California, starting on Febrary 24, 2003.

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SnapGear Develops Linux-Based Integrated Development Toolchain for Intel XScale Processor

SnapGear, Inc. has announced an open source developement environment for the Intel XScale(TM) (IXP425) microprocessor.

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Study: comparing free and proprietary network stacks

A company called Reasoning has put out a press release on a defect study it did of six different TCP/IP stacks. "Reasoning found 8 defects in 81,852 lines of Linux kernel source code - the fewest number of defects of the various implementations of TCP/IP inspected by Reasoning as part of its study."

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Beginning Perl available online

Wrox Press has made Simon Cozens' book Beginning Perl available online at no charge.

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wxWindows Tutorials online

Julian Smart's FOSDEM 2003 presentation and tutorial on the wxWindows cross-platform GUI framework are available online.

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NOIE Open Source Software Seminar

The National Office for the Information Economy is hosting a seminar for departmental Chief Information Officer's (CIO's), Chief Technology Officer's (CTO's), agency ICT professionals and invited guests on government demand for Open Source Software. The seminar will take place at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia on February 18, 2003.

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OpenOffice.org Conference 2003

The first OpenOffice.org conference will be happening March 20 and 21 in Hamburg, Germany - right after CeBIT. Speakers will include Bruce Perens and Curtis Sasaki (the VP of Engineering of the Desktop Systems Group at Sun Microsystems).

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GUADIC 2003 - the first Italian GNOME Users and Developers Conference

GUADIC 2003 - the "GNOME Users And Developers Italian Conference" will be held February 22 in Florence. Click below for the full announcement (in Italian).

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FSF Announces Date for Annual Associate Membership Meeting

The Free Software Foundation will hold an annual meeting on March 15, 2003. The event will include a panel discussion with some board members of FSF.

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KDE Developers Meet In Brussels For FOSDEM

KDE.News covers KDE developers at FOSDEM. "Activities included bugfixing, development discussions and presentations, keysigning and of course socializing. Pictures are available."

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Copenhagen Perl Workshop in April (use Perl)

Use Perl reports on work by the Copenhagen Perl Mongers to put together a Perl Workshop in Copenhagen. The event it tentatively scheduled for the end of April.

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Call for Candidates YAPC::Europe::2004 (use Perl)

A Call for Candidates has been posted for the YAPC::Europe::2004 conference.

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Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU

The Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU conference will be held in Washington, D.C. on March 17-19, 2003.

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Events: February 13 - April 10, 2003

Date	Event	Location
February 13 - 14, 2003	The fifth NordU/USENIX Conference(NordU2003)	(Aros Congress Center)Västerås, Sweden
February 20 - 21, 2003	Desktop Linux Summit	(Vivendi Universal Building)San Diego, CA
February 22 - 24, 2003	CodeCon 2.0	(Club NV)San Francisco CA, USA
February 27 - 28, 2003	Linux Summit 2003	(Dipoli Conference Center)Espoo, Finland
March 17 - 19, 2003	Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU	(The Marvin Center Grand Ballroom, George Washington University)Washington, DC
March 20 - 21, 2003	First OpenOffice.org Conference(OOoCon2003)	(University of Hamburg)Hamburg, Germany
March 20 - 21, 2003	Conference PHP 2003	(École Polytechnique de Montréal)Montreal, Quebec, Canada
March 26 - 28, 2003	PyCon DC 2003	(George Washington University)Washington DC
March 31 - April 2, 2003	2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST '03)	(Cathedral Hill Hotel)San Francisco, CA
April 2 - 3, 2003	The UK Python Conference	(Holiday Inn Oxford)Oxford, England
April 10 - 12, 2003	MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003	(Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, California

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ALU.CLiki.net web site

alu.cliki.net is the location of a new CLiki-based web site which contains general LISP information.

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KDE-Forum.org and KDE-Look.org Hosting Updates

KDE.News reports on the resurfacing of KDE-Forum.org. "We're pleased to note that KDE-Forum.org is now back online after a rocky start. A big thanks goes out to Pierre-Emmanuel Muller and Cyberbrain who are now hosting this site, and of course to zenok, fan of KDE and creator of KDE-Forum.org for web-based KDE-related discussions."

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This week's software announcements

Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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