Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Ardour participates in Summer Code Finland
The Ardour multi-track audio workstation project has announced the participation by Sakari Bergen in the Summer Code Finland. "We were lucky to discover that Sakari Bergen, an open source enthusiast and student at the Helsinki University of Technology, was chosen to be a part of the Summer Code Finland program. Sakari will be working on Ardour for three months this summer, improving export functionality and adding meta data support."
EFF Asks Judge to Block Unmasking of MySpace User
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced an effort to protect an anonymous MySpace poster. "Cook County, IL - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a judge in Illinois Wednesday to reject an attempt to identify an anonymous MySpace user who allegedly posted fake profiles of an Illinois official because the request would violate both the First Amendment and federal statute."
Leading Intellectual Property Attorney Joins EFF
Michael Kwun has joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a Senior Intellectual Property Staff Attorney. "Kwun comes to EFF from Google. As the company's Managing Counsel, Litigation, he was responsible for defending Google in copyright cases about YouTube, Google Book Search, and Google Image Search; trademark cases about Google AdWords; and patent cases in connection with a wide variety of Google products."
Firefox 3 Release and Mozilla 10th Anniversary Parties (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has announced upcoming Firefox 3 and Mozilla parties. "Gervase Markham has posted a note on his weblog announcing that mozillaparty.com is now open for booking parties to celebrate the release of Firefox 3 and also Mozilla's 10th anniversary. At this time, there are over 200 parties registered, and over 900 people signed up to attend."
SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBox Developers
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced that it has filed two more copyright infringement lawsuits, on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The defendants in this new round of lawsuits are Bell Microproducts, Inc. and Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Commercial announcements
IGEL introduces 9 new Citrix XenDesktopT Appliances
IGEL has announced the availability of 9 new thin clients. "IGEL Technology, the world's third largest thin client vendor, today announced the broadest range of Linux-based thin client models supporting the important Citrix XenDesktop(tm) Appliance standard. The standard, published by Citrix in Q1 2008, ensures that any compliant access device connected to Citrix XenDesktop behaves exactly like a normal PC. IGEL's latest firmware upgrade allows all Linux-based IGEL thin clients to be switched, with just one mouse click, from a traditional IGEL Universal Desktop to a tightly defined virtual PC using ICA to access Citrix XenDesktop."
Novell joins Microsoft server virtualization validation program
Novell, Inc. has announced the joining of Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program. "As a result of Novell's participation in this program, customers will be able to confidently run Windows Server 2008 as a virtualized guest on top of the Xen hypervisor in SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise 10 and receive cooperative support from either company. Novell is currently running the tests required by the validation process in the Server Virtualization Validation Program, and expects the tests to be completed by August 2008."
Customers, Partners Run Top Supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing
Novell has a press release about the TOP500 supercomputers that are running SUSE Linux Enterprise. "According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux* of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today. Of the top 50 supercomputers worldwide, 40 percent are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, including the top three -- IBM* eServer Blue Gene at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM eServer BlueGene/P (JUGENE) at the Juelich Research Center and SGI* Altix 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center."
Pentaho releases Pentaho Business Intelligence Platform under GPL
Pentaho has announced the release of the Pentaho Business Intelligence Platform under the GPLv2. "Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that its current version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, will be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2)."
Terra Soft Launches Quad-Core 'YDL PowerStation'
Here's the official announcement for the YDL PowerStation. "Available exclusively from Terra Soft Solutions, the YDL PowerStation offers four 2.5GHz IBM 970MP cores, up to 32GB RAM, dual Gigabit ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, integrated ultra-fast SAS with 4 hot-swap bays, both PCI-E and PCI-X slots, and support for x86 architecture graphics cards."
Virtual Bridges announces major update of Win4Lin
Virtual Bridges has announced Win4Lin Desktop 5 with support for Ubuntu 8.04. "Version 5 of Win4Lin Desktop is very fast. Virtualized desktops are very convenient and do not require a user to either reboot or use a second personal computer to run their remaining PC applications (often Intuit Quicken or QuickBooks) but users often complain theyre just too slow. Users make this comment whether theyre running Windows virtualized on Linux, OS X or Solaris and regardless of which vendor has developed the virtualized desktop. Win4Lin Desktop 5 answers this concern with blazing speed. Based on a massively modernized code base, Win4Lin Desktop 5 makes it possible to eliminate the need for rebooting or for maintaining a second PC box."
YDL PowerStation - coming soon
We are jumping the gun just a bit with this announcement, but with all the small Linux laptops on the market here's a larger box that will be available next week. TerraSoft Solutions will be announcing the commercial incarnation of a prototype previously demonstrated at recent OLS and LCA events. It may be the most robust and "open" PPC64 box available designed with Linux developers in mind. This box has a Quad-core PPC64, with up to 32GB RAM. It also features IBM's Slimline Open Firmware, which is available for download (registration required) and Yellow Dog Linux. The TerraSoft Solutions YDL PowerStation will be available June 10, 2008. (Thanks to Robert MacFarlan)
New Books
Valgrind - Advanced Debugging and Profiling for GNU/Linux applications
Network Theory Ltd has published the book Valgrind - Advanced Debugging and Profiling for GNU/Linux applications by J. Seward, N. Nethercote, J. Weidendorfer and the Valgrind Development Team.
Resources
ODBMS.org publishes panel discusson
ODBMS.org has published a panel discussion entitled "ODBMS: Quo Vadis?". "ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced a new panel discussion "Object Database Systems: Quo vadis?" with responses from the ODBMS.ORG experts Mike Card, Jim Paterson, and Kazimierz Subieta, on their views on on some critical questions related to Object Databases".
Meeting Minutes
Perl 6 Design Minutes for 28 May, 2008
The minutes from the May 28, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 28 May 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, and chromatic attended."
Minutes from the Ubuntu Technical Board meeting
The minutes from the June 3, 2008 Ubuntu Technical Board meeting have been posted. "Present: Matt Zimmerman (chair) Scott James Remnant (board member) Till Kamppeter Jamie Strandboge Martin Pitt Stephan Hermann Soren Hansen Kees Cook Chuck Short Mathias Gug"
Calls for Presentations
FOMS2009 Call for Participation
A call for participation has gone out for the Foundations of Open Media Software Developer Workshop. The event takes place in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on January 15-16, 2008. The submission deadline is August 15.OpenOffice.org annual conference update
A call for papers has gone out for the OpenOffice.org annual conference, the event will be held in Beijing, China on November 5-7, 2008. "Potential speakers: there is still time to submit your proposals for a paper at OOoCon 2008. Following a replan by the organisers, you now have until 18th July to submit your proposal."
PyOhio Call for Proposals deadline extended to June 15
The PyOhio Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to June 15. "PyOhio, the first annual Python programming mini-conference for Ohio and surrounding areas will take place Saturday, July 26, in Columbus, Ohio. The conference is free of change and will include scheduled presentations, Lighting Talks and unconference-style Open Spaces."
Upcoming Events
SciPy 2008 Conference
The SciPy 2008 Conference will take place on August 19-24, 2008 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. "Exciting things are happening in the Python community, and the SciPy 2008 Conference is an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas, learn techniques, contribute code and affect the direction of scientific computing (or just to learn what all the fuss is about). We'll be announcing the Keynote Speaker and providing a detailed schedule in the coming weeks."
Events: June 19, 2008 to August 18, 2008
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 17 June 22 |
Liverpool Open Source City | Liverpool, England |
| June 18 June 20 |
Red Hat Summit 2008 | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 18 June 20 |
National Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 2008 | Bogota, Columbia |
| June 19 June 21 |
Fedora Users and Developers Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 22 June 27 |
2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 23 June 24 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 28 June 29 |
Rockbox Euro Devcon 2008 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 1 July 5 |
Libre Software Meeting 2008 | Mont-de-Marsan, France |
| July 3 July 4 |
SyScan08 Singapore | Novotel Clarke Quay, Singapore |
| July 3 | Penguin in a Box 2008: Embedded Linux Seminar | Herzelia, Israel |
| July 5 | Open Tech 2008 | London, England |
| July 7 July 12 |
EuroPython 2008 | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| July 7 July 12 |
GUADEC 2008 | Istanbul, Turkey |
| July 14 July 18 |
PHP 5 & PostgreSQL Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch | Atlanta, USA |
| July 18 July 20 |
RubyFringe | Canada, Toronto |
| July 19 | Firebird Developers Day | Piracicaba-SP, Brazil |
| July 19 July 25 |
Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch | Atlanta, USA |
| July 19 July 20 |
LugRadio Live 2008 - UK | Wolverhampton, United Kingdom |
| July 20 | OSCON PDXPUG Day | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 21 July 25 |
O'Reilly Open Source Convention | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 21 July 22 |
Ubuntu Live - cancelled | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| July 23 July 26 |
Ottawa Linux Symposium | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 26 | PyOhio 2008 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| July 26 July 27 |
EuroSciPy2008 | Leipzig, Germany |
| August 1 | LLVM Developers' Meeting | Cupertino, CA, USA |
| August 3 August 9 |
DebCamp 2008 | Mar del Plata, Argentina |
| August 4 August 7 |
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| August 9 August 16 |
Akademy 2008 | Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium |
| August 9 August 17 |
Linuxbierwanderung (Linux Beer Hike) | Samnaun/Compatsch, Switzerland |
| August 10 August 16 |
Debian Conference 2008 | Mar del Plata, Argentina |
| August 11 August 15 |
SAGE-AU'2008 | Adelaide, Australia |
| August 12 August 14 |
Flash Memory Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| August 13 August 15 |
YAPC::Europe 2008 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
French KDE Day Conference Videos available (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the availability of videos from a recent French KDE event. "To celebrate the release of KDE 4, the KDE French contributors and the Toulibre LUG organised a two-day event on January 25th and 26th 2008 in Toulouse, France. On the 25th, Kévin Ottens made a general presentation of KDE 4, and on the 26th there was a day of technical conferences featuring speakers such as David Faure, Laurent Montel, Alexis Ménard, Kévin Ottens, Aurélien Gâteau and Anne-Marie Mahfouf. The videos of all these talks, in French, are now available for download."
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