Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org has posted an announcement concerning the upcoming GNOME foundation election. "We want the GNOME community to be involved in the GNOME Foundation, and one way to involve you is to allow you to ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections. Here's your chance to know what the candidates think about what is concerning you."
Shirts for Germany (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org has published an announcement concerning the search for a German GNOME T-shirt design. "The german GNOME community is currently looking for designs for their GNOME Shirt 2004. This shirt is going to be worn on Linux/Free Software events in and around Germany by the people who are representing GNOME in their booth."
wxWindows forms an IP protection organization
The wxWindows project, an open-source, cross-platform user interface framework, has announced the creation of the wxWindows Software Foundation. "The wxWindows Software Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up to promote and protect wxWindows' interests. We are very pleased to have help from Mitch Kapor, OSAF, Borland and others in setting up the foundation." See this letter to wxWindows users for more information on why the foundation was created.
Commercial announcements
American Express adopts Linux
Netcraft reports that www.americanexpress.com migrated its web server from AIX to Linux last week.SuSE and Epcom announce Linux Training Partnership
SuSE and Epcom have announced that they have formed a Linux training partnership. "Epcom Corporation, a leader in educational and consulting services, and SUSE LINUX today announced that Epcom has become the founding SUSE training partner in North America -- adding the complete SUSE LINUX curriculum to its suite of software and systems development courses."
Voting Solutions to Release Voting Software under Open License
Voting Solutions, LLC, in association with The Center for Voting and Democracy (CVD), has announced plans to release ChoicePlus Pro under an open source license and development agreement.
New Books
Samba-3 Book Release
Prentice Hall has published the book The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide. "The book is written through a collaboration among the core developers of the Samba-Team and expert end-users, with Samba-Team Co-Founder John H. Terpstra as one of the book's lead editors."
"Spidering Hacks" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Spidering Hacks by Kevin Hemenway and Tara Calishain. "'Spidering Hacks' takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources."
Resources
LDP Weekly News
The November 5, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News has been published, take a look for the latest new documentation.LPI-News October 2003
The LPI-News for October 2003 is now available with news from LPI-UK and much more.IEEE and Open Group launch POSIX certification program
A new POSIX Certification Program has been launched by the IEEE and The Open Group.
Upcoming Events
Darl McBride to speak on "no free Linux"
Those of you in Las Vegas for Comdex or ApacheCon may want to head over to the Mandalay Bay (after sufficient fortification) to hear Darl McBride's talk entitled "There's no free lunch - or free Linux". The press release, at least, gets closer to SCO's real issue: "McBride will also explore how the information technology industry - software, hardware, networking and services -- depends on money passing from one hand to another, asserting that the livelihood of engineers and developers rests on paid models, even as those developers donate time to free projects such as Linux." The question and answer period could be fun.
Boston Desktop Linux Event
A Desktop Linux event will be held near Boston, Mass. on November 10, 2003. Thanks to Bruce Perens.Linux.Conf.Au 2004
Linux.Conf.Au 2004 is coming in January. Take a look at the list of keynotes, activities, tutorials, and papers that will be presented.Desktop Linux Conference Program is complete
The program for the Boston area Desktop Linux Conference, on November 10, 2003, has been finalized. Click below for details.EGOVOS 3 has been canceled
The EGOVOS 3 event, which was scheduled for November 24-26, 2003 in Paris, France has been cancelled.Linux user group to hold installfest (The Age)
The Age reports that the Linux Users of Victoria will hold its annual installfest on November 29, 2003.Events: November 6, 2003 - January 1, 2004
| November 6, 2003 | Netherlands Unix Users group fall conference | (Conference Center De Reehorst)Ede, the Netherands |
| November 8, 2003 | Lightweight Languages 2003(LL3) | (MIT)Cambridge MA |
| November 10 - 11, 2003 | Congreso Nacional de Software Libre(CONASOL) | (Universidad de Talca)Talca, Chile |
| November 14 - 16, 2003 | Third International Ruby Conference | (Red Lion Hotel)Austin, Texas |
| November 15 - 21, 2003 | Supercomputing Conference(SC2003) | (Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center)Phoenix, AZ |
| November 16 - 19, 2003 | ApacheCon 2003 | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| November 20 - 21, 2003 | ObjectWeb Conferenc3 | (INRIA Rocquencourt)Rocquencourt, France |
| November 22, 2003 | Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE) | (Los Angeles Convention Center)Los Angeles, CA |
| November 22 - 24, 2003 | New York GNOME Summit | (Brooklyn College)New York, NY |
| November 24 - 26, 2003 | Open Standards and Libre Software in Government Conference (CANCELLED)(EGOVOS 3) | Paris, France |
| November 26 - 27, 2003 | Forum PHP Paris 2003 | (Club Confair)Paris, France |
| December 9 - 13, 2003 | International Conference on Logic Programming(ICLP'03) | Mumbai (Bombay), India |
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
IP lawyer turns patent foe, gets grant funding
Bruce Perens writes: "Dan Ravicher used to be an intellectual property attorney at Patterson Belknap and Tyner, a prestigious NY City law firm. He left the firm to pursue challenging abuses of the patent system, and got grant funding to do that."
Action on IBM's motion to compel
According to Groklaw, there was a conference on Halloween day before the judge in the SCO/IBM case regarding IBM's motion to compel SCO to make its claims specific. A second conference has been set for November 21, with oral arguments on the motion scheduled for December 5, if need be. "It looks like the judge is putting SCO on notice that they have a real deadline now, and should they fail to meet the November deadline without a mighty good excuse, the Motion is already set for oral arguments. She could instead have said that she wanted both sides to report back to her in November and then she'd see what to do. Instead, she set a firm date for oral arguments, so it's a kind of a warning that they've delayed as long as they can get away with."
IBM's reply memo to SCO
Groklaw has posted a copy of IBM's reply memorandum supporting its motion to compel discovery in the SCO case. "Put bluntly, SCO's public relations efforts are at odds with its conduct in this litigation. SCO has made repeated, public accusations of IBM's supposed misconduct, while refusing to disclose its alleged evidence to IBM. Either SCO has evidence to support its accusations or it does not. If it does, IBM is entitled to see it now; if it does not, IBM will be entitled to dismissal of this case." The whole thing is worth a read; IBM's lawyers clearly do not intend to let SCO off the hook.
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