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Instantiations Corporation donates to the open source community (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on an open-source move by the Instantiations Corporation. "The Board of the FreeMED Software Foundation wishes to recognize the generous contribution of Instantiations Corporation of the GWT Designer, a designer for Google Web Tools. This most generous donation will allow us to move toward our next release of FreeMED, 0.9.1 FreeMED, in development since 1998, has had a consistent international base of support. The latest version, 0.9.0 is being transferred to a new UI."

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Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Mozilla Messaging has announced that it has begun operations. "The initial focus for Mozilla Messaging is the development of Thunderbird 3, which will deliver significant improvements, notably integrated calendaring, better search and enhancements to the overall user experience."

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Commercial announcements

eRacks announces Linux-based audio workstations

eRacks has announced a line of quiet computers that come with either the 64 Studio or Ubuntu Studio distributions installed. "The eRacks / STUDIO is a professional-grade audio creation / production computer system, hardware-optimized for studio-level audio and video work. The system is Linux-based, Dual or Quad Core CPU, and QuietByDesignTM, which means computer noise won’t interfere with your audio production. The system comes loaded with a set of Open Source audio and video software applications."

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Misys Connect goes open source (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement concerning the release of Misys Connect as open-source software. "Misys plc, the global application software and services company announced today that it will release components of proprietary source code to the open source community at the Southern California Linux Expo (Scale), in Los Angeles on February 8. Scale signifys Misys’ first conference appearance into the open source arena. “In October 2007, we announced our intention to release the Misys Connect Healthcare solution to the open source community and now we’re delivering on our promise,” said Bob Barthelmes, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the newly created Open Source Solutions division at Misys."

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Open-Xchange announces Groupware community edition

Open-Xchange Inc. has announced plans to release the server components and installation/administration tools of the Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration server under the GNU General Public License. "With its AJAX-based user interface, Open-Xchange Community Edition provides an unprecedented user experience and allows businesses to take advantage of the cost benefits of open source software. Initially, Open-Xchange Community Edition will be available for Debian and Ubuntu, with more Linux distribution support to be added soon."

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SCO's new reorganization plan

SCO has sent out a press release detailing a new plan to come out of bankruptcy. It seems that Stephen Norris Capital Partners "and its partners from the Middle East" have offered to put $100 million into the company and take it private. "SNCP has developed a business plan for SCO that includes unveiling new product lines aimed at global customers. This reorganization plan will also enable the company to see SCO's legal claims through to their full conclusion." We may be stuck with this story for a little longer than we had thought.

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SGI acquires Linux Networx, Inc.

SGI has announced the acquisition of Linux Networx, Inc. "In exchange for the issuance of SGI common stock, SGI has acquired key Linux Networx software, patents, technology and expertise. Linux Networx is a recognized technology leader in the clustered HPC space and boasts a significant customer base. The acquisition is expected to advance SGI leadership in production-ready high performance computing solutions."

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Sun Microsystems to Acquire innotek

Sun Microsystems has announced plans to buy innotek. "Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. By enabling developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms, VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM platform onto the desktop and strengthen Sun's leadership in the virtualization market. This software is available for all major operating systems at www.virtualbox.org and www.openxvm.org." (Thanks to Cry Regarder).

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Resources

The SFLC's Legal Guide on Free Software

The Software Freedom Law Center has announced the publication of the "Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects." It is an extensive document with separate sections on copyright, patents, trademarks, and organizational issues. "Our intended audience for this Primer is any person interested in a basic understanding of the legal issues that impact FOSS development and distribution. In particular, this Primer, like most of our other public work at SFLC, is addressed to two constituencies. First, we provide creative, productive hackers insight on how to interact with the legal system-insofar as it affects the projects they work on-with a minimum of cost, fuss and risk. Second, we present a starting point for lawyers and risk managers for thinking about the particular, at times counter-intuitive, logic of software freedom."

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The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2

The Linux Foundation has announced an update of the Linux Standard Base (LSB). "The new LSB 3.2 introduces new features for interpreted languages, printing and multimedia, further enabling application developers to easily and cost-effectively support the Linux operating system. "The LSB meets the increasing demands of ISVs that want to build portable applications for Linux," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "With the inclusion of interpreted languages, printing support, and a variety of other requested features, this release provides the functionality that ISVs need to deliver their sophisticated applications in a portable, cross-distribution format.""

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Meeting Minutes

Fedora Board Recap

A recap of the February 12, 2008 Fedora Board meeting has been posted.

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Gentoo Council meeting summary

A summary of the February 14, 2008 Gentoo Council meeting has been posted.

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Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes (use Perl)

The minutes from the February 13, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 13 February 2008. Larry, Allison, Jerry, Will, Richard, Patrick, and chromatic attended."

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Calls for Presentations

YAPC::NA 2008 call for participation (use Perl)

A call for participation has gone out for the YAPC::NA 2008 Perl conference. "The Chicago Perl Mongers are excited to officially open the call for participation for YAPC::NA 2008. To submit your proposal, visit the YAPC site, create an account, and let us know what you'd like to talk about. Submissions will be accepted through March 15th 2008, so get yours in soon. We are currently accepting proposals for conference talks with durations of 20, 45, 70, and 95 minutes."

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Upcoming Events

Introducing Document Freedom Day - 26 March

Document Freedom Day is a global day for document liberation, a grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. "On 26 March 2008, the Document Freedom Day will provide a global rallying point for Document Liberation and Open Standards. It will literally give teams around the world the chance to "hoist the flag": A "DFD Starter Pack" containing a flag, t-shirt, leaflets and stickers is in preparation and is planned to be sent out in the first weeks of March to the first 100 teams that sign up. Sixteen teams already signed up during the preparation phase of the DFD prior to this release. Sign your team up now!"

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FREED.IN/2008 Delhi

FREED.IN/2008 will take place in Delhi, India on February 22-24, 2008. "In the new scheme of things, where every FOSS event in India chooses a particular focus (such as FOSS.IN, with its developer and contributor focus), FREED.IN has chosen to focus on knowledge, using the FOSS approach to things. Of course, there are talks about all kinds of FOSS related subjects, so there is something for everyone."

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FSFE announces the first European Licensing and Legal Workshop for Free Software

The FSFE has announced a European Licensing and Legal Workshop. "FSFE's Freedom Task Force today announces the first European Licensing and Legal Workshop for Free Software will be held on Friday the 11th of April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The venue for this meeting is the InterContinental Amstel Hotel. The event is targeted towards large projects and medium to large enterprises wishing to discuss their existing licence compliance processes."

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LAC 2008: bandwidth to burn and volunteers needed

The 2008 LAC stream server is running. "The 6th annual Linux Audio Conference is taking place in Cologne, Germany, Feb 28th to March 2nd, 2008. As with each previous year this year's conference will be streamed live over the internet in ogg theora via icecast. The stream server is up at: http://lac2008.khm.de:8000/ There is nothing to see at the moment, but keep checking over the coming days as we hope to have a test stream up soon."

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Speakers for the 2nd Linux Foundation Collaboration summit

The Linux Foundation has announced the speakers who will be featured at its second Collaboration Summit, to be held April 8 to 10 in Austin, Texas. Those speaking will include Dan Frye, Marten Mickos, Bdale Garbee, along with the return of the kernel developers' panel.

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Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA on March 2

The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold their next free Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, California on March 2.

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OpenOffice.org Annual Conference - voting opens

A vote is being held to decide the location of the OpenOffice.org annual conference. "This year we have received a record six proposals from teams competing to host this prestigious event. In alphabetical order, they are: * Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Beijing, China * Bratislava, Slovakia * Budapest, Hungary * Dundalk, Ireland * Orvieto, Italy If you were a registered member of the OpenOffice.org community on January 1st 2008 then you are entitled to vote." Voting ends on February 29.

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X Developers' Conference 2008

Google will be hosting the 2008 X Developers' Conference (XDC 2008) in Mountain View, California, from April 16 - 18, 2008. Attendance is free, but you must be registered beforehand. The call for presentations is open. Click below for more information.

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Events: February 28, 2008 to April 28, 2008

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

Date(s)EventLocation
February 25
February 29
NEW PHP 5 and PostgreSQL Bootcamp with Mark Fenoglio Atlanta, Georgia, USA
February 28
March 1
Linux Audio Conference Cologne, Germany
March 1
March 2
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008 Chemnitz, Germany
March 3
March 6
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference San Diego, CA, USA
March 3
March 6
Drupalcon Boston 2008 Boston, MA, USA
March 4
March 9
CeBIT Germany Hannover, Germany
March 8
March 14
Asia OSS Conference & Showcase 2008 Guangzhou, China
March 11
March 12
4th AustralAsian Cleantech Forum Melbourne, Australia
March 14
March 16
PyCon 2008 Chicago, IL, USA
March 15 FSF Associate Members Meeting Cambridge, MA, USA
March 16
March 19
BossaConference 2008 - International Conference on Open Source Software for Mobile Embedded Platforms Pernambuco, Brazil
March 16
March 21
Novell BrainShare 2008 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
March 16
March 20
Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa Dakar, Senegal
March 17
March 20
Eclipse Community Conference Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 17
March 20
Spring VON.x Conference San Jose, CA, USA
March 19
March 20
LinuxWorld Expo 2008 Brussels Brussels, Belgium
March 24 SDForum Global Open Source Conference San Francisco, CA, USA
March 26
March 28
CanSecWest 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 26 Document Freedom Day Everywhere, Worldwide
March 29
March 30
PostgreSQL Conference East 2008 College Park, MD, USA
March 31
April 2
UKUUG Spring 2008 Conference - Dynamic Languages Birmingham, England
March 31 2008 European Workshop on System Security Glasgow, Scotland
March 31
April 2
UKUUG Spring 2008 Conference Birmingham, England
March 31
April 2
Sharkfest Wireshark Network Analysis Summit Los Altos Hills, CA, USA
April 2 First meeting UKUUG PostgreSQL SIG Birmingham, England
April 3
April 4
E-Mail Systems Conference 2008 (Exim and other mail systems) Birmingham, England
April 4
April 5
openSUSE Packaging Days II IRC, Everywhere
April 7
April 9
IT360 Conference & Expo Toronto, Canada
April 7
April 11
Django Bootcamp with Juan Pablo Claude Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 8
April 10
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Austin, TX, USA
April 10
April 13
Go-OO Conference 2008 Prague, Czech Republic
April 12
April 13
Open Source Developers Conference Taiwan, 2008 Taipei, Taiwan
April 12
April 13
LugRadio Live USA 2008 San Francisco, CA, USA
April 12
April 18
KDevelop Developer Meeting 2008 Munich, Germany
April 14
April 18
Embedded Systems Conference - Silicon Valley San Jose, CA, USA
April 14
April 17
MySQL Conference and Expo Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 14
April 18
Samba eXPerience 2008 Göttingen, Germany
April 15
April 17
Embedded Linux Conference 2008 Mountain View, CA, USA
April 15
April 17
SOA in Health Care Chicago, IL, USA
April 16
April 18
X Developers' Conference 2008 Mountain View, CA, USA
April 16
April 18
X Developers' Conference for 2008 Mountain View, USA
April 16
April 18
Croatian Linux User Conference Zagreb, Croatia
April 17
April 19
9th International Free Software Forum Porto Alegre, Brazil
April 18
April 19
Third Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference San Jose, CA, USA
April 18
April 20
National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition San Antonio, TX, USA
April 18
April 20
Penguicon 2008 Troy, Michigan, USA
April 21
April 25
Open Source meets Industry: Application Park and International Congress Hannover, Germany
April 22 The Mobile Future Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 22
April 25
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, CA, USA
April 22 OSADL International Congress Hannover, Germany
April 23
April 24
Troopers 2008 Security Conference Munich, Germany
April 23 Linux Foundation Spring Legal Summit Schaumburg, IL, USA
April 25
April 29
Open Tech Summit Taiwan 2008 Taipei, Taiwan
April 25
April 26
Guademy 2008 Valencia, Spain
April 27
May 2
INTEROP Las Vegas 2008 Las Vegas, NV, USA

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