Announcements
Commercial announcements
Appro deploys supercomputing clusters to US national labs
Appro has announced the deployment of three supercomputing clusters. "Appro, a leading provider of supercomputing solutions, today announces the final deployment of Appro Supercomputing Clusters to Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) that integrates the work of the three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs laboratories: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. This procurement was awarded to Appro last year for the TLCC07 program."
Discretix to provide media content protection for ACCESS
Discretix has announced the availability of Discretix CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) for the ACCESS mobile Linux platform. "Discretix CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) secures the distribution and use of music, video and other premium content on SD cards and mobile handsets. As a software-based security solution, CPRM Client eliminates the need for a dedicated hardware CPRM chip, reducing Bill of Materials cost and greatly improving flexibility for mobile device OEMs. Fully compliant with 4C-Entity standards, CPRM Client protects music, movies, photos and other multimedia content subject to commercial digital rights while in use or in storage."
Fixstars Acquires Terra Soft Solutions
Terra Soft Solutions, home of Yellow Dog Linux, has been acquired by Fixstars Corporation. "The new subsidiary "Fixstars Solutions, Inc.", of San Jose, California, maintains the entire Terra Soft staff, product line, and regional offices in Loveland, Colorado." Former Terra Soft CEO Kai Staats is now COO of Fixstars Solutions.
Movial releases open source code to mobile Linux community
Movial has announced the release of Movial Browser D-Bus Bridge. "Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, today announced it has released its innovative Browser D-Bus Bridge open source code into the Mobile Linux community. Movial Browser D-Bus Bridge removes the complexity of Linux User Interface (UI) development and empowers Web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers for the first time ever, to easily create extremely capable UIs for open handsets. This technology helps transform Web widgets into seamless user driven mobile applications providing new, value-added and differentiated services and superior user experiences."
Novell's transition program
Novell has announced a transition program to help companies move to SUSE Linux. "The new program is in response to growing customer demand for help as they make the strategic decision to transition their data center Linux infrastructure from existing third-party distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server." Once upon a time, distributors competed mostly against Unix and Windows; now they are starting to compete more strongly against each other.
Wing IDE 3.1.5 released
Version 3.1.5 of Wing IDE, a cross-platform commercial Python IDE, has been announced. "Wingware has released version 3.1.5 of Wing IDE, a bugfix release for all three product levels of Wing IDE."
Yoggie Opens up its Miniature Hardware Firewall
Yoggie Security Systems has launched its Open Firewall Pico and Open Firewall SOHO, the first open hardware firewalls based on its Gatekeeper technology. "The Open Firewall products are extremely powerful Linux-based miniature computers with 520 MHz ARM CPU, 128 RAM and 128 Flash memory. These unique products will enable developers, security professionals and hobbyists to experiment with Yoggie's own open source hardware firewall for the first time."
New Books
Desktop GIS--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Desktop GIS by Gary E. Sherman.
Contests and Awards
Cisco announces AXP Developer Contest
Cisco has announced a development contest for their Application Extension Platform. "Cisco is inviting application developers who "think outside the box", to innovate and promote the concept of the network as a platform. This is your opportunity to build exciting Linux based applications on the Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP), and win a share of the total prize pool valued at US $100,000."
TPF awards Hague Grants
The Perl Foundation has awarded Hague Grants to Jerry Gay, a core Parrot and 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation hacker, and Patrick Michaud, head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation on the Parrot VM.
Education and Certification
New Java Programming Certificate Series announced by O'Reilly
The O'Reilly School of Technology is holding a Java Programming Certificate Series. "The O'Reilly School of Technology (OST) has announced the addition of a new Java Programming Certificate Series to its current list of offerings. Designed to introduce beginning and entry-level programming students to Java and object-oriented concepts, the program helps students progressively attain the advanced skills they need to compete in today's career market. With satisfactory completion of the series, students earn a Certificate for Professional Development from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education."
Meeting Minutes
Perl 6 Design Minutes (use Perl)
The minutes from the October 29, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 29 October 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Will, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended."
Calls for Presentations
DOCHS Extends Call For Papers (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced the DOCHS Extends Call For Papers. "DOHCS the 2009 Demonstrating Open Source Heath Care Solutions conference, has extended their call for presentations until November 15th. The 3rd Annual DOHCS conference will be held on February 20, 2009 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, CA."
FOSDEM 2009: Call for participation
A call for participation has gone out for FOSDEM 2009. "FOSDEM is probably the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2009. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community." The submission deadline is December 26.
SCALE Calls For Speakers
A call for speakers has gone out for SCALE, the 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo. The event takes place on February 20-22, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, the submission deadline is November 30.UKUUG Spring 2009 - Call For Papers
A call for papers has gone out for the UKUUG Spring Conference. "UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference will take place in London from 24-26 March 2009. The conference will be preceded by a Kerberos tutorial. We are currently accepting talks; so if you are a systems administrator, we want to hear from you." Submissions are due by November 26.
Upcoming Events
ERP5 World Forum, Paris
The first ERP5 World Forum will be held on December 1, 2008 in Paris, France as part of a larger international Open World Forum. "Nexedi wants to invite all ERP5 users, developers and academic researchers to participate in ERP5 World Forum organized as part of Open World Forum in Paris on December 1, 2008. This will be a collaborative innovation event that will focuses on ERP5 and ERP5 Express communities meeting to discuss and define the road map of ERP5 based on recent advances and latest trends in disciplines of management."
O'Reilly Reveals ETech 2009 program
O'Reilly has announced the program for ETech 2009. "Registration has opened for ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, scheduled for March 9-12 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. Conference chair Brady Forrest has unveiled the program, which explores the technology of abundance and constraints to discover ideas that matter."
The Linux Audio Conference 2009
The 2009 Linux Audio Conference will take place at La Casa della Musica in Parma, Italy on April 16-19, 2009. "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."
Pure Data and sound design workshop - Poitiers, France
The Pure Data and sound design workshop will take place in Poitiers, France on November 25-27, 2008. "Part of the 2008 edition of the make art festival, this 3-days workshop taught by Andy Farnell (GB) and assisted by Stéphane Léveillé (FR) is focused on sound design and Pure Data software. It aims to familiarize with the basics of sound, audio synthesis and effects using Pd. While learning how to build their own sounds and musical tools, the participants will end up playing all together over the local network."
Events: November 20, 2008 to January 19, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 8 January 11 |
Consumer Electronics Show | Las Vegas, NV, USA |
| January 9 January 11 |
Fedora User and Developer Conference | Boston, USA |
| January 15 January 16 |
Foundations of Open Media Software 2009 | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| January 17 January 23 |
Camp KDE 2009 | Negril, Jamaica |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
OpenLogic debuts OLEX Wazi web site
OpenLogic has announced the launch of their OLEX Wazi site. "OLEX Wazi is a clearinghouse for the timeliest commentary on open source, said Kim Weins, senior vice president of marketing at OpenLogic. It features innovative content from the best thinkers in open source today. We're looking for ongoing contributions from a range of experts and will collaborate with the best technical, legal and business minds in the field."
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