See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

To be a Master, get certified in Linux and Unix (NewsForge). This NewsForge author advocates Caldera's certification offering. "The Master ACE is important for IT professionals because now they can show expertise both in Unix and Linux, according to Caldera. It makes sense because Caldera is a Unix company just as much as it is a Linux company. And with other businesses like Sun hinting at more integration between their Unix offerings and Linux, forward-thinking sysadmins will see the benefit of getting "legit" with a Master ACE certification."

Prepare for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 exam (IBM developerWorks). IBM's developerWorks has announced a new tutorial to help you prepare for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 exam.

Job postings on Linux Step by Step. Linux StepByStep has announced the availability of an RSS feed for their job posting site.

Linux StepByStep summary for April. Here's a look at what's been happening at Linux StepByStep during the past month. There is now a RSS/RDF feed among other new things..

New Metal and Fog tutorials for the Gimp. New tutorials that describe the use of Fog and Metal effects have been added to the Gimp tutorials collection.

Events

Linuxwochen in Austria. Linuxwochen is a series of road show events that will be held throughout Austria from May 11 to June 30, 2002. (Thanks to August Hörandl.)

Monta Vista High Availability Seminars. Monta Vista will be presenting a series of seminars on building high availability solutions with Linux. The North American series will be held in California, Texas, North Carolina, and Boston. The European series will be held in Helsinki, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Reading, Milan, and Paris. The series will be held during May, 2002.

Damian Conway in Toronto (use Perl). Perl luminary Damian Conway will deliver three talks and four days of corporate training in Toronto, Canada from July 5 through 12, 2002.

Slashdot's Robin Miller is keynote speaker for the CTS show in Orlando. LWN received a note from Steve Litt of the Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals (a Florida LUG) with the news that Robin Miller will speak at the CTS show in Orlando on May 15, 2002, from 10:30am to 11:30am. The title of his talk is "Building Profitable Web Sites With Free Software".

Sun's Scott McNealy and Google's Sergey Brin to give linuxWorld SF Keynote. Here's a press release from IDG World Expo about the keynote speakers at LinuxWorld, coming to San Francisco next August.

Linux.conf.au 2003 | Call For Papers. Linux.conf.au has announced the call for papers for the 2003 conference, which will be held in Perth, Western Australia at the Crawley campus of The University of Western Australia, next to the Swan River.

LinuxTag: German Government Maintains their own Congress Track. The German Ministery of Interior will maintain their own track of talks about "Free Software in governmental agencies" at LinuxTag. This track will be part of the business congress, which aims at professionals in the IT business and governmental workers. The business congress is a one-day conference, hosted at LinuxTag, which will take place at June 6, 2002.

Debconf update. Here is some clarification on what to expect at Debconf2. "Debconf is not an expo or booth-based conference like Comdex or even ALS. Debconf is based around talks, demos and discussions, and will be highly technical in nature. Its target audience is Debian developers, though technical Debian users are welcome to attend as well." Debconf 2 will be held at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from July 5 - 7, 2002.

Real-Time Linux Workshop 2002. The next Real-Time Linux Workshop has been scheduled for December 6 and 7, in Boston. The Call For Papers has gone out; abstracts should be in by the beginning of July.

Mark your calendars - DEFCON 10. The announcement has gone out: DEFCON 10, "largest hacker convention on the planet," will be held August 2 to 4 in Las Vegas.

UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference. Once again the UK Unix Users Group will hold its annual Linux Developers' conference, July 4 - 7, 2002 in Bristol. It looks like an interesting lineup with Marcelo Tosatti speaking on "The Linux Kernel" and Marcus Brinkmann on "The Hurd", and lots more.

INET 2002 Program Unites Array of Internet Visionaries. A number of Internet Visionaries will speak at the INET 2002 conference, which will be held from June 18-21, 2002 in Arlington, Virginia. "Featured speakers include famed science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, and Stanford Professor and The Future of Ideas author, Larry Lessig."

CD 2002 Call For Participation. A call for participation has been issued for the First International IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment, to be held in Berlin, Germany on June 20-21, 2002.

Smalltalk Solutions 2002 conference review. John McIntosh has published his review of the Smalltalk Solutions 2002 conference.

Events: May 8 - July 3, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
May 9 - 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 18 - 21, 2002	INET 2002	(Crystal Gateway Marriott)Arlington, VA
June 20 - 21, 2002	First International IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment(CD 2002)	Berlin, Germany
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.

Web sites

Sound & MIDI Software For Linux updated. Dave Philips has reorganized his Sound & MIDI Software For Linux page, which has been mostly idle for a few months.

KDE Events. A new web site known as KDE Events will contain current information on KDE conferences, talks, and meetings.

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