See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

LPI-News for March, 2002. The March, 2002 LPI-News covers the latest Linux Professional Institute happenings. Topics include the new LPI board, CeBit coverage, LPI-Europe, test taking tips, and more.

Linux Gazette #77. The Linux Gazette #77, for April 2002, is now available. Articles include: 'Working with Micro-Distributions, or Linux in Your Pocket', by Larry "Dirt Road" Kollar; 'Writing Your Own Toy OS (Part I)', by Krishnakumar R.; 'Network Security with /proc/sys/net/ipv4', by David Lechnyr; and more.

Community-based Recording Studios. Studio For Recording, Inc has announced the creation of a Repository Collection at the University of North Carolina's Ibiblio.org site. "This is an Open Source Project dedicated to broadening the base of Public Domain works. The organization fulfills its mission by providing a model for creating community-based recording studios that provide FREE recording services for members of the community. In return, participants agree to place their works in the Public Domain." (Thanks to Tom Poe.)

Events

2nd Linux Accessibility Conference (Gnotices). The Gnotices site mentions that the notes from the 2nd Linux Accessibility Conference concerning various GNOME utilities are now available online.

IBM Combines Conferences. IBM announced they will combine several of their most successful conferences into one large bash. WebSphere, Lotus DevCon and Solutions have been combined into developerWorks Live, May 7 - May 10, 2002 in San Francisco. Earlybird conference prices are available until April 15th.

Upcoming Parrot Talks (use Perl). Use Perl has announced a talk on the Perl Parrot compiler in Manhattan on April 8, 2002.

JavaOne 2002: Notes from the show floor (IBM developerWorks). IBM's developerWorks site has several articles that cover various aspects of the recent JavaOne 2002 conference.

O'Reilly coverage of JavaOne 2002. O'Reilly has also posted coverage of the JavaOne 2002 conference.

Events: April 4 - May 30, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
April 4 - 6, 2002	The Association of C & C + + Users Spring Conference(ACCU)	(Heritage Motor Centre)Warwick, England
April 4 - 6, 2002	GNOME Users And Developer European Conference(GUADEC)	Seville, Spain
April 11 - 12, 2002	Zope BBQ 2002, Europe	Berlin, Germany
April 24 - 27, 2002	Federal Open Source Conference	(Ronald Reagan Building)Washington DC
April 29 - 30, 2002	Samba eXPerience 2002	(Hotel Freizeit)Göttingen, Germany
May 2 - 4, 2002	The International Forum of Free Software	Porto Alegre, Brazil
May 13 - 16, 2002	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	Santa Clara, CA., USA
May 18 - 22, 2002	The 13th Annual Borland Conference(BorCon)	(Anaheim Convention Center)Anaheim, CA
May 19 - 24, 2002	XML Europe 2002 Conference & Exposition	(Princesa Sofia Inter Continental)Barcelona, Spain
May 25 - 26, 2002	Magdeburger Linuxtag 2002	(Building 22 (W) University of Magdeburg)Magdeburg, GERMANY
May 27, 2002	Linux@work	Copenhagen
May 28, 2002	Linux@work	Oslo
May 29, 2002	Linux@work	Stockholm
May 30, 2002	Linux@work	Helsinki

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

Linux Gazette FAQs have moved. The FAQ pages from the Linux Gazette have been moved to new locations.

Digital Photography and Linux. Antonio Piccolboni has updated his Digital Photography and Linux page, which contains lots of useful information on cameras, software, and printing.

KDE Dot News: We're Back In Business. KDE.News reports that it is back on the net, after some unplanned down time.

Miscellaneous

Linux User Group Survey. Paul Dholakia from Rice University is conducting a survey of Linux user groups and mailing lists in order to study the sociological issues behind such groups.

Win a $1000 O'Reilly Bookshelf from ActiveState (use Perl). According to Use Perl, ActiveState is holding a survey of open source programmers, O'Reilly books are being offered as prizes.

Section Editor: Forrest Cook.

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