Announcements

Gnumeric's 5 year anniversary

The Gnumeric spreadsheet has reached its five year anniversary. "This seemed like a good time to thank all the people who have contributed to Gnumeric over the years. We're about to start the run up to the the next stable release which will be out in a few weeks. We look forward to continuing work with the GNOME community to produce the most powerful spreadsheet in the world."

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Mozilla Calendar Project Lead Mike Potter Retires (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on the changing of the lead of the Mozilla Calendar Project. "Mike Potter retired as the lead of the Mozilla Calendar project. Mostafa Hosseini has now taken over Mike's duties, which include reviewing patches, checking in code, creating new builds and updating the project website."

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Out-of-the-Box 2.1 Java project collection

A collection of open-source Java projects has been put together by EJB Solutions, Inc. "EJB Solutions, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Out-of-the-Box 2.1, an intelligent distribution of over 100 Open Source projects for Java(r) and LAMP developers. This version marks the first release to fully support LAMP developers."

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Interact-TV ships Digital Entertainment Centers

Interact-TV is offering a Linux-based digital entertainment system. "Interact-TV(tm), a leading innovator in home entertainment technology, today began shipping the Telly(tm) MC1000 Digital Entertainment Center throughout the country-the first fully customizable and expandable digital entertainment system."

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Neverwinter Nights release for Linux

A Linux version of the role playing game Neverwinter Nights is now available.

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Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database Appliance

Pogo Linux Inc. and MySQL AB have announced a partnership to build the first MySQL(R) database appliance, a pre-configured, fully-integrated hardware/software offering. The database appliance, the DataWare 2600 Server, will be shown at OSCON.

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Sistina Software Announces Sistina GFS 5.2

Sistina Software has announced the release of Sistina GFS (Global File System) version 5.2 for the Intel Architecture.

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Softbank Uway Selects Linux and the IBM eServer z990 Mainframe

Here's a press release from Korea's Softbank Uway announcing that the company has replaced 45 database and Web servers from HP and Sun with one IBM eServer z990 mainframe, running Linux.

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SourceForge.Net Update

SourceForge has published a site status update for June 20, 2003. "One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects."

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"Google Pocket Guide" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the "Google Pocket Guide", a guide to using the google search engine.

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"Perl 6 Essentials" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book "Perl 6 Essentials".

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Linux Gazette #92 is out

The July 2003 edition of Linux Gazette is available. This issue contains select() on Message Queue, by Hyouck "Hawk" Kim; Linux to Save the Health of the World, by Janine M Lodato; My Open Radio, by Mark Nielsen; and much more.

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Linux Focus July 2003

The July issue of LinuxFocus is available. This month you can read about Going 3D with Blender; Building an autonomous light finder robot; A GNUstep "small apps" tour; A 1 Bit Data Scope; and more.

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LDP Weekly News

The July 8, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation news for Linux.

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LPI-News June 2003

The June edition of the Linux Professional Institute newsletter is out. This month's issue looks at LPI's redesigned web site; volunteers are needed to translate the web site into different languages; LPI at Linux User and Developer conference; LPI in Brazil; Linux training; OSCON; and much more.

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KDE Presence at LinuxTag 2003 (Karlsruhe, Germany)

KDE.News previews the KDE presence at LinuxTag 2003 in Karlsruhe, Germany. "The KDE Project's primary focus this year will be the latest stable KDE release, KDE 3.1.2, though KDE volunteers will also demonstrate other KDE programs like the KDE PIM family including the pcoming integrated personal information suite Kontact, the KOffice suite and the development tool KDevelop."

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ZOPE at LinuxTag in Germany (ZopeMembers)

ZopeMembers has posted a reminder that the Deutsche/German User ZOPE Group will be present at the Linux Tag conference in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 10-13, 2003.

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Miguel de Icaza to Present Mono Project Update and Successes at OSCon Keynote

Ximian CTO Miguel de Icaza will present a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, which begins Wednesday. His presentation will provide an update on the Mono Project and highlight early Mono adoption.

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Events: July 10 - September 4, 2003

Date	Event	Location
July 10 - 11, 2003	O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003(OSCON)	(Portland Marriot)Portland, Oregon
July 10 - 13, 2003	LinuxTag	Karlsruhe, Germany
July 10 - 12, 2003	Libre Software Meeting	Metz, France
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
September 3 - 4, 2003	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	(The NEC)Birmingham, UK

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Europython conference report, day 3

Stéfane Fermigier has sent in a report for day 3 of the Europython conference.

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EuroPython 2003 reviews

Two new reports are available from the EuroPython 2003 conference. Jarno Virtanen describes the event in Some general thoughts on EuroPython 2003, and Michael Hudson has contributed his EuroPython 2003 diary. These articles were found on the Daily Python-URL, which also features Guido Van Rossum's Powerpoint slides for the State of the Python Union keynote speech.

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Report from the OMG Information Days In Europe

A report has been published for the OMG Information Days traveling conference that was recently held in Europe. "The OMG Information Days offered information on the MDA approach and related standards like the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), CORBA, and UML. Issues such as scalability, availability, integration with legacy systems, integration with EJB and other technologies such as XML, SOAP, and .NET, were discussed in detail." Thanks to Milos Gedosev.

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OSCON links and resources (O'ReillyNet)

0'Reilly's 2003 Open Source Convention is in high gear. This page contains links to articles, announcements and pictures from OSCON.

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GUADEC 4 Slides and Paper - GNOME Documentation: Past, Present, and Future (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org mentions the availability of a set of papers and slides on GNOME Documentation that were presented at the GUADEC conference.

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Keith's PHP Editors

Keith Edmund's PHP Editors page, which currently lists 105 PHP editing packages, has been moved to a new site.

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New Section on the KOrganizer Website: Calendars

KDE.News mentions a new KOrganizer web site section. "The KOrganizer website has a new section covering information about sharing and exchanging iCal calendars. First, we have an overview over calendar sites, websites offering calendars in iCal format. These sites have a huge offer of downloadable iCal calendars covering arts, culture, economics, finance, government, science, sports and many more. The second page offers the so called hot new stuff calendars that are available via the new 'Get Hot New Stuff' feature in KOrganizer."

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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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