Announcements

AEGIS invests in Accessibility

The AEGIS project has announced a 12.6 million Euro investment in accessibility technology. "With AEGIS, over the next 3.5 years we will attempt to bring programmatic accessibility more fully to the web, and to the mobile world. With AEGIS we will also address a number of issues that still remain in accessibility on the open desktop. And while we're at it, we will bring a bunch of new and talented people into the open source accessibility community (you should start seeing them showing up on our mailing lists and wikis in the coming months). We will also fund a number of the experts who have already made tremendous open source accessibility contributions - to enable to them to continue and to do even more."

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New members for Moblin

Moblin, the Intel-backed effort to improve Linux support for mobile devices, has picked up a few new members, including gOS, Mandriva, Turbolinux, and Novell. (This report from Linux-Kongress looked at what the Moblin project is trying to do.)

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Data Robotics Aligns With Developers to Deliver 20 New Applications for Drobo and DroboShare

Data Robotics has announced that since opening up its storage platform to third-party developers in July 2008, 20 DroboApps have been developed or ported for use with Drobo and DroboShare. "The Drobo Developer Community (DDC) and DroboApps initiatives underscore Data Robotics' commitment to working closely with the developer community to provide a completely customized experience to every Drobo customer. Anyone interested in developing or porting applications to Drobo and DroboShare can sign up for the DDC at www.drobospace.com/developers"

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Infobright Releases Open Source Data Warehouse Software for 32-Bit Linux

Infobright has announced the availability of its new 32-bit Linux version of Infobright Community Edition (ICE), its open source data warehouse software. The 64-bit version was announced previously. ""The Infobright team is committed to being very responsive to the needs of our community," said Mark Windrim, vice president of community relations for Infobright. "Our goal is to build a strong and vibrant community that makes it easy for anyone who needs a scalable data warehouse to easily download, install and manage it. Providing a 32-bit version was key to that, as it enables users to download the software and try it out immediately."" Both versions are available for download on Infobright.org

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Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition by Wolfgang Barth.

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Ubuntu Kung Fu--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Ubuntu Kung Fu by Keir Thomas.

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The GPL Compliance Engineering Guide

Armijn Hemel has posted the GPL Compliance Engineering Guide [PDF], a manual describing how the gpl-violations.org project finds GPL-licensed software on embedded systems. "Often there is device, firmware, source tarball (or any combination thereof) that you are asked to check for compliance. Depending on the situation, a lot of work could be required to discover whether GPL violations exist, or to make sure there are none. This can range from dissecting a firmware and go as far as physical modification of a device to log in via a serial port onto the device, or beyond. This section summarizes my tools of choice to do this."

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The Linux Foundation puts a value on Linux

The Linux Foundation has announced the availability of a study attempting to estimate the value of a Linux distribution. "Using 2008 salary figures, the tests published in the paper revealed that if developed today, the full set of Fedora 9 distribution packages would cost $10.8 billion. The Fedora 9 distribution contains 204.5 million lines of code in 5547 application packages. The development effort estimate comes close to 60,000 Person-Years."

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Openmoko Community newsletter

The Openmoko Community newsletter for October 4-19, 2008 has been published. "The two big news are the launch of opkg.org, an application directory, and Openmoko engineering team focusing back to the basics on Improving user experience."

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Plat'Home unveils final results of "Will Linux Work?" contest

Plat'Home has announced the results of its "Will Linux Work?" contest. "Last month, Plat'Home announced the OMS would be awarded to Steve Castellotti to test the server as a GPS and monitoring device aboard his trimaran, Martin Ewing to test the server as a home utility automation system, Colin Duplantis to test the server as an irrigation control system and Gordon Smith to test the server as monitoring door controller for his chicken coop."

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Free Linux Training Notes

Stephen Mulcahy has announced some free Linux training notes that are available here. "When we started our IT consulting company, Applepie Solutions back in 2004 we looked at working in a number of different areas including Java development, C# development, software engineering consulting and Linux support. At the time, we thought there might be an opening for Linux training also, and we figured it was one way of marketing our services to prospective Linux customers. So we added Linux training to our reportoire of services and I set out to put together some training material."

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Perl 6 Design Minutes (use Perl)

The minutes from the October 8, 2008 and the October 15, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meetings have been published.

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Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 Call for Papers (use Perl)

A call for papers for the Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 has been announced. "The workshop's topic is "Your future with Perl" and we're interested in hearing about your talks on these topics: * Perl 6, Rakudo, Parrot * Modern use of Perl * Good testing practices using Perl * Perl used in new and novel ways * Your Favourite Topic? (systems administration / life sciences / web development)" The event takes place in Oslo, Norway on April 16-17, 2009, submissions are due by January 11, 2009.

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ApacheCon US comes to New Orleans

ApacheCon US has been announced. "The Apache Software Foundation invites you to its 2008 conference being held in New Orleans this year from November 3-7, 2008. Meet open source experts for three days of networking opportunities and information sessions. This year represents a first for ApacheCon, as for the first time, OFBiz Symposium is co-locating with ApacheCon. The two conferences will allow attendees to attend the tracks from both conferences."

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Join us in Jamaica next January for Camp KDE (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the next Camp KDE, it will take place on January 19-23, 2009. "In January 2008, the KDE community celebrated the release of the much anticipated KDE 4.0 in Mountain View, CA. When the event was celebrated by a packed house, we realised that there was a strong demand for KDE events in the Americas. One year later, the community will celebrate this new conference series at Camp KDE 2009, to be held in Negril, Jamaica."

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Events: October 30, 2008 to December 29, 2008

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 26 October 31	IBM Information On Demand 2008	Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
October 27 October 30	Embedded Systems Conference - Boston	Boston, USA
October 29 November 1	10th Real-Time Linux Workshop	Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico
November 3 November 7	ApacheCon US 2008	New Orleans, LA, USA
November 5 November 7	OpenOffice.org Conference 2008	Beijing, China
November 6	NLUUG autumn conference: Mobile Applications	Ede, Netherlands
November 6 November 7	Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008	Ede, Netherlands
November 7 November 8	TwinCity Perl Workshop 2008	Vienna, Austria
November 7 November 9	UKUUG linux conference	Manchester, UK
November 8 November 9	Hackers to Hackers Conference 05'	Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 8 November 9	FOSS.my	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
November 10 November 14	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, GA, USA
November 11 November 14	DeepSec IDSC 2008	Vienna, Austria
November 12 November 14	php|works 2008	Atlanta, GA, USA
November 12 November 13	PacSec Applied Security Conference	Tokyo, Japan
November 13 November 14	International Hacking and Security Conference	Seoul, Korea
November 14 November 16	OpenSQL Camp 2008	Charlottesville, VA, USA
November 16 November 20	Middle East IT Security Conference	Dubai, UAE
November 19 November 20	Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
November 20 November 21	FreedomHEC Taipei 2008	Taipei, Taiwan
November 22	The phpnw08 conference	Manchester, UK
November 22	PGDay Rio de la Plata	Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 22	Mandriva 2009 Installfest	Everywhere, World
November 25 November 29	FOSS.IN 2008	Bangalore, India
November 25 November 30	make art 2008	Poitiers, France
November 28	Informazione geografica aperta e libera	Pontedera (PI), Italy
November 28 November 29	WhyFLOSS La Plata - Argentina	La Plata, Argentina
November 29	LinuxDay in Vorarlberg (Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich)	Dornbirn, Austria
December 1	First Nuxeo Developer Day	Paris, France
December 1 December 2	Open World Forum	Paris, France
December 2 December 5	Open Source Developers' Conference 2008	Sydney, NSW, Australia
December 4 December 7	PIKSEL08 - code dreams	Bergen, Norway
December 5 December 6	FOSSCamp	Mountain View, CA, USA
December 5 December 13	International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering	Online
December 7 December 12	Computer Measurement Group Conference 2008	Las Vegas, NV, USA
December 8 December 12	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Mountain View, CA, USA
December 8	Forum PHP Paris 2008	Paris, France
December 10 December 11	First Workshop on I/O Virtualization	San Diego, CA, USA
December 13	NLLGG meeting/BSD Community Day	Utrecht, The Netherlands
December 27 December 30	Chaos Communication Congress	Berlin, Germany

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Linux Foundation End User Summit wrap-up

The Linux Foundation has sent out a summary of the first Linux Foundation End User Summit. "On Monday and Tuesday this week the Linux Foundation held the first Linux Foundation End User Summit in New York. Companies who attended included Credit Suisse, CME, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Dreamworks, NYSE, Fidelity, UBS, NYPD, US NAVY, Metlife, Morgon Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Aetna, NAVTEQ, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFJ) and many more. There was concern ahead of time that financial services companies may not attend due to the recent financial crisis on Wall Street. We were pleasantly surpirsed, however, to have a packed house. Perhaps in these times companies are committed to making the most of their investments, especially open and lower cost investments."

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Symbian lays foundations for open source (451 CAOS)

451 CAOS reports from the Symbian Smartphone Show with an eye toward the upcoming open-source release of the Symbian code. "As David Rivas noted, the biggest risk was in setting up the organisation to manage the project itself. He noted that the employees of foundation members will be responsible for development and engineering but that employees of the foundation itself will not get involved in development. Foundation employees (who will number 100-150) will be responsible for admin, foundation management, support, marketing and software management and will corral the development teams to create the roadmap without getting involved in directing development projects themselves." It's a rare free software project which requires over 100 non-developers to support it.

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