Announcements

Linux Journal Announces Opening of 2002 Readers' Choice Awards (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal is accepting input for its eighth annual Readers' Choice Awards. Check it out and vote for your favorite applications, web sites (LWN, of course...:), books, and more.

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Little Linux systems for projects and products (LinuxDevices)

LinuxDevices has posted an updated version of its guide to pre-packaged hardware solutions that are capable of running Linux. "Are you looking for small pre-built systems for implementing your Linux-based projects or products? Look no further. LinuxDevices.com has just completed an update to its popular Quick Reference Guide to Little Linux Systems for Projects and Products. This handy reference guide lists small systems that can serve as ready-made platforms for prototyping applications, or as the basis of application-specific Linux-based systems and devices. The style, performance, and costs of these systems vary greatly. Pictures included!"

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The Conference for Open Source Content Management

OSCOM Berkeley 2002, the Conference for Open Source Content Management, will be held September 25 to 27 in Berkeley, California; Ted Nelson will be the keynote speaker. "With presentations from over ten leading content management system (CMS) projects and a full day of tutorials, the conference promises to galvanize the role of open source in the CMS market."

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Gnumeric Summit

A summit for the Gnumeric spreadsheet will be held in Boston on July 24th.

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Perl Mentoring BOF at OSCON (use Perl)

A Birds-of-a-Feather session on 'Perl Mentoring/Code Reviews' will be held at the upcoming Open Source Convention on Thursday, July 25. Top Perl people will be on hand to answer your Perl questions.

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Linux-Kongress 2002 tutorials

The list of tutorials for the Linux-Kongress 2002 has been published. Topics include a Debian Packaging Tutorial, Samba, The New Generation of Printing: CUPS and Foomatic,Pfeifle IPsec in action: Secure Wireless Networks, and a Hands-On Tutorial for NSA Security Enhanced Linux. The conference will be held from September 4-6, 2002 in Cologne, Germany.

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Events: July 18 - September 12, 2002

July 18 - 20, 2002	Boston GNOME Summit	Boston, Mass.
July 20, 2002	Fourth Australian Open Source Symposium(AOSS4)	(UNSW, Sydney)Sydney, Australia
July 22 - 26, 2002	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	(Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina)San Diego, California
July 23, 2002 August 27, 2002	Seattle Ruby Brigade Meeting	Seattle, Washington
August 1 - 2, 2002	3rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference(BOSC 2002)	Edmonton, Canada
August 12 - 15, 2002	Linux World Conference & Expo	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, California
September 11 - 13, 2002	Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002(GRASS)	(Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara)Trento, Italy

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Welcome to the mod_perl world

A new, official mod_perl web site is online with lots of information on using mod_perl and Apache. See the announcement for more details.

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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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Linux clique rewards its own (News.com)

According to News.com, Lindows.com will be giving awards to the developers of desktop applications. "Lindows, a start-up attempting to popularize Linux on the desktop, announced Thursday that it would host awards for consumer Linux applications, giving the winners a total of $54,000. The company plans to give a "Clicky" award and, more importantly, prize money to the top three applications in six categories: audio/MP3, business/finance, Games, home/education, Internet, and multimedia/design."

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Gnome users need a Forum!

The Gnotices site has posted a request by Mark Finlay for the creation a Gnome users' forum. "One thing that Iž²ve always found to be lacking in the Gnome community is a bulletin board. People will say that Gnome has mailing lists, Gnome has IRC etcž¥ But these are very much development communication channels ž¶ and with the release of GNOME2 wež²re all hoping to see a lot more non-technical users using Gnome in the not too distant future, aren't we? ;)"

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