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Technical Whitepaper: Memory Management Under uClinux

David McCullough, from SNAPgear, has written a white paper that examines memory management issues under uClinux.

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KDE Reports from LinuxTag 2002

Here's a report from the KDE team at LinuxTag 2002, with pictures. "June, 9th (Karlsruhe, Germany). This year's LinuxTag was once again a successful gathering for over sixty KDE developers from all over Europe who presented their award-winning desktop environment to more than 13,000 interested visitors at "Europe's largest OpenSource Event". As a special guest, David Faure (of Konqueror and KOffice fame) attended the fair to share opinions with other KDE developers."

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YAPC:NA 2002 Lightning Talks Preliminary Schedule

The preliminary schedule for the YAPC 2002 Lightning Talks sessions are available.

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[ANN] SciPy '02 - Python for Scientific Computing Workshop

The Python for Scientific Computing Workshop will be held on September 5 and 6, 2002 in Pasadena, California at CalTech. "This workshop provides a unique opportunity to learn and affect what is happening in the realm of scientific computing with Python. Attendees will have the opportunity to review the available tools and how they apply to specific problems."

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International PHP 2002 conference call for papers

A call for papers has been issued for the International PHP 2002 conference, to be held in Frankfurt, Germany on November 3-6, 2002. The paper deadline is July 5.

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International Lisp Conference 2002

The International LISP Conference 2002 will be held from October 28 through October 31, 2002 in San Francisco, California.

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Lightning talks needed at OSCON

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (San Diego, July 22 to 26) is looking for more "lightning talk" presenters. Lightning talks last all of five minutes; they can be a great way to quickly and easily present a free software project or idea to a large group of people. Interested people can sign up here.

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Events: June 20 - August 15, 2002

June 20 - 21, 2002	INET 2002	(Crystal Gateway Marriott)Arlington, VA
June 20 - 21, 2002	First International IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment(CD 2002)	Berlin, Germany
June 25, 2002 July 23, 2002	Seattle Ruby Brigade Meeting	Seattle, Washington
June 26 - 28, 2002	Embedded Systems Expo & Conference in Tokyo(ESEC)	(International Exhibition Center)Tokyo, Japan
June 26 - 28, 2002	Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC 2002)	(Washington University)Saint Louis, Missouri
June 26 - 28, 2002	European Python and Zope Conference(EuroPython 2002)	(Charleroi Espace Meeting Européen)Charleroi, Belgium
June 26 - 29, 2002	Ottawa Linux Symposium(OLS)	Ottawa, Canada
June 27 - 28, 2002	European Tcl/Tk User Meeting	(Siemens Trainings Center)Munich, Germany
July 4 - 7, 2002	UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference	(University of Bristol)Bristol, UK
July 5 - 7, 2002	Debconf 2	(York University)Toronto, Ontario
July 18 - 20, 2002	Boston GNOME Summit	Boston, Mass.
July 22 - 26, 2002	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	(Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina)San Diego, California
August 1 - 2, 2002	3rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference(BOSC 2002)	Edmonton, Canada
August 2 - 4, 2002	Defcon	(Alexis Park Hotel and Resort)Las Vegas, Nevada
August 5 - 9, 2002	11th USENIX Security Symposium	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 6 - 9, 2002	CERT Conference 2002	Omaha, Nebraska, USA
August 12 - 15, 2002	Linux World Conference & Expo	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, California

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PostNuke mourns loss of Lead Developer

"Greg Allan a.k.a. Adam_Baum, the lead core developer and one of the four founding members of the PostNuke CMS Development Project passed away from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident."

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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 by section,
• Sorted by license.

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Win Free Training with Damian Conway (use Perl)

According to Use Perl, Consultix will hold a raffle to raise money for the Perl Foundation, winners will receive free seats at Damian Conway's seminars in Seattle this July.

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Cyberspace Policy Institute accepts Alexis de Tocqueville challenge

Tony Stanco has written in to LWN, saying, "The Cyberspace Policy Institute accepts the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute challenge to debate the merits of Open Source Software. The debate can be part of the CPI/World Bank's International Open Source in Government Symposium in Washington, D.C. on October 17-18, 2002. More details at the CPI site on this link."

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Glen Burnie Linux User Group Forming

Linux Orbit is sponsoring the Glen Burnie Linux User Group. "If Linux is to experience an explosion of popularity, then an explosion of 'grass-roots' advocacy must precede it. This advocacy includes community activities designed to aid in recruitment, fundraising and establishing a local identity for Linux. Growing the Linux user base in the LUG area should take precedence over all other objectives."

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