Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The European Public Sector Switches on to Open Standards
This week almost a dozen governments announced significant forward strides in their move to adopt Linux, confirming the overwhelming momentum behind the open source operating system. Country by country, governments around the world are adopting Linux in record numbers to save costs, consolidate workloads, increase efficiency and integrate their infrastructure.European Parliament Rejects Attempt to Rush Vote on Software Patent Directive
The European Parliament has postponed the vote on the software patent directive back to the original date of 1st of September. Arlene McCarthy (UK Labour MEP of Manchester) and her supporters were lobbying to rush the vote to June 30, a mere twelve days after publication of the highly controversial report and ten days after the unexpected change of schedule.FSF Statement on SCO v. IBM
Eben Moglen has written an official statement detailing the position of the Free Software Foundation in light of SCO vs. IBM. "The Foundation has no basis to believe that GNU contains any material about which SCO or anyone else could assert valid trade secret or copyright claims. Contributors could have made misrepresentations of fact in their copyright assignment statements, but failing willful misrepresentation by a contributor, which has never happened so far as the Foundation is aware, there is no significant likelihood that our supervision of the freedom of our free software has failed. The Foundation notes that despite the alarmist statements SCO's employees have made, the Foundation has not been sued, nor has SCO, despite our requests, identified any work whose copyright the Foundation holds-including all of IBM's modifications to the kernel for use with IBM's S/390 mainframe computers, assigned to the Foundation by IBM--that SCO asserts infringes its rights in any way." (Thanks to Paul Sladen)
Reasoning Releases Results of a Software Code Audit of the Apache Web Server
Reasoning has announced the results of a study in which the company inspected the code of the Apache Open Source Web Server V2.1. Reasoning found that the Apache Open Source server had a similar defect density compared to the average defect density of several proprietary equivalents.
Commercial announcements
HP and SuSE Linux Expand Global Alliance
HP and SuSE Linux have announced that HP will resell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, powered by UnitedLinux, on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HP's Itanium-based servers. This relationship provides customers a single point of purchase, support and maintenance for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and makes SuSE Linux a preferred vendor for HP."Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book "Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules".MySQL Reference Manual Now Available in French
A French translation of the MySQL database user manual has been announced. "The MySQL reference manual was translated into French by MySQL partner NexenServices.com, a French Web hosting company that provides expert Web hosting with PHP and MySQL."
Neuros Digital Audio Computer Announces Availability of Positron for Linux Platform Support and Ogg Vorbis Playback
Neuros Digital Audio Computer has announced the availability of their Positron open-source synchronization application. The software allows ogg-Vorbis audio files to be transferred from a Linux platform to the Neuros audio device.O'Reilly Releases "Secure Coding: Principles & Practices"
O'Reilly has released Secure Coding: Principles & Practices. "Jeremy Allison, the coauthor of Samba calls "Secure Coding": "A wonderful book...I wish it had been available when I was writing parts of Samba. I might not have had the last two security embarrassments to my name." Stephen E. Hansen, Information Security officer for Google, Inc., agrees: "I wish I had this book years ago as it has taken me years to figure these things out for myself.""
Trolltech releases QSA
Trolltech has released Qt Script for Applications, (QSA) Version 1.0. "Trolltech, a leader in multiplatform software development tools, today announced that Qt applications are now scriptable with the release of Qt Script for Applications (QSA). Leveraging the powerful Qt API, QSA takes static Qt/C++ applications, and makes them dynamic."
Resources
LDP Weekly News
The July 1, 2003 edition of the LDP Weekly News is out with the latest Linux Documentation news. Volunteers are needed for bringing out of date documents up to date. "In an ever-changing environment, our documents become outdated tremendously fast: a one year old HOWTO is like pre-historic charcoal writing on stone. Apart from people with a technical background, we also need user reviews to check on a document's usability."
Upcoming Events
Tenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference
The 10th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference is scheduled for July 28 through August 2 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Perl Lightning Talk schedule for OSC 2003
The tentative schedule for the OSCon 2003 Perl track is online.YAPC::EU 2003 Talk Summaries Are Online
The summary of talks for the YAPC::EU 2003 conference are online. The conference will be held at CNAM in Paris, France on July 23-25, 2003. Thanks to Emmanuel Seyman.Events: July 3 - August 28, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 25 - 27, 2003 | Fifth Annual Linux Festival in Kaluga Region | (bank of the river Protva)Kaluga region, Russia |
| July 29 - August 2, 2003 | The 10th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| July 31 - August 3, 2003 | UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference(LINUX 2003) | (George Watson's College)Edinburgh Scotland |
| August 4 - 7, 2003 | LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 | (Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA |
| August 5 - 7, 2003 | 5th Annual CERT Conference(NEbraskaCERT) | (Scott Conference Center)Omaha, NE USA |
| August 7 - 10, 2003 | Chaos Communication Camp 2003 | Paulshof, Altlandsberg, Germany |
| August 18 - 21, 2003 | New Security Paradigms Workshop 2003(NSPW 2003) | (Centro Stefano Francini)Ascona, Switzerland |
| August 23 - 25, 2003 | KDE Developers' Conference | (Zamek Castle)Nove Hrady, Czech Republic |
| August 27 - 29, 2003 | International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming(PPDP 2003) | (Uppsala University)Uppsala, Sweden |
Event Reports
EuroPython 2003 Conference Report, day 2
Stéfane Fermigier has put together a report for day 2 of the EuroPython conference.ERP5 demonstrated at EuroPython 2003
A public demonstration of ERP5,an Open Source Free Entreprise Resource Planning system, was held at the EuroPython 2003 international conference in Belgium. "A live demonstration of an ERP5 system used by a large apparel factory located 200 Km away from Charleroi was presented. ERP5 is published under GPL license. ERP5 has been the first ERP solution exclusively based on Open Source / Free Software to be successfully implemented in European industry since January 2003."
Web sites
The OSPedia Open Source Wiki
OSPedia is a new Web Wiki that's dedicated to the discussion of open source issues. "It is completely open to -anyone- to contribute in anyway they feel they can and there is no editorial agenda other than letting the FOSS communities have their say on any subject regarding FOSS."
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.
Miscellaneous
OMG Object Application Awards 2003
The winners of the ninth European OMG Object Application Awards 2003 have been announced.
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