Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF Marks 10th Anniversary of DMCA with Report on Law's Unintended Consequences
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the availability of Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA. From the announcement (click below): "Ten years ago Tuesday, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law. In a report released to mark the anniversary, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) documents the ways in which this controversial law has harmed fair use, free speech, scientific research, and legitimate competition."
Commercial announcements
CadSoft releases Eagle 5.3
CadSoft has released version 5.3 of their Eagle printed circuit CAD application. This release adds some new capabilities and bug fixes. See the What's new document for details.CodeWeavers announces CrossOver Linux 7.1 and CrossOver Mac 7.1
CodeWeavers has announced the availability of version 7.1 of CrossOver Linux and CrossOver Mac. "This version is largely a bug fix version; it particularly has a range of fixes for Microsoft Office, notably Outlook 2007."
Gumstix announces the miniature Overo Earth Linux platform
Gumstix, Inc. has announced the availability of its $149 miniature Overo Earth motherboard. "At only 17mm x 58mm x 4.2mm in size, the Overo(TM) Earth motherboard gives open source innovators access to the industry's highest performance, generally available ARM(R)-based platform in the tiniest, lowest cost Linux computer available. Gumstix, Inc. today announced the general availability of its Overo Earth motherboard that is based on the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP3503 applications processor."
IBM launches System z10 Business Class mainframe
IBM has announced the Linux-based IBM System z10 Business Class server. "This is the technology for any business that wants to ramp up innovation, boost efficiencies and lower costspretty much any enterprise, any size, any location. This is a new mainframe technology for a new kind of data centerresilient, responsive, energy efficientthe new enterprise data center."
Open-Xchange introduces new collaboration server appliance
Open-Xchange has announced a new collaboration server appliance, the Open-Xchange Appliance Edition. "Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a new offering for small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) seeking easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy e-mail and collaboration software that is a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Exchange -- with an initial cost of less than $70 per user annually."
rPath helps close the application deployment gap
rPath has announced a new initiative: "rPath today launched its initiative to close the application deployment gap, proposing a lifecycle management approach for enterprise application virtualization that combines deployment speed and control. The rPath initiative is detailed in the just-released white paper, "Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops: Leveraging Application Virtualization and Cloud Computing to Accelerate Business Value," available for download at http://www.rpath.com/corp/closing-the-gap."
Silicon Graphics launches EventVUE
Silicon Graphics, Inc. has announced the launch of EventVUE. "Silicon Graphics, Inc. today announced the availability of EventVUE(TM), its new real-time visual solution for Complex Event Processing (CEP). EventVUE software blends the company's uniquely scalable Intel(R)- and Linux(R)-based servers, storage, and visualization solutions with its real-time software extensions to Linux and years of professional services expertise in creating immersive Reality Center(R) visual environments."
WIN announces desktop networking platforms
WIN has announced some new desktop networking platforms. Win... "announces the PL-10540 and PL-10550 desktop platforms that feature the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel QuickAssist Technology. The EP80579 is the Intel system-on-chip (SoC) purpose-built for the embedded and communications market with highly-integrated security features. The new WIN Enterprises platforms are designed for SOHO/SMB network management and network security applications, such as firewall, VPN, anti-spam, anti-virus, and intrusion detection & prevention."
New Books
Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 1--New from Rocky Nook
Rocky Nook has published the book Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 1 by Rex Black.Algorithms in a Nutshell - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Algorithms in a Nutshell by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, and Stanley Selkow.The Best of Instructables--New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book The Best of Instructables by the Editors of MAKE magazine.MediaWiki - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book MediaWiki by Daniel J. Barrett.
Resources
FSFE Newsletter
The October 27, 2008 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: "The GNU's 25th Birthday in Berlin, Germany, The smallest unit of freedom: A Fellow - Sean Daly, Reach the people - Software Freedom Day in Berlin, Vienna and Utrecht, Fellowship events throughout Europe, Free Software for World Bank financed projects, Freedom Task Force activites - GPLv3 in The Netherlands, panels in Italy and speeches in Berlin and Winterthur, and European Legal Network special interest group meetings in London and Brussels."
ODBMS.ORG publishes more user reports and the Blaha paper.
ODBMS.ORG has announced the publication of more user reports and the Blaha paper. "ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the exclusive publication of a third series of new user reports on using technologies for storing and handling persistent objects and a new paper by ODBMS.ORG panel member Michael Blaha."
Meeting Minutes
Perl 6 Design Minutes (use Perl)
The minutes from the October 22, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 22 October 2008. Larry, Patrick, Allison, Will, Jerry, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended."
Calls for Presentations
Camp KDE 2009: Call for Presentations and Sponsorship (KDE.News)
Camp KDE 2009, to be held January 17-23 in Negril, Jamaica, has released it's calls for sponsorship and presentations as described by KDE.news. "We are excited to continue the momentum of KDE interest shown at the 2008 KDE 4.0 Release Event in California." A description of Camp KDE from it's website: "
This event is not designed to compete with Akademy , which usually takes place in Europe, but is designed to complement it by being 6-months opposite on the calendar, and on the other side of the globe. There will be some overlap between those that attend this event and Akademy, but hopefully this event will allow people from the Americas to attend that don't normally get the chance to go to Akademy."
PyCon 2009 - Call for tutorials nearing the end
The PyCon 2009 Call for tutorials closes soon. "The period for submitting tutorial proposals for Pycon 2009 (US) is open and will continue through Friday, October 31th. This year features two "pre-conference" days devoted to tutorials on Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26 in Chicago."
Upcoming Events
LAC 2009 announced
The Linux Audio Conference 2009 will take place on April 16-19 2009 in Parma, Italy. "The LAC will go outside Germany for the first time, but we will keep close to the familiar four-day format with paper presentations, workshops, electro-acoustic music concerts, and the Linux Sound Night. The website is being created, and 'calls for everything' will be issued before the end of this week."
OSDC 2008 Earlybird registration closing this Friday
Early Bird registration for OSDC 2008 closes on October 31. "Book by THIS FRIDAY to take advantage of earlybird pricing and be part of the "best" open source developers conference of the year." OSDC 2008 takes place in Sydney, Australia on December 2-5.
Events: November 6, 2008 to January 5, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Mailing Lists
fedora-wiki list for wiki users and contributors
The Fedora project has announced the fedora-wiki mailing list. "A new moderate-traffic mailing list for users and contributors of the Fedora Project Wiki has been set up. Among the discussions will be policy, announcements, and editing tips. The list has been created to bring together the wider wiki community split apart between different sub-projects of Fedora."
Audio and Video programs
EnterpriseDB announces "Database Radio" podcast series
EnterpriseDB has announced its "Database Radio" podcast series. "Today, EnterpriseDB, the leading enterprise open source database company, announced Database Radio, its new podcast series featuring interviews with industry experts covering a variety of contemporary database topics, including open source database strategies, information scalability and reliability, online transaction processing, and database replication."
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