Announcements

SFLC files first U.S. GPL violation lawsuit

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a GPL violation lawsuit. "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, against Monsoon Multimedia, Inc. BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under GPL version 2."

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Monsoon Multimedia gives in on GPL

Monsoon Multimedia, which was just the subject of a GPL-violation complaint from the Busybox project, has announced its intent to comply with the requirements of the Busybox license. "Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve the matter and intends to fully comply with all open-source software license requirements. Monsoon will make modified BusyBox source code publicly available on the company web-site at http://www.myhava.com in the coming weeks."

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Autodesk releases coordinate system software

Autodesk, Inc. has announced plans to release some coordinate system and map projection technology under an open-source license. "The software, acquired from Mentor Software and its founder Norm Olsen, will help users to more easily support geographic coordinate conversions and allow accurate and precise geospatial analysis. The announcement was made today at the annual Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where geospatial open source developers and users join to learn, present and network."

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Holonyx launches reseller partner program for Linux support

Holonyx Inc. has announced its Partner Program to provide Linux support and open source software support to Value Added Resellers and System Integrators. This program will allow Holonyx Partners to expand the technology solutions they offer to their customers by implementing fully supported open source solutions in their customer accounts.

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OLPC starts "Give 1 Get 1" program

The One Laptop Per Child project is starting a new program for people interested in getting the XO laptop for their children. The Give 1 Get 1 promotion, starting November 12, allows people to buy an XO for someone they know while sending one to a student in a developing country, all for $399. "While children are by nature eager for knowledge, many countries have little resources to devote to education – sometimes less than $20 a year per child. Imagine the potential that could be unlocked by giving every child in the world the tools they need to learn, no matter who they are, no matter where they live, no matter how little they may have. "

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OpenLogic launches OpenLogic Exchange

OpenLogic, Inc. has announced the launch of the OpenLogic Exchange web site. "OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the launch of OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) -- a free web site where companies can find, research, and download certified, enterprise-ready open source packages."

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Purple Labs raises $14.5 million of venture capital

Purple Labs, a supplier of embedded Linux solutions for the wireless industry, has announced that it secured $14.5 Million in an initial round of venture capital funding.

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Qumranet de-cloaks

Qumranet, the company behind the KVM virtualization subsystem which quickly found its way into the mainline kernel last year, has finally unveiled its business plans. The press release is available in PDF format. "Solid ICE enables enterprises to host desktops in KVM virtual machines on servers in the corporate data center, and allows users to connect to them via a remote protocol called SPICE. The benefits for IT include centralized provisioning, management, policy enforcement and compliance for desktops. In addition, due to the KVM and SPICE combination, Solid ICE delivers a superior end-user experience, especially with respect to graphics and multimedia."

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SiteScape unifies workspaces and workflow

SiteScape, Inc. has announced that its ICEcoreT Open Source project and ICEcoreT Enterprise collaboration software suite will be available starting October 20, 2007. ICEcore is a fully integrated Open Source collaboration suite, licensed under the OSI-certified Common Public Attribution License (CPAL).

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The Essential Blender--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book The Essential Blender by members of the Blender community.

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Fonts and Encodings--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous, translated by P. Scott Horne.

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LPI offers discounted exams at Ohio LinuxFest

The Linux Professional Institute will be offering discounted LPIC-1, LPIC-2 and Ubuntu Certified Professional exams at the Ohio LinuxFest 2007 in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, September 30, 2007.

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FOSS.IN Call for Participation announced

FOSS.IN, the Free and Open Source software conference in India has put out their Call for Participation. This is the seventh FOSS.IN and will be held in Bangalore December 4-8, 2007. The conference starts with two "Project Days" dedicated to individual free software projects, followed by three days of the main conference. "The main objective of FOSS.IN is to promote involvement in FOSS projects, so presentations about actual contribution to FOSS projects would be of primary importance."

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LCA 2008 Virtualisation Miniconf CFP

A call for presentations has gone out for the LCA 2008 Virtualisation Miniconf. The event takes place on January 28, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia, submissions are due by October 7.

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Tim O'Reilly to Keynote Graphing Social Patterns

Tim O'Reilly will present a keynote at Graphing Social Patterns, the event will be held on October 7-9, 2007 in San Jose, California. "Chaired and produced by Dave McClure, Graphing Social Patterns is the premier conference covering Facebook business and technology issues. and related social networking platforms."

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Events: October 4, 2007 to December 3, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 3 October 5	Apache Cocoon Get Together	Rome, Italy
October 6 October 7	Wineconf 2007	Zurich, Switzerland
October 6 October 8	GNOME Boston Summit	Boston, MA, USA
October 7 October 9	Graphing Social Patterns	San Jose, CA, USA
October 8 October 10	VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Developer Conference	Santa Clara, USA
October 8	Embedded Linux Bootcamp for Beginners	Santa Clara, CA, USA
October 9 October 10	Profoss	Brussels, Belgium
October 10 October 12	Plone Conference 2007	Naples, Italy
October 12	Legal Summit for Software Freedom	New York, NY, USA
October 13 October 14	T-DOSE 2007 (Technical Dutch Open Source Event)	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
October 13	The Ontario Linux Fest Conference	Toronto, Canada
October 13	Aka Linux Kernel Developer Conference	Beijing, China
October 16	Databases and the Web	London, England
October 17 October 19	2007 WebGUI Users Conference	Madison, WI, USA
October 17 October 19	Web 2.0 Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 18 October 20	HackLu 2007	Kirchberg, Luxembourg
October 19 October 21	ToorCon 9	San Diego, CA, USA
October 20 October 21	Ubucon.de	Krefeld (Köln), Germany
October 20	PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007	Portland, OR, USA
October 20	./freedom & opensource day - PERU	Lima, PERU
October 21 October 25	OOPSLA 2007	Montreal, Canada
October 21 October 26	Colorado Software Summit	Keystone, CO, USA
October 22 October 26	OpenGL Bootcamp with Rocco Bowling	Atlanta, GA, USA
October 22 October 23	She's Geeky - A Women's Tech (un)Conference	Mountain View, CA, USA
October 23 October 25	Open aLANtejo 07 - CNSL07	Évora, Portugal
October 23 October 26	Black Hat Japan	Tokyo, Japan
October 25 October 26	FSOSS 2007 - Free Software and Open Source Symposium	Toronto, Canada
October 27 October 28	FOSSCamp 2007	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 27	Linux Day Italy	many cities around country, Italy
October 28 November 2	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
October 29	3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability	Alexandria, VA, USA
October 29 November 1	Fall VON Conference and Expo	Boston, MA, USA
October 30 October 31	BCS'07	Jakarta, Indonesia
October 31 November 1	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	Utrecht, Netherlands
November 1 November 2	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
November 2	5th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode	Alexandria, VA, USA
November 2 November 3	Embedded Linux Conference, Europe	Linz, Austria
November 2 November 4	Real-Time Linux Workshop	Linz, Austria
November 3	Linux-Info-Tag Dresden	Dresden, Germany
November 5 November 9	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, USA
November 7	NLUUG 25th anniversary conference	Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 7	Alfresco North American Community Conference 2007	New York, NY, USA
November 8 November 9	Blog World Expo	Las Vegas, NV, USA
November 10 November 11	Linuxtage	Essen, NRW, Germany
November 11 November 17	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Dallas, TX, USA
November 12 November 16	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, USA
November 12 November 15	OWASP & WASC AppSec 2007 Conference	San Jose, USA
November 12 November 16	ApacheCon US 2007	Atlanta, GA, USA
November 13 November 14	IV Latin American Free Software Conference	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
November 15 November 18	Piksel07	Bergen, Norway
November 15	Alfresco European Community Conference	Paris, France
November 16 November 18	aKademy-es 2007	Zaragoza, Spain
November 20 November 23	DeepSec ISDC 2007	Vienna, Austria
November 22 November 23	Conferencia Rails Hispana	Madrid, Spain
November 24	LinuxDay in Vorarlberg (Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich)	Dornbirn, Austria
November 26 November 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Brisbane, Australia
November 28 November 30	Mono Summit 2007	Madrid, Spain
November 29 November 30	PacSec 2007	Tokyo, Japan
December 1	Django Worldwide Sprint	Online, World
December 1	London Perl Workshop 2007	London, UK

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RailsConf Europe gathers Rails enthusiasts

O'Reilly has sent out an event report for RailsConf Europe. "RailsConf Europe, which took place 17-19 September, was a global melting pot for Rails developers, industry luminaries, Ruby hackers, web-based entrepreneurs, and IT managers. The conference brought attendees from as far away as Peru, Iceland, and South Africa, giving further evidence that Ruby on Rails is truly a global movement. Held over three days at the Maritim Pro Arte Hotel in Berlin, the conference was co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O'Reilly Media, Inc. "

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LessWatts.org launches

Intel has launched LessWatts.org, a site dedicated to reducing power consumption by Linux systems. "LessWatts is about creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks."

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