See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

Linux Test Project. The Linux Test Project has announced a new version of it's testing suite. Included is a new paper from the IBM LTC Test team, more tests, and script updates.

Living Without Microsoft. A new site called Living Without Microsoft has popped up. "Our aim is to provide accurate information about, and analyses of, non-Microsoft software and to discuss the benefits and problems you are likely to encounter if you adopt it instead of a Microsoft solution." (Thanks to Karl Vogel.)

Headaches? Use Linux. The folks at Cybersource have released a poster promoting Linux as a means of relief from proprietary software hassles. It's suitable for printing and posting at workplaces worldwide...

Events

Linux and Free Software Festival, Turkey. The first Linux and Free Software Festival will be held in Ankara, Turkey from May 16 through 19, 2002.

OSHCA 2002 Call for Participation. A Call for Participation has been posted for the The Open Source Health Care Alliance conference, to be held at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA on November 14 and 15, 2002.

CFP: EuroPython 2002 Lightning Talks. A Call for Participation has been posted for the EuroPython 2002 conference lightning talks, the event will be held from June 26-28 in Charleroi, Belgium.

Free Linux@work events. A number of free Linux@work events will be held across Europe in June, 2002. (Thanks to Roberto Zicari.)

Perl Foundation Summer Fundraising Tour Kicks Off (use Perl). Use Perl has an announcement for the Perl Foundation's upcoming fundraising tour. Events are in the planning stage, sponsors are needed.

Ruby Conference 2002: Call for Presenters. A CFP has been issued for the Ruby Conference 2002, to be held in Seattle, Washington on November 1-3, 2002.

Events: May 16 - July 11, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
May 16, 2002	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	Santa Clara, CA., USA
May 16 - 19, 2002	Linux and Free Software Festival	Ankara, Turkey
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 (Cancelled)	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
July 4 - 7, 2002	UKUUG Linux Developers' Conference	(University of Bristol)Bristol, UK
July 5 - 7, 2002	Debconf 2	(York University)Toronto, Ontario

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

Miscellaneous

Samba team gets award. The Samba team has received the Innovation in Infrastructure Award from eWeek and PC Magazine.

Section Editor: Forrest Cook.

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