[LWN Logo]
[LWN.net]

Sections:
 Main page
 Security
 Kernel
 Distributions
 On the Desktop
 Development
 Commerce
 Linux in the news
 Announcements
 Linux History
 Letters
All in one big page

See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements


Resources

Tip Of The Week: Converting Data with dd. LinuxLookup comes up with several uses for dd.

Events

CLIQ 2001 adds online registrations. CLIQ 2001 has opened up online registration thanks to corporate sponsor tummy.com. Note: LWN.net is a proud sponsor of CLIQ 2001.

COMDEX Chicago 2001. Here's a press release from Key3Media Group, Inc., organizers of COMDEX. The Chicago COMDEX (and co-located Linux Business Expo) runs April 2 - April 5, 2001.

ELXI Spring Implementation Conference. Enterprise Linux Institute (ELXI) and co-sponser Linux International will hold the Spring Implementation conference in San Jose, CA from May 13 - 17, 2001. Delegates will have the opportunity to enroll in educational Linux courses, listen to keynote addresses from Linux experts such as Jon "Maddog" Hall and Miguel de Icaza, attend panelist debates, developer workshops and technical briefings and walk through an exhibit floor featuring Linux International and top Linux vendors from around the world. Early Bird Deadline is March 30th.

Embedded Internet Conference News. The EIC [August 14 - 16, 2001 at the Santa Clara Convention Center] is still looking for people. Here's a bulletin and an updated schedule so you can see where people are most needed.

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo to Shatter All Previous Exhibitor and Attendance Records. IDG World Expo announced that it expects to shatter all previous exhibitor and attendance records at the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, slated for August 27 - 30, 2001 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

March/April/May events.
Date Event Location
March 21 - March 24, 2001. Singapore Linux Conference / LinuxWorld 2001 Singapore.
March 22 - March 23, 2001. Linux Accessibility Conference Los Angeles, California.
March 22 - March 28, 2001. CeBIT 2001 Hannover, Germany
March 26 - March 29, 2001. O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California.
March 28 - March 29, 2001. LinuxBazaar 2001 Czech Republic.
March 30, 2001. Colorado Linux Info Quest Denver Marriott Tech Center, Denver, Colorado.
April 2 - April 5, 2001. COMDEX Chicago McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.
April 4 - April 5, 2001. Linux Expo Madrid Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Spain.
April 4 - April 6, 2001. ApacheCon 2001 Santa Clara, California.
April 6 - April 8, 2001. GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC) 2001 Copenhagen, Denmark.
April 8 - April 11, 2001. XML DevCon Spring 2001 New York Marriott Marquis, New York City.
April 9 - April 11, 2001. Smalltalk Solutions 2001 Conference Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL (Near Chicago O'Hare)
April 9 - April 13, 2001. Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco, California.
April 12, 2001. 2001 Twin Cities Linux Solutions Conference - A Real Time Perspective Radisson South, Bloomington MN.
April 20, 2001. 2nd Annual Symposium on Pliant Implementation and Concepts (ASPIC 2001) Paris, France.
April 23 - April 27, 2001. Linux Expo Road Show Eastern Europe.
April 24 - April 26, 2001. Linux Africa Kyalami Exhibition & Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
May 8, 2001. Linux@work Copenhagen, Denmark.
May 9, 2001. Linux@work Oslo, Norway.
May 9 - May 10, 2001. Linux Expo Brazil São Paulo - Anhembi - Palácio das Convenções.
May 10, 2001. Linux@work Stockholm, Sweden.
May 11, 2001. Linux@work Helsinki, Finland.
May 15, 2001. Linux@work Frankfurt, Germany.
May 15 - May 18, 2001. Linux Expo China Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China.
May 16, 2001. Linux@work Zurich, Switzerland.
May 17, 2001. Linux@work Milan, Italy.
May 18, 2001. Linux@work Vienna, Austria.
May 20 - May 23, 2001. eXtreme Programming - XP2001 Villasimius, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

Web sites

Looking for a few good clusters. The team which has compiled the TOP500 list of global supercomputing sites is working on a similar list to rank the world's top 100 cluster computing systems. More background information, access to all collected data, and interfaces for submitting information about new cluster systems can be found at http://clusters.top500.org/.

The Famous Chabelo Finds a New Host. Dialtone Internet, a provider of Linux dedicated hosting and colocation solutions, announced that its Mexico Data Center Dialtone Internet de Mexico is the new Internet home of Chabelo.com. "One of the most celebrated children's sites in Mexico, Chabelo.com is also one of Mexico's busiest sites, with over 2 million visitors a month."

User Group News

GRASS User Group (GAV) formed in Germany. GRASS is a free GIS project released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V (GAV) is a new user group for German speaking GRASS users.

LUG Events: March 22 - April 3, 2001.
Date Event Location
March 22, 2001. Hazelwood LUG Installfest planning Prairie Commons Branch Library, Hazelwood, Missouri.
March 23, 2001. Rock River Linux Users Group (RRLUG) Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois.
March 24, 2001. St. Louis LUG Installfest Westchase Park, St. Louis, MO.
March 24, 2001. Consortium of All Bay Area Linux (CABAL) Menlo Park, California.
March 27, 2001. West Side Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ.
March 27, 2001. Hazelwood Linux User Group (HZLUG) Prairie Commons Branch Library, Hazelwood, Missouri.
March 28, 2001. Linux User Group of Assen Assen, Netherlands.
March 29, 2001. Bergen Linux User Group (BLUG) Bergen, Norway.
March 30, 2001. New Jersey Linux User's Group (NJLUG) New Brunswick, NJ
March 31, 2000. Central Ohio Linux User Group (COLUG) Columbus, Ohio.
April 2, 2001. Baton Rouge Linux User Group (BRLUG) The Bluebonnet Library, Baton Rouge, LA.
April 3, 2001. Missouri Open Source LUG (MOSLUG) Culpeppers Restaurant, Kirkwood, Missouri.
April 3, 2001. NorthWest Chicagoland Linux User Group (NWCLUG) Harper College, Palatine, Illinois.
April 3, 2001. Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) Z-World, Davis, CA.

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.


March 22, 2001

   

 

Software Announcements


Here are this week's Freshmeat software announcements. Freshmeat now offers the announcements sorted in two different ways:

The Alphabetical List and Sorted by license

 

Our software announcements are provided courtesy of FreshMeat

 

Next: Linux History

 
Eklektix, Inc. Linux powered! Copyright © 2001 Eklektix, Inc., all rights reserved
Linux ® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds