Announcements

Akaza Research awarded NIH grant (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on the winning of an NIH grant by Akaza Research. "Akaza Research, LLC announced today that it has been awarded a two-year Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue development of the open source clinical trials data capture system, OpenClinica. The objectives of the project include further development of the OpenClinica open source community, addition of new features, such as calendaring, coding, and adverse events to the core OpenClinica platform, and implementation of data exchange capabilities."

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Marcus Rex to be CTO at the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation has announced that long-time SUSE manager Marcus Rex will be the group's new chief technology officer. It's a one-year position, after which Mr. Rex will go back to Novell. "As CTO, Rex will lead all technical initiatives for the Linux Foundation, including oversight of the Linux Standard Base and other workgroups such as Open Printing. He will also be the primary technical interface to LF members and the LF's Technical Advisory Board who represent the kernel community."

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The all-new Linux Fund Visa Card launches today

A new Linux Fund Visa Card has been announced. "The Linux Fund began in 1999. Since then, the organization has handed out over one-half million dollars in grants to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects like Blender, FreeGeek and the WikiMedia Foundation. "We don't represent a wealthy patron or a long-dead industrialist," says Mandel. "Our donations come from engineers, managers, and ordinary working geeks who use The Linux Fund Visa in the course of everyday living. "The way it works is actually quite cool, Just by using The Linux Fund Visa card, ordinary geeks can participate in serious philanthropy, at no out-of-pocket cost to themselves. Each time a cardholder uses their card, a donation is made to The Linux Fund by the card issuer, U.S. Bank."

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SugarCRM goes to GPLv3

SugarCRM has announced that the upcoming 5.0 release of its "community edition" CRM software will carry the GPLv3 license. This is a big improvement over the current license which contains badgeware provisions and was never accepted as open source. "Sugar Community Edition 5.0 is expected to be released in September, and introduces innovative platform features, new CRM functionality and community development tools."

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Entrust contributes essential PKI technology component to open-source community

Entrust, Inc. has announced the release of its public key infrastructure technology to the open-source community. "To support that goal, the layered security expert is contributing public key infrastructure (PKI) technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation. Specifically, Entrust will supply its certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP) patent 5,699,431 to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries."

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Ingres Joins the Eclipse Foundation

Ingres Corporation has announced that it has become a member of the Eclipse Foundation. "According to Emma McGrattan, Ingres senior vice president of engineering, "Ingres has a large application development community using a variety of application development languages across a host of operating system platforms. Eclipse encompasses the diverse needs of Ingres developers by providing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a rich and robust development and debugging platform for building the most sophisticated enterprise applications.""

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ITema releases enterprise service bus for PHP developers

ITema, Inc. has announced the release its Blackbird PHP enterprise service bus software under the GPL. "Blackbird allows PHP developers to rapidly develop loosely coupled software applications, allowing them to leverage PHP's development speed and ease of use for application integration tasks. It also integrates easily with Apache ServiceMix by sharing a common message queue server, Apache ActiveMQ. This allows developers to mix PHP and Java components with minimal effort."

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OpenLogic introduces new development and production support packages

OpenLogic has announced two new open-source support development and production support packages. "OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the availability of two cost-effective support packages for enterprises using open source software. These new packages are designed to cover the full spectrum of open source support needs, from development and QA to staging and production."

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Passport Software releases PBS Manufacturing Series for Linux

Passport Software, Inc. has announced the release of PBS Manufacturing Series Version 11.5 for LINUX. ""For companies who have chosen Linux for their operating system, software solution choices have been slim. PBS Manufacturing changes that", says Ian Creswell, Passport's Manufacturing Product Manager. "For Linux users, PBS Manufacturing combined with Passport Business Solutions offers a complete, fully integrated business solution that brings the sophisticated tools of bigger ERP systems to the small to mid-size company for better control of their manufacturing, make-to-order, or job shop operations" continues Creswell."

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Xandros acquires Scalix

Xandros has announced the acquisition of Scalix. "Today Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end Linux solutions and cross platform management tools, announced the acquisition of Scalix, the premier award-winning Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company."

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Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects -- New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects: GIMP for photography, special effects, and design by Michael J. Hammel.

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The 2007 Best of SugarCRM awards program

SugarCRM Inc. has announced the first annual Best of SugarCRM Award program, which recognizes best-in-class SugarCRM implementations. "SugarCRM is now accepting nominations for the award through Monday, August 6, 2007. Finalists will be publicly announced on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. The awards ceremony dinner will be held in conjunction with the CRM Acceleration Summit in New York City on Monday, August 20, 2007."

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Study shows enterprises evaluate on Windows, deploy on Linux

Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced its global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise. "The Alfresco open source barometer survey, conducted April through June 2007 using opt-in data provided by 10,000 of the 15,000 Alfresco community members, showed that Windows is increasingly a popular evaluation platform for open source software but most enterprises use Linux when they go into production. The survey also asked users about their preferences in operating systems, application servers, databases, browsers, and portals to capture the latest information in how companies today evaluate and deploy open source and legacy proprietary software stacks in the enterprise."

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Red Hat To Showcase Open Source Enterprise Solutions At GITEX 2007

Red Hat has announced that it will be attending the 27th Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX). At the event, Red Hat will present its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to its Middle Eastern partners and to potential customers.

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Software Freedom Day 2007

Software Freedom Day 2007 has been announced. "September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like Free & Open Source Software are so important. Community groups in more than 80 countries organise local activities and programs on Software Freedom Day to educate the wider public about free software: what it is, how it works and its relationship to human rights and sustainability. We already have over 140 teams around the world registered: join them in spreading the word!"

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Events: August 2, 2007 to October 1, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
September 17 September 19	RailsConf Europe 2007	Berlin, Germany
September 17	Bruce Perens to speak in Berkeley, September 17	Berkeley, CA, USA
September 18 September 21	Embedded Systems Conference	Boston, MA, USA
September 18 September 20	High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop	Lexington, MA, USA
September 19 September 21	OpenOffice.org Conference 2007	Barcelona, Spain
September 19 September 21	Gartner Open Source Summit	Las Vegas, NV, USA
September 22 September 25	Cell Hack-a-thon II	Austin, TX, USA
September 24 September 27	14th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	New Orleans, USA
September 24 September 25	Power Architecture Developer Conference	Austin, TX, USA
September 24 September 27	Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2007	Victoria, BC, Canada
September 27 September 28	Audio Mostly 2007	Ilmenau, Germany
September 28 September 30	Ohio LinuxFest 2007	Columbus, USA
September 28 September 29	Freed.in	Delhi, India
September 28	IRC discussion on AGPLv3 and GPLv3	online, world
September 30 October 3	Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo	Biopolis, Singapore, Singapore

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Mandriva and Intel Showcase classmate PC at aKademy

Mandriva and Intel demonstrated the classmate PC at the aKademy conference. "Intel's Latin America Linux Strategic Program Manager Sulamita Garcia and Mandriva's KDE developer Helio de Castro were participating at aKademy 2007, KDE's annual meeting of the KDE community, demonstrating the flexibility and the specialized educational interface of Mandriva Linux on the Intel-powered classmate PC in the "Edu and School" presentation sessions."

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PgDay Portland, A huge success!

The Portland, Oregon PgDay event was a success. "On July 22nd, PostgreSQL.Org held a single day conference in Portland Oregon preceding OSCON 2007. This conference, although short notice was a huge success. We had solid attendance from new and old community members.Notable talks for me was Theo Schlossnagle's talk on Solaris and PostgreSQL. It was enlightening to see where PostgreSQL is lacking, (places I didn't realize) and how Theo has worked around the problems to provide a quite decent set of tools for Solaris and PostgreSQL."

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Introducing beautifulcode.oreillynet.com

O'Reilly has announced the launch of the beautifulcode.oreillynet.com web site. "The new, easy-to-use site gives the public the opportunity to discuss the book's projects and to contribute information about other projects that illustrate coding artistry. The site is designed to build community among new and experienced innovative programmers and designers who are inventing and creating elegant coding solutions now and in the future."

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Staging Site for Firefox Support Knowledge Base Ready (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on the launch of the Firefox Support knowledge base. "Chris Ilias writes: "The staging site for the new Firefox Support knowledge base is now up and running, and we’re looking for people to help contribute content. We have an initial list of articles we would like created for the alpha version, so feel free to create an account, assign yourself to an article, and create it. Our primary goal, right now, is core content."

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TechBase Hits 1,000,000 (KDE.News)

KDE.News reports that the TechBase site has reached a milestone. "KDE's new technical documentation library, TechBase, hit an important milestone today when it served up its one millionth page. In step with the KDE 4.0 development cycle, TechBase is rapidly maturing into a central hub for high-level technical information related to KDE and the Free software desktop."

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ELCOT's success story on OSS migration on youtube.com

Krishna Pagadala reports on the availability of a YouTube video on the migration to OSS by India's ELCOT. "After a year of experimentation and implementation, ELCOT made a corporate video on how it migrated to linux, notably suse linux which had stolen the hearts of all ELCOT's officials."

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