Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Raymond and Perens respond to SCO
Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens have sent out a response to SCO's "open letter." "Accordingly, we of the open-source community do not concede that there is anything to negotiate. Linux is our work and our lawful property, the distillation of twelve years of hard work, idealism, creativity, tears, joy, and sweat by hundreds of thousands of cooperating hackers all over the world. It is not yours, has never been yours, and will never be yours."
Press conference on European software patents
The Greens/European Free Alliance has announced a lengthy press event on software patents in Europe, to be held in Brussels on September 17. A number of speakers are scheduled, including representatives from the scientific, economic, consumer, corporate, and public administration areas. Correction: Tim Berners-Lee is NOT on the agenda as is listed below..OpenOffice.org Community Contributor Vote
A vote will be held for the OpenOffice.org Community Council Representative. Voting closes on Monday, September 15, 2003.New Roles at The Perl Foundation (use Perl)
Use Perl reports on some personnel changes at The Perl Foundation. "gav writes "I have stepped into the new public relations role at The Perl Foundation. I'll be resurrecting the newsletter and providing news about TPF activities. If you have any TPF related news or questions please email me. One thing I will be doing is reporting on the events over the last few months, including the YAPCs and the latest round of grants." "TPF is also looking to fill a new role, one of grant manager."
pgAdmin3 is looking for translators!
Translators are needed for pgAdmin, the PostgreSQL database admin GUI. "pgAdmin, one of the most widely used GUI's for PostgreSQL, is soon to announce it's third major release and needs more translators! It has been designed from near the beginning to handle multiple languages, and has already been mostly translated into 16 non-English ones so far: Danish, German, Farsi, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese simplified, and Chinese traditional We're trying to organise for a lot more translations to be finished in time for this release, so that PostgreSQL and pgAdmin are available to the widest possible audience."
Commercial announcements
Lindows offers support line
Lindows has announced the availability of a 24-hour telephone support service for its distribution. A $79.95 annual fee buys access to the support line for a year.Novell announcements at BrainShare Europe 2003
Novell has issued a handful of press releases in conjunction with Novell BrainShare Europe. News includes the integration of Ximian technology into Novell Nterprise Linux Services, new versions of Novell exteNd, Nterprise Branch Office and Nsure SecureLogin, and PartnerNet for ISV/IHVs. Click below for the full list.Zend Studio 3.0 IDE announced
Zend Technologies has announced its Zend Studio 3.0 IDE. This is a development environment targeted at developers building enterprise applications in PHP, JavaScript and HTML.
New Books
"Kerberos: The Definitive Guide" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book "Kerberos: The Definitive Guide".
Resources
Paper: How to Evaluate Open Source Software / Free Software Programs
David A. Wheeler has published a paper on how to evaluate free software programs; it is aimed at those used to buying proprietary applications. "Examine the developer mailing list archives - is there evidence they're actively discussing improvements to the software? Are there multiple developers (so that if one is lost, the project will easily continue)? If their version management information is accessible to the public, take a look - are developers regularly checking in improvements and bug fixes?"
LDP Weekly News
The September 3, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation change news.LDP Weekly News
The September 9, 2003 Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with another round of documentation updates.An introduction to Thunderbird, part 6
The sixth article by Kay Frode on Mozilla Thunderbird has been published on Nidelven-it. "Changing to a new mail client don't need to be difficult, as long as you have a proper guide to help you. :) In this part of the introduction I will try to show you how to import and migrate all your information from your old mail client. Clients I will talk about are Outlook, Netscape and Eudora. Big topic, so buckle up. :)"
Upcoming Events
Announcing the first Annual Desktop Linux Conference
The Desktop Linux Consortium has announced the first annual Desktop Linux Conference, which will take place on November 10, 2003, at Boston University's Corporate Education Center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.Events: September 11 - November 6, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 11 - 12, 2003 | Python for Scientific Computing Workshop(SciPy'03) | (CalTech)Pasadena, CA |
| September 15 - 18, 2003 October 7 - 8, 2003 | LogOn Web Days | Across Europe |
| September 15 - 18, 2003 | Embedded Systems Conference(ESC) | (Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass |
| September 26 - 27, 2003 | Third DZUG-Conference | Paderborn, Germany |
| October 12 - 15, 2003 | International Lisp Conference 2003(ILC 2003) | New York, NY |
| October 14 - 16, 2003 | 10th Linux-Kongress | Saarbrücken, Germany |
| October 15 - 17, 2003 | The First Plone Conference | (Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana |
| October 26, 2003 October 27 - 31, 2003 | Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA) | (Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA |
| November 2 - 3, 2003 | International PHP Conference 2003 | (Astron Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 6 - 7, 2003 | HiverCon 2003 | (Davenport Hotel)Dublin, Ireland |
Event Reports
Finnish Open Source Translators Getting Organised
Linux-Aktivaattori ry is a Finnish non-profit organization promoting the use of Linux and other Open Source software. They recently organized the first Open Source translation workshop for the Finnish language on 29-31 August 2003 in the city of Turku. Click below for more information.
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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