Open Source Advocacy
The Apache Software Foundation launched it’s seventh annual conference called ApacheCon US. The very first Apachecon US was held in Orlando, Florclassa on 8-10 March 2000 and since then the tradition has been kept. This year Apachecon US will be held 12-16 November 2007 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Apache conference series they say “delves into the highly lauded community that develops and shepherds industry-leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server “the world’s most popular Web server software for more than a decade”.
ApacheCon offers participants the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Open Source methodologies and further advance their participation with like-minded peers in a relaxed, community-focused environment.
Registration is still open to all on the Apachecon website. The ASF offers early registration incentives for ApacheCon 2007. For a better follow-up subscribe to the ApacheCon public mailing list to get more information on the upcoming US 2007 conference as well as future events: announce-subscribe@apachecon.com.
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Much had been said about Ubuntu and it’s, new release Gutsy Gibbon in the recent days. Many do not even know that on that same day October 18 Ubuntu 7.10 versions of Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu were released. Very little attention has been given to the other members of the Ubuntu family like the KDE version Kubuntu or the rather feather weight version Xubuntu.
Fortunately, Lifehacker came out with a thorough summary of what’s new in the entire Ubuntu family. Get yourself informed, you might even find Kubuntu better.
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Formally known as Ethereal, Wireshark is a popular Network analyser that displays all data packets that get in and out of your computers network interface (LAN, Wi-Fi etc).
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The Linux Foundation launches it’s Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey. The organization was founded in January 2007 when the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group joined forces.
The Linux Desktop survey takes off from October 17 through November 30, and it can be done in six other languages: Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, French and Spanish. The results of the survey will be published shortly after the closing date. The last year survey results say Linux is gaining grounds in Latin America and Asia as hardware vendors add pre-installed Linux products to their portfolio.
Take this years survey.
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France’s Internet Service Provider(ISP) Orange adopts OpenID. The news is a recent one and comes straight from the Digital ID conference in San Francisco. It simply says, Orange the big French ISP with over 40million subscribers around the world adopt the OpenID registration standard. This is a major move by the French operator to lower the cost of password or account management by embracing the Open Source OpenID registration/classentification standards.
So what is OpenID all about? More»
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