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Announcements

Resources

Translate.org.za supports South African Languages. Translate.org.za is working on the translation of various open-source software projects into eleven South African languages. They are currently working on Mozilla and KDE and plan on enhancing the OpenOffice suite.

Events

linux.conf.au schedule posted. The schedule for the upcoming linux.conf.au (Brisbane, February 6 to 9) has been posted. There is an interesting set of speakers from Australia and beyond; we wish we were going to be there. See also the Debian mini-conference immediately preceding the main event.

GUAD3C - Call For Papers. The GNOME Gnotices site mentions a call for papers for the third annual GNOME Users and Developers European Conference 2002 in Seville, Spain from April 4- 6th, 2002.

LPI exams at Linux World. The Linux Professional Institute will be holding Linux exams at the Linux World in New York City on Thursday January 31, and Friday February 1, 2002. A 50% discount will be available.

aRts/KDE Video Roadmap Meeting. Join the aRts and KDE developers in an IRC discussion of the future of video and KDE. The discussion will take place on Saturday, January 26, 2002 at 21:00 GMT.

The Tenth International Python Conference. The Python Refereed Paper Track listing is available for the Tenth International Python Conference on February 5 and 6, 2002 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Mini developers' meetings at FOSDEM. The Free Software and Open Source Developers Meeting (Brussels, February 16 and 17) has an announcement on its web site that the event will include developers' meetings for the KDE, GNOME, PHP, Mozilla, and GNUStep projects.

The return of the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Once again, the Ottawa Linux Symposium will be held in, surprisingly, Ottawa. This year, however, the event is happening a little earlier: June 26 to 29. The call for papers has just gone out for those who would like to present at the event; the submission deadline is, according to the announcement, February 30th, but we would recommend getting yours in by the 28th.

Events: January 17 - March 14, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
January 28 - 29, 2002	The Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST 2002)	Monterey, CA
January 29 - February 1, 2002	LinuxWorld	New York, NY
February 1 - 3, 2002	Linux Event 2002	Livorno, Italy
February 3 - 6, 2002	Embedded Executive Summit	(Ritz-Carlton)Half Moon Bay, California
February 4 - 7, 2002	10th International Python Conference	(Hilton Alexandria Mark Center)Alexandria, Virginia
February 5, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Amsterdam
February 6, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Brussels
February 6 - 9, 2002	linux.conf.au	Brisbane, Australia
February 7, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Paris
February 8, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Madrid
February 13 - 15, 2002	1st CfP German Perl Workshop	(Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin)Bonn, Germany
February 16 - 17, 2002	Free Software and Open Source Developer's Meeting(FOSDEM 2002)	(Brussels, Belgium)Brussels, Belgium
February 18, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Milan
February 19, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Zurich
February 20, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Munich
February 21, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Vienna
February 22, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Budapest
February 25, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Prague
March 4 - 6, 2002	International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies(ISART 2002)	(Dept. of Commerce, 325 Broadway)Boulder, CO
March 5, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Helsinki
March 6, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Stockholm
March 7, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Oslo
March 8, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Copenhagen
March 12 - 16, 2002	Embedded Systems Conference	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, California

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

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