Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The Open Group on UNIX trademark
The Open Group wants to make sure that everyone knows that the UNIX trademark is theirs, not SCO's. "The Open Group is the owner of the UNIX trademark which it holds on behalf of the industry. This truth has not been entirely visible in the media, even though it is acknowledged on SCO Group products and on their web site."
AUUG calls for SCO to Cease Destructive Actions
The Australian Unix User's Group (AUUG) has sent out this press release concerning SCO. "The Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group (AUUG, Inc.) today called on SCO (formerly Caldera) to cease its destructive actions and work toward the constructive resolution of any intellectual property (IP) issues SCO has with the Linux and Open Source communities. AUUG further called on SCO to publicly identify any IP violations in Linux so the issues can be resolved as soon as possible." Thanks to Gordon Hubbard.
Open Source Software Institute becomes LPI affiliate
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has affiliated with Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) to increase exposure and participation of Linux by corporate, government and academic environments across the United States.GOK awarded first place in Accessibility category Trophées du Libre (GnomeDesktop)
GOK, the gnome onscreen keyboard has received first place in the Accessibility category at the first Trophées du Libre International Free Software Competition.KDE Accessibility Project Receives Trophy
KDE.News reports that the KDE Accessibility Project has received a trophy for their efforts. "The KDE Accessibility Project is proud to have accepted a trophy at the international Free Software competition Trophées Du Libre in France. The KDEAP received this trophy for a number of accessibility aids, including KMouth, KMag, KMouseTool and the upcoming KDE Text-To-Speech Service. Many thanks and congratulations to everyone who has contributed to these applications!"
Object Application Awards
The finalists of the OMG Object Application Awards 2003 have been announced.
Commercial announcements
HP Achieves Linux Clustered Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark
HP has announced that industry-standard HP ProLiant servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 have achieved the industry's first clustered Oracle(R) Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB)(1) on Linux.Just what the doctor ordered
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has chosen Trustix and IBM to supply a Linux based e-mail server solution to support the delivery of bulk e-mail to over 6000 GPs across the United Kingdom.MySQL AB and SAP AG Partner to Build New Open Source Databases
MySQL AB has announced a technology and cross-licensing partnership with SAP AG to give large and medium-sized companies new enterprise-ready open source databases.City of Munich goes to Linux
SuSE has issued a press release stating that the city of Munich has decided to move to Linux. "This initiative will see Germany's third largest city migrate 14,000 desktop and notebook computers to Linux." The city has not yet chosen a vendor.
Pogo Linux CEO Leads Storage Panel at ELF
Pogo Linux, Inc has sent out a press release announcing their presence at the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo on June 4-6 in Santa Clara, CA.Cross Platform: new versions of Win4Lin and CrossOver Office
NeTraverse announced immediate availability of the next version of the award winning Win4Lin Workstation product. Version 5.0 extends the ability of Win4Lin to help users painlessly bridge from legacy Windows environments to Linux and Open Source infrastructure models.CodeWeavers has announced CrossOver Office version 2.0.1. This is primarily a bug fix release.
Resources
GNOME Talks! Part 3 (GnomeDesktop)
The third part of a four part accessibility series on Gnopernicus is available. "In the third (MP3 Audio) of a four-part series about Gnopernicus from the American Council of the Blind, Sun accessibility engineer Marc Mulcachy demonstrates Nautlius and gedit. He also makes a note about the complaints of doing these demostrations using a speech synthesizer that is no longer available, so for this demonstration and the next he will be using of the DecTalk speech synthesizer. He also demonstrates the FreeTTS speech synthesizer."
LDP Weekly News
The May 28, 2003 Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with news of the latest documentation updates.
Upcoming Events
Infosec 2003
Infosec 2003, the 2nd Congress of Information Security on the Internet, is an online conference that will be held from June 16-20, 2003.KDE Developers' Conference: Call for Papers
A call for papers has gone out for the The KDE Developers' Conference, to be held in Zamek, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic on August 23-25, 2003. "The KDE Developers' Conference is a meeting of KDE contributors from all over the world. It will feature three days of technical talks and tutorials. Do you have a particular expertise related to KDE programming that could be useful for your fellow developers? Do you want to present a particular programming pattern, a tool, a development strategy, or anything else that helps KDE developers become more productive? Then consider talking about it or giving a tutorial at the KDE Developers' Conference."
Linux Fest in Luxembourg
The LiLux Linux User Group will be holding a Linux Fest in Luxembourg on June 21 and 22, 2003.Reports from XML Europe 2003 (O'Reilly)
Uche Ogbuji and Simon St. Laurent report on the activities at the XML Europe Conference. "XML Europe 2003 put the ongoing energy and innovation of the XML community on display, including actual products on the exhibit floor. There was the usual variety of companies displaying editors, scripting tools, XML databases, training and consulting. One important theme was GUI tools for the unsophisticated user. Companies were showing tools which offered a variety of mainstream idioms for processing SVG, XSL FO, Topic Maps, e-business XML formats, and more. There have always been such offerings on display at conferences, but the increasing proportion and sophistication at XML Europe 2003 was notable."
Events: May 29 - July 24, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 29 - 30, 2003 | Open Source Content Management, 2003(OSCOM) | (Harvard Law School)Cambridge, Mass |
| May 30 - 31, 2003 | 4th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting(Tcl'Europe 2003) | Nürnberg, Germany |
| June 4 - 6, 2003 | Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo | (Santa Clara Convention Center)Santa Clara, California |
| June 9 - 14, 2003 | USENIX 2003 | (Marriott Hotel)San Antonio, TX |
| June 10, 2003 | Linux For Business | (The Commonwealth Institute)London, England |
| June 16 - 18, 2003 | Yet Another Perl Conference::North America(YAPC::2003) | (Florida Atlantic University)Boca Raton, FL |
| June 16 - 18, 2003 | GNOME User and Developer European Conference(GUADEC) | (Trinity College)Dublin, Ireland |
| June 16 - 20, 2003 | Infosec 2003 | (UniNet)Online |
| June 18 - 23, 2003 | Open Source Clinical Application Resource Workshop(OSCAR) | (McMaster University)Ontario, Canada |
| June 21 - 22, 2003 | EuropeanRubyConference | (University of Karlsruhe)Karlsruhe, Germany |
| June 23 - 26, 2003 | ClusterWorld Conference & Expo | (San Jose Convention Center)San Jose, California |
| June 23 - 26, 2003 | Fourth Workshop On UML for Enterprise Applications | (Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel)Burlingame, CA |
| June 24 - 26, 2003 | LinuxUser & Developer Expo | (Birmingham National Exhibition Centre)Birmingham, UK |
| June 25 - 27, 2003 | European Python and Zope Conference 2003 | (CEME)Charleroi, Belgium |
| July 7 - 11, 2003 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003(OSCON) | (Portland Marriot)Portland, Oregon |
| July 9 - 12, 2003 | Libre Software Meeting | Metz, France |
| July 10 - 13, 2003 | LinuxTag | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| July 12 - 17, 2003 | Debcamp | Oslo, Norway |
| July 18 - 20, 2003 | Debconf 3 | (The University of Oslo)Oslo, Norway |
| July 23 - 26, 2003 | Ottawa Linux Symposium | Ottawa Canada |
| July 23 - 25, 2003 | YAPC::Europe 2003 | (CNAM Conservatory)Paris, France |
Web sites
Open XUL Alliance Site Goes Live (MozillaZine)
According to MozillaZine, the Open XUL Alliance has launched their new site. "The site aims promote XUL and encourage interoperability with a collection of XUL news articles, mailing lists and links."
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
- Sorted alphabetically,
- Sorted by license.
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