Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Ted Ts'o goes to the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has announced that longtime Linux kernel hacker Ted Ts'o has joined as its "chief platform strategist" for two years; he will be working to promote the Linux Standard Base and other Foundation initiatives.
Commercial announcements
Guardian Digital releases new EnGarde Secure Linux Community
Guardian Digital has announced a new release of EnGarde Secure Linux Community. "Used by security enthusiasts, businesses and global organizations worldwide for its ease of use, stability and security since 1999, it is just one part of Guardian Digital's complete Open Source security portfolio."
ZaReason joins the $199 gPC business
Everex, the company providing the $199 "gPC" sold by Wal-Mart, has announced that it has partnered with ZaReason to help deliver the sold-out systems. ZaReason seems to be an interesting company: "ZaReason is staffed almost entirely by volunteers and caters to the Linux enthusiast, offering branded desktop and notebook computers from $199 to $1499."
New Books
Head First C#--New from O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly has published the book Head First C# by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.The Book of PF--New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has published The Book of PF, A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall by Peter N.M. Hansteen.
Resources
Report: free codecs for online video
Transmission.cc has posted a detailed report on the state of the art in free video codecs. "This research report seeks to outline the current state of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) codecs and containers, particularly how they might evolve and be implemented by social justice organisations within the Transmission network for which this report was originally envisioned. Transmission is a network of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, researchers, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy." (Via BoingBoing).
Contests and Awards
Les Trophées du Libre contest winners announced
The winners of the 2007 Les Trophées du Libre free software contest have been announced. "Since 2003, Cetril has organised the Trophées du Libre contest, with the support of various partners, to reward innovative free software in six different categories: Security, Games/Multimedia, Education, Scientific software, Public sector software, Enterprise software."
Vienna.pm Winter of Code (use Perl)
The Vienna.pm Winter of Code contest has been announced. "YAPC::Europe 2007 left Vienna.pm with quite a lot of money. We want to give part of this money back to the Perl community by hosting the Winter of Code (with apologies to Google...). You can find detailed information in our new and shiny Wiki. For those too lazy to follow links, here's the super-short summary: * We have about 20,000 to spend..."
Calls for Presentations
LAC2008 submission deadline extended
The submission deadline for the 2008 Linux Audio Conference has been extended until December 6. "We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. We are also looking for music that has been produced completely or mostly under Linux and/or with open source software from every genre: compositions, Electronica, Chill-Out, Ambient, etc."
Upcoming Events
YAPC::Europe 2008, Call for Attention (use Perl)
use Perl has an announcement for YAPC::Europe 2008. "jonasbn writes "The dates for the annual YAPC::Europe conference to be held in Copenhagen in 2008 have been settled. The hosts, Copenhagen Perl Mongers, are happy to inform you that the event will take place across 3 days, from Wednesday the 13th to Friday the 15th of August 2008, at the magnificent venue of Copenhagen Business School."
Events: December 13, 2007 to February 11, 2008
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 15 December 22 |
Unix Meeting 2007 | IRC, Worldwide |
| December 27 December 30 |
24th Chaos Communication Congress | Berlin, Germany |
| December 31 | Israeli Perl Workshop | Ramat Efal, Israel |
| January 11 January 13 |
FUDCon Raleigh 2008 | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| January 16 January 17 |
QualiPSo Conference 2008 | Rome, Italy |
| January 17 January 19 |
KDE 4 release event | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| January 24 | Federal DBA Day | Washington DC, USA |
| January 28 February 2 |
Linux.conf.au 2008 | Melbourne, Australia |
| January 28 February 1 |
Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| January 29 January 31 |
Solution Linux 2008 | Paris, France |
| February 1 | Open Island | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| February 6 February 10 |
O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| February 7 | Frozen Perl 2009 | Minneapolis, United States |
| February 8 February 10 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, USA |
| February 10 February 13 |
NDSS Symposium 2008 | San Diego, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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