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Announcements

Resources

Open Projects Net IRC needs help. Open Projects Net IRC provides an interactive home to a number of community projects, including Debian GNU/Linux. the Enlightenment window manager project and many others. Now, however, Open Projects Net IRC is in serious trouble. They are looking for sponsors to provide well-connected hosts on which to run leaf servers and hidden hubs.

IBM LTC enterprise test paper published. The IBM LTC Test team, part of the Linux Test Project, has published a paper (PDF format) titled "Linux Technology Center Testing" which summarizes the results from the enterprise testing they have done. (Thanks to Steve Fox)

Linux Gazette #78. The May, 2002 publication of Linux Gazette is now available.

LPI certification 102 prep, Part 1. IBM begins a series of tutorials designed to prepare people for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 exam. In part 1 you will learn how to compile programs from source, how to manage shared libraries, and how to use the Red Hat and Debian package management systems. (Registration required)

Linux Professional Institute delivers over 10,000 tests. Here's a press release from LPI announcing that their 10,000th test has been administered.

Porting MFC applications to Linux. Here's an IBM tutorial on porting Windows applications to Linux. Markus Neifer shows you how to port MFC using wxWindows, giving a user's guide to this open source GUI toolkit and providing a complete, step-by-step porting example.

Events

Open Source Business Models. Bruce Perens will speak on Open Source Business Models on May 13, 2002 at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

YAPC::NA. The submission deadline for YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference), North America, ended on midnight May 1, 2002. The conference will be held in Saint Louis June 26 - 28, 2002.

Lindows.com: Event Advisory; Debian Conference Slated for July 2002. Here is a press release for the 2nd Annual Debian Conference (Debconf2), scheduled to take place July 5 - 7, 2002 at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

V Congreso Hispalinux. The fifth Congreso Hispalinux annual conference will be held October 11 - 13, 2002 in San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain.

Events: May 2 - June 27, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
May 2 - 4, 2002	The International Forum of Free Software	Porto Alegre, Brazil
May 5 - 10, 2002	NetWorld+Interop	Las Vegas
May 13 - 16, 2002	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	Santa Clara, CA., USA
May 13, 2002	Bruce Perens on Open Source Business Models	Canadian Film Centre in Toronto
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 29 - 30, 2002	Linux Expo	Birmingham, UK
May 30, 2002	Linux@work	Helsinki
June 3 - 6, 2002	Embedded Systems Conference - Chicago	(Donald E. Stephens Convention Center)Rosemont, IL
June 4, 2002	Linux@work	Paris
June 5, 2002	Linux@work	Brussels
June 6, 2002	Linux@work	Amsterdam
June 6 - 9, 2002	LinuxTag 2002	(Exhibition Center)Karlsruhe, Germany
June 9 - 14, 2002	2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Monterey, CA
June 11, 2002	Linux@work	Frankfurt
June 12, 2002	Linux@work	Zurich
June 12 - 14, 2002	JabberConf Europe 2002	Munich, Germany
June 13, 2002	Linux@work	Milan
June 26 - 28, 2002	Embedded Systems Expo & Conference in Tokyo(ESEC)	(International Exhibition Center)Tokyo, Japan
June 26 - 28, 2002	Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC 2002)	(Washington University)Saint Louis, Missouri
June 26 - 28, 2002	European Python and Zope Conference(EuroPython 2002)	(Charleroi Espace Meeting Européen)Charleroi, Belgium
June 26 - 29, 2002	Ottawa Linux Symposium(OLS)	Ottawa, Canada
June 27 - 28, 2002	European Tcl/Tk User Meeting	(Siemens Trainings Center)Munich, Germany

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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