Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
UK Campaign for Digital Rights condemns German PC levy
Here's a press release from the UK Campaign for Digital Rights, which is fighting against a German initiative to charge a 12 Euro levy on on every PC sold. The levy -- to be imposed under a three-year old law -- will supposedly compensate copyright holders for copyright infringement by PC users.Voting: OpenOffice.org Community Council Proposal
Voting is open for the OpenOffice.org Community Council Proposal. You may want to read this voting tip before proceeding.
Commercial announcements
ActiveState Sponsors pVoice (use Perl)
Use Perl reports that ActiveState will be sponsoring development of pVoice, which allows people with disabilities to communicate with a computer.Central Command predicts Linux viable channel for virus infections
Here's a press release from Central Command, a provider of anti-virus software, warning us that Linux viruses are on the rise.Free Software behind Indian telephone directory
India's largest telephone company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., has turned to Free Software to help it print this year's directory for its subscribers in the southern State of Kerala, the country's most literate State and the place where the Free Software Foundation of India was launched by Richard M. Stallman two years ago.Hitachi and Codehost to sell Linux-based tablet systems
Hitachi and Codehost have announced a partnership to develop and sell wireless tablets running Linux. Codehost's contribution appears to be, primarily, a handwriting recognition interface. The target market is the healthcare industry.HP and Red Hat do a deal
Red Hat and HP have announced a new deal; HP will become a "global services provider" for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux products. Red Hat will back up HP for difficult problems.IBM Linux case study: wireless trucking
IBM and Rocksteady Networks announced that the companies will provide the infrastructure for Columbia Advanced Wireless (CAW) to offer high speed wireless Internet access at more than 1,000 truck stops throughout the country. Rocksteady software loaded on IBM's Intel-based servers running Linux will enable truckers to connect to the Internet through 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN'S) deployed by Columbia Advanced Wireless.Lindows systems on store shelves in Canada
According to this press release, systems running Lindows can now be found on the shelves at The Brick stores across Canada.Motorola phones to run MontaVista Linux
Motorola has sent out a press release stating that Motorola's Linux-based handsets, starting with the A760, will be running MontaVista's "Consumer Electronics Edition" of embedded Linux.OpenEAI Project Releases Functional Open Source Sample Enterprise
The OpenEAI Software Foundation has released the first version of the OpenEAI Sample Enterprise, comprised entirely of open source software. The sample enterprise consists of a set of working components developed exclusively with the OpenEAI foundation APIs and supporting technologies.Plone Training in Europe : French, English, German
Zope Members' News has an announcement concerning a European training program for the Plone web platform. "Ingeniweb, leading french company for Zope hosting and engineering is proud to announce the availability of its latest training concerning the famous CMF/PLONE in 3 languages".
Progeny's Linux Platform Manager
Progeny has announced the availablity of its "Linux Platform Manager." Essentially, the Platform Manager is a web-based tool which enables the creation and maintenance of custom Linux distributions. As such, it could be useful for large IT departments which maintain a version of Linux for a company, or for companies which distribute Linux as part of a larger product. Naturally, there is a whole set of associated services available for interested companies to buy.Sleepycat Software Adds Support for Carrier Grade Linux
Sleepycat Software, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Berkeley DB for Linux operating systems that comply with the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 1.1 feature set.SourceForge Sitewide update
The SourceForge Sitewide update for March 18, 2003 is out with the latest SourceForge news.Trustix business partner, SHAF secures infrastructure of Asia's largest digital TV news station
Trustix AS announced that their Indian business partner Shaf Information & Teknologies Pvt. Ltd. (SHAF), has recommended Trustix Linux Solutions for Asias largest digital television news station, Sahara TV. The solution will comprise of Trustix Firewall, Proxy, Mail and Intrusion Detection servers running on IBM eServer xSeries hardware.UnbreakableUnitedLinux
Oracle and UnitedLinux have announced that Oracle will make its "Unbreakable Linux" platform available for UnitedLinux.
Resources
''Introduction to GNOME 2.2'' available
A new version of "Introduction to GNOME", updated for GNOME 2.2, is available on the web.GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop User Guide V2.5 Released
According to FootNotes, a new version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide has been released.Evans Data on where Linux developers come from
Evans Data Corporation put out a press release on its latest study, which looks at where Linux developers are coming from. "Although Linux may have initially drawn converts from the Unix community the survey found that more than half of Linux developers, 52%, used to primarily target the various forms of Windows, 30% of developers came from some form of Unix."
Name Resolution and Browsing in Samba, Part 1
O'Reilly has made part of the book Using Samba, 2nd Edition available. "This excerpt from Chapter 7 of Using Samba, 2nd Edition focuses on name resolution using WINS, which is supported by Samba with the nmbd daemon."
Ecasound tutorials online
A new page full of Ecasound Documentation - Tutorials, Articles and Other Such Resources is available online. Ecasound is a multi-track audio recording, playback, and processing tool.Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has the minutes of the Mozilla.org staff meeting available online. "Issues discussed include Mozilla 1.3.1; plans for 1.4; changing the compiler and OS on Linux; redistributing the time periods assigned to the alpha, beta and final stages of the development cycle; distributing Mozilla to developing countries on CD; and the Why Use Mozilla documents from Mozilla University."
Upcoming Events
CFP: EuroPython Conference 2003
A Call for Participation has gone out for the EuroPython Conference 2003. The conference will be held in Charleroi, Belgium on June 25-27, 2003.KDE and the 3rd Linux Accessibility Conference
KDE.News reports on the KDE presence at the 3rd Linux Accessibility Conference, which will be held on March 20 and 21, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA.GNOME and 3rd Linux Accessibility Conference
FootNotes covers the GNOME presence at the upcoming 3rd Linux Accessibility Conference.Events: March 20 - May 15, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 20 - 21, 2003 | First OpenOffice.org Conference(OOoCon2003) | (University of Hamburg)Hamburg, Germany |
| March 20 - 21, 2003 | Conference PHP 2003 | (École Polytechnique de Montréal)Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| March 26 - 28, 2003 | PyCon DC 2003 | (George Washington University)Washington DC |
| March 29, 2003 | First Hungarian PHP Conference | Budapest, Hungary |
| March 31 - April 2, 2003 | 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST '03) | (Cathedral Hill Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| April 2 - 3, 2003 | The UK Python Conference | (Holiday Inn Oxford)Oxford, England |
| April 5, 2003 | Linux In Education Spring Conference | (Grand Prairie High School)Grand Prairie, Texas |
| April 10 - 12, 2003 | MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003 | (Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, California |
| April 13 - 17, 2003 | RSA Conference 2003 | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| April 14 - 15, 2003 | Samba eXPerience 2003 | (Hotel Freizeit)Göttingen, Germany |
| April 15 - 16, 2003 | LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2003 | Birmingham, UK |
| April 22 - 26, 2003 | Embedded Systems Conference(ESC) | (Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA |
| April 22 - 25, 2003 | The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference | (Westin, Santa Clara)Santa Clara, CA |
| April 23 - 25, 2003 | PHPCon East 2003 | (Park Central Hotel)New York, NY |
| April 28 - 30, 2003 | Real World Linux 2003 | (Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Canada |
| May 3, 2003 | International Conference on Software Engineering 2003 | Portland, Oregon |
| May 8 - 9, 2003 | International PHP Conference, 2003 | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| May 11 - 14, 2003 | The International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications(HPCS 2003) | (Sherbrooke Delta Hotel)Quebec, Canada |
| May 11, 2003 | Yet Another Perl Conference, Israel(YAPC::Israel::2003) | (C.R.I.)Haifa, Israel |
| May 15 - 16, 2003 | YAPC::Canada | (Carleton University)Ottawa, Canada |
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
- Sorted alphabetically,
- Sorted by license.
Miscellaneous
GNOME Germany has got a mascot
According to FootNotes, GNOME Germany has selected a new mascot, Gnobble the Gnome.
Final W3C patent policy draft
The World Wide Web Consortium has released yet another patent policy draft; there is a review period going through the end of April. According to the press release: "The W3C Royalty-Free license requirements are now consistent with generally recognized Open Source licensing terms." The policy still allows patent holders to impose field-of-use requirements, however. For details, see the policy draft or the "last call issues list" which gives the working group's responses to concerns with the previous draft.
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