Announcements

Alfresco Community Contribution Model 2.1 announced

Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced the release of the Alfresco 2.1 Community Contribution Model. "Contributions from the Alfresco Community to Alfresco 2.1 include wiki space, blog space and calendars, as well as multi-lingual document and translation management to assist in managing the document translation process and collections of translated material (for details of the latter project, please visit http://www.eionet.europa.eu/EIONET_Services/LongLiveCIRCABC)."

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Canonical releases Storm as open source

Canonical Ltd has announced the release of Storm, a generic open source object relational mapper (ORM) for Python. Storm is designed to support communication with multiple databases simultaneously. The Storm project welcomes participation. Its website includes a tutorial, and links to allow developers to download, report bugs and join the mailing list. Storm is licensed under the LGPL.

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IBM pledges free access to patents for standards

IBM announced today that they are simplifying access to their patent portfolio as it applies to open standards. "IBM's commitment not only applies to the distributors, developers or manufacturers that are implementing the specifications involved, but also extends to their users or customers. It is valid as long as adopters are not suing any party -- not just IBM -- over necessary patented technology needed to implement the standards."

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Intel and Novell Become Patrons of KDE (KDE.News)

KDE.News reports that Intel and Novell have become corporate patrons of KDE. "Intel and Novell have both become corporate Patrons of KDE. Their exceptional financial commitment to the KDE e.V. helps the project with community events, infrastructure and developer meetings."

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Mandriva adds a semantic layer to the KDE 4 desktop

Mandriva has put out a press release (click below) about what we can expect from the NEPOMUK-KDE project. "NEPOMUK-KDE introduces semantic capabilities to the upcoming release of the K Desktop Environment (KDE 4), providing an interoperable framework that can be harnessed by all KDE applications to allow annotating and interlinking any and all desktop objects."

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Mandriva advances into Korea, the IT hub of Asia

Mandriva has announced the opening of Mandriva Korea. "Mandriva, the global Linux distributor, selected MetaNav to become its official local representative in this fast growing technological environment in Asia. Mandriva and MetaNav reached an agreement to work together and co-develop open source products and services closely adapted to the East Asian market."

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Microsoft's proclamation on GPLv3

Microsoft has put out a statement claiming that, despite what others have said, it is not and will not be bound by any version of the GPL. But then one wonders why they say: "At this point in time, in order to avoid any doubt or legal debate on this issue, Microsoft has decided that the Novell support certificates that we distribute to customers will not entitle the recipient to receive from Novell, or any other party, any subscription for support and updates relating to any code licensed under GPLv3."

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OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 announced

OpenLogic, Inc. has announced the release of OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6. "... the newest release of its enterprise platform designed to help companies quickly and easily manage the use of open source software across the enterprise. OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 contains many additions to the OpenLogic Certified Library, has a fast new automated installation process, and offers more enterprise control for updating security patches and versions of open source software."

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Forbidden LEGO - New from No Starch

No Starch Press has published the book Forbidden LEGO by Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley.

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Help choose the 2007 SourceForge.net Community Choice Award winners (Linux.com)

Linux.com reports that the SourceForge.net community has selected the nominees, you can vote for the projects you think represent "the cream of the crop on SourceForge.net." Voting is open until July 20 and winners will be announced at OSCON the following week.

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rPath Launches Certified Software Appliance Architect Curriculum

rPath has announced it is launching a Certified Software Appliance Architect training curriculum, which will give participants the skills needed to build, deploy and maintain software appliances. The curriculum will employ a hands-on, lab-driven approach and focus on application packaging, software appliance design, image construction, lifecycle management, and virtualization technologies.

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Open Solutions Alliance to Congregate at OSCON Interoperability Hack-a-Thon

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) has announced it is hosting the first in its series of Interoperability Hack-a-Thons at O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., July 23 - 27, 2007.

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Events: July 19, 2007 to September 17, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
July 15 July 21	GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference	Birmingham, England
July 18 July 20	GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit	Ottawa, Canada
July 22 July 24	Ubuntu Live	Portland, OR, USA
July 23 July 27	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Portland, OR, USA
July 23 July 27	Asterisk Bootcamp with Jared Smith at Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 23 July 25	Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference	Austin, TX, USA
July 24 July 27	Ninth course on the Exim mail transfer agent	Cambridge, UK
July 28 August 2	Black Hat USA 2007	Las Vegas, NV, USA
July 30 August 3	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
August 3 August 5	Wikimania 2007 (Annual Wikimedia conference)	Taipei, Taiwan
August 3 August 5	DefCon 15	Las Vegas, NV, USA
August 4 August 7	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 6 August 10	16th USENIX Security Symposium	Boston, MA, USA
August 6 August 9	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 7 August 9	Flash Memory Summit 2007	Santa Clara, CA, USA
August 7 August 11	7as Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre	Córdoba, Argentina
August 8 August 12	Chaos Communication Camp	Finow airport, Germany
August 10	August Penguin 2007	Tel Aviv, Israel
August 11	Picn*x XVI - The Linux 16th Anniversary Picnic	Sunnyvale, CA, USA
August 11 August 15	Virtual FudCon8	Online, IRC
August 14 August 18	Scientific Tools for Python	Pasadena, CA, USA
August 19	Open Source Health Informatics Working Group	Brisbane, Australia
August 20 August 24	PHP Training at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
August 20 August 25	DallasCon 2007-cancelled	Dallas, Texas, USA
August 22 August 25	Python 3000 Sprint	Mountain View and Chicago, USA
August 24 August 26	Summercon 2007	Atlanta, GA, USA
August 25 August 26	FrOSCon 2007	Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany
August 27 September 1	International Computer Music Conference 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
August 28 August 29	XCon2007	Beijing, China
August 29 August 31	KVM Forum 2007	Tucson, AZ, United States
September 1	ENOS 2007	Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal
September 2 September 4	LinuxConf Europe 2007	Cambridge, England
September 3 September 6	HITBSecConf2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September 5 September 7	RAID 2007	Gold Coast, QL, Australia
September 5 September 6	2007 Linux Kernel Developers Summit	Cambridge, UK
September 5 September 7	Office 2.0 Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 6 September 8	Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems	Dortmund, Germany
September 7 September 8	LinuxWorld China 2007	Beijing, China
September 7 September 8	LinuxChix Brasil	Asa Sul, Brazil
September 8 September 12	GITEX Technology Week	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
September 8 September 9	PyCon UK 2007	Birmingham, UK
September 10 September 14	Django Bootcamp with Juan Pablo Claude	Atlanta, GA, USA
September 10 September 12	X Developers' Summit	Cambridge, UK
September 10 September 12	Sun Grid Engine Workshop 2007	Regensburg, Germany
September 11 September 12	3rd International Conference on IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics	Stuttgart, Germany
September 11 September 14	5th Netfilter Workshop	Karlsruhe, Germany
September 11 September 13	VMworld 2007	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 14 September 15	EuroBSDCon 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
September 14	Django Sprint	online
September 15 September 16	Texas Python Unconference	Houston, TX, USA
September 15	Software Freedom Day	The Internet, Worldwide

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

Announcing hardware4linux.info

The hardware4linux.info site has been launched. "This is a new web site about hardware for Linux. The site allows to browse systems and components to find the ones that work or don't work with Linux. It works in a collaborative way: users install an LSB package to collect their hardware and system configuration, upload the collected data to the site and then rate their hardware components on the site."

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Medwiki, the medical wiki (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the new Medwiki site. "What happens when a fan of Free Software and wikies wish to motivate your girlfriend to her Medicine studies? You could think in many things but possibly not to create a multilanguage wiki about Medicine and human health to her, but was exactly that what I did, and I couldn't choose a best gift."

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Video of GPLv3 release now available

The Free Software Foundation has made videos of Richard Stallman's GPLv3 release announcement available. "You can watch Stallman give an overview of the major changes in the license, and his reflections on the drafting process. The video is Ogg Theora, and is about fifteen minutes long."

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