Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF: Justice Department Withholds Records of Stealth Campaign to Block Surveillance Suits
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the filing of a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) today, demanding any records of a telecom industry lobbying campaign to block lawsuits over their compliance with illegal electronic surveillance. EFF's lawsuit comes as Congress debates letting telecommunications companies off scot-free as part of the hotly disputed "modernization" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). EFF represents the plaintiffs in Hepting v. AT&T, a class-action lawsuit brought by AT&T customers accusing the telecommunications company of violating their rights by illegally assisting the National Security Agency in domestic surveillance."
Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election Results
James Bottomley has announced the results of the election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board which was held on September 5th at the kernel summit. Five people were elected: Arjan van de Ven, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Christoph Lameter, Olaf Kirch, and LWN's own Jonathan Corbet. The first three listed were re-elected to the board, while Olaf Kirch and Jonathan Corbet are new. Click below for a bit more information on the election.Linux Foundation teams up with Japanese government
The Linux Foundation has signed a collaboration agreement with the Information-technology Promotion Agency of the Japanese government. The agreement is targeted at increasing participation of Japanese developers in Linux and open source software. "This announcement comes during a time of heightened interest in open source use in Japan. Recent examples include the increasing use of Linux in consumer electronics devices manufactured in Japan and the Tokyo Stock Exchange's decision to use Linux for its next generation enterprise system. In July 2007, the Japanese government made open standards adoption a priority for all government IT procurements. The government has stated it has budgeted JPY1.25 trillion, or US $10.4 billion, on IT spending over the next year and will also develop a Linux-based system for its legal registration system."
Yet another ath5k pronouncement from the SFLC
The attempt to create a Linux driver for Atheros-based wireless adapters would appear to be enough to keep the Software Freedom Law Center in business all by itself. The SFLC has announced the availability of a new document on the provenance and copyright status of the Linux ath5k driver. "Ultimately, all the copyright holders of the Linux ath5k-driver code, derived from ar5k, have been contacted and have agreed to license their changes under the ISC license, thus allowing improvements to be re-incorporated into OpenBSD. One of the three historical branches of the code reviewed by SFLC, however, included portions that are only licensed under the GPL, and SFLC has determined that it would be very difficult to re-incorporate that code into OpenBSD." The full report is available on the SFLC web site.
Commercial announcements
Announcing CrossOver 6.2 for Linux and Mac
Version 6.2 of CrossOver Linux and CrossOver Mac have been announced. "Version 6.2 supports the upcoming Team Fortress 2 release from Valve software, right out of the Orange Box, as it were. This adds to our growing list of games that work well in CrossOver. We feel that CrossOver is now a viable way to play popular games on Linux and on the Mac. It also includes some major work on Outlook, particularly for use in corporate environments, along with a range of bug fixes for many other applications."
Levanta 6.0 brings automation capabilities to Linux-based data centers
Levanta has announced a family of data center automation solutions for growing Linux environments. "Levanta 6.0 delivers fully-integrated system and application monitoring and policy-driven automation of Linux system management functions in easy to deploy appliances, resulting in significantly lower cost and shorter implementation time."
Mexico's largest mortgage lender chooses Novell for key business system
Novell, Inc. has announced a new deal with Mexico's Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda. "The Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda (INFONAVIT), Mexico's largest mortgage lender, has tapped SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise from Novell(R) as its platform for customer transactions. Providing services to more than 12 million people and 830,000 employers, INFONAVIT has deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise as the basis for its new payment collection system. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, INFONAVIT has a stable, flexible platform that enables it to provide a high-quality, easy to use service, while streamlining costs and administrative processes."
Open Kernel Labs Delivers OKL4 for OpenMoko Smart Phone
Open Kernel Labs has announced the availability of the OKL4 advanced open source microkernel architecture. "Open Kernel Labs (OK), a global provider of embedded systems software and virtualization technology, announces the availability of OKL4 for FIC's OpenMoko Neo1973 smart phone and the FancyPants advanced GUI platform from Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST). The products will be demoed at the upcoming ARM Developers Conference (Booth 511)."
OpenVZ virtualization software available with CentOS Live CD
OpenVZ is now available on the CentOS Live CD. "The OpenVZ project today announced availability of its operating system (OS) server virtualization software as a modified version of the CentOS 4.4 bootable Live CD so that users can test drive the OpenVZ software without changes to their computer or installing anything on their hard disk. "We're following on the success of our delivery of a Live CD for the Knoppix distribution, which is very popular with hobbyists," said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project."
xTuple announces PostBooks 2.2.1
xTuple has announced the release of Version 2.2.1 of its PostBooks Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. "The release is a follow-up to the recent version 2.2.0, and offers the open source community a new data import and mapping tool called CSVimp, as well as enhanced documentation and examples supporting the new xTuple Application Programming Interface (API) for connecting to external systems. The release also contains bug fixes and features suggested and contributed by the xTuple community."
New Books
Making Things Talk--New from Make
Maker Media has published the book Making Things Talk by Tom Igoe.Security Data Visualization--New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has published the book Security Data Visualization by Gregory Conti.
Calls for Presentations
FOSS.IN and OpenOffice.org CFP
A call for papers has gone out for FOSS.IN. The event will take place in Bangalore, India on December 4-8, 2007. Submissions are due by October 8.LAC2008 Call for Papers, Music, etc.
A call for papers and materials has gone out for the 2008 Linux Audio Conference. The event will be held in Cologne, Germany on February 28 through March 2, 2008. Submissions are due by December 1.MySQL Conference and Expo 2008 CFP
The 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo will be held on April 15-18, 2008 in Santa Clara, California. "The event is expected to bring over 1,600 open source and database users together to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the active MySQL ecosystem. The call for participation is now open for prospective speakers; submissions will be accepted until October 30, 2007."
Upcoming Events
Akademy 2008 to be Held in Belgium (KDE.News)
KDE.News has posted an early announcement for the 2008 Akademy conference. "The annual KDE World Summit, Akademy, has found a home for 2008 in the heart of Europe, Belgium. The event is the most important conference for the contributors of the KDE project and will be held from Saturday August 9th to Saturday 16th at the De Nayer Institute, an associated campus of the University of Leuven. There are three sub-events: a contributors conference, the KDE e.V. annual general assembly and a week long hacking session."
GNOME Boston Summit 2007
The GNOME Boston Summit will take place on October 6-8, 2007 in Boston, MA. "The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors, but if you want to jump right into the deep end, it's a fantastic way to meet everyone and get involved. Unlike traditional conferences, the Boston Summit is all about getting developers together and getting things done. While there are some non-hacking sessions, they are geared heavily towards many-to-many, interactive discussion and planning, rather than one-to-many presentations."
SugarCRM begins global CRM Acceleration world tour
SugarCRM has announced new dates and locations around the world for the CRM Acceleration Summit Series. Click below for a list of dates and places.Events: October 11, 2007 to December 10, 2007
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 4 December 8 |
FOSS.IN 2007 | Bangalore, India |
| December 7 December 8 |
Free Software Conference Scandinavia | Gotherburg, Sweden |
| December 7 December 8 |
PGCon Brazil | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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