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Announcements

Resources

Hacking Billy the Big Mouth Bass. For those who have not had the pleasure...Billy the Big Mouth Bass is an obnoxious toy in the form of a singing, moving fish. One of those things children use to drive parents nuts. Now there is a site dedicated to hacking Billy with Linux out there - worth a look. Billy can be made to say anything you might want. There is source available, of course...

The ACM Forum on Legal Regulation of Technology. The ACM Forum on Legal Regulation of Technology is a new mailing list for the discussion of the interaction between law and technology. "Legal scholars have been discussing these issues for some time, but computer scientists have not been nearly as active in the debate. The forum seeks to bring technologists into the debate. Although we welcome the contributions of legal scholars, the forum belongs to technologists and has a technology-centric view." The list is patterned after the (required reading) RISKS list, and is moderated by Edward Felten.

Events

The third Real-Time Linux Workshop. The Third Real-Time Linux Workshop has been announced for November 26 to 29 in Milan, Italy. The list of participants includes a large cross-section of the real-time Linux community. See the announcement for details.

Conference: The Business of Open Source Software. A conference called "The Business of Open Source Software" has been announced for November 25 in Ottawa.. The keynote speaker will be Eric Raymond.

linux.conf.au final CFP. The final call for papers has gone out for linux.conf.au, to be held in Brisbane, Australia next February. Those who would like to present at the conference need to get their abstracts in by the end of October.

Events: October 25 - December 13, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
October 25, 2001	XMLEdge International Developer Conference & Expo
October 25 - 26, 2001	The Open Group Quarterly Conference	Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 25, 2001	LinuxDays	Luxembourg
October 27, 2001	LUGOD Linux Demonstration	(Davis Food Co-Op)Davis, CA
October 30 - November 1, 2001	LinuxWorld Germany	Frankfurt, Germany
October 30 - 31, 2001	tech-u-wear 2001	(Madison Square Garden)New York City
November 5 - 10, 2001	Annual Linux Showcase(ALS)	(Oakland Marriott City Center)Oakland, California
November 6 - 10, 2001	Annual Linux Showcase and Conference	Oakland, CA
November 6 - 8, 2001	LinuxWorld Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
November 6, 2001	Java Information Days, Europe	Paris
November 7, 2001	Java Information Days, Europe	Amsterdam
November 8, 2001	NLUUG Annual Autumn conference	De Reehorst, Ede, Netherlands
November 8 - 9, 2001	XFree86 Technical Conference	(Oakland Convention Center)Oakland, CA
November 8, 2001	Java Information Days, Europe	Frankfurt
November 8, 2001	Embedded Linux Expo & Conference	(Sheraton Reston Hotel)Reston, VA
November 9, 2001	Open Source in Banking and Finance(OSBAF)	(Baltimore Engineering Society)Baltimore, Maryland
November 9, 2001	Java Information Days, Europe	Zurich
November 10 - 16, 2001	SC2001	Denver, Colorado
November 12, 2001	Third Annual Beowulf Bash	Denver, Colorado
November 17, 2001	Lightweight Languages Workshop 2001(LL1)	(MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab)Cambridge MA
November 25, 2001	The Business of Open Source Software(BOSS)	(Ottawa Public Library)Ottawa Ontario, Canada
November 28 - 30, 2001	Linux-Kongress 2001	(University of Twente)Enschede, The Netherlands.

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

Openinformatics.org. A new web site called Openinformatics.org is being developed. The operators state: "The purpose of this website is to help scientists to become more aware of Open Source Software: what it is and how it may help them in their scientific research, as well as what OSS tools are avaible to them; and to encourage software developers to release their code in an Open Source model to make the software better." The site also features a repository of open source scientific software.

User Group News

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Software Announcements

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