Announcements

FSF on Microsoft Vouchers

The Free Software Foundation has sent out a notice concerning purchasers of Microsoft software. "Under the terms of a settlement, reached in California's antitrust and unfair competition class action lawsuit against Microsoft, the company is required to provide vouchers totaling up to $1.1 billion to eligible California users of its Windows, MS-DOS, Office, Excel, Word, Works Suite or Home Essentials 97 or 98 products. These vouchers can be redeemed for cash as reimbursement for the purchase of other qualifying computer hardware or software. They can also be donated to non-profit organizations (even those outside of California) for their use in purchasing software or hardware."

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Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

Lindows.com has announced a large desktop Linux deployment in Canada. "Lindows.com, in conjunction with the South West Shore Development Authority (SWSDA), is moving throughout Nova Scotia and other provinces to bring LindowsOS to the greater Canada area. It is expected that more than 30,000 LindowsOS machines will be deployed within one year of the initial deployments."

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PostgreSQL Replication Released

Command Prompt, Inc. has announced the availability of their Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. "Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator is an asynchronous replication system designed to be WAN and faulty connection tolerant. It uses a distributed TransactionLog system to keep track of updates produced by the Master database. The system allows for multiple Slaves to receive updates in either a continuous or batch mode."

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"Digital Photography Pocket Guide, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the second edition of their Digital Photography Pocket Guide.

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"Apache Cookbook" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the Apache Cookbook.

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"SQL Tuning" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book "SQL Tuning", by Dan Tow. "There are two basic issues that most people focus on when tuning SQL: how to find and interpret the execution plan of an SQL statement and how to change SQL to get a specific alternate execution plan. Tow provides the answers to these questions in "SQL Tuning" and addresses a third, even more critical question: How do you decide which execution plan a query should use?"

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Intro slides from Brooklyn GNOME Summit (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has announced the availability of the slides from the 2003 Brooklyn GNOME Summit.

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CE Linux Forum Publishes Baseline Source Tree

The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) has announced the release of its baseline Linux source code, now available for download and review.

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Introduction to Mozilla Manual Available in Draft Form (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine has an announcement for a new Mozilla introductory document. "This document provides an introduction to the most useful features and capabilities of Mozilla (1.5) for people who have never used it before. The author is currently seeking review and comment with a goal of completing the document by year-end."

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Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt (GnomeDesktop)

The GNOME Foundation has announced the first open source desktop integration bounty hunt. "The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience. The contest consists of a number of small, concrete projects, each of which has a cash bounty associated with it. Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect a prize."

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KDevelop voted 'Best IDE' (KDE.News)

KDE.News mentions that KDevelop won an award. "We're pleased to announce that KDevelop took first place in the fourth annual Linux New Media Awards with 29.4% of the votes in the category of best IDE development system; second and third places went to Eclipse and Anjuta respectively."

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Italian Linux Day 2003

The 2003 Italian Linux Day will happen on November 29. Events aimed at the promotion of Linux and free software will be happening in 81 different cities; click below for the full announcement (in Italian).

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Linux Financial Summit to Explore Real World Linux Solutions for Financial Institutions

Here's a press release from IDG World Expo saying that the Linux Financial Summit, which debuted at LinuxWorld Expo last January, will return to the 2004 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City.

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Open Source Working Group – UK think-tank meeting (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the Open Steps meeting. "The Open Steps meeting, to be held near Winchester, UK, on 10-11 February 2004 is the first of a series of three meetings planned for 2004 as part of the activities of the IMIA Open Source and Open Source Nursing Informatics Working Groups. The purpose of the meeting is to identify key issues, opportunities, obstacles, areas of work and research that may be needed, and other relevant aspects, around the potential for using open source software, solutions and approaches within health care, and in particular within health informatics, in the UK and Europe."

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Events: November 26, 2003 - January 22, 2004

Date	Event	Location
November 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 1 - 4, 2003	IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing(Cluster2003)	(Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers)Kowloon, Hong Kong
December 2 - 4, 2003	Linux Bangalore/2003	Bangalore, India
December 9 - 13, 2003	International Conference on Logic Programming(ICLP'03)	Mumbai (Bombay), India
January 12 - 13, 2004	Linux.Conf.au Miniconfs	Adelaide, Australia
January 12 - 13, 2004	EducationaLinux 2004	Adelaide, Australia
January 14 - 17, 2004	Linux.conf.au	Adelaide, Australia
January 20 - 23, 2004	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004	(Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, New York

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Open XUL Alliance Launches Wiki Wiki (MozillaZine)

The Open XUL Alliance has announced a new Wiki site. "The Open XUL Alliance is a site about XUL and related XML-based declarative user interface languages."

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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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