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Announcements

Resources

freekde.org hits the net. A new news site called freekde.org is on the air. Not surprisingly, its coverage is oriented toward KDE development.

Tip Of The Week: strace Your Problems Down. "strace" traces the system calls a program makes, so you can see what a program is doing, even if you don't have the source available. LinuxLookup has more about strace in this week's TOTW.

Events

Open Innovation Conference canceled. Open Country's Open Innovation Conference, previously scheduled for July 31 - August 1, 2001 has been canceled due to a lack of participation.

JabberCon 2001, a Jabber Users Conference. Jabber, Inc., developer of Jabber open software instant messaging (IM) and other applications, along with leaders of the Jabber open source project and the Jabber Foundation, announced JabberCon 2001, a conference dedicated to accelerating development of the Jabber community, products, services and standards. JabberCon 2001 will take place August 20 - 21, 2001 in Keystone, Colorado.

5th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference. ALS is coming to the Oakland Convention Center in Oakland, CA on November 5 - 10, 2001. A preliminary tutorial schedule has been announced.

TR100 to Celebrate Exceptional Innovation; Coveted Award and Gala Slated for May '02. Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation, announced that it will honor TR100 innovators on May 24, 2002 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nominations are open until October 1, 2001.

Events: July 26 - September 20, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
July 26 - 27, 2001	O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention	San Diego, California
July 26 - 28, 2001	The Ottawa Linux Symposium
July 28 - 29, 2001	Rocky Mountain Software Symposium 2001(RMSS 2001)	(FourPoints Sheraton in Cherry Creek)Denver, Colorado
August 2 - 4, 2001	Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001(YAPC)	(Hogeschool Holland)Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 4 - 5, 2001	LinuxCertified Linux System Administration BootCamp	Cupertino, California
August 13 - 18, 2001	IPsec Interoperability Workshop (Bakeoff)	Espoo, Finland
August 14 - 16, 2001	Embedded Internet Conference 2001	Santa Clara, CA
August 14 - 16, 2001	LinuxWorld China	Beijing, China
August 19 - 22, 2001	Forum 2001	University of California at Santa Cruz, Calif.
August 20 - 24, 2001	HP World 2001	(McCormick Place)Chicago, IL, USA.
August 20 - 21, 2001	JabberCon 2001	Keystone, Colorado
August 23 - 25, 2001	LinuxWorld Hong Kong	Hong Kong
August 26 - 30, 2001	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	San Francisco
September 2, 2001	Erlang Workshop - Firenze	Italy
September 4 - 7, 2001	Embedded Systems Conference	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA
September 6 - 7, 2001	Open Source Health Care Alliance(OSHCA)	(The Posthouse Hotel Kensington)London, UK
September 12 - 13, 2001	Linux Expo	Birmingham, UK
September 17 - 20, 2001	O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference - Washington, DC.
September 17 - 18, 2001	Red Hat TechWorld	(Brussels Expo)Brussels, Belgium
September 17, 2001	XML Information Days	Amsterdam
September 18, 2001	XML Information Days	Brussels
September 19, 2001	XML Information Days	Munich
September 20, 2001	XML Information Days	Zurich

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

Es.Toolinux.com celebrates new partnerships. Es.TooLinux.com, the Spanish speaker's portal, announced two new partnerships with professional and amateur Linux Community members.

User Group News

LUG Events: July 26 - August 9, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
July 27, 2001	The Nashua Chapter of the Greater New Hampshire LUG(GNHLUG)	(Martha's Exchange)Nashua, NH.
July 28, 2001	Consortium of All Bay Area Linux(CABAL)	Menlo Park, CA
July 28, 2001	Central Ohio LUG(COLUG)	Columbus, Ohio
July 31, 2001 August 7, 2001	Kalamazoo Linux Users Group(KLUG)	(Western Michigan University)Kalamazoo, Michigan
August 1, 2001	Silicon Valley LUG(SVLUG)	San Jose, CA
August 1, 2001	Southeastern Indiana LUG(SEILUG)	(Madison/Jefferson County Public Library)Madison, IN
August 1, 2001	Kansas City LUG Demoday(KCLUG)	(Kansas City Public Library)KC, Missouri
August 2, 2001	Edinburgh LUG(EDLUG)	Edinburgh, Scotland
August 2, 2001	Gallup Linux Users Group(GalLUG)	(Coyote Bookstore)Gallup, New Mexico
August 2, 2001	UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer Association	(DMA office at 119 Valley St)Dayton, OH, USA.
August 2, 2001	SSLUG: Hyggemöte på Malmö Högskola	Denmark
August 4, 2001	Twin Cities Linux Users Group(TCLUG)	Minneapolis, MN
August 4, 2001	Sheffield LUG(ShefLUG)	(Sheffield Hallam University)Sheffield, UK.
August 4, 2001	LEAP-CF Installfest	Orlando, FL.
August 6, 2001	Haifa Linux Club	(Technion CS dept. bldg.)Haifa, Israel
August 7, 2001	Linux User Group of Davis(LUGOD)	(Z-World)Davis, CA
August 7, 2001	Omaha Linux User Group(OLUG)	Omaha, Nebraska
August 7, 2001	Missouri Open Source LUG(MOSLUG)	Kirkwood, Missouri
August 8, 2001	Toledo Area Linux User's Group(TALUG)	Toledo, OH
August 8, 2001	Columbia Area LUG(CALUG)	(Capita Technologies Training Center)Columbia, Maryland
August 8, 2001	Silicon Corridor LUG(SCLUG)	(Back of Beyond pub in Kings Road)Reading, UK
August 9, 2001	Boulder Linux Users Group(BLUG)	(Nist Radio Building)Boulder, CO
August 9, 2001	Phoenix Linux Users Group(PLUG)	(Sequoia Charter School)Mesa, AZ.
August 9, 2001	Kernel-Panic Linux User Group(KPLUG)	San Diego, CA

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

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