Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Computer Books for Iraq
A charitable event will be held in Northern California with the goal of collecting computer books for Iraq. "BookCrossing.com and the Freedom Technology Center are teaming up to help jump-start Iraq's recovery with computer book donations. Linux and open-source software enthusiasts will meet at Mountain View's Freedom Technology Center all day Friday, March 26 to pack and ship badly-needed computer books to the new Linux Users Group (LUG) of Iraq."
IP Telecom Joins OSDL
IP Telecom has joined the OSDL bandwagon. This company sells a Japanese-language distribution called Nature's Linux.
Commercial announcements
Desktop Linux Conference Gains Sponsors
The Desktop Linux Summit has announced that Novell and other major tech companies have tripled the number of sponsors for the April 2004 conference. Some of the smaller sponsors named in this press release include Debian, KDE, and LWN.net.Eclipse Names Founding Board of Directors
Four new members have been selected for the Eclipse Board of Directors. "Four new members of the Eclipse Board of Directors, representing the organization's Open Source project community and commercial supporters, were announced today. Newly elected, Todd Williams (Genuitec, LLC), John Wiegand (Eclipse Project Lead, IBM); Rich Main (SAS), and Bjorn Freeman-Benson (University of Washington) join the board".
IBM developerWorks Live!
IBM's devloperWorks has a lengthy list of free live presentations that will be held around the world in 2004. "The IBM developerWorks Live! Technical Briefings, which were a great success worldwide in 2003, have been expanded for 2004. The following five types of technical briefings, which include presentations and extensive demonstrations, will be held in cities around the world in 2004 (at no cost to you): e-business on demand, IBM Software Development Platform, Speed-start Linux applications, Speed-start Web services, Globalizing your applications."
MandrakeSoft files bankruptcy exit plan
MandrakeSoft has announced the filing of a plan for its exit from bankruptcy. It calls for the company to repay €4.1 million in debts over the next nine years. The plan must still be approved by the court; this should happen in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, the company's stock will resume trading on the Euronext Marché Libre on March 8.Opera Software Completes IPO
Opera Sofware has completed its IPO and is now listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA.
New Books
"Linux Pocket Guide" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel Barrett."Squid: The Definitive Guide" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published Squid: The Definitive Guide by Duane Wessels."WebLogic: The Definitive Guide" Released by O'Reilly
The book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide by Jon Mountjoy and Avinash Chugh is available from O'Reilly.
Resources
GIMP 2.0 User Manual -- developer snapshot (GnomeDesktop)
A developer snapshot of the GIMP 2.0 user manual is available. "This developer snapshot is basically for soliciting new contributors, who will assist us in writing and correcting errors."
LDP Weekly News
The March 3, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News has been published. Take a look for documents on configuring a UPS, controlling a telescope, building an ultimate Linux box, and more.LDP Weekly News
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News for March 10, 2004 is available with the latest new documentation. Included is a new SquashFS HOWTO, a Beowulf Cluster HOWTO, a Partition HOWTO, and more.LPI Newsletter February 2004
The February, 2004 edition of the Linux Professional Institute's LPI Newsletter is out.Japanese Mozilla Documentation and Help Resources (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine mentions the availability of some Japanese Mozilla documents. "Yamaguchi wrote in to tell us about the various help resources available to Japanese-speaking Mozilla users. Read the full article for Yamaguchi's complete lowdown."
A Byte of Python - Python Book / Tutorial
An online Python book and tutorial called A Byte of Python is available. "A Byte of Python is a book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for anyone. If all you know is how to save text files, then you can learn Python using this book. If you are an expert programmer who loves C, Perl, Java or C#, you can also learn Python using this book."
Dive Into Python
The free online Python book Dive Into Python has been expanded. The announcement on the Daily Python-URL says: "Version 4.5 of 'Dive into Python' adds more material on regular expressions, adds various examples, reorganises a number of chapters, and makes a number of corrections."
PyX presentation available
An online presentation of PyX, a Python graphics package that is used for creating encapsulated PostScript, is available. "PyX was presented at the annual meeting of the German TeX User Group DANTE e.V. (March 2nd to 6th, Darmstadt). The presentation is available in German and English."
Contests and Awards
MySQL Award Nominations
MySQL AB is accepting nominations for its Partner of the Year and Application of the Year awards. Winners will be announced in April at the MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2004.
Upcoming Events
Linux Installfest and Demo
The Linux Users' Group of Davis will be holding a Linux installfest and a Hands-on Linux Demo on March 20, 2004 in Davis, CA.Apache Bootcamp
Big Nerd Ranch, Inc. will be holding an Apache Bootcamp on May 17-21, 2004. The event will take place outside of Atlanta, GA.Penguicon 2.0
Penguicon 2.0, a combination Linux expo and science fiction convention, will be held in Novi, Michigan on April 16-18, 2004.1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop - CFP
A call for papers has gone out for the 1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop. The event will take place on June 13, 2004 in Oslo, Norway.ICMC 2004 submission opened
Submissions of papers, demos, and posters are open for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2004. The event will be held in Miami, Florida on November 1-6, 2004.TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
TheServerSide Java Symposium has been announced. The event will take place on May 6-8, 2004 in Las Vegas, NV. "This year TheServerSide Java Symposium features keynote and technical break out sessions from an all-star line up of enterprise Java luminaries and will provide access to J2EE specification leads and expert group members, key book authors, open source project founders as well as engineers and influencers."
ClusterWorld Conference & Expo Returns to the San Jose Convention Center
Here's a press release for the ClusterWorld Conference & Expo, coming to the San Jose Convention Center April 5 - 8, 2004.Novell Celebrates 20 Years of BrainShare with New Linux Focus
Novell has announced that this year's BrainShare conference will focus on its new Linux offerings.Events: March 11 - May 6, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 15 - 17, 2004 | Open Source in Government Conference | (George Washington University)Washington, DC |
| March 16 - 17, 2004 | Open Source Business Conference 2004 | (The Westin St. Francis)San Francisco, CA |
| March 18 - 24, 2004 | CeBIT | (Hannover Exhibition Center)Hannover, Germany |
| March 21 - 26, 2004 | Novell BrainShare 2004 | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| March 24 - 26, 2004 | PyCon DC 2004 | Washington, D.C. |
| March 25 - 26, 2004 | Open Source Forum 2004 | (The Sydney Marriott Hotel)Sydney, Australia |
| March 27 - 28, 2004 | Nordic Perl Workshop 2004 | (Symbion Science Park)Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 27 - 28, 2004 | YAPC::Taipei::2004 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| April 5 - 7, 2004 | Samba eXPerience 2004 | (Hotel Freizeit In)Göttingen, Germany |
| April 5 - 8, 2004 | ClusterWorld Conference & Expo | (San Jose Convention Center)San Jose, California |
| April 13 - 15, 2004 | Real World Linux 2004 Conference & Expo | (Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| April 14 - 16, 2004 | MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2004 | (Peabody Hotel Orlando)Orlando, FL |
| April 14 - 17, 2004 | ACCU Spring Conference 2004 | (Randolph Hotel)Oxford, England |
| April 16 - 18, 2004 | Penguicon 2.0 | (Detroit Sheraton Novi Hotel)Novi, MI |
| April 20 - 21, 2004 | LinuxUser & Developer Expo | (Olympia)London, England |
| April 22 - 23, 2004 | 2004 Desktop Linux Summit | (Del Mar Fairgrounds)San Diego, California |
| April 26 - 27, 2004 | Digital Media Project Traditional Rights and Usages Workshop | Los Angeles, CA |
| April 29 - May 2, 2004 | 2nd Linux Audio Developers Conference | (Institute for Music and Acoustics)Karlsruhe, Germany |
| May 3 - 5, 2004 | International PHP Conference 2004 Spring Edition | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| May 6 - 8, 2004 | TheServerSide Java Symposium | (The Venetian)Las Vegas, NV |
Event Reports
GNU/Linux Summit was a success
The folks who put on the GNU/Linux Summit have put out a press release that details the success of the event.
Web sites
IEEE Security & Privacy CFP
A call for papers has gone out for the IEEE Security & Privacy site. Upcoming themes include Attacking Systems and Security and Usability.
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
Bug Day turns 2 (slightly belated) (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org looks at the history of the ongoing GNOME bug day events. "Bug day is a day we get together on IRC, find bugs, and clean bugzilla. We do all of this so that developers can get more work done by focusing on bugs that matter instead of duplicates, unconfirmable bugs, and things that they've already closed."
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